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New comment by Redoubts in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

Redoubts — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:23:58 +0000

> the merge of the government and corporations

This is not plutarchy, the direction of control is going the other way.

New comment by Redoubts in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

Redoubts — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:14:22 +0000

This would be pointless to do for one person, and it would be very curious to see a government reject a massive funding stream from a swath of people like this.

What are you getting paid in? (2024)

Redoubts — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:22:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/p/what-are-you-getting-paid-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047384

Points: 3

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New comment by Redoubts in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

Redoubts — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:03:40 +0000

Dude what?

New comment by Redoubts in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

Redoubts — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:53:24 +0000

Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf

kind of a wild document to exist...

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful

Redoubts — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:27:19 +0000

Article URL: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930991

Points: 9

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New comment by Redoubts in "This blog is written in en-GB"

Redoubts — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:32:10 +0000

Ok sure. The Home Secretary just banned new asylum seeker housing near schools and nurseries, fyi.

New comment by Redoubts in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

Redoubts — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:25:16 +0000

> No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket".

Original post was "modest for a guy like that"

New comment by Redoubts in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

Redoubts — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:55:51 +0000

Arguably vacancy taxes are just Georgism with extra steps

Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/inside-hudson-river-tradings-blistering-token-burn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568851

Points: 4

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The Rape Gang Inquiry Report [pdf]

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568730

Points: 11

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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566791

Points: 172

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New comment by Redoubts in "My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin"

Redoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:30:44 +0000

> Just a reminder "gay panic defense." is still used in court today in the USA

Can you cite a case in the last 5 years?

Can you cite a case in the last 20 years where the jury didn’t roll their eyes?

New comment by Redoubts in "Ask HN: What has HN given you?"

Redoubts — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:07 +0000

referral bonuses from a few people via who's hiring

New comment by Redoubts in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

Redoubts — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:42:33 +0000

I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.

New comment by Redoubts in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

Redoubts — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:04:54 +0000

Couldn't think of a more incorrect diagnosis if I tried. State government budgets have been ballooning for the last decade; but political leaders don't give a shit about tracking outcomes, only celebrating starting things and how much money they spend.

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:13:21 +0000

Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”.

That’s a bright line violence against innocents, so we’re closing all your checking accounts and preventing you from paying for anything without cash. And if people try to help you, we’ll say loudly in polite society that they traffic in blood money.

I hope you understand.

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:27:49 +0000

> In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing

I think the main thing to criticize, is that

1. Banks are deputized as ersatz law enforcement, and will cooperate in ways you would otherwise expect to warrant a warrant, or do damage to people you would otherwise expect a court to gate.

2. Government has set up laws that on their face sound reasonable, but are extremely easy to run afoul of, and extremely easy to prosecute.

3. Banks have delegated decision making to private entities, which confounds oversight and is probably extremely under regulated vs anyone’s expectations

4. A lot of this power is wielded at the discretion of political actors at both ends

5. The main lesson of American politics since Nov 2016 is that we need more guardrails than “discretion”

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:15:42 +0000

I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC as ersatz compliance officers.

I’m not sure what the law could and should be in this case, but I suspect it’s woefully underspeced to the chagrin of most parties.

Hence, bank/wire fraud.

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:50:19 +0000

Article URL: https://sainthelenaisland.info/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992118

Points: 3

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