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Re:Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer? on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:21PM (#48439180)
The article at one point says "No two members of the 26-man roster play on the same club team" about the USMNT.

However, it seems that these two players both play for PSV Eindhoven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergi%C3%B1o_Dest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Pepi And also these two players both play for Borussia Mönchengladbach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Reyna

Is the article wrong? This is the only claim I bothered to check. Should I assume the rest is wrong, too?

> Canada honored its commitments.

Two decades ago: "in 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their GDP to defence spending."

Canada has not remotely upheld this agreement.

Re:Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:02PM (#47747063)
Literally all of your comparison events are so newsworthy that they have individual Wikipedia articles.
Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @07:10PM (#47711500)
TFA mentions that EFF continues to post on Facebook and Instagram.
Re:Nasdaq's Shame on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:34PM (#47394528)
Who is contractually obligated to buy?
Re:If You Tax Them, Will They Leave? on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:02PM (#46802173)
> I explained that anything less than a progressive tax was going to make the poor pay more and the wealthy pay less.

Here's a formally-verified proof in Lean that with a flat tax, if you have more income, then you pay more tax: https://live.lean-lang.org/#codez=JYWwDg9gTgLgBAWQIYwBYBtgCM...

The theorem uses one important assumption: that the flat tax rate is positive.

Yup, this inspires great confidence in the source.

> 10,109 ... left their jobs

> departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one

That means that there were ~919 new hires, and thus it seems that 10,109 minus 919 equals

> a net loss of 4224

It appears that the "11 to one" ratio is the average, across agencies, of each individual ratio. It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine whether that average has any meaning at all.

Re:Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's on Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:40PM (#46266075)
If you only eat it when you have a grandma that remembers how to make it, I would consider that the very definition of "traditional". And also interesting to hear about!

(But yea, perhaps not "everyone here eats" in that case. And yet, if everyone knew what it was -- even if it's "what grandma used to eat" -- I'd even let that slide. I don't eat what my grandparents ate, but I know more about it than a foreigner.)

Previously in the United States, schools taught "all men are created equal" to people that could see that they weren't being treated that way.

Similarly, today we teach the importance of "universal suffrage" to kids, an entirely disenfranchised class.

Apparently you think there are some characteristics of children that should disqualify them from voting. Others think similarly of other groups.

Of course this is just a snide remark that doesn't contribute to the conversation, but it can be interesting to dive deeper:

For example, why don't the kids themselves have the right to vote?

Looking at the flagged comments throughout this thread, perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354759 is the closest to being flag-killed for a different opinion.
Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @09:18AM (#45359912)
The Caspian pipeline you mention (CPC) goes through ... Russia. And CPC Blend again blends in Russian oil.

So we find that, once again, Germany is buying "Kazakh" oil that is transported by Russia and mixed with Russian oil.

Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:12PM (#45350782)
Here's a news story about how Druzhba supplies to Germany weren't particularly interrupted by recent attacks you may be alluding to: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-kazakh-oil-...

And here's KazTransoil themselves reporting how much they supplied through Druzhba recently: https://www.interfax.kz/?int_id=21&lang=eng&news_id=75303

> ASTANA. Sept 4 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - The volume of Kazakh oil transportation to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline system in August of this year amounted to 190,000 tonnes, which is 18.7% higher than the level of July 2025, Interfax-Kazakhstan was informed by the national company KazTransOil (KTO).

Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:49AM (#45345266)
Your parent comment is correct. Germany buys millions of tons of "Kazakh" oil via the Druzhba pipeline, arriving at the PCK refinery in Schwedt. This oil is "blended" with Russian oil, and in any case is transported by Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kazakhstans-january-...

Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:47PM (#45217878)
> I've never seen 2k+ comments nor posts about other shootings on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370622

(also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 was even more discussed, but it was a stabbing)

What did she say?
Re:New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @07:49PM (#44895259)
B-29s dropped the atomic bombs. The B-29 project was also more expensive than the Manhattan project: > The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $52 billion in 2024), far exceeding the $1.9 billion cost of the Manhattan Project, made the B-29 program the most expensive of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress

I did some minimal searching for Seattle and explosions in 2020 and I found plenty of sources reporting on different supposed explosions, at different times and places (within Seattle). Seems perfectly plausible to me.

https://mynorthwest.com/local/peaceful-protests-planned-in-s...

https://projects.seattletimes.com/2020/local/protest-timelin...

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/09/24/police-arrest-13-d... https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/07/26/officer-injuries-p...

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/07/28/44178586/so-what...

Re:Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:27PM (#44764441)
From Wikipedia right now:

2024: Trump 77,302,580

2020: Trump 74,223,975

I'm intrigued as to which comment this was supposed to be a reply to, and how it got here.
For the reader curious why the woman in [0] didn't get permanent residency via marriage:

> Milne was divorced from the nonimmigrant student she married prior to 1983. She then married a U.S. citizen but we found, in our above-said unpublished opinion, that she had admitted that it was a marriage of convenience. After another divorce, she married her current husband, a marriage that is uncontested as "bona fide." Her request for legal permanent resident status based on this marriage was denied under INA § 204(c) which precludes approval based on even an admittedly good-faith union if the petitioner had previously contracted an improper marriage.

Re:Estrogen: A Trip Report on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:52AM (#44326841)
The study also doesn't include the successful suicides.
Re:RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee on Monday June 09, 2025 @10:19PM (#44231814)
Suppose you actually had some data to back up your comments, and you made a graph for "blindness caused by measles" over time. Do you have any reason to believe it wouldn't look just like the mortality rate graph linked above?
Some number of years ago, I looked at the map on this page and tried to find the eruv on the west side, near 14th St and a few streets below.

My conclusion was the eruv wasn't there (despite the green checkmark on the website), making this whole thing even more fun than people find it here! :)

Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:35PM (#44093084)
The page I linked to has a top-level section called "Infertility". It has a table with a column called "1 or more births". The data in the table say that a positive proportion of those women are infertile.

As I said the first time, there's a sense in which such a woman can be infertile and it is NOT the sense your parent commenter means.

Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:09PM (#44092923)
> What part of 1/6 the population don't you understand? Is this ignorance willful?

The 1/6 number is made up. Here's an example source: https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2023-1-in-6-people-globa...

The first red flag is they use the Newspeak "experience infertility".

If you look at the data sources, they're calling women (and men) with children "infertile": https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/i-keystat.htm

Obviously there's a sense in which a woman who's had children and now can't is "infertile" (though FAR more than one-sixth of women experience menopause). But it's not the sense being used by you and your parent commenter in this thread.

Re:The group chats that changed America on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:00PM (#43824169)
The FIRE Campus Deplatforming Database claims to collect 769 successful deplatforming attempts.
Re:The Truth about Atlantis (2019) on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:11AM (#43771183)
> nobody is perplexed about how they moved stones

Plenty of people, including myself, are perplexed about how they moved stones. Specifically, how 60--80 ton stones were moved up.

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