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Are you maintaining a single long lived spec for an entire repo/project and trying to have AI implement against that, or are you creating a spec for each feature addition or piece of work you want to AI to do? What you say I hear commonly from folks who are trying to maintain a single spec for a repo and finding it falls over as that spec gets complex and what’s being asked of the AI is muddied by you asking it to figure out the diff between what was already in the spec/previously implemented and what it’s being asked to do.

So you admit it’s draconian but nonetheless support it? What a strangely honest take from a modern trump republican.

So you support a move to make American tax and social services policies more like Western Europe?

Hopefully one day society can lift itself to your lofty ideals of tasteless food, oppressive surveillance and no crimes against the state. I wonder if anyone has written about such a world before.

“The state should replace community” is an interesting take. What other powers should be added to the state? Should they cook our food too? Do you think there’s any downside to the government having these powers?

You think someone in California making 200k is paying an overall 30% in combined federal and state taxes? That seems out of touch with reality to me.

My mistake. You definitely couldn’t be doing racist apologia if you’ve made statements against racism in the past. That’s convincing enough to me, an apparent American liberal!

Well you are doing apologia for racism. I’m not putting words in your mouth in calling out your behavior.

Please go ahead and define nationality and ethnicity. I’m happy to allow you to entirely define the terms to your ends and make an argument within those bounds. Please also tell us how the quoted statement calls out “naturalization” and “nationality” because it’s critical to you “not” doing racist apologia that both your definitions and the quoted statement are coherent.

No, a Somali who immigrated to Sweden is nationality wise Swedish and ethnicity wise Somali. The quote clearly says to expel Somalis and makes no distinction between ethnicity and nationality. Why do apologia for racism anyways? Weird stuff dude.

> In a 7-2 decision issued in June 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bayer and Mosanto, ruling that the Montana state law cannot coerce the labeling of Roundup as containing carcinogens since federal regulators have not identified a connection. The ruling overturned a prior jury award and is expected to end most other ongoing litigation over Roundup.

Another anti-states right ruling that will be championed by the states rights crowd. As long as it’s in corporate interests, states have no rights.

It seems like not quite.

The width is 50 some inches but the wheel wells are there so you may need some 2x4 or something to keep plywood from flexing over them. And the length of the bed isn’t near 8 feet so you’d need the bed open and the boards strapped in.

This jalopnik article had some helpful measurements: https://www.jalopnik.com/1845231/slate-pickup-bed-fit-every-...

There isn’t a hatchback option. Did you mean fastback?

Landlords typically have insurance coverage for damage by tenants, including lost rent.

No I think nazis killed millions of people and “woke” has done nothing remotely similar.

You are equating them right here. Calling them equal opposites is equating them. It implies woke is just as bad as nazi.

From my and seemingly others’ reading, you have equated Nazi and woke very directly in your comments. Do you feel you have you not?

I wasn’t asking if you agreed with the comment in question but in my statement that there is no obvious reason in the content that it should be flagged; it seems you did agree since you restored the comment. Thanks for your feedback and attention.

@dang can you explain how the comment below me got marked dead? How many flags did it receive? By whom? This is genuinely very concerning, this comment is not off topic or in anyway deserving to be flagged. Do you or the other moderator disagree with that statement?

Here is the text of the comment in question:

“As someone stumbling across this thread: the idea that, in regards to bias, a real person might actually consider these two events in any way comparable is honestly leaving me stunned. I can't find the right words to describe how sickening it is to see Nazism being treated as just as banally acceptable as any other political direction.”

The parent makes an exceptionally clear point about the hypocrisy of the right wing in America who touts small government but then proposes sweeping federal legislation to prevent states from exercising left wing policies.

You are trying to twist their point into something else.

Your replies are non-sequitors to the discussion in this thread.

Statement “I use grok to consume current events”

Response “grok is not a reliable source for information, especially current events or politics”

Your response “but Gemini generated images that right wingers didn’t like”

Ok? Are those images the news? Is that a way to consume current events? Do you think I’m a proponent of people using LLMs to digest current events and am only against grok specifically? What exactly is your argument against mine (that grok shouldn’t be used to consume current events). Are you agreeing? Or are you suggesting that people should use grok for current events because Gemini produced images you didn’t like?

I think “amount of houses” misses many important parts of how people decide where to live and what they struggle with that results in unaffordable or unavailable housing.

Where do you increase supply? The most desirable places to live like urban centers, or more likely more and wider suburbs. In a vacuum many people will say it doesn’t matter and poor people should move to where they can afford; but many people have strong connections to where they grew up and are not inclined to abandon their lifelong support systems because the pricing in one area has gone up.

How do you increase supply? Ugly 5-over-1s are cheap to make but not desirable, not particularly dense. Single family homes are even less dense. Most supply proponents are talking about these or luxury condos.

How much is the new supply? If we build new homes but they are still unattainable to the people who need them, then we didn’t help much right? Which leads me to

Who gets the new supply? Are they put on the open market for speculators/investors/landlords/private equity to gobble up or are there provisions for ensuring the housing goes to people who don’t already have housing or are physically real people not llcs etc.

Tl;dr we could build a million houses but if they are in undesirable places, unfavorable designs, or allowed to be snatched up and resold at the same high prices we already have, then supply alone wouldn’t fix unaffordability of housing across the nation.

You’re trying to change the subject, not trying to understand the parent.

You are being very dishonest here. Gemini did not praise hitler, excuse South African apartheid, or create its own version of Wikipedia with blatant nazi, white supremacy and anti-Islamic content. Googles CEO did not subsequently claim these things were the truth.

Yes let’s use the nazi AI to learn about current events. Nothing can possibly turn out poorly from more people doing that!

A quick google shows news articles and even videos of Ukrainian drones destroying Russian planes.

It isn’t strange in 2026 to wonder if an internet comment is from a human.

Tech workers have been laid off (without pips) en masse for the past 24 months, so it seems like I’m talking to a model trained in 2023 to be so absent of the obvious facts around us in the industry.

That’s why I ask. Because you’re either not in the industry and talking bullshit, not paying attention to the world around you, or a bot.

You haven’t experienced the last 2 years of layoffs across the tech industry? Do you have any friends in the industry? Do you avoid news about the industry?

>at any larger corporation

Like walmart, mcdonalds, amazon, target, home depot? It’s incredible how insulated the HN audience is to the real life day-to-day concerns of workers in the United States.

Most places? Are you a human? Have you been to the United States?

Do you genuinely think McDonald’s is building a months long case against a fry cook? That Amazon is building a months long case against a delivery driver or warehouse worker who refused to pee in a bottle? That target is putting a cashier on a pip for months and allowing lost sales or theft?

Can you describe what your idea of a “hacker” and their associated interests might be?