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by khriss 5mo ago
I can't think of a single way in which the United States came out ahead in the war. We have * Demonstrated that the US simply can't offer any meaningful security guarantee to it's middle east partners. * Permanently ceded d
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by khriss 5mo ago
> What I think we need is a professional, well-informed advocate of freedom who is willing to seriously discuss the tradeoff and concede that neither extreme is ideal. There is no shortage of well informed advocates of freedom. The quest
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by khriss 5mo ago
> The masses don't care about cookies or consent, they accept all. They only understand direct punishment. Honestly, I can totally see where the cynicism is coming from, however if you think about it, that's a pretty condescend
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by khriss 5mo ago
> It would make no sense for me to base a decision about devices I use day and night over that small amount of money (30% of a couple hundred dollars). Fair enough. It might not be consequential for you , the fact remains Apple took 30%
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by khriss 5mo ago
No? Apple charges a fee on every app sale. Where do you think the app makers pay that walled garden tax?
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by khriss 5mo ago
Yes, but most people don't realize it, simply because they have been conditioned from the beginning that the only way to run anything on an iOS device is via the app store. With Apple customers, a better argument to make is to say th
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by khriss 5mo ago
The superhuman efforts that folks on HN make to find technical workarounds and solutions is wonderful to see, but we must realize that this is not a technical problem. It's a social and legislative one. It can't be fought on techn
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by khriss 5mo ago
I'm sure you're able to drive faster than the speed limit as well. The issue isn't whether technical circumvention is in the realm of possibility. The base issue here is that even so called 'democratic' governments
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by khriss 5mo ago
I wish I could upvote this twice.
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by khriss 6mo ago
> Most of “proof” is based on consensus and groupthink dictated by “the experts.” Ah of course, because the 'experts' are tainted by 'groupthink' any 'rebuttal' made by armchair internet warriors must theref
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by khriss 6mo ago
Debt, rather the lack of any via ble means for the US to pay back even a fraction of its debt without having the world's reserve currency. Yes, theoretically they can always print their way out, but that's just default through inf
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by khriss 6mo ago
> because that's what the market demands. Is that true though? People are currently forced to buy gas guzzlers since there are simply no practical and cheap EVs available in the United States. If Chinese EVs were allowed to be sol
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by khriss 6mo ago
China seems to be either leaving the US behind, or within striking distance in every single technology for the future. Looking back, I wonder if we will see this period as similar to what the 1957 Suez crisis did to the UK. Edit: Spelling
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by khriss 6mo ago
It's been discussed multiple times here before. The blunt reality is that * Almost all of the productivity gains over the past three decades have been captured by the 1%(0.1% really). Rank and file workers (yes that includes tech worke
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by khriss 6mo ago
I know it's implied, but you would be wise to add a /s Quite a few folks on HN have developed a remarkably thin skin and no longer make the most charitable interpretation.
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by khriss 6mo ago
I guess they had to do the 'voluntary' bit as otherwise they are likely looking at a class action lawsuit claiming blatant age discrimination. If you are eligible though, I wonder just how 'voluntary' the process actuall
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by khriss 6mo ago
Why the hate? If you believe GP is wrong, then why not outline where you think they are wrong? HN is one of the few places left where low effort snark is thankfully below the noise floor, please don't destroy that.
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by khriss 6mo ago
Aren't those identical things? Shortage of commodity X, relative to demand, drives up prices for X.
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by khriss 6mo ago
You'd think so, but increasingly a larger and larger section of the population does not think so. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5558304/poll-political-... Something is fundamentally broken wh
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by khriss 6mo ago
Pretty much every major country has seen the writing on the wall and are pivoting hard to renewables. It's no longer even about climate change, or some other lofty goal. The reason(esp for India and China) is plain and simple energy in
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by khriss 6mo ago
I'm genuinely perplexed as to why this story was flagged. As multiple commenters have pointed out, this is actually not new(e.g you get registered when you get your driver's license). I wonder why flagging brigade on HN has such a
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by khriss 6mo ago
Issue is, Musk is making pretty much every one invest by forcing indexes to bend the rules and include SpaceX into their ranks thus forcing index funds to buy at the early public valuation of SpaceX.
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by khriss 6mo ago
Uh, how exactly would SpaceX make money from a Mars colony?
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by khriss 7mo ago
This is largely due to the age old fact that corporations rarely make decisions based on actual data, introspection, and good judgment. Usually the decision is made first and then the justifications are invented afterwards. In this case, ev