ternnoburn (u/ternnoburn)

ternnoburn commented on OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

ternnoburn · a year ago

This admin bends to money. They all do, of course, but this one especially.

Maybe this whole late stage capitalism isn't the most efficient way to allocate resources after all...

ternnoburn commented on Icelandic turf houses: Laufas, Glaumbaer and others rachelsruminations.com/ic... · Posted by u/thunderbong

fbfactchecker · a year ago

The author, after 4 years, is probably still afraid of contracting Covid from you; given that she spend more than a paragraph complaining about absent distancing.

ternnoburn · a year ago

Covid is no less virulent or no less serious than it was 4 years ago. Among well vaccinated populations, the seriousness of infection decreases, but among populations who cannot get the vaccine it is as dangerous as it ever was. It has not evolved into something less dangerous over time.

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

On top of that, long covid remains a serious concern, and rates of long covid remain steady: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

COVID also increases autoimmune disease risk by up to 40%, which can have life altering impacts. Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.25.23285014v...

Given the author may be from a place with poor healthcare that doesn't support the disease or autoimmune diseases well (e.g. the U.S.) or may be close to someone with a weakened immune system, it's very reasonable for some people to be cautious about covid.

ternnoburn commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD

fallingknife · a year ago

Name a far right position that he holds

ternnoburn · a year ago

Nick Fuentes is celebrating the "Nazi salute" (his words) musk did on stage this week.

If you have actually neo Nazis saying you did a nazi salute, and you have leftists saying you did a Nazi salute...

ternnoburn commented on Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith vincentschmalbach.com/sta... · Posted by u/vincent_s

ternnoburn · a year ago

I think more people are realizing that the stories of startup success in 2013 were heavy on survivorship bias, and that over the past decade people have become aware of just how predatory and unequal the VC model is.

New founders have less wool over their eyes, and increasingly run the numbers and say, "wait a second, that's the expected success rate? That's the pressure I'll have to grow grow grow? Those are the terms? Nah, I can work 40 somewhere, get paid more, and put in fewer hours."

We've stopped romanticizing killing oneself for the hustle too.

ternnoburn commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary

SketchySeaBeast · a year ago

Could you tell me what you're referring to with this:

> Biden removed anti lgbtq discrimination rules

ternnoburn · a year ago

Read up on 1557 changes and title ix changes, which include language that specifically permits institutions to say, "we do not discriminate based on criteria X, y, z" when they discriminate against trans people.

It also affirmed that they felt they could supersede state law to protect caregivers (doctors, etc) who provide care against the law in their state (gender affirming care). They declined to exercise that authority and explicitly said they would not.

They also said they would consider provider discrimination only on a case by case basis (which they are not funded to do, and leaves poorer people more likely to suffer discrimination).

They added language stating "nothing in this rule imposes a requirement that covered entities provide gender affirming care".

They specifically struck the following language: "a providers belief that gender transition or other gender affirming care can never be beneficial for such individuals is not sufficient basis for a judgement that a health service is not clinically appropriate." Basically giving doctors the explicit right to say "I don't believe in gender affirming care and will not provide it".

ternnoburn commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD

ternnoburn · a year ago

In no universe is Musk a centrist.

ternnoburn commented on I Met Paul Graham Once okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p... · Posted by u/DamonHD

kristianc · a year ago

Can't help but OP might have been better engaging with PG's Wokeness article itself (it's full of holes, and probably one of the weakest he's written), than talking about what they think the article said made them feel.

Ironically the Wokeness article does what most people accuse "wokeness" of doing, predetermining its conclusion, and then shoehorning in a bunch of loosely connected facts and phenomena to support that assertion.

ternnoburn · a year ago

It's not a direct criticism of the PG article, the OP is examining a broader cultural phenomena right now. PGs scribbles were just one example.

ternnoburn commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary

pjc50 · a year ago

He was always socialist, but ended up as anti-communist after the Spanish civil war, during which while fighting for the Marxist POUM he had to flee a Stalinist purge.

(Americans love to flatten all left parties into "communist", ignoring the rich history of ideological differences and occasionally violent purges)

Huge fan of Orwell myself.

ternnoburn · a year ago

Anti communist or anti Stalinist? Or even anti Marxist-Leninist?

Homage is a complicated book to place because it's been interpreted so baby different ways across eras. But it's hard to imagine someone going and fighting for POUM and praising them post facto would ultimately be anti communist across all flavors of communism.