lazyeye

The NYT used to market itself to advertisers with the observation that "our readers have the highest disposable income of any paper in the US".

It gives an interesting insight into politics and the modern Democrat party that the newspaper of the wealthy leans so strongly left. This was even before Trump came to power.

(shrugs) fine believe what you want...

"The connection of these boats to any drugs is dubious..." this is simply ridiculous.

Boats with 3-4 outboards on the back carrying large bails of some unknown "cargo" transiting well-established drug routes is obviously not a "dubious" connection. We also don't know what the intelligence was on the ground which I'm also guessing was quite substantial.

Neither you or I have the faintest clue what information was available behind the targeting decisions. Reality and your desire to frame things to justify your hatred of Trump are two completely different things.

I understand that fentanyl is not coming Venezuala but I dont think what you've stated is the devastating point you think it is. The US is also awash with cocaine (20k overdoses a year is the tip of the iceberg). I note that none of the replies to my parent comment had anything to say about the scourge of drugs across America. I guess 120k deaths a year is a small price to pay if it makes Trump look bad, right?

Seems like every 2nd post on HN, regardless of the actual content, becomes an argument between advocates for the US and China. In the case of China it's particularly egregious as they get to use US platforms to push their cause, whilst China blocks all foreign foreign access their own platforms. It's tiresome.

Tell me about the 100k fentanyl deaths each year. How does this volume of drugs reach the US?

What a ridiculous take.

The article was about Australia, not China. Incidentally it was also Australia that invented the modern solar panel.

Everybody is forced to pay for the BBC yet they represent the views of only a portion of the population.

The assumption that one side was going "extra-constitutional" whilst the other was always acting in good faith, is ridiculous.

Never understood how mosquitos could survive the sub-zero temperatures of an Alaskan winter for example.

I thought this NYTimes article captured the appeal of Trump, free from the sneering condescension you normally see...

https://archive.li/ytRPi

The original Paul Krugman quote

“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

China has big problems. They are totally trade-dependent (imports and exports) and some of the worst demographics on the planet apparently.

https://youtu.be/UltVl2Qlf6A

I find that naked partisanship is the rule rather than the exception on HN. Papered over with a bit of motivated "logic" but this is mostly just window-dressing.

What cases? Immigration status is not weighted evenly across all races.

I think its based on immigration status which is different from race.

Of course, these phones are never going to replace a conventional smartphone. They are really only where you care about size, you want to be contactable when out running etc.

The unihertz Jelly is smaller than these phones

https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series

Then there are some dumb phones which are even smaller. I think the Nokia 3310 is pretty tiny but the 4G version is only available in China.

From what I understand the majority of the desired spending is on welfare for illegal immigrants. If true, then it's reasonable to push back against it I think.

"There isn't any substantive reason why there ought to be a government shutdown. This is something that has been done routinely, as I said, 13 different times when the Democrats had the majority. But we are not going to be held hostage for over $1 trillion in new spending on a continuing resolution," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said ahead of the vote.

I saw it described as "we suddenly discover a new country with millions of super geniuses who are willing to work 24/7 essentially for free". And III add these super geniuses can be instantly cloned on demand.

That sounds great in theory. In practice, "misinformation" ends up being defined as anything the govt finds inconvenient. Or it is selectively applied so that when misinformation comes from all sides of the political spectrum, only people the govt doesnt like (in the more general sense) get kicked off platforms.

Yep..and fame, admiration, contempt, loathing, indifference etc

What should the punishment be for having opinions the govt disagrees with?

As is probably the case with alot things, it may not be that Trump is so great, but that the administration before him were so bad when it came to tech policy.

Agreed. Its a great first step with hopefully more to come.

(Shrugs)...people who make every. single. thing. about Trump are just not interesting.

"Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements?.." I've previously given you the answer to this question at least 5 times, if not more. I'II leave it there.