alwayseasy's comments

On: DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to cat...

[alwayseasy]

You're right: Republican Senator Hawley introduced that bill Friday. https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...

[vancroft → alwayseasy]

Wow, why is the title tag of the page apparently a Windows file path?

[watwut → vancroft]

Because someone copy pasted something somewhere.

On: We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to...

[alwayseasy]

Really cool project!

On: 'Anti-sex' beds have arrived at Paris Olympics

[alwayseasy]

This is a famously debunked fake news. Expected nothing less from the nypost but a bit more from hacker news. Most fun source: https://twitter.com/McClenaghanRhys/status/14165677689382912...

On: US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Sta...

[alwayseasy]

The success of SpaceX is placing Musk in a position to decide where America's allies have access to the internet and choosing what region of the world can be cut off just through meeting politicians he likes.

[cubefox → alwayseasy]

Surely there is no risk the US will be cut off.

On: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowin...

[alwayseasy]

This social listening company does one: https://alerts.talkwalker.com/alerts/

They might try to call and email you though.

On: IBM Rebus

[alwayseasy]

It's the case in most companies unfortunately.

On: We’ll call it AI to sell it, machine learning to b...

[alwayseasy]

Autopilot was not a consumer feature but a professional one where the understanding of the system comes with multiple certifications.

On: Product Strategy in the Age of AI

[alwayseasy]

To take it a notch further, it's the video editing simplicity that really blew TikTok up.

[disgruntledphd2 → alwayseasy]

> To take it a notch further, it's the video editing simplicity that really blew TikTok up.

Yup, definitely. Effective mobile editing was a big driver of it's success.

That being said, while it's definitely more effective and popular on mobile how much of that is just down to more people using the internet on mobile relative to desktop.

This is unlike Maps or Uber which only make sense with mobile and always available location.

On: Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

[alwayseasy]

A dropped 500g can of tuna from the third floor aimed at your lower body will hurt less than 250kg of tuna dropped from the same height.

[4gotunameagain → alwayseasy]

Most definitely, but a can of tuna shot by a tuna can cannon? The argument does not specify similar circumstances!

On: “But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed ar...

[alwayseasy]

The crux of the problem for ETH is its first few months after launch where they indeed raised money. So ETH was a security at first (according to the Howey test) but now probably not anymore.