Is IBM still a serious player? It seems to me they are living out of legacy software. Is there quantum computer stuff promising?
What do you mean? IBM is the world leader of AI development thanks to their cutting edge IBM Watson
Readit Newsstaringback commented on IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing newsroom.ibm.com/2025-08-... · Posted by u/donutloop
Yeah brb accidentally sexually assaulting a minor under 16, could happen to anyone.
It's actually much worse when you find out the girl was only 9 years old
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/nampa-church-volunte...
This guy just went to federal prison on a 25-year sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Syonyk
https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-s...
Some of his blog posts in the past several months also highlight the dismal state of prison tech, which I suppose is on-point for this thread:
That's not a federal prison
staringback commented on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/laurex
Australia has a medicare levy of 2% taxable income - and last time I did the math I'd pay an equal amount in tax there as I do in the US
Seems ridiculous the US doesn't have it
The cost of Medicare in Australia far exceeds the levy. That was added as an additional tax to supplement the regular funding.
55M visa holders ???
I had no idea it was that many.
I thought 18M undocumented was a high %age!
342M people in the US. 16% visa holders
I wonder how that compares to other countries?
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born/about....
Think about what a "visa holder" might be and then try your comment again.
staringback commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11...
“The future is now, old man”
This is the most hilarious thing I have ever read from HN, thank you.
staringback commented on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind derekthompson.org/p/1910-... · Posted by u/purgator
In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.
Here (EU) in many countries it is possible to not work and survive, with varying levels of compromise
> In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.
Spoken like a true European who has never lived in the United States
I personally didn't give a rats ass how someone came to be in the US. I'm much more interested in whether they are assaulting and/or stealing from people.
The bureaucracy around immigration is insane. Most of our ancestors didn't have to do anything to come here except just show up. And that worked out excellently for the US. Now we are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
> I personally didn't give a rats ass how someone came to be in the US. I'm much more interested in whether they are assaulting and/or stealing from people.
Okay, so you want selective enforcement [1] of laws?
If only ICE were targeting criminals and not the economic backbone of our society.
Improper entry by alien is a criminal offense [1]
In the EU, they're legally required to charge you for it to incentivize lowering plastic waste.