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General strike cripples Bolivia over so-called "Gasolinazo"(en.mercopress.com)
3 points by clanky 10mo ago|6 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
> With type annotation, it's becoming "ugly", a lot more verbose. It's no longer English-like. In our codebase that uses Sorbet I find this is really only true at function boundaries. Within a function it is pretty
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by clanky 10mo ago
> Adding static typing to a dynamic language mostly gives you the disadvantages of both, without a lot of benefits. As an engineer at a firm doing heavy duty data pipelines and internal tooling in a Sorbet-ified codebase, I disagree pr
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Trump admin says White House ballroom construction is national security matter(apnews.com)
7 points by clanky 10mo ago|0 comments
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Murder of Portuguese plasma physicist in U.S. witnessed by daughter(portugalresident.com)
8 points by clanky 10mo ago|1 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
I see your point, but it's kind of one thing to blow up a handful of "drug boats" (only a complete idiot believes that story, but simply having _any story_ seems to be the only requirement these days), quite another to start
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by clanky 10mo ago
And what should the U.S. vessels imposing an illegal and unprovoked blockade be subject to? If you believe in "might makes right" why not just be honest and come out and say that?
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by clanky 10mo ago
Are we really going to obtusely pretend we can't think of a single reason on our own for them to have done that?
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by clanky 10mo ago
> That the US cannot win a war is silly. The US could erase every population center within a few minutes. Although the U.S. ruling class often likes to pretend it can operate with no regard for its domestic perceptions of legitimacy, t
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by clanky 10mo ago
It's because Venezuela has lots of oil and gold, and the money (and blood) won't be "wasted" for the small sliver of people who benefit from stealing it.
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by clanky 10mo ago
The main purpose is probably to get American ships to fire the first shot, and thereby firmly establish that it is the U.S. empire that is the aggressor.
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by clanky 10mo ago
Why was the ship flying a Guyanese flag rather than a Venezuelan one in the first place?
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by clanky 10mo ago
> It's widely accepted that the US lost in Vietnam due not to military defeat, but from the clever Tet Offensive - where they successfully influenced US politics via US journalism, to cause them to simply cease fighting. Yes, that
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by clanky 10mo ago
Hard to comprehend the stunning levels of cope required to still view what happened in Iraq as some kind of decisive victory for anyone except Blackwater and Halliburton.
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by clanky 10mo ago
I have to say I appreciate Maduro calling the U.S. empire's bluff at every turn. Whether it's the corrupt Nobel Peace Prize, trying to bribe his pilot to betray him, or now this, it's all just making it clear to anyone with e
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by clanky 10mo ago
Interesting to see this added to the Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram Experiment as "widely believed and cited studies with dubious scientific underpinnings": https://x.com/i/status/1309241320632995
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Venezuelan Navy Escorts Vessels in Defiance of Trump's Blockade Threat(nytimes.com)
6 points by clanky 10mo ago|2 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
To get anywhere filing some kind of claim over this, Gizmodo would have to prove in court: - The "Legacy Media Lies" was targeted at Gizmodo - It was a false allegation (i.e. they might have to go through huge amounts of discovery
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How Resilient Will the U.S. Consumer Be Without a Job?(bloomberg.com)
4 points by clanky 10mo ago|2 comments
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by clanky 11mo ago
There are at least some HFT players who actually use exceptions to avoid branches on the infrequent-but-speed-critical execution path: https://youtu.be/KHlI5NBbIPY?si=VjFs7xVN0GsectHr
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MYRA stack – Modern Java FFM based libraries(roray.dev)
4 points by clanky 11mo ago|0 comments
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by clanky 11mo ago
To take the example of a minor little necessity like shelter, housing affordability is far worse today than it was 20 years ago, despite the fact that we were near the peak of a huge credit-driven housing bubble at that time.
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by clanky 11mo ago
4 decades of James Bond, Tom Clancy, Homeland, Zero Dark Thirty ...
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by clanky 11mo ago
That will be a problem for South Americans and to a lesser extent you and me, not the ones pulling Trump's strings.
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by clanky 11mo ago
One third is really not a solid base of support for major military action, especially among the administration's staunchest supporters. My purely subjective impression is that there is plenty of doubt in the ranks of MAGA about this, F
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by clanky 11mo ago
"Has the CIA advanced American interests" is the wrong question. The CIA does not work for "The United States" proper, it works for a tiny section of it that comprises the ruling elites. Those people certainly enjoyed
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White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations(miamiherald.com)
41 points by clanky 11mo ago|80 comments
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by clanky 11mo ago
Among others, probably the Silicon Valley skinsuit VCs behind Prospera like Srinivasan, Thiel, and Andreessen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera
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Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving for drug-trafficking(cnn.com)
13 points by clanky 11mo ago|4 comments
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US Navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco(theguardian.com)
12 points by clanky 11mo ago|0 comments

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