Charlie Kirk advocated that Joe Biden be executed:
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A newsletter is problematic if it doesn't cater equally to people who believe that climate change is a hoax? Seriously?
LOL. Says the guy who wrote, "Modern local religion (at least in the US) is neomarxism":
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/585451-alphabet-zoo/501...
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2. babymetal claims to be a bookseller and, if true, they offered a specialist's insight into the quality of the information disseminated by a person being discussed at HN. (Though, their observation was off topic -- like most comments in most HN discussions.)
3. You want HN users, who are mostly code monkeys, to criticize a proposal to address viral diseases?
Can you provide examples of important work you perform with mobile devices that cause you to prioritize them so heavily? I don't use my phone for any important work, so for me, as a Linux user, choosing macOS as one's primary OS because of its integration with iOS is like someone choosing Windows as their primary OS because they have an Xbox with Game Pass.
In order for people to review Nix package definitions and patches, do they need to have their keys signed by other Nix contributors they meet in person like Debian contributors do?
Yeah, it's interesting how all those pet-eating Haitian immigrants they were race-baiting about suddenly became vegans or something the moment Trump was elected.
I have a personal knowledge base that currently includes almost 7,000 files in which I store my notes. I take notes on everything. Every technology. Every project. Every meeting. Every product I evaluate. EVERYTHING.
My notes are stored in Org files that I edit with Emacs and Org mode[1]. Org files are written using a feature-rich lightweight markup language[2] that is much more powerful than Markdown (which is used by other note-taking tools like Obsidian). For example, Org supports plain text spreadsheets[3], a feature I love.
People tend to disqualify Org and say, "I don't use Emacs," while assuming that Emacs users choose Org because we already use Emacs. But I started using Emacs specifically for Org, not programming.
Regardless of which tool you end up using, consider organizing your note files using hierarchical tagging. I started using hierarchical tagging for my notes right after Wikipedia launched and I saw how effectively hierarchical tagging was being used there. Each Wikipedia article can belong to multiple categories, and each category can belong to multiple categories. This is hierarchical tagging, and it's worked great for my notes. At the bottom of every one of my Org files, there is a list named "Parent topics", and each parent file has its own "Parent topics" list (excluding the "main topics" files, which have no parents).
States would need to increase taxes to fund more research, which would cause some of the wealthiest residents to flee to low-tax states. This would result in the pro-research states losing tax revenue and eventually cutting their research funding. The decline in research funding would result in the U.S. experiencing brain drain similar to what has been experienced in red states[1] for decades.
Some of us don't want the U.S. to experience brain drain that will cause our country to become more like the rural states that suffer from the loss of their best and brightest.
The reason I prefer Org for static site generation is not because I already use Emacs. I actually started using Emacs about 20 years ago specifically to use Org mode.
I wouldn't say I learned this too late, but ashamedly, I didn't learn this truth until after ShellCheck was released. I have thousands of hours of experience writing Python, Ruby, and Perl, but I no longer have any use for them.
Trump "received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire".[1]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...
Yeah, because they allow anyone to contribute with little oversight. As Lance Vick wrote[1], "Nixpkgs is the NPM of Linux." And Solène Rapenne wrote[2], "It is quite easy to get nixpkgs commit access, a supply chain attack would be easy to achieve in my opinion: there are so many commits done that it is impossible for a trustable group to review everything, and there are too many contributors to be sure they are all trustable."
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105784
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240429013622/https://dataswamp...
TIL.
Serious question: What documents include high-quality content but are too long to read and lack summaries written by the authors of the documents? None come to mind immediately. Research papers have abstracts. Book chapters have introductions. I can't think of an example. Are you referring to low-quality content that isn't worth reading?
How many French cities have English names?
Thousands of American cities have Spanish names because they were founded by Spanish explorers. 20% of U.S. states have Spanish names.[1] I'm not arguing that this is reason enough for government announcements to be in English, but I think that comparing the use of Spanish in the U.S. to the use of English in France is invalid.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Spanish...
Maternal mortality rate in Iran in 2020: 22/100,000 live births [1]
Maternal mortality rate in Mississippi in 2018-2022: 39.1/100,000 live births [2]
Infant mortality rate in Iran in 2022: 10.35/1,000 live births [3]
Infant mortality rate in Mississippi in 2022: 9.11/1,000 live births [4]
[1] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240068759
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/data.htm
[3] https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr...
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-infant-health/infant-mortality/
I just searched for "What is inherit_errexit?" at Perplexity. Eight sources were provided and none of them were the most authoritative source, which is this page in the Bash manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...
Whereas, when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using Google Search, the above page was the sixth result. And when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using DuckDuckGo, the above page was the third result.
I continue to believe that LLMs are favored by people who don't care about developing an understanding of subjects based on the most authoritative source material. These are people who don't read science journals, they don't read technical specifications, they don't read man pages, and they don't read a program's source code before installing the program. These are people who prioritize convenience above all else.
LOL. You're not even an American. He's a tip: U.S. states with the highest GDP per capita are mostly run by Democrats[1] (who, by the way, aren't leftists).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
What do you mean by "very concrete number"? And why do you consider DOGE's documentation to be substantiating evidence? I quickly searched through your comments and see that you're a Mormon. Do you likewise believe that the Book of Mormon is empirical evidence that substantiates Mormonism? If so, how do you decide which reading material is substantiating evidence and which isn't?
Yikes.
> Taxpayers are the in group.
The in-group is right-wingers, such as farmers[1] and Likud[2].
[1] https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/...
franze didn't complain about anything. He simply asked why people work at Tesla. You're defensiveness is hilarious.