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New comment by drgo in "Alberta will vote on whether to remain part of Canada. What now?"

drgo — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:18:43 +0000

Not sure it did. Look at what happened to the Quebec economy in the last 40 years or so.

New comment by drgo in "Alberta will vote on whether to remain part of Canada. What now?"

drgo — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:59:17 +0000

This was a bone that Smith threw to the extreme right (by Canadian standards) wing of her base. Even Quebec, with its stronger claim to nationhood, found it hard to disentangle itself from Canada, so it is unlikely that Alberta will succeed. But, it will still pay a price like Quebec did; businesses and people do not like secession politics, and the infighting is likely to be bruising. Smith's conservative party, as well as the federal conservatives (also led by a unpopular Albertan, may also pay a price (arguably they have already did with defections of their MPs to the Liberal party). So, all in all, this looks like another unforced error by the Canadian right.

New comment by drgo in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

drgo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:03:03 +0000

Is that you Luna?

New comment by drgo in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

drgo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:13:32 +0000

Great! I was worried that we might run out of inhumane CEOs

The stay-at-home boyfriend is now an economic trend as more women than men work

drgo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/03/28/men-home-women-workforce-economics-gender-change/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556196

Points: 11

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New comment by drgo in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

drgo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:21:13 +0000

I recall reading that ~30% of humans have evidence of toxoplasmosis. But, it is unclear whether that is harming their intelligence. Statistically, cat owners have higher IQ than dog owners (pls do not shoot the messenger unless you want to provide further evidence of the validity of this observation).

New comment by drgo in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

drgo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:12:11 +0000

this is a good way to lose a toe or two

New comment by drgo in "Order Granting Preliminary Injunction – Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War [pdf]"

drgo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:22:59 +0000

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government." Well.. we live in Orwellian times.

New comment by drgo in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

drgo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:43:26 +0000

A small price for demonstrating that our El-Douche is always right and a stable genius.

New comment by drgo in "Nasdaq's Shame"

drgo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:01:35 +0000

Let them eat foie gras! It was only a matter of time before they started manipulating index funds too.

New comment by drgo in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

drgo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:29:34 +0000

Apparently, Trump was told that the Iran war is 10 to 1 (politically) winning for him. What do you think are the real odds now?

New comment by drgo in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

drgo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:46:23 +0000

I see everyone now in the Administration is implementing the "Art of the Deal" tactics. The same tactics that bankrupted every project Trump did.

New comment by drgo in "U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974"

drgo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:26:31 +0000

I believe 'grift' is a recent alternation of 'graft': https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-in-the-midst-v...

New comment by drgo in "U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974"

drgo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:19:33 +0000

None of these alternative statues give Trump what he wants and what he used the IEEPA for, which is unlimited power to use tariffs to force specific countries to comply with his edicts and more importantly to stop laughing at him. The SCOTUS took that away leaving him with the only other kind of power that he knows how to use: missiles and war ships. The next few months may prove disastrous for the US and for the world.

New comment by drgo in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

drgo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:20:03 +0000

We have been here before many times. Nutritional epidemiology studies have a terrible track record of establishing causal relationships (e.g., Beta-carotene and lung cancer, selenium and prostate cancer, etc all were not replicated when the definitive clinical trials were done). The problem is that statistical models with questionable and often untestable assumptions are used, but the results are reported as if these models were fault-less. The result is overly optimistic estimates of statistical significance and inflated confidence in study findings.

New comment by drgo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

drgo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:55:57 +0000

This remains uncontrolled and unblinded experiment complicating the interpretation of the results. For instance, can you be sure that any changes you might see are not caused by (e.g., hormonal, behavioural) changes induced by your knowledge that you just received 10x the average amount of microplastics?

New comment by drgo in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

drgo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:14:14 +0000

For a "little" speech, it is all people seem to talk about; e.g., it was mentioned few times in the comments above. And, yes, one can be on the board of a public company and still make valid and consequential analyses. Hell, one can be a convicted fraudster and at the same time become the president of a superpower. My point, you could belittle Canada, EU, China etc but it is going to solve the US's intractable problems.

New comment by drgo in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

drgo — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:17:55 +0000

Yes. If emergency services were run by a private company, like airlines for example, they will never ever be 30 minutes late!

New comment by drgo in "US blocks UN call for Gaza ceasefire for sixth time"

drgo — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Mark my words. Few years from now , all who had the power to stop the genocide will claim that they were the ones who were warning us about it but we were not interested. History will be rewritten to highlight how morally ambiguous the situation was and how the perpetrators had no choice but to kill everyone. War is peace. Genocide is love.

New comment by drgo in "Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease"

drgo — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:56:42 +0000

.. and only if myriad of other assumptions (many are unstated) hold.