- This is a HN comment section. You can ask for which claims you want evidence for, instead of low quality trolling.
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/6416/afghanistans-opium-p...
- There's considerable evidence and reason to believe Washington invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to supercharge opium production (banned by Taliban) and flood/destabilize the region (China, Iran) as part of a deliberate, covert and asymmetric drug proliferation strategy.
Now, you could argue that the subsequent invasion of Iraq was counterproductive to that, but I don't see that argument having water.
- The West hasn't stopped interfering in Iran though. They did massive terrorist attacks there just a year ago. Israel would openly salivate at the prospect of destroying Iranian agriculture and water supply.
China is an interesting counterfactual. Circa 2010 when Xi came to power, the CPC also essentially destroyed the CIA's footprint in the country, something that was not widely reported in the West. And PRC has done very well since...
- On the contrary, being able to access (largely/verifiably) correct solutions to tangible & relevant problems is an extremely great way to learn by example.
It should probably be supplemented with some good old RTFM, but it does get us somewhat beyond the "blind leading the blind" StackOverflow paradigm of most software engineering.
- Oh no, not the Used Cooking Oil. Thank you DoJ for keeping our streets safe.
Seriously though, what's the usual lifecycle for those waste oil tanks? Will the owner sell the contents to a recycler when it's full?
- Economic consolidation is one thing, consolidating under a malign foreign ideology is another. Definitely worrying.
- > Because historically this has been found to be the most critical issue killing nations.
This sounds tautological, like "stable states are stable". There are many stable states that don't have term limits on their head of state, and there are many unstable states with 4-6 year presidential terms.
Democracy-as-in-term-limits is a relatively meaningless historical indicator. When political stability is threatened, term limits are swiftly discarded. When the military junta is stabilized, it may introduce term limits to justify its reign (while actively filtering viable candidates).
- Deadlock is an F2P live service game with a (very) Early Access release & development model.
Entirely different situation than bundling a finished HL3 + Steam Machine to achieve big sales.
- A killer app is a great way to sell a "console". Windows port can come later.
- Last week's announced Genesis Mission from the Department of Energy could be the vehicle for this bailout.
1. Government will "partner" (read: foot the bill) for these super-strategic datacenters and investments promised by OpenAI.
2. The investments are not actually sound and fail, but it's the taxpayer that suffers.
3. Mr. Altman rides off into the sunset.
- No, but it is an argument against "ASN.1 is superior to protobufs".
Many modern high-volume telemetry systems use gRPC for a good reason, it wins in the "pragmatic" department.
- > ASN.1, a protocol from 1984, already did what Protobuf does, with more flexibility.
After working heavily with SNMP across a wide variety of OEMs, this flexibility becomes a downside. Or SNMP/MIBs were specified at the wrong abstraction level, where the ASN.1 flexibility gives mfgs too much power to do insane and unconventional things.
- That's like saying the entire point of `rm` is to -rf your homedir.
- You genuinely don't understand that <median real wages have been stagnant/decreasing for decades in USA, particularly in relation to skyrocketing housing/education/medical costs? Do you have any situational awareness of what just happened politically in NYC?
I would assume users engaging in economic debate on HN would have a knowledge of the basic economic facts and trends, and not dismiss them as "incoherent".
- > It is seen as more and more normal to track one’s partner through Find My iPhone or an AirTag, even though the potential for abuse of this technology is staggering and obvious. There are all kinds of new products, such as a biometric ring that is allegedly able to tell you whether your partner is cheating, that expand this capability into more and more granular settings.
These criticisms seem to be more a reflection of the author's paranoia and sex-obsession than legitimate criticisms of the tools and technologies.
IMO, location sharing is pretty awesome among loved ones, and biometrics can help us manage our health? But I guess everything has to be about "sexual surveillance"...
- Please don't engage in bad faith.
If the supply of something you need doubles, but your buying power halves, you are not necessarily better off. This is a straightforward argument.
- "Just build/produce more" (abundance) sounds fantastic if you are part of the upper classes who have been on the right side of wealth inequality trends. It allows us to avoid the issue of inequality. Just grow the pie!!
But surely you can see how this agenda is not appealing to most Americans who have been on the wrong side of wealth inequality? Even if you double the size of the pie, how do you convince them that their proportional slice of it won't halve in the same period? Because that HAS been their experience so far in the past ~50 years.
We do need to build more, but that has to also come with reform to be politically viable.
- Just saying, "other languages have bug reports" is a exceptionally poor way to promote Julia =3
- What does indexing syntax have to do with Julia having a rough history of correctness bugs and footguns?
Beyond being self-contradictory (CIA is passive but also they interfere on key issues) this is just false. The West has spent a lot of (covert) resources undermining China in the past decade in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Taiwan, trade and tech wars, COVID, and so on. All attempts which have failed dramatically, perhaps partly due to the lack of IC penetration into society and government.