Who signed the front of those checks?
Various civil servants at the Treasury Department?
Readit Newsdiordiderot commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/dbushell
https://www.mcmaster.com
2022 post about it. 1400 points. ~500 comments:
I would recommend comparing to
https://next-faster.vercel.app/
NextFaster feels faster than McMaster IMHO
"Moore's Law" thrives under socialism.
"Sam's Law" exists under neoliberalism.
"Leslie's Law" is the result of fascism.
I mean, you just made that up but sure.
China is essentially a pinko branded fascist state and they continue to develop better processors
diordiderot commented on No, it's not a battleship navalgazing.net/No-its-no... · Posted by u/hermitcrab
care to explain how the US doesn't operate such super effective trucks? Trump doesn't like them? or maybe the kick backs are not as good as battleships?
If Himars count as missile trucks then they do. Sometimes they just park one on a ship deck
I don't think that's a worthwhile distinction. All software bugs are human errors, since the machine is correctly following the human programmer's incorrect instructions; whether that's at the level of assembly instructing the CPU; or a higher level like Wordpress instructing the PHP interpreter; or an even higher level of a document hosting solution instructing Wordpress.
Eh, I think the distinction is broken tool vs improper use of the tool or in this case, the wrong tool all together
diordiderot commented on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship kerrick.blog/articles/202... · Posted by u/Kerrick
Nobody is stopping you from spending time breathing the same stale, rhinovirus-ridden air as other people. What people take umbrage with is the idea that the rest of us should be forced into propping up the commercial rental market as well.
Dude chill. It's an air-conditioned room with desks and a coffee machine, not a cotton field.
Some people like having an office.
I could call someone like you a hyper dramatic agoraphobic socially inept recluse over a simple posted opinion but that wouldn't be kind,fair, or mature
Most everyone. Rural Mongolians arent getting their news from US propaganda. Oh, and how could I forget the most racist propaganda spewing one of all, X. People who get info from these sources have been manipulated to shut down their own critical thinking and just react for decades. Half of them probably don't even realize how racist-fascist their views have gotten.
Really wish we could push this discourse off HN and back to bsky
diordiderot commented on Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent nytimes.com/2025/10/27/he... · Posted by u/Peacefulz
This seems like a bad way to phrase it. The vaccine is certainly a lot (many orders of magnitude) less dangerous than just 0.1x as dangerous as COVID. Maybe you wanted to say that the risks from COVID are only 10x more without vaccination than with it due to limited effectiveness of the vaccine?
yeah the 10x was just myocarditis.
I've discounted the other effects as they were generally associated with comorbidities (lung scaring was a % of hospitalized people).
I've also discounted long-covid because of comorbidities, self-reporting bias, nocebo effective, and depression/anxiety overlap. Yes I know its still real, but the true rates are difficult to know.
Edit: I should have factored clotting as well
diordiderot commented on Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent nytimes.com/2025/10/27/he... · Posted by u/Peacefulz
Covid is a serious illness. It can cause a wide range of effects from death, to myocarditis, to immune system resets, to long covid, to permanent scarring on the lungs, mood disorders, embolisms, and permanently reduced mental capacity.
Covid is not a tail risk.
Additionally, by not getting a vaccine, you potentially put people at risk who cannot get a vaccine -- immunocompromised folks, etc. Vaccinating your child also protects everyone in their communities.
Choosing not to vaccinate because you want to limit the number for no expressed reason is vaccine hesitancy. You have expressed a position of vaccine hesitancy here.
Covid was literally 10x more dangerous than the vaccine for those without comorbidities, but it's played out now. The vaccine is about as effective as a flu jab.
Maybe, maybe not. We're currently the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Gerontocratic. Sclerotic. Hyped up on a new mythology. And economically uncompetitive on several levels, with the future (then computers, now elecrification) sweeping past us to our applause.
Unlike the Soviets, however, we can see it happening and debate it. If '26 and '28 change course, the damage will still be done. But the America Empire is still young. And Trump's stupidest policies–the tariffs, fighting the Fed, Greenland and raising a Gestapo–don't have the support of most Americans. That leaves hope for reform through electoral pressure.
It will take work. But it's as incorrect to assume indefinite American hegemony as it is to preëmptively concede the game.
If they were really Gestapo you wouldn't see people tailgate them in a Subaru or scream in their faces