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Re:US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:20PM (#49394421)
this is not funny or stupid, this is explicitly the strategy. Look at USPS, Medicare, Social Security. The point is to make elements of the social safety net and services unsustainable, so that they can be targets for cutting. The debt is the most effective tool in doing this, and Social Security is absolutely their target. They will do cuts long before they remove the tax cap.
Re:US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:19PM (#49394411)
line-item veto remains incredibly overpowered where permitted, e.g. Wisconsin
Re:US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:15AM (#49388424)
It will certainly be the "number one" issue, just as soon as democrats take control of the legislative or executive branch of government.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:03AM (#49244648)
I am building FPGA-accelerated polars at https://dau.dev

I'm also working on a "better" prediction market at https://crowdsource.sh

Re:I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:16PM (#44585288)
Copier is the new hotness for this

https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Re:The DuckDB Local UI on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:58PM (#43345262)
Have you ever reported an issue? I use perspective heavily on a variety of platforms both conda and pypi without any problems.
Re:Jacksonpollock.org on Saturday February 08, 2025 @07:03PM (#42987291)
In case anyone wants to do one themselves (and learn Clojure), I think this was posted on HN previously: https://tombooth.co.uk/painting-in-clojure/
Re:A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:08AM (#42595537)
The military->domestic abuse->divorce->family court->terrorism pipeline is quite strong, as evidenced in LV and NOLA this week. Rather than larping in your "local militia" while being slowly but surely radicalized, consider professional help. Everyone can benefit from some therapy.
i know its a joke, but the people that would’ve attended this would’ve never handled your portfolio. that would be the chase side.
there was nobody to hand it over to, presumably they replaced it with a more formal, complete training. It was an intermediate in a larger trend of teaching sales/traders to code https://www.ft.com/content/4c17d6ce-c8b2-11e8-ba8f-ee390057b...
This was for the markets analyst training program (all new grads hired into sales/trading positions) and also done with a handful of clients’ analyst training programs.
Sort of, this is the generic part that was combined with a lot of Q/A and examples which weren’t written down.

The empty “data” notebook was a bunch of interacting with Bloomberg to pull out data and do calculations, similar to what would be done in Excel. This is where a lot of the tangible, immediately relevant content was.

A quick review of the lecture notes shows its more just a recipe cookbook for some basic tasks...I don't really see how this is a university course.
I'm sure I'll get a thousand PRs in the next few weeks that change everything EXCEPT that link like the great Hacktoberfest debacle that never actually ended...
Indeed, I haven't updated it since well before I left
Re:The future of kdb+? on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:47PM (#41144107)
There are certainly enough rubes out there to sell the next KDB+ to: https://shakti.com/
Re:How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017) on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:17PM (#40056648)
Frankel is a a developer I hold in really high esteem. IDK what I would do without LICEcap, which I use on a daily basis (and I'm sure it was just a little side project they through together to make debugging easier in a short amount of time). And REAPER is probably the only user-customizable and extendable digital audio workstation in existence. You can see the echos of Winamp in it...
Re:Cancer Alley on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:26PM (#39032973)
Zoning and racism are pretty intimately linked through time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_zoning
Re:Tell HN: Best Use for old iPads (that I found) on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:47PM (#34393871)
I was in the same situation recently and decided on weather / spotify remote control split screen with a desk mount https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=16068

useful when combined with the spotify headless app that was on here recently

*that we know of.

A lot of information is coming out, and it looks very bad. It certainly is not as simple as "tried to sue".

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A few rednecks, millionaires, members of congress, family of Supreme Court justices, White House staff....

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