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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> like if we took sleeping pills every time we had trouble sleeping Yes, that's normal in the US. I have multiple family members who take Ambien (zolpidem) before bed every night.
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
I asked you to elaborate since you didn't explain anything, hence the use of "magic" which is sometimes referred to as hand waving. I'll take your non-response as a sign that you're not interested in elaborating for
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> Why do you choose to dismiss drivers like stockpiling inventory, increased USMCA compliance, broader economic offsets (AI/tech boom, energy production) Okay, so you're admitting that they're inflationary but choose to ra
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> This is moving the goalpost because you know economists (the critics) forecasted major inflation sooner/now Yes, because no one expected him to chicken out as hard as he did. It also came out that people in his cabinet (specifical
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> applies only after a formal police investigation Not true, the medical examiner will "rule" on this, not the police. I don't know if the Hennepin county examiner has said so, but we don't need to wait for that with
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> "economists" expected major inflation Gold front runs monetary policy and "economists" aren't the only ones trading that. Look at the gold chart for the past year. I don't think it's really disputed t
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
The initial dip was bought up by retail investors then everyone realized TACO (Trump always chickens out) so the markets don't really care about tariff threats anymore. What benefit have we gotten from the chaotic tariff policy? Any tr
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> SPY isn't down even when denominated in EUR *SPX and no, it's down 2% when denominated in Euros while up 15% when denominated in dollars. I wouldn't say the USD has fared well so far.
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> and employment figures Just to add onto your point, bad employment numbers can actually be bullish for stocks due to a higher chance of Fed rate cuts. Obviously there is a threshold there because if too many people are unemployed the
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
What was your point? You mentioned "double standards" and "team sports" as if the Trump and Obama admins were comparable with their use of ICE. If you wanted to make a more detailed point, then do that but as your commen
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
This is a delusional take. For starters, there was criticism from lefties against Obama. Second, Obama didn't use ICE as a secret police force and send them into his political opponents' cities to punish them for wrongthink. You c
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
A homicide isn't a "ruling" in court, it just describes the manner of death. We all saw several ICE agents shoot this man. It's a homicide.
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
I'm convinced all this talk around Signal, including Hegseths fuckup, is to discourage "normies" (for lack of a better term) from using it. Even in this very HN thread, where you'd expect technical nuance, there are peop
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> ease of binding to C++ I wouldn't really call this an "ergonomic" feature of a language. That's a whole research project. Regardless, C++ interop in Swift isn't straightforward and there are a multitude of issu
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Oh, of course not. They're sensitive about the PR, they wish they had complete control over the narrative because their behavior is bad .
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
Also related: "Don’t say ‘Watch out for ice’: FEMA warned storm announcements could invite memes"[0] This administration is really sensitive about ICE being shined in a bad light. 0: https://www.cnn.com/2026&#x2F
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
I thought a lot of the rhetoric was around economic issues during the 2024 campaign season? I see this argument a lot, and while it's true that a sizable percentage voted for punishment of their political opponents, I don't think
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
I'm the same as you: I don't really care about this stuff. Given what we know about the start of these AI endeavors (torrenting/scraping the whole internet and training on it) then running their software seems like a liabilit
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
It's my first time hearing about this "eFuse" functionality in Qualcomm CPUs. Are there non-dystopian uses for this as a manufacturer?
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
The simple response to that line of thinking is: "you don't choose what the government uses against you" For any piece of data that exists, the government effectively has access to it through court orders or backdoors. Either
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
Something might be wrong with your client (ad-blocker, NoScript maybe?) because there a ton of pictures on that page.
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
> By definition we know that dems and their publications are only going to show one angle Umm, are you just being purposefully blind? Every angle is being pushed across social media and everyone has seen them. They're all bad. There
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Video of a federal agent disarming the victim before the others shot him: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qlvpbr/footage_of_the... The lead up also does NOT show the victim threatening these agent
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> things are kinda complicated. Technically, charges can be brought against specific agents breaking the laws of the State Yes, and the complicated part is federal supremacy[0]. The federal government can "convert" the case aga
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Maybe I'm a bit jaded, and corporate environments have taken their toll, but I see the employee-manager relationship as adversarial by default. Whether my boss wishes me happy birthday or not doesn't move the needle much. I'm
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> That's been going on for many presidents in a row You were attributing your "knowledge worker 401(k)" growth to Trump though? > Is this some new virtue signal on BlueSky? No, I'm not on BlueSky or any social medi
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Who knew that cutting taxes while keeping government spending high AND lowering interest rates could result in so much free money going around? That coupled with the dollar losing 10% of its value in a year, of course stocks are higher than
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by hypeatei 9mo ago
Which is exactly what the AI companies want. An unmaintainable mountain of code that you need their cloud-based, paywalled LLMs to handle for you.
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This is called "saving face"[0] and it's very common in some Asian cultures. Western societies prefer directness, and eastern ones prefer harmony. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_conce
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That's sort of the whole point of this thought exercise, no? If shame worked in an environment with anonymous/pseudonymous users, then we wouldn't be here. The only people you stand to harm are the ones who attach their real

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