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by alephnerd 1y ago
It's a side effect of democracy promotion. We the US cannot have a values based foreign policy - all that matters is power. Cambodian and Thai leadership wants to retain power, so they decided to work with the Chinese - who don't
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by alephnerd 1y ago
Thailand wanted the F-35 [0], but the we will not give it to them given how close the Thai government has become to China after the junta [1]. Their junta and King wants to keep Thailand as an authoritarian illiberal democracy. The Biden ad
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> We can't even get anything as minor as firing pin microstamping implemented > It's shocking how effective the opposition to it has been. It's becuase the patent for microstamping is owned by a single and very litigiou
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by alephnerd 1y ago
As a former legislative assistant during the Aurora shooting, it's because gun abolitionists and gun fundamentalists are extremely organized interest groups, and risk your chances during a primary. There is a silent majority that feels
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> So what matters is being able to disarm people who exhibit violent tendencies and/or suicidal depression "left of bang." I agree > The Swiss model would be a much more reasonable approach. Shall-issue purchase permit
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by alephnerd 1y ago
You can drop the weapons catalog requirement that Israel has, and you would still add significant guardrails against misuse. Even without Israeli style gun cataloging, the rest of the Israeli gun control requirements should be able to pass
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by alephnerd 1y ago
I know, and my argument is that the Israeli model can be safely argued as falling within the current reading of the 2nd amendment, especially after NYSRPA v. Bruen The reading of Buren allows control on concealed carry and gun ownership via
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by alephnerd 1y ago
They don't care. "The Smoking Gun" is part of the Everytown Support Fund [0], which has been lobbying for gun abolitionism. It was created in opposition of the NRA by Michael Bloomberg [1] Just like how the NRA would skew sta
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by alephnerd 1y ago
I mean, true independent journalism started off as a blue collar job. The journalists who drove the Muckraker movement [0] were a mix of self taught and state school grads who worked for newspapers like McClure and the World which were foun
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by alephnerd 1y ago
Ah ok! I thought you were pining for the days of a town with only a single employer dominating hiring. That is an unsustainable model. > You still get to employ thousands who don't necessarily have a PhD in computer science You&#x27
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> I still don't understand why San Diego-Tijuana isn't in principle as strong in design+manufacturing as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen axis It is in Medical Devices and Defense Tech. The San Diego and Tijuana EDCs are closely integrat
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by alephnerd 1y ago
What I mean is Folsom is a city where research into a physical engineering field continues, and primarily for a single employer (Intel), though that remains to be seen with the current rightsizing going on. > The same strip malls on ever
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> Other parts of the world still have factory cities I mean, factory cities in other countries are also increasingly being automated as well. Look at what happened to Wolfsburg in Germany as well as the investments in robotic and additiv
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by alephnerd 1y ago
Ever been to Folsom, Chandler, Olathe, Huntsville, Quad Cities, Peoria, Irvine, San Diego, North Chicago, East Liberty, Taylor, etc? We have seen a decrease in companies that work on physical engineering goods, but plenty still remain. The
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by alephnerd 1y ago
FF for Linux will have a different team from FF for MacOS or FF for Windows. Given how different each OS is, they will have different internals. You don't see the same kind of performance degradation on other browsers on MacOS like Chr
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by alephnerd 1y ago
I use FF as well and it's extremely non-performant on MacOS. It quickly eats up much of the power usage and a number of websites (especially MS Office/365 related sites) don't render or work correctly. The former is a FF issu
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by alephnerd 1y ago
Also for monetizing AI Search. Google has already seen most users [0] directly use AI search instead of clicking into a website. It is fairly straightforward for an organization to start pushing recommended sites from an AI-driven search, a
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> Honestly using an H1B for an accountant or pm seems wrong A PM should be a domain expert first and foremost. Nationality doesn't matter. You cannot build a product roadmap or a business case without understanding your industry. Th
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> Big tech pays lesser than I expected: I thought they would average at 200k, not 160k H1Bs aren't just for Engineers - PMs, TPMs, Accountants, PMMs, and other roles can get H1B visas as well. Maybe filter based on the BLS code to g
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> I know so many US citizens who have 10+ years of work experience and work in modern stacks that have been out of a job for 6+ months The tech industry like tech stack is broad. For example, it's nigh impossible to hire an American
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by alephnerd 1y ago
> The “employee” isn’t living off an H-1B salary — they’re already wealthy enough to bankroll the whole arrangement If you are wealthy enough to bankroll this kind of a convoluted method to immigrate to the US (back of the napkin math $1
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by alephnerd 1y ago
If they give a proscribed terrorist organization an actual platform WITHOUT pushback then they are biased. CNN or NYT will bring Israeli government and IDF spox but also ask hard questions about civilian casualties (and Israelis get annoyed
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I grew up in the Bay Area so Apple donated a ton of their computers to all the schools in the area. That said, the Windows computers I remember were Vista or Windows 7.
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by alephnerd 1y ago
I mean, among "younger" American HNers (those who went to middle or HS in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s), MacOS X Leopard or Windows 7 was probably a much more foundational desktop OS - most of our school computer labs used one or th
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by alephnerd 1y ago
Pretty much. But that's almost all of HN tbh. A lot of references, topics, and language patterns on here really highlight the fact that the userbase is somewhere between 35-45. Still love Windows XP though.
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by alephnerd 1y ago
More like Egypt requires fertilizers in order to maintain it's domestic industry. Cheap NatGas means cheap ammonia synthesis, which means cheap fertilizers. Sinai has also been in the midst of a violent Islamist insurgency [0] which ca
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by alephnerd 1y ago
1. Perverse incentives [0] Egypt is a heavily statist country, and energy SoEs like Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and their subsidiaries are all ONG heavy. They are also a major employer in Egypt. This is the one risk that s
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Nope. These are organizations that can generate multi-billion dollar revenues, and could outcompete based on investment capacity alone.
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> the immediate problem is that ranchers can’t support large herds due to lack of rain and cost of feed Ranchers that can support large herds (2,000+) are those who earn a net profit [0] and are consolidating because processors do not wa
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by alephnerd 1y ago
She was starting to concentrate on the Ag consolidation [0] but my interpretation is she targeted tech first due to the industry's somewhat weaker political position in both admins. She also didn't touch Comcast - and they are the

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