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by lbrito 9mo ago
Will having a green card or not even matter though? https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/28/full-list-nationalities-lose-...
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what I think too. I'm much more of the latter type you mention, but I think I have the enough acumen to be practical most times. Its always been the case that engineers come in many flavors, some more and
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by lbrito 9mo ago
I think it goes further than this. Some people - some developers, even - do not _like_ programming computers. In fact, many hate it. Those people welcome the LLM agent stuff because it delivers the end product without going through the nece
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by lbrito 9mo ago
You seem to be mistaking set and members here. The piece's critique is against the set (LLM Evangelists), not against specific members of the set (the ones you mentioned). One can agree with the point of the piece while still acknowled
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by lbrito 9mo ago
>not generally true based on statements from Western governments. Its wild that someone can say this with a straight face. >What I would say is that Western governments want stability in Iran, just like virtually every other nation. W
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by lbrito 9mo ago
If someone invades your neighbours' homes and kicks them out, you would be eager to collaborate and host them in your home indefinitely, yes?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
The historical part about the shah is straightforward and uncontroversial. Pick up a history book covering 20th century Iran. What part of the comment is disputable?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
So the modern Gestapo is so deeply unpopular it is being used for phishing attacks - no one (normal) wants to be seen anywhere near it. Amazing.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Bizarre that this is downvoted into gray. This comment is simply stating a fact
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Just gonna drop this, from dang a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 >we want most political stories to be flagged on HN, for a critical reason: if they weren't, then HN would turn into a cu
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Thanks for bringing this up, I'm just realizing the same now. "HN is not a political forum" or "if you expect to see it on the news, it probably should not be on HN" is invoked all the time when there's a post
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Sad how legitimate grievance is always weaponized and steered by bigger players. Protesting the Iranian government is perfectly legitimate. Binding that with supporting a return of the equally brutal and corrupt shah is depressing.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
That is one atrocious website. Couldnt get past the second fake-slide, so slow and broken it was
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by lbrito 9mo ago
This can never match the scale of organic training data
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by lbrito 9mo ago
I'd like to challenge that. Historical comparisons aside, looking just at today, if you're saying that social mobility is very good in the USA compared to most of the world, what are you basing that claim on? I would think somethi
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Social mobility is decreasing since the 1980s. This is increasingly closer to not being true anymore.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
I had the same realization about myself some time ago: I suck at styling because I never bothered to try to learn css. I know enough by heart to solve most basic problems, but anytime I spend more than a couple of minutes on styling, I&#x27
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by lbrito 9mo ago
So all the countries Russia interfered with are neighbours, with hundreds of years of ethnic, cultural and religious disputes, while basically all the countries the US interfered with are across one or more oceans, with no historical disput
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by lbrito 9mo ago
> the US did pre WW2 was in no way abnormal or worse than that what every other powerful was doing.. Whataboutism
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by lbrito 9mo ago
The US has a much longer list of invasions and foreign interference than Russia. Its not even comparable.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
No imagination is necessary: we've been there. The 1800s were exactly that and culminated in two world wars on the next century.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
None of that implies that what comes next will be any better, and to think otherwise is simply being ignorant of history.
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by lbrito 9mo ago
Why would you believe anyone the US installs as a puppet will be any better?
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by lbrito 9mo ago
The other day there were people here seriously arguing that China was more interventionist than the US. The latest US mass theft and aggression is far from surprising to anyone that studied south American history. Trump just drops the human
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by lbrito 10mo ago
I haven't personally seen it either, but there are many commentors on HN (it comes up every time there is a thread about interviewing) that describe precisely that.
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by lbrito 10mo ago
That's a huge privilege; most people don't have enough time for that
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by lbrito 10mo ago
Even more so for such a great engineer that in the words of his colleagues is "indispensable for the company". If you're such a rockstar you can probably get shortened loops in good companies through referrals
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by lbrito 10mo ago
>Did the average person throughout history have more leisure than we do? Yes. In the middle ages (and presumably in any agrarian society) people would work intensely for a few weeks and have the most of the year free.
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by lbrito 10mo ago
Unrealistic for most working people with families.
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by lbrito 10mo ago
Same, it feels like more work. In the old days you would punch the cartidrige in and get started. The controllers themselves had half a dozen buttons. Nowadays if I spend more than a few months without playing ill forget the commands, and I

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