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I’d love to see a breakdown of where the tax revenue is coming from (e.g. demographics) over the same period of time.
Don’t confuse things we can change with things we can’t.
“Ma’am we’re not going to do anything about that flasher. No one can force you to look at him, they're your eyeballs.”
Re:Doge Isn't Dead. Here's What Its Operatives Are Doing Now on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @09:00AM (#46121236)
Sometimes justice takes time.
Re:The lost cause of the Lisp machines on Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:03AM (#45991378)
Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!
Re:An official atlas of North Korea on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:56PM (#45956723)
And can in fact be a useful test of loyalty.
Re:Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can on Monday November 03, 2025 @11:53AM (#45801224)
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to not buy a GM.
For what use case? I doubt the target user for the air would need anything more than what USB 4 + external SSD can make up for.
Re:Ruby Core Takes Ownership of Rubygems and Bundler on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:04AM (#45616295)
I think that viewpoint says more about you than it does the Ruby community.
Holy historical revisionism Batman!

One was banning deadly misinformation (e.g. injecting bleach) about a deadly global pandemic, as well as stopping the “doxing, threatening, harassment and obstruction of” public health workers.

This is preventing citizens from monitoring taxpayer-funded police activity - not all that dissimilar from listening to a police scanner.

Re:How Europe crushes innovation on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:30PM (#45495962)
Well yeah, copying is not real innovation.
Re:How Europe crushes innovation on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:25PM (#45495920)
As I suspected, there isn’t much there. What about individual member state expenditures (perhaps even limited to spending on things required by EU law)? OP’s point may have been silly, but this really isn’t any better.
Re:How Europe crushes innovation on Monday October 06, 2025 @02:24PM (#45494502)
How are you arriving at these percentages? Show your work.
große Lüge
Re:AI will happily design the wrong thing for you on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @04:20PM (#45430729)
I know it’s just a figure of speech in this case, but personifying AI as “happily” doing something feels wrong.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @10:53PM (#45284663)
So instead of doing one thing well, it does a bunch of things poorly?
Re:H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:02PM (#44880471)
Only color that matters here is green
Re:Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:03AM (#44683967)
This isn’t some bespoke API/format that they made up to make it harder for you to get your data. Apple did the right thing here and implemented HL7 standards like CDA and FHIR. This is a win for interoperability. There are already a wealth of tools available for dealing with these standards.
Re:Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' on Sunday December 22, 2024 @02:34PM (#42488486)
I know what you mean. I recently did the same thing for the little bit from Gunsmoke at the beginning of “Is There Anybody Out There?”, e.g. “Is it unsafe to travel at night?” - incidentally spoken by actress Diana Muldaur, who later played Dr. Pulaski in Star Trek TNG.
Re:Drone Incursions over USAF Bases in UK Enter Second Week on Saturday November 30, 2024 @07:41AM (#42281252)
They clearly aren’t attacking anything (with explosives or otherwise); there is clearly no immediate danger to personnel or equipment. Rather than irrationally panicking, the wise move is to seize the opportunity to observe, collect data, and learn. There are far more ways to do so than using conventional radar or other drones. If the intent of the operator(s) is actually malicious, it was pretty unwise to essentially show your cards like this.
Re:Drone Incursions over USAF Bases in UK Enter Second Week on Saturday November 30, 2024 @06:03AM (#42280902)
It’s not like these drones would uncover much more than can already be seen by satellites. Probably much more valuable letting them be, studying their physical characteristics, flight behavior, and RF use. Also easier to track down the source - they’ve got to land at some point.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:35PM (#42260018)
Again, “literally all of recorded history” is literally meaningless. I also find it bizarre that you would find something as simple as a well balanced diet (i.e. one humans enjoyed for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the agricultural revolution) as an “exalted” definition of healthy.
Re:Nobody knows why ultra-processed foods are bad for you on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @03:37PM (#42259494)
What is your point? That doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Thousands of years is literally nothing on an evolutionary scale. Modern humans have existed for at least 100,000 years.

Bread became ubiquitous because it didn’t require hunting or gathering, i.e. it supported ever growing communities of stationary humans. Not because some ancient nutritionist decided it was good for you.

Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
I think the answer should depend on the school itself, i.e. what is the quality of the math department vs. the cs department? In my case I went with math, and it served me well. I don’t think one or the other will ultimately exclude a motivated person from pursuing their (cs related) passion.
Re:Ask HN: Work for mgr who's never heard of Joel Spolsky? on Friday October 13, 2023 @08:18AM (#37869758)
Nope. The only red flag I can see here is with the interviewee thinking this might be a red flag.
Re:They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:15AM (#36370913)
Winnie the Pooh does not wish it so, and thus it is naught
Do one thing well.

While I think these types of devices are neat, it’s not surprising that this isn’t the reality of modern portables.

It’s a (relatively) barely portable, degraded desktop experience.

No, you made an irrelevant and dismissive remark under the “guise” of an answer. Lazy.
Perhaps, like with most complex problems, there isn’t a “one size fits all” solution. I’m all for skepticism but this criticism is just lazy.

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