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rkomorn commented on Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead standard.co.uk/news/world... · Posted by u/saubeidl

lazide · 7 hours ago

Eh, dying was only going to make the whole mess higher profile.

If they wanted it to stay quiet, throw him in solitary and don’t allow any visitors until he dies of old age.

rkomorn · 7 hours ago

I don't think they're implying it's likely. Just that it's more likely than the other scenario.

rkomorn commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm

direwolf20 · 2 days ago

And that's because they're much more responsible with alcohol. Americans get introduced to alcohol as a rebellion from oppression the moment they go to college. Germans have it with dinner with their parents sometimes when they're 12. It's like how Facebook got boring when your parents were on it.

rkomorn · 2 days ago

Anecdata, but I don't remember my high school friends in Europe being much more (if at all) responsible with alcohol than my US friends were when I went to college there.

They just started getting blackout drunk 3 years earlier.

rkomorn commented on Why I Joined OpenAI brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe

manuelmoreale · 2 days ago

That’s honestly just sad. Not the fact you doing it, but rather the fact you have nobody to talk to about those things.

rkomorn · 2 days ago

I feel like this kind of response is a good example of why someone wouldn't talk to others about things.

rkomorn commented on The Waymo World Model waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx

rswail · 2 days ago

It doesn't solve the "Coyote paints tunnel on rock" problem though.

rkomorn · 2 days ago

IIRC, that was only ever a problem for the coyote, though.

Source: not a computer vision engineer, but a childhood consumer of looney toons cartoons.

rkomorn commented on ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use biometricupdate.com/20260... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

satvikpendem · 4 days ago

Blind is like 4chan, not representative of the vast majority of software engineers but rather their own self contained bubble. I wouldn't use Blind as exemplary of anything in this case.

rkomorn · 4 days ago

I spent enough time in FAANG and adjacent to realize that some of the senior engineers and directors around me held 4chan/Blind-like beliefs.

Some of those folks were cultural leaders in the orgs I belonged to. Some even passed for nice people.

rkomorn commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri

ahmeneeroe-v2 · 5 days ago

de Gaulle would be considered insanely far right today. Many aspects of Bush (assuming GW here) would be considered not in line with America's far-right today.

Assume good intent. It helps you see the actually interesting point being made.

rkomorn · 5 days ago

They wrote "Bush was right wing" (unless it was edited), so what's your point in saying "Many aspects of Bush (assuming GW here) would be considered not in line with America's far-right today." ?

rkomorn commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

scott_w · 5 days ago

Just to be clear: I understand the difference. What I couldn’t do was explain to someone who has no concept that customs are not a security check. Or that you don’t need customs for (effectively) internal flights. I suspect part of this is that in the UK, we don’t get many internal flights (beyond connections), so people don’t have an experience of just walking off a plane and out of the airport.

rkomorn · 5 days ago

Yes, I meant you were confused about the nature of the comment/question (like you mentioned in a sibling response somewhere). :)

rkomorn commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

ghaff · 6 days ago

Yes, but border control isn't security. I don't go through security when I arrive in the US either. (I do have global entry but that just means I usually go through immigration faster.) If I have a connecting flight after arriving in the US I do sometimes have to go through security again with my carryon but that's a function of airport layout.

rkomorn · 5 days ago

Looks like even OP was confused about it so I guess it wasn't something to be made sense of.

rkomorn commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

kelnos · 6 days ago

Er, I don't get it. I do the same thing at every airport in the US: walk off the plane and straight into a taxi.

rkomorn · 6 days ago

I think they're talking about international travel and not having to go through border control within the Schengen space even though you're traveling to different countries.

rkomorn commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84

bookofjoe · 7 days ago

Original French: "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher".

rkomorn · 7 days ago

"Il semble" sure gives the quote a different tone to me.

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