rokkitmensch

Technically correct! The best kind of correct!

And yet people tell me to "reform the system" instead of advocating to alternatives to the pathologically centralizing and ever daily more despotic USG.

A plotter, basically!

I absolutely have adblock on my TV. My TV is a dumb monitor for an el-cheapo Linux box that just does web and local video files. I'll not be subjecting my dependents to any miserable privacy-compromising "smart" spyware from a monitor provider...

Doubly for EV SUVs.

What about programmatic speed ticketing? Either we care to enforce these laws impartially or we want to use them to give cops the ability to exercise their discretion, tertium non datur.

Please oh please tell me what a squid-turd is!

Nice to see Barry on HN! Long live blogs!

I strongly disagree that the low end of the market is taken. XReal's Air/2 are awesome and Moore suggests we'll see awesome displays in that form factor, not even necessarily from XReal.

So is the excess consumption of my CPU cycles with asinine JS.

Didn't mean to trigger you!

I'm not an anarchist by any stretch of the imagination, so to turn it around, "you can fuck all the way off with your strawman characterizations of my personal politics".

Upstack, and far less incendiarily, I merely advocate for alternatives (to the colonialist racist USG /s). Monocrops are as bad in government as they are in food production.

What the spook box says and what's inside are two completely different things, by design.

Another excellent example of an incumbent union with no competition absolutely hosing the humans its mission should be to advocate for. Go labor!

Yet warmongers on both sides insist on bleeding the armory dry with bottomless support for wars halfway across the world.

I used to think that the old joke about boats being holes in the water that you poured money into was funny, until I realized the fervor with which both major political parties drive American military adventurism.

Again, not for you. Just because something undermines the tools of hegemony your comfy lifestyle depends on does not mean it's not a feature for other people with other priorities.

What, you don't have backup nodes in a rad-hardened cabinet under your house?

Relatives can buy btc stateside and relay it to you with pretty much no interference from local tax authorities or sanctions regimes.

There's value in this, Americans who are long America just hate admitting it.

What is the value of a non-interdictable, non-seizable without physical compromise value store?

"You are actually the problem" good grief, the vaunted HN manners and couth in action.

Postgres committers continue to kick ass and take names.

People also love discharging their debts, so you accrue intangible goodwill by liquidating those assets.

I recommend the 10 thousand dollar mountain bike skill tree. It comes with fantastic physical skill development opportunities and outrageous adrenaline factor. Best of all, the wear parts are all obvious and cheap! Designed to burn, as it were! A clutch against the very fabric of reality, that you might modulate your potential energy dissipation rate as you fly by it...

Either that or their ideological fart-huffing has finally alienated even the "very blue" reservoirs.

It's a cheap example, banks might have been better what with the obviously costly AML/KYC and bookkeeping requirements (not that these are bad, merely that they tend to centralize and concentrate actors so the fixed costs can be amortized more efficiently over a greater number of clients).

Airframe certification is so costly that nobody's making new ones would be the counterargument re Boeing, but like I said they're a cheap example.

More broadly, "regulatory capture" is another driver of the centralizing black hole at the heart of the USG.

Let's go the other way! Any of these corporate entities that control am entire vertical were produced by the centralizing logic of the US economy and legal landscape. Boeing is but the USG's plane manufacturing division, masquerading as a public company. Live Nation is the defacto ticketing provider. As government (created, controlled) entities, it's entirely reasonable to me to call this a tax.

There's just never been anywhere for the coordinated inflation to leak into before. Novel territory, just keeping an eye on the future. A dollar continues to buy less of everything, be it equities or commodities.

I believe the US is struggling to reach production of 650 Patriots a year. Given the shambolic state of our industrial base, I strongly doubt that any of the other platforms are in better logistical shape.

I am deeply concerned that the US armories will be empty in two years at this rate.

Dentist's curse.

You wouldn't.

That's not a meaningful claim about what other people would or wouldn't do.

The juice looks entirely worth the squeeze from here. Iran now knows exactly the saturation point of your defenses with all allies engaged.