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Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated
- stewx 5y agoLink doesn't work. This one does: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moise-shot-killed-1.6092745 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moise-...
- estsauver 5y agoThe link worked for me just now.
- harryf 5y ago> The United States had on June 30 condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti, urging the government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence. I’m not up on what’s been happening in Haiti but this one little paragraph at the end here tells the whole story… the same playbook that’s been used again and again.
- xwdv 5y agoDon’t see what this has to do with tech.
- tantalor 5y ago> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- xwdv 5y agoI did, and wanted to encourage others to do the same.
- castis 5y agoWhy? This website caters to more than just you and other software engineers.
- blowski 5y agoTo be fair to the OP, this probably would be on TV news so is likely to be off-topic. That said, you're right - you only need to flag it. Comments about a post being off-topic are boring and noisy, and flagging a post is sufficient.
- happytoexplain 5y agoI don't see how that intention justifies violating the guideline.
- KoftaBob 5y agoInterestingly, this post about the exact same topic hasn’t gotten removed and is still on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27760573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27760573 Why?
- dang 5y agoRandomness. The answer to most things.
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- speed_spread 5y agoLittle known fact about semiconductors: nobody really knows how they work, beyond that doped substrate, it's all voodoo. And now, a cleansing ritual will have to be performed before our Ryzens turn against us. Again.
- sunstone 5y agoNot quite correct. The condensed matter physicists do understand how they work. The problem is it's complicated so the "theory" they teach undergrads is dumbed down to be more palatable. The sleight of hand comes in where, in the beginning, the "holes" are atoms in the substrate that have lost an electron which, by the time the hall effect appears, those holes are now moving but in the beginning they were stationary. In fact, in semiconductor physics as taught, both the 'electron' and 'hole' are in fact quasi-particles and only tenuously connected to the electron of the standard model.
- oars 5y agoI would not have been aware of this news without HN. Thank you for sharing this OP.
- sp332 5y agoIs it unusual to assassinate a president and then not claim responsibility? If you're trying to take power, wouldn't it help if people knew who you were?
- newsclues 5y agoJFK, no one did. Don’t need to publicly claim you did so.
- blowski 5y agoDavid Runciman's book "How Democracy Ends" covers in great detail how coups are now extremely complicated. The people carrying out a coup often want to deny there was a coup, and that "democracy has prevailed".
- swiley 5y ago>The people carrying out a coup often want to deny there was a coup, and that "democracy has prevailed". Now beginning at the turn of the 20th century?
- tibbydudeza 5y agoHaiti and Dominican Republic - one island - such differing outcomes.
- techbrobane 5y agoIt's almost like half of the island revolted against slavery and has been attacked and robbed for it ever since.