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by xg15 10mo ago
Even if you'd accept this warped logic, I don't see how you'd get from "this was just a slightly more complex police action" to "we're gonna run the country from now on and take over the oil sector",
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by xg15 10mo ago
So strange that only the US has the expertise to do prospection and build oil rigs and no one else...
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World's largest model railway in Hamburg [video](youtube.com)
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by xg15 10mo ago
Well, in which scenario WOULD they see benefit from the oil? It's always slightly odd that a country with the largest oil reserves in the world doesn't manage to stock up its supermarkets. I don't want to excuse corruption an
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by xg15 10mo ago
This is a bit like saying "everyone hates the regime in Cuba. I've talked with lots of Cubans in Miami and they all say that".
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by xg15 10mo ago
Even with those who are happy that Maduro is gone, I can't imagine they could be happy about the US "running" the country and siphoning off the oil.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Yeah, I was mostly surprised about the brazenness of it all. So the plan is to take over the government, take over the oil industry, sell the oil and in infinite grace give the Venezuelans some part of it back (minus of course the "com
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by xg15 10mo ago
I imagine this is the difference between how it's taught in Europe and in the US.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Honestly, I'm getting increasingly fascinated with the utterly absurd logic that states are putting into their justifications for war. You get "preemptive self defense" that urgently requires "buffer zones" on forei
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by xg15 10mo ago
That's easily written if you're in the country that benefits most from that situation, not so easily in other countries. The entire post-WWII system with the UN and international law was an attempt to change this.
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by xg15 10mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt
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by xg15 10mo ago
"A few wild weeds" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-01-02/ty-article/.premi...
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by xg15 10mo ago
Maybe OT, but I thought for a long time that "follow" was some sophisticated file descriptor trickery that required you to somehow "stream" the file while reading and would therefore be incompatible with opening a file &
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by xg15 10mo ago
Ah yeah, it's the parent's responsibility, the child's and probably the pet's as well, the only one who has no responsibility is the tech industry.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Not a child, but I have a Switch myself and I held off for a long time getting a membership. Of course you can do it, but the Switch will put up lots of passive aggressive roadblocks where it will let you know that you could use this addi
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by xg15 10mo ago
Parent: All I want is an off switch! HN: No no no let me stop you right there
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by xg15 10mo ago
As I wrote here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451250 , have a look at the current (!) cabinet members. People who are actively endorsing kahanism are in the center of power today.
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by xg15 10mo ago
The "backward tribesmen" are currently providing the Minister of Finance/special Minister for the West Bank (Smotrich), Minister of Police (Ben Gvir), Minister of Diaspora Affairs that happens to also manage access to aid org
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by xg15 10mo ago
That's not how it looks like though with the way Israel acts like the judge, jury and executioner of the region. You get the feeling that only Israeli lives count in the Middle East.
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by xg15 10mo ago
I was thinking about the revenue shift as described in articles like this one: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidia-g... Arguably, Nvidia has a point, probably more than the other companies,
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by xg15 10mo ago
So. Nvidia abandons the gaming market, Microsoft abandons Windows and Google abandons Search, all because AI is supposedly more important. At some point it starts to feel like a drug for C-suites.
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by xg15 10mo ago
+1 on the AOT compilation. I was surprised there is still a noticeable difference between Graal and a "standard" JVM even if you have eliminated all the other cruft. Both are practically usable, no question, but the latter really
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by xg15 10mo ago
Someone should give people in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon the same tech.
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by xg15 10mo ago
That looks really cool!
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by xg15 10mo ago
True, but also the "party discipline" seems to stick oddly close to the interests of the rich, for both parties.
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by xg15 10mo ago
First the normies showed up and eventually the sociopaths. Maybe this could be a wakeup csll for the geeks though that if they want to keep building for the sake of building, they ought to do something.
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by xg15 10mo ago
Have to disagree, "technically" yes, both are interpreted languages, but the ergonomics and mental overhead of doing certain things are wildly different: In python, doing math or complex string or collection operations is usually
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by xg15 10mo ago
So the entire reason why this is not a "real" shebang and instead takes the roundtrip through the shell is because the Go runtime would trip over the # character? I think this points to some shortcomings of the shebang mechanism i
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by xg15 10mo ago
Yes, and I'm disappointed he seems to have joined the AI mysticism crowd.
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by xg15 10mo ago
And there it is again, the "powerful alien tool" that was just "handed to us". No decades of research and massive allocation of resources over the last few years as well as very intentional decision making by tech leader

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