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by metadope 8mo ago
Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SanjayMehta for guiding me to this post. This is a Substack site with a redirect (just in case you've sworn off Substack).
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by metadope 8mo ago
Here you appear to be using "illegal aliens" as a synonym for "immigrants". Groups that aid and support immigrants are doing a service that benefits America and all Americans; we should give them money so they can contin
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by metadope 8mo ago
Agreed; in general, doxxing people is wrong. In general, politics are polarizing and reactive, and are to be avoided on a mostly-technical discussion site. In general, Gruber is an Apple review guy. These rules-of-thumb are useful and prope
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by metadope 8mo ago
Yes, I love the redundancy of English. Language makes a playground of our minds. And yes, "picturing" is another way of saying "imagining", but to me and my mind it carries more of a connotation of visualization. Imagin
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by metadope 8mo ago
Apologies for my sibling reply here (now flagged and downvoted to oblivion) if it was offensive to you. I thought I knew you irl and was making an overly familiar joke. Typos are nit inherently funny.
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by metadope 8mo ago
Coincidentally, my wife promised me some kinetic interdiction this weekend.
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by metadope 8mo ago
Si habla español : Let's go!
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by metadope 8mo ago
It's a good theory. The militia that DHS has deployed in search of immigration law violators has spilled over into confrontations with US citizens partly because of the lack of accountability, transparency, and training. By making thes
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by metadope 8mo ago
I would expect humans to care about humans. Your judgment of hypocrisy is yours to own; you point out nothing but your own opinion. You left umpteenth behind a long time ago; you find hypocrisy everywhere, no?
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by metadope 8mo ago
Watching an innocent and beautiful American woman being shot in the face three times at point blank range in broad daylight by an agent of her own federal government while sitting in the cocoon of her car, in a confrontation that could easi
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by metadope 8mo ago
Militia on our streets without discipline or uniforms. That's what caused this tragedy. The administration early on made the decision to allow/ require ICE agents to wear whatever tactical gear they had, along with masks, and aut
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by metadope 8mo ago
This is someone's attempt to re-litigate reality. I browsed with javascript disabled (as I always do when visiting unknown or untrusted sites) and discovered the page was rendered useless (blank). I viewed the source to get the gist. M
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by metadope 8mo ago
The links provided by @Terr_ above show that this particular de-funding was indeed approved and ratified by the legislative branch, passed by the house and the senate, signed into law by the president, in July of 2025. So, under the color
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by metadope 8mo ago
I am a noob. I remember, it was not too long ago, when I first read the guidelines, took a deep breath, and submitted my very first comment. I was immediately downvoted. Zero karma. Into the Darkness. It was 200 days before I tried again (I
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by metadope 8mo ago
"I've got your hemisphere right here," he said, bending over.
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by metadope 8mo ago
Anything critical of the administration is going to be, by definition, political. There is a large contingent within HN who never want any political discussion. This appears to be an ongoing dynamic tension. The flagging might not be fr
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by metadope 8mo ago
> If they put AI into systemd I’m retiring to a cabin. Mot bad They'd call it systemaid
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by metadope 8mo ago
And you've been right about Trump, Rubio and Venezuela all along, so keep posting your opinion. I sure hope you're wrong about Cuba being next, but I'm sure there's some Miami residents who are hoping for that as the nex
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by metadope 8mo ago
Please don't ask a question, then follow immediately with your opinion (showing your question was meaningless rhetoric). You had me going for a moment there, as I was still in a state of mind, still digesting what our Venezulan GP had
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by metadope 9mo ago
This headline is an awful application of the HN algorithm. The original headline reads On The Fence , which, of course, is a meaningful phrase (though wordy and trite, wsj). Eliminating the first word On is a dumb mistake. Might I sugges
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by metadope 9mo ago
This just in: 1776 comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348 No guideline will divert a determined, thundering herd. We are what we do, and it appears we do care about the world beyond our immediate techni
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by metadope 9mo ago
> Nobody would predict anything with 100% confidence. We're all going to die. This too shall pass. 100%
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by metadope 9mo ago
My favorite computer was a MIGA
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by metadope 9mo ago
> repellent efflorescence I had to look up the definition of efflorescence . This phrase is used very early in the Defector article (¶ 2) and I doubt if 1 in 100 readers will immediately glean its meaning. I'm still not sure that
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by metadope 9mo ago
Sounds interesting but I get a blank page with javascript disabled. Tried your other page ( https://graph.henryn.ca/ featured here on HN >1 year ago) and I got a Too Many Redirects error, followed by an attempt to visit y
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by metadope 9mo ago
> got lost in the Berghain That happened to me once. Took me days to find my way out.
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by metadope 9mo ago
Do what you love; you'll never work another day in your life. I don't know if you have dependents; that personal fact alone would make a big difference in what you can and should do. But if you are free to choose, find or expand u
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by metadope 9mo ago
People imagine there's an AI investment bubble, and the inevitable bursting will have financial consequences. Many will suffer (but we'll recover). People also fear being erased from the labor market, as Prompt Engineers sharpen t
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by metadope 9mo ago
I respectfully suggest a future campaign slogan that sets a simple yet high policy bar: make America good again. Let that be the prism through which all future political action is seen. Let's be real. Let's be good. Let's s
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by metadope 9mo ago
Trump drools anyway.

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