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New comment by docdeek in "Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize and deport congresswoman"

docdeek — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:51:51 +0000

>> I'm confused what you think you're arguing with.

That the congresswoman has been investigated by the DOJ under different administrations, Democrat and Republican, is a fact. Your claims about the competence of the DOJ - whether true or not - don’t change that fact.

New comment by docdeek in "Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize and deport congresswoman"

docdeek — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:21:54 +0000

No, my implication is that this is not the first time that this congressperson has been investigated by the DOJ, and the last time it happened the DOJ was under the control of her own party’s president.

New comment by docdeek in "Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize and deport congresswoman"

docdeek — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:08:17 +0000

The same Congresswoman was previously investigated by the Biden DOJ in relation to "her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen, according to people with knowledge of the matter."

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/ilhan-omar-in...

New comment by docdeek in "Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)"

docdeek — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:59:09 +0000

My first-year philsophy professor gave a similar warning. He offered words to the effect that if we (the students) started thinking that the philosophy we were reading made no sense, was idiocy, or just nonsense, pause for a moment and imagine whether we thought it was likely that Plato was an idiot and everyone hasd missed it for millenia, or that we might be misinterpeting something. There’s always the chance that we’ll have an insight that others might not have had, but there’s a reasonable chance the the philosophers we were to study might not be exclusively stupid.

Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn't Own WordPress

docdeek — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/automattic-wants-wordpress-it-doesnt-own-wordpress-d9e6be3f3a45

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003676

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by docdeek in "We are going to kill "unalive""

docdeek — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:23:46 +0000

>> I’ve heard people say, out loud, “he unalived himself”, in reference to someone dying by suicide.

I also grew up in the previous century and it is equally strange to hear ‘dying by suicide’ when it used to be more common to say ‘committed suicide’ or just ‘killed himself/herself’. The author does a reasonable job of explaining why people might use ‘unalive’ and why he thinks that is a bad idea, but what was the reason a person started ‘dying by suicide’ instead of ‘killing himself/hersself/themselves’?

New comment by docdeek in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

docdeek — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:23:04 +0000

We’ve interacted on r/peloton before - your father is a giant and I am glad the biography is out. :)

New comment by docdeek in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

docdeek — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:26:30 +0000

Love that this is on Hacker News! INRNG has some of the best commentary about professional cycling online, as well as book reviews and travel pieces around famous climbs and races. If you are a fan of professional cycling, it’s a must-read.

New comment by docdeek in "Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots"

docdeek — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:29:32 +0000

The Just Stop Oil website’s FAQ suggests their goals are far more ambitious than now new projects:

WHAT DOES JUST STOP OIL WANT?

We demand that the UK government commits to working with other nations to establish a legally binding treaty to stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 as well as supporting and financing poorer countries to make a fast, fair, and just transition.

https://juststopoil.org/faqs-updated/

Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

docdeek — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-r-de-uses-ai-to-race-swap-students-for-advertising/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801330

Points: 88

# Comments: 63

Automattic execs signed reciprocal severance deals in Mullenweg absence

docdeek — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/automattics-interim-ceo-and-legal-chief-signed-reciprocal-severance-deals-during-mullenwegs-brief-ouster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738047

Points: 37

# Comments: 3

New comment by docdeek in "The President's Power to Pardon Friends and Allies Must End"

docdeek — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:45:36 +0000

Also a non-American but, when it comes to pardon power, both Democrats and Repiblicans have pardoned close friends and family members (Clinton his brother, Biden his son, for example) and the pardon of Mark Rich by Clinton and Edwin Cox by GWB both appear to have a smell of quid-pro-quo about them. Perhaps Obama stands out in recent history as a president that, while pardoning or commuting the sentences of some controversial people, didn’t seem to stoop as low as blanket/unconditiaonl pardons for family and associates, but this is more than just a Republican or a Trump problem.

New comment by docdeek in "iPhone Duo"

docdeek — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:50:43 +0000

Thanks, I missed it on the event presentation.

New comment by docdeek in "iPhone Duo"

docdeek — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:38:01 +0000

How do you put a case on a foldable phone? Or do you not put one on, rely on the ceramic to protect the screen, and pay for Apple Care for cheap replacement screens?

New comment by docdeek in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

docdeek — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:30:48 +0000

There’s likely some information on there that some people must want to share if services like Xcancel and Nitter exist and allow you to share it without being on X itself.

New comment by docdeek in "U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers"

docdeek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:52:59 +0000

> How many deaths would go from minor to major? How much impact to quality of life that isn't death would there be?

That’s a good question. It seems in this case that 3 to 6 deaths a year qualifies as ‘minor’ for the government. I don’t know where the line should be but, based on the number of people that suffer and die from air pollution related causes in the US each year, I thought that 6 additional deaths probably meant it qualified as minor. I’d be just as interested as you to know what the answer is.

Edit to add: ‘minor’ in this case doesn’t mean people deserve to die or that we should be happy they are suffering, just that compared to some other even worse projects, this one is less important.

New comment by docdeek in "U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers"

docdeek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:54:03 +0000

I’m not suggesting it is OK or not OK, just that ‘minor source’ of air pollution is probably the right term to use in context for this single site.

New comment by docdeek in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

docdeek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:39:34 +0000

AFP is where France24 got their information, and both AFP and France24 are reliable sources of news. Maybe you had an issue with the source AFP relied on?

New comment by docdeek in "U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers"

docdeek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:23:21 +0000

FTA: 'The largest estimate for any single facility ever.'

From the researcher: 'We estimated between $53 million and $99 million in annual health damages from associated air pollution — among the largest health-damage estimates produced for a single facility to date.' [0]

Still enormous, but there is a significant difference between being 'THE X of all time, and being 'among the X of all time'.

Regarding 'minor source', in this case the expected additional premature deaths in the research range from 3.4 to 6.5 annually. [1] At the same time, air pollution leads to about 100,000 deaths a year in the US. While tragic at an individual level, adding 0.006% to the annual premature death count is fairly minor, just as reducing the deaths to 999,994 would be considered a pretty minor fix to the issue.

[0]: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/analyzing-air-pollution-health...

[1]: https://www.pecva.org/wp-content/uploads/Health-Impacts-Vant...

[2]: https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/identifying-sources...

New comment by docdeek in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

docdeek — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:20:17 +0000

It’s an AFP story - that’s a reputable news service.