jleyank

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by jleyank 1y ago
Not sure what you consider "moved the needle for human civilization", but there's important physicists who didn't fit the on-the-spectrum diagnosis. Newton, yeah, but there's various 20th century people more well-r
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by jleyank 1y ago
A well-done, robust, complete OpenGL API that would sit atop the native graphics environments of Window, Linux and Mac. This would do wonders letting people with 3D graphics software to concentrate on the logic rather than making the 3D wo
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by jleyank 1y ago
Not sure which of these will be the surviving "main" branch, so I'll comment here as well ... I thought pretty much all generic drugs come from India or China, which will do wonders for prices.
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by jleyank 1y ago
This is going to do wonders, just wonders, for the supply of generic drugs in the US. As I thought they pretty much all come from India or China... Might see issues with OTC drugs as well, unless non-prescription stuff isn't tariffed
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by jleyank 1y ago
Free societies are not ruled by decree.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Theories must be testable and so subject to refutation or confirmation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
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by jleyank 1y ago
Unless you’re full blooded Native American (or First Nations or aboriginal or whatever), you’re an immigrant or a descendent of an immigrant. Given that the Anericas were settled quite recently in geologic time, everybody is an immigrant.
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by jleyank 1y ago
If they weren’t talented, I hope the aforementioned layoffs included the nimrods who hired them.
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by jleyank 1y ago
I think this is mentioned in the article. There's a shortage of talent, and there's a shortage of talent at the price I wish to pay. These, of course, are not the same thing. There's also the question of worker mobility na
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by jleyank 1y ago
They're quite difficult to use without looking at them, and I've got better things to look at while driving. Better buttons that don't move and have "presence" than I can feel without looking.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Holding the blue states will take some effort.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Uk has nukes of some kind, and there’s Germany…. The problem with such a grand pact is that the pawns might not want to be on that particular chessboard. Lots of military tradition there, and guns, jeeps and trucks don’t take much to make
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by jleyank 1y ago
Sauce for the goose... Europe et al should pause Arms Purchases from the US to help them build up their stockpile. Keep the cash local, develop similar technology and reduce the dependency on unreliable countries.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Any non-US-citizen should have some level of concern leaving the US now unless they don't plan to return. It's not necessarily a large concern, but there didn't used to be any. It's my understanding that any visa can b
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by jleyank 1y ago
The meat sack can only handle 8-9G’s and only some number of those. So, make missiles and drones that can outdo this and get them to go fast and the problem is reduced. Stealthy and fast might not be possible due to IR, and stealth might
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by jleyank 1y ago
s/president/caudillo/g
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by jleyank 1y ago
Err, sorta run over in the 40’s. Think they got a handle on wars and deportations.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Given the British empire, it can’t be British people because they spanned the world. All of the empire -> commonwealth had mobility. It’s skin tone, not culture. Unless this is the celts wanting to get the British isles back.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Rules for thee, not for me. He’s using his corporate tools to do what he asked his people not to do.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Hypocrite?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Some rando on Fox News mentioned euthanizing homeless. So it’s percolating under the surface. Don’t think they fired or censored him.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Looking at the comments, might it be easier to list software with a track record of general improvement?
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by jleyank 1y ago
They’re increasing donations to the poor, curing the sick, turning the other cheek, reducing judging people and thinking less of money and more of the hereafter? Great! That will come in handy during the next earthquakes, hurricanes or to
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by jleyank 1y ago
They've tried building concentration camps. They're muzzling the press, they're thinking of banning the opposition, they oppose "them", and are going to great lengths to harm them. They're muzzling scientists
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by jleyank 1y ago
How will US politics affect HN startup's potential market? How will it affect their ability to form, hire and retain staff? Will it affect the H1b's that underpin all sorts of programming efforts. Will it lead to VC money slosh
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by jleyank 1y ago
If it’s supposed to defend against nukes, how will it stop a ship sailing into harbour? Or a mini sub? Not every big boom is a missile. He’ll, there’s always a truck with a big honkin’ pile of fertilizer a la Oklahoma City.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Isn’t it easier to just put your fingers in your ears, shut your eyes, and go la-la-la? Some of us prefer to see what’s going on, particularly when the HN community might be people making the situation worse. Not every bit of software is
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by jleyank 1y ago
The rich will continue to send their daughters on “holidays” where their problem gets solved while the remaining population gets to play Vatican roulette. Or should we call it trump roulette? See lebensborn. Or maybe just read Atwood.
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by jleyank 1y ago
No, he was in a multi-year trade school after a semester of university. He was radicalized on-line...
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by jleyank 1y ago
I think Korea has been asking for something like the temporary nafta/USMCA visa that lets people in approved specialties work in neighbouring countries on a temporary basis.

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