anewaccount2021

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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Well, no one really reads The Intercept anymore, so clearly principled, critical journalism isn't paying the bills. But do they really hope to distinguish themselves from the rest of the liberal pablum (Atlantic, NYTimes, Guardian etc)
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
If someone in Russia has decided my family can be incinerated, I don't see why the favor can't be returned. I mean, if we had a mindset of "one human family", nuclear weapons wouldn't even exist.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Obviously - the point being, this command chain is optimized and conditioned for compliance.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
It won't stop. Since most non-rich consumers are maxed out on debt (induced to do so by ever-lowering rates), the Fed basically cannot raise rates. If they do, increased costs of debt servicing will crater tens of millions, and also de
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Speaking to people who have worked in Titan II silos (admittedly, long ago in the 70s), the opposite is true. They were conditioned to believe if they received a launch order, the US was already a cinder. The person I spoke to said he would
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
For many, their former workplaces are gone. So beating covid won't put them back to work immediately, and many will become the permanently (and eventually uncounted) unemployed.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
LearnXinYminutes has a great tutorial. The main raku.org site already has incredible docs.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Twitter, Youtube and Facebook privatized free speech, and they can selectively deplatform that right on a whim. Now Microsoft will privatize freedom of movement? How long until they are pressured to put former Parler users on a permanent no
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Raku incorporates many of the neatest ideas in languages but retains a perlish flavor. I would almost equate it with Racket, in that there is support for many styles of coding, and your code may look nothing like another's. TMTOWTDI is
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I use both every day. The core perl5 packages I rely on are updated regularly. The perl5 runtime is released on a reliable schedule. Everything works. I use raku mostly for fun. It has come a long way. It has further to go, but I don't
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
There is nothing about the severity of covid that merits shutting down the entire economy. A full shutdown of the entire economy (i.e. you can't get food or water if you need them) would only be warranted in the case of an existential
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I never see HN readers taking personal responsibility in any thread regarding climate change. Every comment just damns other people. If you are a techie in North America, you are in the top 1% of all-time polluters, if not the top 0.1%. Me
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Samsung S20 made in Vietnam. Find me stories of expoitation.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Apple customers know the supply chain is supported by coerced labor and they don't care. I mean...look no further than HN...everyone here has seen the stories, and you are all still buying iPhones.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Exactly. For k-12 this year will be the end of lockdown.edu. Parents will go into revolt otherwise. The government can't afford a scenario that pits working parents against the primary target cohort of covid (old and obese) because the
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Covid isn't remotely impactful enough to create de-facto internment camps.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
VPN providers have to be neutral or whats the point. Mozilla, increasingly, is quite vocal about a non-neutral network based on deplatforming, exclusion, and purity tests. So they're one of the last orgs I would trust as a VPN provider
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I'm pretty sure in the next ten years that will be fixed.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
The Constitution will never again be amended, because you will never get 2/3 of States to ever agree on anything, ever. As it stands, such an amendment would require rural citizens to effectively eliminate themselves from the electoral
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
US digital infrastructure is the ultimate soft target. I assume for every SolarWinds we hear about, there are others that the government squashes due to sheer embarrassment or national security concerns.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
These employee "backlashes" are increasingly toothless. It was only a couple of weeks ago that a Google employee published a diatribe in Wired demanding that Timnit Gebru be rehired, promoted, and an indoctrination program be forc
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I don't think this really signifies a meaningful deterioration - this has been happening forever. Its diplomacy by trade policy. The EU does the same to us, we do the same to Canada, Canada does the same to us. Usually the penalized in
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I expect Biden to photocopy the Trump trade agenda, and all indications are he will do exactly this. Not just with the EU, but China as well. Boeing is a major employer, union stronghold (still), and in rough shape. It would be political su
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
FORBEARANCE Easy to save money when you aren't paying your biggest bill.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Justified or not, it will be very difficult to for Biden to cast himself as a unifier after this.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Token counterpoint so they don't just appear to be stooges in America's culture wars...but I really don't believe either of Merkel or Macron is truly interested in anything but a totally sanitized and nerfed internet. The goo
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
All the key influencers and thought leaders who have been bemoaning the outsized influence of social media are now clamoring to join an app that lets you literally scream at people. Keyboard Warriors are so 2020...we've upgraded to Scr
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Because it wasn't a "revolution" or insurrection, that's inane. It was a bunch of bozos who rioted. What they did was just a massive embarrassment to the establishment that had written them off as buffoons. Amusingly, w
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
You need look no further than the concerted and organized effort to shut-down Bernie Sanders twice, and frankly he isn't even particularly radical. No one you mentioned represents a meaningful threat to the status quo - America has a s
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Once again - the best educated voter still only has two choices, and neither of these represent the poor. Do people on HN really think the very rich or the very poor were at all bothered by the Capitol riots? Government is irrelevant to bot

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