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dmoy · 2026-03-02T22:10:13 1772489413

Reminds me of

dmoy · 2026-02-25T23:34:20 1772062460

I don't think GP was implying anything about US military fighting against Europe? Just that having another country's military all up inside your country is weird from a sovereignty perspective.

dmoy · 2026-02-25T16:44:03 1772037843

> If I could find a reputable construction company to build my underground home I would be a true troglodyte

If you have the resources you could always buy an existing underground structure and renovate. Like a missile silo. Or buy an already renovated one:

https://washingtonmissilebase.com/

I imagine upkeep is pretty expensive, probably needs a lot of HVAC, dehumidifying, pumping, etc to keep you from dying due to weird mold and stuff lol

Bender · 2026-02-25T17:30:13 1772040613

I looked at many of those. Plenty of people are indeed upgrading silos. I looked at the cost to repair and overhaul these facilities but it would be just a little more to do it right on my property with high performance high pressure concrete and do it right in a place outside of the nuclear sponge. Only challenge is getting the right people up here but I will not give up on the idea.

dmoy · 2026-02-22T03:30:41 1771731041

> python or C++

Also sometimes Lua, which is kinda a nice middleground between c++ efficiency and python ease of writing

dmoy · 2026-02-21T18:25:05 1771698305

Is this reply meant to be for a different comment?

esafak · 2026-02-21T18:53:28 1771700008

No. I was trying to explain that providing web access shouldn't be tantamount to handing over the keys. You should be able to use sites and apps through a limited service account, but this requires them to be built with agents and authorization in mind. REST APIs often exist but are usually written with developers in mind. If agents are going to go maintstream, these APIs need to be more user friendly.

jmholla · 2026-02-21T19:42:33 1771702953

That's not what the parent comment was saying. They are pointing out that you can exfiltrate secret information by querying any web page with that secret information in the path. `curl www.google.com/my-bank-password`. Now, google logs have my bank password in them.

dmoy · 2026-02-20T03:02:26 1771556546

A decent number of people reading this probably do have secret clearance. But that's not really the relevant point.

Simply having secret clearance doesn't mean you can just go digging around arbitrary secret classified info that you have no business reading. And it certainly doesn't mean that discussion can be had on hackernews.

dmoy · 2026-02-20T02:41:16 1771555276

Secret is also like... really common to have. 5 million people or whatever.

dmoy · 2026-02-19T16:41:25 1771519285

$8000 is considerably above median income, no?

InkCanon · 2026-02-19T17:18:17 1771521497

Yes. Bluntly put, the government maximizes residence of high net worth individuals, and a 37% forced purchase of low interest bonds would be outrageous to them.

eru · 2026-02-20T00:31:31 1771547491

Also Singapore is reasonably good about applying paternalism mostly to the poor.

(I say, mostly, because they still don't allow rich people to take arbitrary drugs. Unless you count getting a doctor to give you a prescription.)

dmoy · 2026-02-13T00:47:42 1770943662

If this was 2016, wasn't he employed by Google at the time?

One of them (Patterson & Hennessy) was, and the other was (is?) chairman of the board, I forget which.

dmoy · 2026-02-13T00:27:09 1770942429

I'm not a fan of Tesla's approach to self driving, but

> If they simply dumped an extra $50K of material into every single one of those cars without raising the price a dime, that would be only $425 billion. That's a ridiculous sum of money, but still <checks notes> substantially less than [their market cap of] $1.3 trillion.

That is an apples to dishwasher comparison. Money is fungible only when it's the same kind of money on both sides. You can't compare market cap like that. (Even for a company whose market cap is seemingly divorced from reality like Tesla's)