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New comment by AnnikaL in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

AnnikaL — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:33:52 +0000

1 in 5 new marriages in the US are interracial[1].

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/02/25/in-vice-p...

New comment by AnnikaL in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

AnnikaL — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:23:29 +0000

It seems quite worrying for the government to forbid certain views. For instance, some religious groups teach that same-sex marriage is wrong; would banning such views not infringe upon their religious freedom?

New comment by AnnikaL in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

AnnikaL — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:13:41 +0000

If you are travelling a long distance, say over 1000 miles/km, do you always drive? Or do you take an airplane (or a train)?

New comment by AnnikaL in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

AnnikaL — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:19:13 +0000

The decline seems to be much sharper for the US than other countries. Given the way that the current government has been arbitrarily revoking student visas, making it more difficult to get work visas, blocking green card application, etc., it seems reasonable that fewer people would want to immigrate to the US.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

AnnikaL — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:31:59 +0000

I think it is good for people to want the best for their children. It doesn't follow that one should care more about some children who aren't related to you than about other unrelated children, because of their skin color.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

AnnikaL — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:29:49 +0000

Plenty of Internet companies are still around after the dot-com bubble crashed though.

New comment by AnnikaL in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

AnnikaL — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:49:32 +0000

The idea is that if you promise to drop nuclear weapons on any country which attacks your capital, Russian tanks will not attack your capital. Whether this is a wise strategy is unclear, but countries like Pakistan[1] and Israel[2] have employed such a policy, and none of their unfriendly neighbors have yet managed to send tanks into Islamabad or Tel Aviv.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_spectrum_deterrence

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option

New comment by AnnikaL in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

AnnikaL — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:50:58 +0000

University students are presumably not "unskilled" --- they're learning some skills at university, and probably got admitted on the basis of some skills! Maybe the jobs they are working are unskilled, but that's not what we were talking about.

Also, talking about "maintaining a homeland for white children" is eerily reminiscent of the white supremacist 'fourteen words' slogan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

New comment by AnnikaL in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

AnnikaL — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:53:40 +0000

No, some resources aren't shared (for example, human capital: things that I know how to do aren't shared, since nobody can 'borrow' my knowledge) or are effectively infinite (for instance, you can travel arbitrarily far into outer space and not run out of space).

New comment by AnnikaL in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

AnnikaL — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:18:13 +0000

I also drive a Hyundai Kona. Here are some things I use the physical buttons for that I wouldn't want to use a screen for:

- turning the air conditioning up or down (or off) while I'm driving and feel too hot/cold

- adjusting the volume of music or the radio while driving

- turning on the radio

- turning seat heaters on or off

I don't want to fiddle with a touchscreen to do any of these things while the car is in motion.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

AnnikaL — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:15:39 +0000

The article does say that the electric Corolla is to be priced at $30k, about $3,000 more than the hybrid and $5,000 more than the gas-powered one. That may not be objectively 'low cost', but it's comparable in cost to the lowest-cost new EVs, and probably similar total cost of ownership to the hybrid/gas cars when considering cheaper fuelling.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

AnnikaL — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:27:11 +0000

Would this not mean that if you oppose the Iran war because it's bad to kill civilians or you want gas prices to go down, that's OK - but if you oppose the Iran war because you're trying to help the Iranian government's foreign policy goals, that's acting as a foreign agent?

(Similarly, demonstrating in support of Israel because you think the US-Israel alliance is good for the US vs. good for Israel.)

New comment by AnnikaL in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

AnnikaL — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:16:42 +0000

The legends are true. I remember begging my parents to get me a Raspberry Pi sometime in the mid 2010s, and the cheap model was US$25 (and the less-cheap model was $35).

Admittedly, this may be closer to $40-50 in today's money (and didn't include an SD card, but those were more common back then in the era of digital cameras)...

New comment by AnnikaL in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

AnnikaL — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:50:25 +0000

More than one thing can be bad at once. Opposing unprovoked wars and illegal West Bank settlements doesn't make theocratic law any less bad.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

AnnikaL — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:42:53 +0000

This year I bought a 5 year old compact electric SUV with 94% reported battery health (gets about 20 miles under its EPA-estimated range) for under $12k.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

AnnikaL — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:40:19 +0000

Huh, how does having options of ICE or EV cars mean high oil prices won't mean people try to use less oil?

If gas prices go up, expensive public EV chargers will be more appealing. I hope you get better infrastructure re: charging soon; here in California (not known for low energy prices nor for infrastructure-building capacity) most fast chargers are between US$0.50 and US$0.70 (£0.37-£0.52) per kWh, so it is definitely possible. (You also need non-fossil-based electricity generation to truly decouple from oil/gas prices.)

I share your worries about industry, though — although trucks, earth-movers, etc could theoretically run on batteries or hydrogen or something, industrial processes using petroleum and natural gas may be around for a lot longer.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

AnnikaL — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:54:11 +0000

I died of malaria at age 1 in the West African Sahel!

New comment by AnnikaL in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

AnnikaL — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:26:40 +0000

I'm American, and I don't use the extra cash flow (in fact, I make sure to keep more money in my checking account than I spend on the credit card, so I can always auto-pay my bill and therefore never pay any interest).

If I could get a debit card that gave me 2% cash back on all transactions, I'd use that instead!

New comment by AnnikaL in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

AnnikaL — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:10:53 +0000

Yeah, wouldn't it makes sense to increase fundraising, so as to acquire more compute to close the gap?

New comment by AnnikaL in "The Visual 6502"

AnnikaL — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:06:58 +0000

I got 22-33Hz on an AMD Ryzen 7640U on power-save mode and 50-55Hz on performance mode.