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>You only accumulated and maintain the wealth because of the government

This is simplistic nonsense. No, the majority of wealthy people didn't accumulate their wealth because high and mighty lord government willed it into their existence. They did it within a system of laws and regulations that government admittedly does create for fostering such wealth creation. However, this still often requires strenuous effort by these people for their own ends. If it were otherwise, many more people would be rich just by virtue of living under a government. There is a real place for giving people credit for the wealth and capital accumulate, well beyond what government offers.

It's contradictory and absurd to argue that people accumulate wealth because of the government while at the same time arguing that we live in a situation in which we need more government control of people's earnings to prevent oligarchy since government doesn't do enough.
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Russia started the war by invading Ukraine. Russia can end the war any time they want by simply moving all of their troops out of Ukraine and back behind their border.

Any concession to Russia means we are saying that it's ok for nuclear-armed states to invade their neighbours at will, and to expand their territory at will, because "oh no, ww3!".

That is unacceptable. That is unjust. There is exactly one guilty party in this conflict, and it is not Ukraine. We do not appease dictators who invade their neighbours.
It is also the reason to use proprietary bullshit services. If there was not utility gap, then a reasonable evaluation would return that a migration to them is not worthwhile.

Now of course, that's a very sizable if...
The democratic system of checks-and-balances of USA needs to act to contain the Trump individual. After all the current USA government system is not a dictature and thus Trump is not supposed to have dictatorial powers.
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They (Russia) have lost big time, because their goal was total annexation of the country in a couple of weeks. Now they got a unified Europe and Ukraine which is much stronger. Finland in NATO, and other things not to their liking. Not to mention a bunch of young and old people going back from front and causing chaos.

It is funny how they switched their narrative from “we are fighting US and NATO” to “US will do business with us and the war is with Ukraine”.
It transitioned into a demicracy a-okay, the problem was -- russians never had any kind of democracy and it quickly descended into oligarchy, from which they overcorrected to dictatorship quite willingly.

Every other ussr and soviet-aligned country got it going somehow.
I could see how somebody might think that, if they ignore the content of what was said and only look at the presentation.
Media reporting on this feels extremely misleading if you actually watched the full clip. Zelenskiy remains remarkably calm throughout the entire ordeal.

Things only really get "angry" when JD Vance tries to provoke him only for him to calmy respond and be cut off immediately by Trump as soon as he hints at the US not being immune to physical risks from adversaries just because there's a body of water around it. Trump then goes completely off the rails saying things like "you don't get to dictate to us how we feel" or some nonsense like that.

It seems that the line he crossed was suggesting that the US is a part of geopolitics, not just an immortal observer with the option to intervene and participate as they see fit with no risk of consequences. This wasn't a disagreement over Russia, this was a disagreement over American isolationism and the mirage of American invulnerability that I thought had been disproven at least since 9/11.
I found it deeply uncomfortable to watch, to be honest. Both Trump and Vance acted like playground bullies.

Maybe that's what a bunch of citizens want? Pretty depressing, if so. I will say that I'm reevaluating my countries alliances and (lack of) security capability.
With all respect, this shows a lot of lack of recent history. It was Merkel and other leaders who tried to get closer to Russia, and Russia was part of the NATO accession program up until 2008, when they bombed an apartment complex. It was Obama who after that, tried to reset the relationship. Russia was welcomed in the economic program and many ties were forged so to get closer (like the OSCE) and to prevent what was happening, right now.

When in 2014 Crimea was annexed, this was a clear breach of trust on the side of the Russians, and the deals and cooperation agreements that were made.

Nobody in Europe wants the war, but we all fear that Russia won’t stop at Ukraine. Their policy is very clear.

Now you can argue that Russia seems NATO as a threat, but they could have been part of it.

If you can please read the Russia analysis above, it’s very well researched and shows where Russia coming from, and also possibly how we can move forward.
That war was a huge win for the US, much more so than for the reasons you mention there. It was the first time they managed to convince other NATO pact countries to execute a unilateral offensive campaign, until then a defensive alliance. The PR campaign had to be extensive and effective to justify violating the UN charter, and it was - for the first time successfully positioning a US-led NATO-run offensive war as altruistically motivated in the public eye, paving the way for the numerous wars that followed.

The campaign was valuable to everyone involved. The US got to assert itself as a global moral authority, also finally getting to build Camp Bondsteel[0] after decades of trying to build a base in the region (the largest US base on foreign soil since Vietnam, and it was built and managed by KBR meaning Dick Cheney and his shareholders also profited considerably; they've since lost interest so nowadays it's just a mini Gitmo). For the allies that backed them and helped justify the war, they received carte blanche permission to do what they like and settle their own scores. Their Dutch friends, for example, got to brazenly violate international law from the start by dumping their out-of-date depleted uranium cluster bombs on my densely populated home town[1], choosing to target the main building of our university, the main building of our city hospital, and the biggest civilian central steam heating plant that kept half the city warm.

The campaign did have some negative effects though. In the east it was interpreted as a deliberate provocation toward Russia at a time of particular weakness (their president getting hammered and falling out of planes etc), and Putin used this extensively as an example of Russian embarrassment at the hands of the US, helping him rise to power as PM in August '99, acting President in December '99, and President in March '00.

I'm not particularly emotional about any of this btw - I just thought you'd appreciate the geopolitical perspective and the ripple effect that war had on Russian politics & subsequent opinion towards the West.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bondsteel

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1_cluster_bombing
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I think you forgot that part where Putin wants to establish the Russian empire again.
Build in public!
> The US no longer wanting to fund someone else's war is about as far from 'forcing' as you can get

It _was_ also their war, because it's Europe that's attacked through Ukraine, and... Europe (and Ukraine, actually) used to be allies.

Well, here we are: the USA is _not_ anymore an ally to Europe, and is objectively becoming, as a state, an adversary, so here is the most likely survival plan available to Europe now:

1/ find new partners (Canada/Australia of course; as for the big one, will be India and/or China);

2/ increase its own defence and technologies to be more independent from US ones (will hurt, for sure);

3/ close its market to USA (will hurt heavily on both sides);

4/ not even talking about the cultural reframing that will happen.

It's not a matter of "if the USA doesn't fix its course within 4 years", it's happening now.

And no one wins at this. Certainly not the USA. Trump will be gone and forgotten in a few years. USA will take, at the very best, 40/50 years to fix the damaged trust towards Europe, but also towards any future partner: how do you expect to sincerely partner with a country that behaves so erratically every 4 years, and now even ambushes guest state representatives in front of the media?
Is the different names options under “Advanced Sync Settings” the same thing just with different name? “Use Custom FxA Content Server”?
Are you surprised a country with Russia as it's neighbour wants to join NATO? Especially since it has been an important part of the defense of the European union.

Putin has been stuck in the cold war since forever. His expansionist ideals have been visible since forever.
Rather (in)famously, /r/xkcd, which was overtaken (for a time) by militant Muslim anti-semite neo-nazi holocaust deniers.

The subreddit was eventually reclaimed, but it took some months. There's an account of the hostile takeover and clawback here: <https://old.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1xdwba/the_history_of...> (2014).
ICBC?
From inside the poor community. You have to let them find out by themselves that living in squalor off side hustles is a bad alternative to finding a stable job, behaving, and then prospering. Giving them money for nothing perpetuates these issues, since they don't have a reason to improve their situation.

I'm saying all these things because I am from a poor community. I know how things work in such communities, and it's nothing like well off people (like most of you reading these lines are) think it is. Nobody is "keeping them down" but themselves.
No, any concurrent modifications would cause problems.

The main difficulty with sync is conflict resolution and none of Syncthing's solutions work well for the things that Firefox syncs.
Renewables are the cheapest source of power and can be scaled up significantly faster than nuclear, while having none of the risks.

Power in Germany is expensive mostly due to gas and lack of storage capacity. Check back in four years when the storage capacity has gone up tenfold.
Interesting, I’d like to understand your argument. What exactly are you trying to say? I’d say what you see as kindness and generosity, was not so much that as a tool, to create and maintain an American economy that far outweighs its actual importance. Aid, Commoditised people, Petrodollar, Reserve currency.

One thing, I’d like to understand is do regular Americans think that the country, following an isolationist policy will out compete the rest of the world?
Silicon carbide fiber reinforced silicon carbide is also being increasingly used.
To be fair, Cursor does this quite handily also.
That happened in all other countries too. Ukraine had oligarchs, Chezchia and Romania have them. Its just russian oligarchs got hold on infinite money glitch which is oil production and the country overcorrected by going full dictatorship
It'll look different but China will probably do the same deal some point this century.
The industry (or a couple of generations currently inhabiting it) could start with at least accepting responsibility when something goes wrong. Let me be clear: it's not about ending the "blameless culture" in engineering. No. It's about ending the culture of not taking any responsibility at all, when things go south. See the difference.
Also fun, one reason can become another. Remember the sharpie-modified hurricane map? That could start as ignorance - he didn't have specific information on a threat to Alabama, but inferred it from a misjudgment of the information he did have. It could also be senility - he was given good information but he is unable to accurately or reliably retrieve it.

And then it became dishonesty when in the face of plenty of evidence to his being incorrect, he chooses to go on national TV and show a map modified with a marker, insisting he was right all along and no, it is the meteorologists who are wrong.
while librewolf is good, the default one is not viable for me

- delete data upon exit (cookies,... are gone): this is no go for day-to-day browser.

there are a few more i have to change out of the box as well but other than that, all is good.
I wish this was more obvious that they don't identify what the 'clicked' New Tab content is. And for Search it could be stored local information and be tracked for suggestions. I wish they clarified the things you clarified instead of failing to mention them.
They do not have that option. You know who died by the thousands in meat wave attacks on Mariupol, armed with decades-old rifles? Citizens of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" who were forcibly drafted.
Brazilian poors are kept poor by design, it's a long standing project from Brazilian elites (agrobusiness, political dynasties) to keep the poor uneducated for better control and exploitation.

Cultural changes are hard to be enacted if there isn't political power for doing so, Brazil also produced some very well educated people who have attempted to change the status quo of basic education lacking civics/political thought, most notably Paulo Freire.

Still there is a concerted effort to keep the poor uneducated, voting is mandatory in Brazil and if you are a corrupt politician (as most are there) you really do not want the people to be able to figure out your schemes. You keep them out of civics, they are just cheap labour who cannot understand complexities of government, civics, and so on.

I believe you do not know Brazilian society at all, and are simply throwing some empty platitudes based on your misguided ideology. It's not about fucking handouts, those are simply necessary for a large percentage of Brazilians to survive due to the lack of opportunities and basic education which most of the population lives under.

> Nobody is "keeping them down" but themselves

You really are a true believer, personal responsibility can never overtake a system of oppression.
> There are no resources and opportunities after being acquired by IBM.

Got promoted twice, once between teams. Went to multiple countries and I was in product security (cost center ) at the time.

> No matter what they tell you, your day to day will not improve.

I am down to a 40 hour work week, down from 50-60.

> Not long after I left, they laid off a bunch of staff.

I don't see any difference, corporate has laid off many different groups, I guess the only different to the mothership laid off people in the US so it hits closer to your home. I've seen layoffs in Support in phillipines, Documentation in Brisbane, Most of Singapore GLS/GPS.

The USA has always been insulated from the layoffs because execs find it harder to lay off people you meet in the corridors.

> A lot of what was communicated during the

> acquisition process was how IBM was going to super

> power Red Hat and help Red Hat grow into an even

> larger entity, and how Red Hat actually need IBM to

> survive.

Maybe this was in the US, most of the IBM briefing/cheerleading meetings were not held during the APAC timezone so I skipped them and prioritized high value work. I have always assumed that if I needed to know something my manager would tell me.

If i was getting let go, nothing I could do about it if I was already doing the work I was supposed to be doing.
Only if you (somewhat naively) assume the interest is what was publicly stated.

Grifting is the goal, not the unintended side effect.
Historically voting with your feet seems to yield way better results.
finally, a nitter replacement
What similar libraries exist for other languages? (I could not find myself.) Thanks.
it's not ready for day-to-day use yet. maybe in 2-3 years time
I still use and can recommend Sequoia (or SequoiaView?) program from early 2000s to map all directories by size. VERY useful to know what to clean.

As for exlorer... The only drawback to your request is, obviously, the need for recursive FS scan, which is expensive. That is why it is not in-built in default file explorer functionality. But XnView, for example, optionally shows brief content of directories (e.g. 4 mini-thumbs over a directory icon).
What about their vast fishing and shipping fleets?
Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again
Yes, this has been submitted to HN before, and hasn't gained any traction.

But this isn't the first time something like this has happened, and simultaneous outages like this are not something that is likely to happen by chance. This report is only part of the visible problem; this is happening to other banks as well on a regular basis (see below).

If it's not chance, either external attacks have occurred against several different banking groups at once (Lloyds, TSB, Halifax and BoS are all one group, but Halifax, Nationwide, First Direct and Barclays are not), or a substantial fraction of the entire British banking industry has a single point of failure somewhere.

Whichever it is, the banks and their regulators are keeping very quiet about it.

More reporting:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/payday_from_hell_as_s...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/lloyds-bank-down-not-work...
Well I just used a LLM to write a systemd unit for me. One attempt kinda works but it doesn't do what I wanted, the other would do what I wanted if it worked at all.

Every line is explained in detail. They just don't help :)
Oh, I just checked Librewolf and the feature actually is there now when you click the padlock.

`LibreWolf: Always store cookies/data for this site`

That's great, and I think I will now switch over
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Gorbatsjov listened to American advisors. The Chinese were watching and never made the same mistakes.

Opening up the economy so that Western piggus can take over everything and corrupt the nation with their DMARKS and Dollars? What were they thinking...
No I am not. Who is excusing drug dealers?

But, making things illegal that (clearly) people will buy anyway just pours billions into criminal enterprises. The vast majority of crime is funded by drug money in one way or another. The same thing happened during US prohibition: people did not stop drinking alcohol, but all the money from alcohol suddenly poured into the criminal economy. This is a well-trodden path and we should know better by now.

Has "the war" worked out? We're several decades in with no win in sight.
No that's exactly what I mean: I expect the round-trip within a datacenter to take roughly 0.5ms, I expect the key lookup to take about that time or less, so 10ms is roughly an order of magnitude more than I would expect a "simple key-value query" to take
Because extrapolating with little data is stupid.

https://xkcd.com/605/
Take a look at provisional paragraphs of Ukrainian constitution. They are at the end and are quite interesting
Another comment mentioned [0]. Enterprise and people running a private CA can set "security.pki.certificate_transparency.disable_for_hosts" to disable CT for certain domains (plus all their subdomains).

I just hope they automatically disable it for non-public tlds, both from IANA and RFC 6762.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Certificate_Tra...
For out of band communication Meshtastic devices might be a good option
Again, back to my original point. We've been "trying" this "surgical" approach for decades, and a lot of people believe that it wasn't working with things getting objectively and subjectively worse. Why? I'd argue it's because people's concerns and sincere requests for debate or voicing of their concerns has been met with derision, dismissal, gaslighting and downright cancellation. I'm not trying to debate it here, but my overall point is that people's concerns, criticisms and request for genuine debate have not been listened to, and now the pendulum has arguably swung way too far in response. Perhaps next time around we won't be so dismissive and hostile, and actually meet in the middle.

As a personal aside, the scientific/medical community (overlapping heavily with NIH) has not been able to 'surgically' prevent the advent of crazy child-mutilation and sterilization in the supposedly-enlightened West, so how do you expect average people that disagree with it to try approach it with civility? We've reached absolute peak madness, so of course debate and "surgical" type approaches are out of the window at this point. We must do better next time around.
Trump should apologize and probably resign while we are at that. But the conservatives want all the good old times without the honor code that existed to some degree back then.
That is chatgpt generated code too.
I love that i can get this kind of depth of conversation in hn.
Ah, many thanks for that tip
It's just a copy of nitter on a different domain.
> which started that wave of anti-nuclear in Germany

Started? The anti-nuclear movement has been around since the 70s.
Sure, we don't know but we can guess.

While Poland can trigger Article 5, and current US admin will most likely tell them to shove it, maybe deploy some forces there. US weakening ties with EU is going to make nuclear war less likely.

Even if the next US president was very gung ho about it, the fact that Trump got elected again means the US isn't a stable partner. You don't want to enter a ten years war where every 4 years your ally might just decide to leave you hanging.
Slight call for help:

I'm close with somebody who is experiencing extreme 10/10 withdrawal or other side effects from their ssri (escitalopram). They tried to quit, then went back ionto it due to severe withdrawal, and its actually gdtting worse every day now even 1.5 weeks later. What should I read or watch to understand what is going on?
The god awful UI is enough of a reason alone. It's EXTREMELY Microsoft.
So you've managed to blend elitist ideas of some people being less or more "qualified" to disseminate certain opinions than others who don't share your ideological preferences with supposedly egalitarian ideas of reducing concentration of power.

Also, journalistic standards, historically, were little or not at all better than anything you see online today. Yellow journalism was a major part of media since long before the internet and newspapers pandering to very specific, dishonest biases was also pervasive, but with few genuinely unfiltered alternative viewpoints being available. The difference today is that a real plurality of opinions is finally possible and can be globally made visible. The media gatekeepers hate this and thus create contrived arguments about an imaginary golden standard of media integrity and mass misinformation.