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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
If this were true, and if you want to give credit to Trump for EU defense spending increases, then (1) why is Trump asking for a dramatic increase in US military funding and (2) when will the US savings on defending the EU be spent on US
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
We've always been at war with NATO. It's the "Eur" part of "eurasia", after all.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
I don’t think the evidence supports this. This was the marketing of tarifs. But the reality is rates have been changed rapidly, added, dropped - this is just leverage Trump is using to exert his will. Whether it is Greenland, defense spendi
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
You can watch the hundreds of videos. You can judge the shared reporting about the number of federal agents deployed to MN coming from government and activist sources. You can listen to the administration's words about insurrection. Yo
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
If you encourage someone to kill themselves, you are culpable. OpenAI should meet that standard too.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
How can you watch the protest and organization in MN and conclude people are "just letting it happen". Quite the opposite.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
In the US, "Boomers" made the environmental movement mainstream, created the EPA, started cleanup of superfund sites, and passed the clean water and clean air acts. There are waterways where I live that are swimmable for the first
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
Or massive industrial hacking that destroys enough transportation, farming, and supply chain integration that there is mass starvation when food delivery and production stalls - and it all comes crumbling down.
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by carefulfungi 10mo ago
Don't even need to rely to anti-piracy to find book banners. US public schools continue to accelerate their book banning tendencies. * https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ * https://www.ala.org/
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by carefulfungi 10mo ago
My impression is that people who are exploring coordinated multi-agent-coding systems are working towards replacing full teams, not augmenting individuals. "Meaningful supervising role" becomes "automated quality and process
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by carefulfungi 10mo ago
This is factually incorrect. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorized war in Vietnam. A Joint resolution authorized the Gulf War. Two of many counter examples.
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by carefulfungi 10mo ago
Does fact that Congress, not the President, has the power to "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water" matter? Or is the constitution not what you voted for?
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by carefulfungi 10mo ago
Classic SaaS platform problem. If you give it away, it will cost you money - and eventually someone will "arbitrage" it at sufficient scale to matter. If you charge for it, your billing becomes a nightmare collection of counters a
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
HN won't even let me comment on the parent claim that US citizens are taking the situation passively. Which is horribly untrue. But the limit is a great example of a platform's rules (whether intentional or not) causing an import
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
It would be more depressing if our imagination didn't exceed the finite time we have to learn and master new skills.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
Ironically, this was early Deno - but then adoption required backwards compatibility.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
Yes. “Unlooted and unopened”… until today.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
So many of us have been there - it is brutal. These platforms are ripping us apart from each other, providing criminals easy access to the most vulnerable, and concentrating wealth to an unimaginable degree.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gros...
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
> What I really want to see is Meta getting irrelevant ON MERIT. Me too. But losing on merit requires an (at least somewhat) fair marketplace.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
Having experienced plenty of this but also having regularly experienced Claude Code writing correct, useful programs - it is reasonably possible that coding agents are the beginning of a disruption in how we code. They'll continue to i
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
Investors often prefer stocks that are not themselves a portfolio (like AWS and Amazon retail being bundled; or your Siemens example). Lots of people would like to buy into AWS's margins without also buying Amazon retail's margins
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.
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by carefulfungi 11mo ago
Operating margin doesn't include interest or taxes; it is an incomplete ratio (but any single ratio will be incomplete) when comparing companies across industries with different capital expense levels, debt levels, and tax exposures. T
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
I thought this was interesting speculation and googled quickly. It seems... debatable? Close? Obviously a challenging dataset to gather accurately. https://www3.nd.edu/~dhoward1/Rates%20of%20Death%20in%20War....
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
"... to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." I missed the part where government service wasn't about upholding and implementing the law but was instead about support for
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
How much f'n money do these massive corporations really need?
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
Snakeoil on every corner these days - from online scams to text message scams to the whole supplements industry to prosperity gospel to ... it sure feels like we're surrounded by hustlers and charlatans.
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
Having shipped free-tier observability products, your comment that you aren't paying them but think their margins are 100x is a perfect irony.
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by carefulfungi 1y ago
This incorrect. A couple hundred billion have been collected to date. You can find any number of sources with a simple search. Here's one: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs... .

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