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by doom2 7mo ago
> Countries across the world will have to treat US as unpredictable from now on Anyone who has studied American history knows the US has been unreliable. Just look at how they made and then broke treaties with Native Americans. It's
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by doom2 7mo ago
In some recent recruiter calls for hybrid positions in New York, I asked if the employer would pay for roundtrip Amtrak tickets 3x/week from where I live (a ~1.5 hour train ride). Of course the answer was no and I knew that already, bu
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by doom2 7mo ago
> The theory is that if we close the gap in regulatory burden between public companies and large private companies, then maybe we'll see more IPOs like back in the 90's, before Sarbanes-Oxley and other new laws. And maybe more
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by doom2 7mo ago
If dead Internet theory is coming or is already here, then reality is 1 and 2
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by doom2 7mo ago
Was Larry Ellison a trendsetter? He bought the Hawaiian island of Lāna'i about 15 years ago from the owners of Dole, a continuation of American empire.
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by doom2 7mo ago
When do you choose one over the other?
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by doom2 7mo ago
The arrest of a Turkish graduate student in Boston looked a lot like a kidnapping.[1] More recently, ICE responded to a judge's order to release a detained refugee by threatening to detain her family and send them to Texas if they came
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by doom2 7mo ago
Not sharing my call on HN, but I got my tech back in 2010 with my college club (W2SZ), upgraded to general a year later, and only in 2024 did I upgrade to Extra. I can't have a station at home currently, so mostly work QRP.
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by doom2 7mo ago
As much as Trump and Hegseth would like it to be called the Department of War, it still takes an act of Congress to change the name of the Department of Defense. No reason to call it by anything else until that happens.
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by doom2 7mo ago
Just wait until the next Democratic president is elected. The current crop of Republicans will suddenly remember that Congress can exercise this power.
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by doom2 7mo ago
GPU prices went through the roof for crypto and then the pandemic and never really recovered to pre-pandemic prices before once again spiking because of AI demand. So where's the increased supply of Nvidia cards to account for all the
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by doom2 8mo ago
> in a few years folks will be coming up with creative ideas for cheap storage and GPUs flooding the market COVID was six years ago. In that time, GPU prices haven't gone down (and really have only increased). Count me skeptical tha
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by doom2 8mo ago
What do you use now?
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by doom2 8mo ago
The problem is, as the end consumer, it doesn't _feel_ like the domestic options are suddenly the cheap or desirable option. I am just paying more for the thing I was already buying. Similar to, eg, custom PCBs I ordered from China tha
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by doom2 8mo ago
GPUs have been scarce and expensive for years now. The PS5 is more expensive now than it was five years ago. You would think the industry would see this level of demand and increase capacity.
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by doom2 8mo ago
> the memory prices making the products too expensive. There seems to be a very simple (if not expensive and time consuming) solution to this: increase capacity. If the market had real confidence in AI, manufacturers would have started y
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by doom2 8mo ago
> Model costs continue to collapse And yet RAM prices are still sky high. Game consoles are getting more expensive, not cheaper, as a result. When will competition benefit those consumers? Or consumers of desktop RAM?
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by doom2 8mo ago
I guess this is as good a thread as any to ask what the current meta is for agentic programming (in my case, as applied to data engineering). There are all these posts that make it to the front page talking about productivity gains but very
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by doom2 8mo ago
> now that he's gone we need more checks and balances I'm sure if a Democrat is elected in 2028, all of a sudden a lot of people are going to remember that they don't want a unitary executive. A lot of people who are curre
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by doom2 9mo ago
I had a Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro and picked it over the contemporary Pixel 4. At the time, I was extremely unimpressed with the offerings from Google or Samsung (I've always been on Android so didn't consider the iPhone) and started looki
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by doom2 9mo ago
> It's just navel-gazing to pretend like what he's doing has high approval Then how is it being reflected in Congress? Where are the Republicans speaking loudly on behalf of their dissatisfied constituents and voting on bills a
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by doom2 9mo ago
> A third Reconstruction is needed in this country. Arguably the first two didn't go far enough.
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by doom2 9mo ago
I guess it would be a major step towards civil war, but I wonder if states have the right to protect their residents from unlawful conduct by federal law enforcement. ICE has established a clear pattern of behavior in the last year that sho
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by doom2 9mo ago
Unfortunately, that path back for Germany required holding those responsible accountable, in some cases fatally so. I don't see that happening here. Nothing will prevent or dissuade Trump's political allies from continuing his mov
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by doom2 9mo ago
Not a lawyer, but I've been thinking a lot about under which conditions stand your ground laws might apply to people defending themselves against law enforcement officers. The power balance is still such that most people won't sho
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by doom2 9mo ago
What kind of democracy do Venezuelans want and will it be the same kind of democracy Trump wants to install? What if they want a democracy that continues to be friendly towards Cuba and wary of the US? Will Trump accept that?
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by doom2 9mo ago
That you have to reach back to the 80s for a "good" example says something. Even more recent is Afghanistan, safely back in the hands of the Taliban.
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by doom2 9mo ago
edit: this comment made before two threads were consolidated. Original thread titled "Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas" While I agree that "hypocrisy" isn't the right word here, I see where OP is co
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by doom2 9mo ago
Has work begun on increasing RAM production capacity? My understanding is that these companies are specifically _not_ increasing capacity yet while they wait to see if the bubble bursts or not.
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by doom2 9mo ago
Manhattan already builds higher. It just so happens that that new real estate is being sold as multi-million dollar condos instead of affordable housing (for certain definitions of "affordable")

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