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Others note the bleaching, which is relatively low cost, but the (purely cosmetic) straightening is probably the more interesting example. People in the US pay a lot of money to have very straight teeth. You can see this clearly with Amer
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Tesla a meme stock though, it's more about the Elon cult of personality than any real market fundamentals. Its performance is only loosely coupled with the actual car business. Honestly it's surprising that it's still so hi
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> It has everything to lose by continuing to rely on the US, which is why you're seeing such a hard pivot toward Europe and Asia. The problem is, this kind of pivot would take a long time and be extremely difficult. Out there in
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These stories of white English speaking women are of course also flagged off the home page. HN doesn't really want to know about any negative side effects from the current regime.
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Flagged, of course, to death. This is an important story of US decline. This woman was here to do business. To work with Americans. If you're flagging this because you're a part of the tech right, who thinks these policies are som
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Tape is reliable and suitable for long term archiving, but it still needs care and feeding. Having some kind of parity data recorded so losing a single tape does not result in data loss, routine testing and replacement of failing tapes, and
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The trick here is that if the election is close enough that you'd actually want/need multiple pollsters aggregated, the aggregators will indicate high uncertainty. If it's enough of a blowout for the aggregators to indicate l
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I mean from what I can tell a lot of its recent success is simply because Slack is terrible. Most of the discord "servers" I use which aren't actually gaming related would be almost the same on slack, but slack has a less gen
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> Reddit pushing new Reddit layout and killing 3rd party apps is what did it for me. But it seems like nobody really cares. It's not that users don't care, it's that the money dried up. It used to be that when a site s
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> r/conservative is a bad litmus test. Between AI-driven bots (read comment histories!), flair-only posts, and chronically online users it's a terrible reflection of the average American who identifies as conservative Sure, t
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It tells you a lot about hn that a political rant by a confused hacker can hit the front page, while actual reporting on what the government is doing is flagged to oblivion. Success in one domain should not imply competence in another.
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Yes. If Ukraine kept the soviet nukes, they wouldn't be in this position. Non-proliferation - and relying on the benevolence of a few mercurial and spiteful superpowers - is, in hindsight, a horrible miscalculation.
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Not an interview but https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/fired-fed... These anecdotes however are few and far between. With a federal worker there's pretty obviously "nowhere to
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This is actually a re -announcement of something already announced! The only difference here is mentioning of specific cryptocurrencies. Prove? That's a high bar to clear. But this is a spike at merely reiterating a bailout plan.
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President on Brink of Bailout for Bitcoin(citationneeded.news)
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There's the abstract, and the concrete. If you ask those same Republicans if they would pardon a violent offender who committed crimes in an attempt to defend Trump's claims of victory on January 6, you would get a very different
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This shouldn't be down voted. Trump has more support now than he did in his first term. His support is durable and lasting. It's difficult to imagine what might cause his supporters to change their options of him. If the election
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Indeed, with his wealth the financial success of the paper is irrelevant. Just as with Musk and Twitter, controlling the narrative and pushing an agenda is worth far more than any balance sheets could show.
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It's certainly strange, because his paper was clearly anti Trump for most of his tenure as owner. And yet, he actually started cracking down on the editorial board before the election. Maybe his position evolved over time?
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Several swing states have high quality research institutions doing important work. North Carolina is another state where research was historically very important to the economy. Even if you don't think the US should fund as much resear
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2) is questionable. Most of the budget is spent maintaining global hegemony through military dominance. Whatever inefficiencies that exist on the civil side are nearly irrelevant.
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> Not to challenge the notion of tax but to seek an answer: what would be a better solution to the deindustrialization of the US then? You can simply nationalize manufacturing in critical industries. If you're not willing to go th
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I can't comment on what Apple is doing here, but Google has an equivalent called "lens" which works really well and I use it in the way you suggest here.
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Yeah, bribing your industry's top regulator seems highly likely to have a positive ROI.
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Adams is busy trying to curry favour with Trump so he doesn't go to jail. It's not entirely inconceivable that he might be telling the truth, but he's an extremely unreliable source.
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> it's how you have populations repeatedly making the same damn mistakes century after century just in a different form. it's baked into our DNA i suppose. I think this is probably correct. It's inevitable. It's who
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Nothing was banned, culture changed. This happens as you age. The world and customs you grew up with, despite how they may feel too you, are not the natural state of the world. Accept that new customs may replace them.
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> I see no reason not to take Krugman at his word. Why do you find him trustworthy? He's clearly got an axe to grind and lots of incentive to make himself look good on his own blog. Numerous times I've read blog posts on HN whi
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> My interpretation of Krugman's departure is that higher-ups edited and re-edited his columns to reduce the possibility of calling up a kerfuffle. They wanted him to soften his words and blunt his message because they were sensitiv
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It's ridiculous whataboutism to "both sides" here. The president ran on a platform of brazen corruption and retribution against political foes, and he's following through. Democrats doing insider trading and other low st

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