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The article is primarily about how wild unrestrained AI spending is causing problems. For example it is hard to get an electrician, anything with memory in it is either significantly more expensive or unobtainable, and building of homes, factories, and hospitals is being depressed pushing down supply (Housing supply being potentially depressed by AI is both serious and alarming). The HN conversation about this article seems to instead be will Google, OpenAI, etc break even? The degree of disconnect in Silicon Valley between the tech industry and everyone else's problems is alarming.

These are the best kinds of problems to have, an economic recession would be far worse.

Room 101 is the conference room where he sat through tedious meetings while working for the BBC.

Get a warrant. The federal government should not be "soliciting vendors" for my location.

I love how the accounts defending ICE are always brand new.


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German here, with little stakes in your shitshow. At no point during the obama years did I think:

"Wow this looks just like the rise of the nazis!"

Which was covered extensively during my history classes.

Why did you even have all the school schootings if you don't use that stupid second ammendmend thing you have? This is the tyranical government you've all been waiting for.


It seems like the first half of the 2nd ammendment isn't taught in schools, just the "I can has assault rifle" part.

You can really tell which states actually fund their education programs by who understands this and who does not.

It's a disease and it is spreading, fast.

Perhaps "what you thought then and now" is the difference between those times more than "what happened then and now". With the former being largely influenced by "what your bubble told you then and now".

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

We don’t have good data because it’s illegal to, for example, ask citizenship status on our census, but if you believe the numbers many democrats cite, Obama deported more immigrants than Trump. You can use Google to verify that though I’ll warn you the rabbit hole runs deep when it comes to official statistics. Importantly, under Trump we have far more violent felons to deport. The media thrives on salacious and emotionally charged stories rather unbiased reporting based on nuanced facts. It’s the entertainment industry.

The recent tragedies are indeed thoroughly depressing for all of us, but we shouldn’t let our emotional reactions destroy our ability to reason and think objectively about history and statistics. We can feel and think. Some of us believe enforcement of laws is the villain in this. Some feel the laws themselves or the idea of borders and sovereignty are to blame. Others that a surge of violent criminals such as those who killed Jocylan Nungary or Laken Riley is the cause of the recent tragedies. None of these views are inherently evil. All of these views have some merit. Truth is manifold. Don’t be narrow minded, we need broad thinking not simplistic pathos driven dogmas and references to nazis. Grow up.


The number of deportations under obama was definitely higher, but he had only one concentration camp (guantanamo bay), and didn't use that for his own people.

Learn about the tolerance paradoxon, there is no negotiating, nuance and reasoning with fashists.

Your enlightened centrism is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Get educated.


If you are German, then you are probably blind to the similarities between current German politics and the Nazis, so this is not a good point of comparison.

Yeeeaaaah, I dunno if you wanna go there while the US is investing $100B in state sponsored ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and concentration camps. Glass houses, stones, etc.

Germany invests less than that, but Germany is a smaller country. I'm not sure how much it is per capita.

Which politics are you referring to? The AfD ("Alternative for Germany") who has been classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution? And which has heavy ties to trump, musk, and the current U.S. government?

Just because we currently have our own right wing populist faschists rearing their heads again, doesn't mean that the parallels of the current events in the US and the rise of the Nazis aren't real and glaring to someone who has had this as part of their basic education curriculum.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250503162240/https://www.verfa...


All parties of the government support and pay for ethnic cleansing in the middle east.

What does that have to do with the situation in the US? The situation in the middle east is completely orthogonal to that, and observing the rise of faschism there says nothing about my stance on the current german foreign policy in regards to the middle east.

If you want to know: In my personal opinion that conflict is fucked beyond repair because a small group of powerful people on both sides benefit from it, while a huge number of deep interpersonal conflicts and histories fuel it, with any moderates getting squashed by their own side. So I wouldn't send weapons, but I'd send humanitarian aid or the blue helmets. That whole region is thoroughly fucked beyond my pay grade.


But it's only Nazis if you disagree with them. After all, the whole point of drawing the comparison is to shut down any possibility for discussion and nuance - "people I don't like are just like the nazis so I don't need to treat those who who doesn't fully oppose them with any respect".

> After all, the whole point of drawing the comparison [to Nazis] is to shut down any possibility for discussion and nuance

Another way of phrasing this is that it's a call to stop assuming good faith discussion on the part of the boosters, stop being derailed by pondering nuance, and focus on putting the brakes on the new Nazi movement. History doesn't repeat but we're teetering on the edge of a large-scale horrific rhyme. Regardless of one's preferred policies regarding immigration, there is zero justification for where we're at.


Again, I have little stakes in your shitshow besides the international meddling they do with our own faschist party.

This dualist thinking seems to be a particular US thing, based on your two party system.

I see the erosion of the rule of law and decency in the US, the persecution of minorities, the populism, the defamation of journalism as "lügenpresse" and alignment of media to the party line, the personal police force (what the fuck is ICE doing in Italy), the person cult around a single madman, the violence without consequence, the fancy SS/SA style cosplay uniform by the head of ICE, and I think "that looks a lot like the stuff we learned about in school".


The ones who are exterminating a race are the nazis

Which race?

Palestinian

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Any race or group can be genocidal. What's so special about Israelis?

Unfortunately the extend of what the average person seems to have learned from WW2 is jews = innocent victims, german/non-jew nationalism = evil.

Reasonable comments engaging in discussions on HN are frequently downvoted and flagged by the hivemind, causing the account to be shadow banned (ie. any comment is immediately 'dead', invisible to others).

I make a new account at least every week to get around this. This is my only account. Don't like it? Encourage your comrades to engage in good faith and tolerate perspectives that they personally disagree with.


What? Where's the bad faith? You made a really dumb argument and got a simple factual response. And you still failed to engage with that response instead making up imaginary persecution.

>What? Where's the bad faith?

Downvoting my comment, flagging my comment, getting my account shadow banned (it might be already and you'll never see this comment...), while dismissing my comment because it's from a new account.

People can't have it both ways. Stop censoring civil comments that you disagree with, or stop complaining that people make new accounts to circumvent the censorship. Or, I guess, be honest enough to explicitly ban anyone from disagreeing with the hivemind and enjoy your echo chamber in peace.


Why did you vanish? Tell me which moderator blocked you? Are you okay in the head? You are imagining hallucinations where you are being censored or persecuted by some imaginary entity.

No higher authority came in to block your speech. Your peers expressed disagreement with you. Where is the censorship?

Downvoting is not censorship. Nobody involved here is a mod or admin. I see you still haven't responded to the simple fact asserted in the original post though.

You had a chance to respond to the simple factual claims in this message and you still instead used your reply to hilariously claim down voting is censorship where there literally was no moderator involvement therefore literally nothing preventing you from responding. If you think downvoting is censorship why are you not on a website that doesn't have downvoting? You probably also think marriage between peoples of different countires is violent genocide given your hysterics in magnifying simple events into the dramatic and extreme.

The luddites won't need to sabotage a space based GPU. They can just wait for waste heat, radiation, or a good old solar storm to do it for them. The rest of the ground lauch infrastructure is fragile.

Ironically for gaming usage that electron slopware can get you VAC banned (I think you need to have used certain features not merely have it installed). I should probably find the OSS alternative that allows me to turn it off.

It's also getting to a point where I wind up paying a price premium for non capital g gamer hardware. Fortunately opaque cases are still a thing and can hide some of it.


“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

This will kill most future investment in offshore wind even if those projects are sucessful.

It’ll come back when there is more policy certainty, China isn’t going anywhere and they’re going to keep building. Luckily, there is manufacturing supply chain safely outside the US. China is roughly a third of global manufacturing capacity after all.

Don’t think in years, think in half decades and decades. This too shall pass.

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...


They did this with the switch 1 too they were just less well remembered because that subsequently got re-hacked. They lost the ARM trust zone keys and rebuilt the entire DRM stack on the HDCP keys which had been provisioned but they were not using.

Fractional scaling for wayland is broken on a per app basis which feels strictly worse to me than it was before. Libre office currently is broken on wayland and works in x11

LibreOffice works for me on wayland lol. I don't know why you would wanna do fractional scaling on a per app basis whenever you got one screen. But, for your libreoffice woes, try using a different backend?

Libreoffice includes support for gtk3, gtk4, Qt6, and other backends: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/vcl/README.m...

Maybe you need to try wayland with an alternative backend?


> Maybe you need to try wayland with an alternative backend?

And this is the inherent problem with Wayland. Now we have to deal with a combinatorial explosion of things to try to get something that "just works."


Which, because we're talking rendering and GPU and drivers, is incredibly frustrating, because if we're here, it's because the system doesn't have working GPU drivers, at which point, a misconfiguration is a crash and a power cycle and a "hope pstore managed to save something", and the hardware/software cursor settings getting lost somewhere-how.

More like some toolkits have really poor wayland support (cough anything GTK/Gnome cough)

I'm not trying to do it on a per app basis. I mean that some apps work and some don't. I should not be playing with rendering backends per app to get them working. If thats needed its broken.

People keep pushing KDE+Wayland to beginners either through recommendations or preconfigured stuff like bazzite. My experience is that the defaults in such a setup are broken and frustrating.


The existing summary is great. It uses git in the first sentence. Meanwhile forjo's landing page seems to be activly avoiding the words git and source control leaving it a cryptic mess.


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