No, your neighbours decided that all corporate malfeasance was approved if it gets them a cheaper egg.

Isn't the goal then demand destruction?

The net effect is demand destruction. The US shouldn't be exporting diesel when it lacks sufficient refining capacity to make up for all of the capacity destroyed or unavailable from the US war of choice with Iran. And as the price of US domestic diesel goes to $6+, oil demand is going down both because there's insufficient refining capacity and there's a general slow down in the economy from the added inflation baked-in by higher oil prices and higher diesel prices.

Vomit. We should ban 90% of ads. They are mostly net negative on society.

> The profitability of being able to serve a query wasn't really under question (nor is the margin expected to be anything less than 80%+) I think.

HN had long debates about whether AI inference could even be affordable from a compute perspective.

People aren't treating it as a thoughtful contribution. It is more of a flag, like "spam".

HN already has a feature for that. Just flag the article!

I appreciate when people write things like, "this is an advertisement for the author's product, X." Why stay silent? If the commenter's accusation smells fishy, I'll read the article myself. Otherwise, they helped me.

To me, it’s the equivalent of “HN is turning into Reddit” - it’s just a complaint without adding to the discussion.

> And if you do that, you’ll sometimes assign praise and blame to them, instead of hoarding it all to yourself.

I mean, if things are going well, the logical thing to do is to hoard it.

The problem with applying Hanlon's Razor here is that it presumes malice is rare. The current administration revels in malice. They very openly decide things based on malice.

Trump != Americans

Nearly 70% of eligible Americans didn't think that Trump was a enough of a problem to vote against him in 2024.

This betrays a complete lack of civic seriousness, and a childlike belief of invulnerability to consequences.

Oh so Trump just came out of nowhere I guess

But it is currently a strong mitigating factor. The law is full of oopsie defenses.