When I first came across this article I legitimately thought it was satire, I was expecting the author to go through some hazing à la soggy biscuit. But it's a serious article.. Oh my.
Readit Newsmaximinus_thrax commented on Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/... · Posted by u/kaonwarb
>Russian leadership's willingness to take massive casualties of their own with little if any political fallout
All Russians joining the war after partial mobilization of the autumn of 2022 are doing this voluntarily. The West and Ukrainians managed to really piss off many Russians. It isn't Putin's war anymore and it isn't even the war of the whole Russia yet.
So they're going into the meat-grinder out of spite? What are YOU doing, товарищ? Why aren't you fighting for the motherland's imperial ambitions?
The launch was shifted from December, 2025 to somewhere in the first half of 2026, but I suppose it's worth reporting for Ukrainian propaganda outlet as "production failure".
Meanwhile you may enjoy the list of satellites[0] manufactured by independent Ukraine in the 35 years of its existence and read about all 4 of them. I'd say they have shed the Soviet legacy quite successfully.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Satellites_of_Ukraine
I agree "production failure" is inaccurate. The real reasons are 'corruption and incompetence'.
maximinus_thrax commented on Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found lightbrd.com/ZacksJerryRi... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
It's better to think of tesla as an MIC company than a typical auto manufacturer (indeed the auto industry has always held a tight, symbiotic, and often mandatory link with the military).
Tesla's domestic EV manufacturing, Starlink's satellite network, and ofc SpaceX are all critical pieces of American foreign policy. It should be obvious why Tesla is one of the most heavily subsidized companies of all time[0]
[0] https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
I don't really understand why Tesla is part of the MIC. They don't do anything for the military and has no strategic value. In terms of foreign policy, considering the US has soft-power due to Tesla, the company continues to under perform year-by-year while European and Chinese companies are gaining market share.
I am not a fan of Elon Musk, I've been skeptical of his accomplishments way before his involvement in politics so I may be a little biased. But it seems to me that Tesla is a failure. The last new model launched was a flop and a subject of general ridicule, they've stopped innovating, the existing models are last in reliability scores and no promises were kept wrt to self-driving, robotaxis, hyperloop or whatever other sci-fi scam was talked about at every shareholder meeting.
I really don't understand how in other areas (such as Enterprise AI or cloud computing in the past) investors want to see actual growth and huge returns and they threaten to pull their money constantly. But when it comes to Tesla in particular, the company keeps getting years and years of leeway while it's failing and failing.
Perhaps the hope is that it will get nationalized or be in some sort of public-private partnership that would ensure perpetual bailouts and it's just a way of sucking off money from the taxpayer?
maximinus_thrax commented on Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found lightbrd.com/ZacksJerryRi... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
And yet TSLA sits comfortably at ~$450. If someone knowledgeable can explain this to me, I'd be very grateful.
maximinus_thrax commented on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? · Posted by u/goopthink
So thankful for this development. This was the final nudge I needed to finally ditch Gmail, after 20something years.
This is Orwellian logic.
You are essentially saying “The enemies of a government seek to undermine it so let’s stop people from talking to each other.”
I mean how is that logic different from what Stalin did during the Soviet Union? “The capitalists want to overthrow us, let’s deploy the totalitarian surveillance state to control and monitor the people to stop them from rising up”.
And how is any of this logic compatible with democracy or human liberty?
Just a couple of days ago, this account was anti-censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567052
Wanted to let you know you're arguing with a Russian troll, the type you hear about in the news.
Would love to hear dang explain why this is flagged. I can wait.
Tons of rightwingers on HN. The 'don't tread on me' people who are now in the 'the secret police should check everyone's papers' camp.
Has anyone had success getting their city to take down the Flock cameras? Ours just added them maybe a year and a half ago. They popped up in multiple nearby municipalities around the same time, I'm not sure if it was coordinated action or somehow pulled off at the county level.
Montlake Terrace WA did https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mountlake-terrace-cancels-flo...
My hope is that https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... will make Flock get the fuck out of Washington state.
maximinus_thrax commented on US seizes Russian tanker – are we all going to die? theguardian.com/world/liv... · Posted by u/zabzonk
> * over Ukraine
Only tankies use the expression 'the Ukraine'