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This statistic doesn't match what's published, but I am not an authority and don't have the expertise to critically evaluate published studies on the topic.

Looking at credible sources, it appears that long covid occurs at rates around 1 in 20 to 1 in 30, which is high. It's rational for people who have elevated risk factors to avoid under-ventilated / unmasked gatherings.

Life is a set of tradeoffs. The actual occurrence of Long Covid (which can also occur with influenza and other infections) is rare.

My personal calculation is the reward of enhanced expressiveness when interacting with others is worth the risk of infectious disease in 2026. In 2020, the variables were different!

Solar and wind subsidies have been illegally halted, and are the subject of ongoing litigation.

Solar and wind are commercially viable and provide about 30% of the electrical energy in Texas. Around 50% of California's daytime electrical energy is provided by solar and wind power. New projects are typically hamstrung by transmission permitting constraints.

While subsidies would help substantially, they aren't a necessary condition for continued adoption of renewable energy sources. Storage is probably the next big hurdle to displace fossil fuels once there's sufficient progress with transmission.

There are probably others who think those comments come from bots.

Many long-tenured blog authors claim they don't touch code anymore as well. I think that lends credibility to the veracity of the claim, as shocking as it is to you as an individual.

Yes! I loved BASIC! It was what got me hooked on computers.

I don't know what's wrong with my perspective. I cannot relate to this at all.

I am at a job where I am paid well to build software to do things in a distributed system that processes information across various external systems (some with physical world impacts). The outcome of that computing is revenue for the company. Using agent-wrapped LLMs makes the software authorship component of the job really fast. The rest is virtually the same speed.

For Thomas's mobile computing examples, these are done really well by my phone's operating system's built-in voice command system, mature for a decade by now.

At home, I use software that is well-crafted to do some thing. Or I write a series of scripts to do narrow things that for some reason aren't in Aptitude or Snap, for example "copy all the photos off my iPhone and rename them and sort them by date in my filesystem".

Perhaps I have no imagination, but I don't feel like having an LLM make applications on my phone. I want good software that someone that I trust wrote.

Thomas has been a successful cryptographer, vulnerability analyst, and entrepreneur, so he probably knows what he's doing. I just don't get it.

Is this an inference from first principles, or is there data to corroborate this?

This is almost completely traceable to Californians' failure to allow sufficiently dense housing to be built on their doorsteps. The only thing Larry did was bring prosperity to the region.

(I'm in agreement with the thesis of the article)

In Q1 2026, Trump was popular with Republicans despite many free speech violations occurring during 2025. His unpopularity started with the Iran war. Republicans were on board with the abuses as long as the targets were libs. He was elected to own the libs. The timeline is clear.

I appreciate your willingness to debate the topic. People like you make HN an interesting place to spend time.

Don't try to "no true Scotsman" your way out of this. From H2 2016 to H1 2026, the Republican party supported Trump with overwhelming approval.

That's not what happened. The agents had been inadvertently rewarded for cheating in previous training runs, trained to collaborate, and were given a prompt that told them to disregard safeguards. Indeed there were some emergent properties here. But these were the predictable results of the training and eval routine.

I think you have a genuine dogmatic blind spot here.

1. Popular "pro-Palestinian" movements in the West largely do not support Hamas. Sometimes its iconography appears! Just as Nazi iconography sometimes appears at Republican events. This does not imploy majority support!

2. Belief the genocide of the Palestinian people should be halted does not imply support for Hamas.

3. Palestinian self-rule does not necessitate an armed Hamas leadership of the Palestinian territory.

4. Support for Palestinian people and condemnation of the Netanyahu government does not imply an anti-Jewish belief. The majority of American Jews condemn Netanyahu!

There is something in your belief system that erroneously tightly couples Hamas with Palestine. Hamas control of the Gaza strip is only a decade old.

Your dogged equating of support for the Palestinian people with support for Hamas is elevating a minority view.

This would be like my claiming that all Liberal Party of Australia members hate aboriginals. Many do, but that is not how the majority of Liberals see it. Or a claim that all US Republicans are racist. Not sure what nationality you are, but you should get the picture.

> both sides have been murdering each other over religious garbage for 100s of years

The Mandate for Palestine and Jewish resettlement started in 1917 after the first world war.

Unless you're talking about the Roman expulsion of Jews from Judea in the 2nd century CE? The claim is still quite a stretch.

You're getting downvoted for the factual inaccuracy of your statement. The party in control of government in the United States has gone to extraordinary lengths to chill free speech. From overt viewpoint discrimination for broadcast television to banning press outlets critical of the administration, to deporting people in legal statuses for political speech, there is no modern parallel by any other political party. The right wing's support for free speech has enormously fallen.

There's some merit to your viewpoint because Hamas was at one time democratically elected. I don't think there's a strong case for claims that the majority of Palestinian people supported the October 7th attack on either military or noncombatant targets. One being that the majority of Palestinians were not of voting age at the time.

October 7th being an illegal attack justified a military response from the Israeli Defense Forces to secure their border, and most of the world agreed. Opposition solidified when IDF conducted mass destruction of civilian structures and independent observer-corroborated systematic murder of noncombatants, many of whom were children.

While two wrongs don't make a right, it's justified to support a people who are the victims of a genocide according to credible observers.

The majority of supporters of Palestianian people are not doing that.

> Being “Pro Palestine” would mean a reverse “genocide”

No, that's not the popular viewpoint. You're expressing a niche viewpoint or the inaccurate viewpoint propagated by some political actors.

Yeah, nah, the Australian right has been casting pro-Palestinian speech as anti-semitic.

In the States, the right has been supportive of government suppression of speech, including the communications agency (FCC) threatening broadcasters into cancelling an interview with a politician in the opposition party. The right's free speech record is far worse in the US and Australia.

Admittedly, neither side of the aisle have good free speech practices in most of the rest of the world.

Discord offers age verification via AgeKey [1]. Reading their privacy policy, one can create multiple AgeKeys based on the same identification or face scan. Each AgeKey is stored as a passkey and not persisted anywhere else. The privacy policy indicates that the identification information is submitted to 3rd party providers, and also appears to be used for general internet company marketing and promotions, similarly invasive to buying a pair of shoes online. That is, your identity will be propagated to ad networks by AgeKey as it similarly does for ecommerce.

Discord cannot determine identity from the AgeKey.

1. https://agekey.org/

Very boxer rebellion-coded. "We won't use the tools of the enemy"

I have met zero people and read zero accounts of people wishing there was "more AI" in Apple devices.

I think OP was doing a "hu-mor" there

The "Collateral Murder" video of the unlawful killing of journalists was part of the archive that Wikileaks published that's been attributed to Chelsea Manning. All available evidence supports this was part of the material. Chelsea's leak was the contents of the shared drive, not just diplomatic cables.

The release of the diplomatic cables themselves gravely harmed U.S. interests and is alleged to have led to the deaths of CIA collaborators.

If a person does an illegal thing, that cancels out the illegal things other people did.

If a commenter posts a thing that I disagree with, then their motives are bad. Whereas all opinions of mine are pure and in good faith.

Snowden wasn't stupid. He was the world's best Sharepoint administrator.

It was probably unwise of him to insult the T group director publicly, which led to the entire subsequent chain of events.

I'm confident there's significant variation within the cohort.

Not through malice, but through negligence.