<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: engineeringwoke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=engineeringwoke</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:58:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=engineeringwoke" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by engineeringwoke in "France pulls last gold held in US"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it's just a shiny piece of metal. However, it is a pure element and there is a limited amount of it, unlike pretty much anything else except maybe silver.<p>Otherwise this happens.<p><a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL" rel="nofollow">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL</a><p>This is the origin of the entire white collar world and all of its odd bedfellows, and it will die in our lifetime. All of our jobs will go with it, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Ah sorry our contractor did all that highly illegal stuff. Too bad we can't pierce the corporate veil anymore... shucks.</p>
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<p>That would be like saying that you can verify the software that CERN uses to measure the Higgs Boson because we verified general relativity.</p>
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<p>Basically the modern web uses orchestration, for pretty much everything. Usually Kubernetes is doing that. Theoretically protocols like RAFT are formally verifiable, but their implementations in orchestration tools like etcd have not been, and I would go so far as to say that that is an impossible task. Therefore, the entire exercise is kind of silly.</p>
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<p>You can't formally verify anything that uses consensus, which is the backbone of the entire web. It's a complete non-starter.</p>
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<p>I laughed out loud when he said Cloudflare should have formally verified its systems.</p>
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<p>I have worked at several ruby shops and everyone has used heavy IDEs like RubyMine and VSCode, jump to's and language server are far too important.</p>
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<p>I mean arguing with tankies is just No True Scotsman ad infinitum, so I'm good to stop this here. Best</p>
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<p>What specific way is history being "erased"?</p>
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<p>Ever heard of the Little Rock Nine?</p>
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<p>It's really fundamentally unimportant what you specifically believe. What is important is what people your age in the aggregate believe. This is an undeniable truth. It's therefore silly to engage in a conversation about you and your beliefs specifically. I recommend trying to understand Plato's ideas first.</p>
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<p>Without some kind of coherent post-Marxist revolutionary understanding of what communism is, this is just pure delusion. Most people don't have the ability to synthesize grand ideas for the direction of society, no offense.<p>There's like dozens of people in the world that can do these things, and they need to want to use their intellect for such a thing. Unfortunately, communism is just philosophically derelict, until another great thinker comes along.</p>
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<p>Politics is a team sport..? I have nothing in common with tankies, sorry.</p>
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<p>Okay here's a secret that you probably won't hear other than in some books that are hard to find.<p>The youth desire a strong executive. They don't yet understand why it can be a bad thing, because they have little experience with people having power over them that aren't their parents or teachers.<p>The middle aged desire a strong legislative branch, the most fair branch of government. They have enough life experience to understand why. They are not quite old enough to be set in their ways just yet.<p>The elderly desire a strong judicial branch. Judges are almost always old, and biased towards the opinions of the elderly, left or right.<p>There is nothing wrong with a strong executive. It is just completely at odds with those who still control the vast majority of the money and power, and of course, mainstream media: the Boomers. JFK, Great Society, these are marked by a desire for a strong executive. Ironic, of course.<p>A strong executive can stop them, and the Boomers have never been told 'no' in their entire lives. Really truly, everybody was young in the 1960's. They warped society to their will, just like the people in every baby boom in history. You misinterpret their tantrum as something substantive.</p>
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<p>And in turn federal district judges have signed a lot more nationwide injunctions? Orders of magnitude more than had ever been issued?<p>And now they are using a protected class loophole to keep doing it? After it was struck down by the Supreme Court?<p>No, but it's different when my opponent does it.</p>
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<p>Burning American flags is free speech? It's definitely an interpretation... and one that many legal scholars disagree with, similar to Roe v Wade. Not that repealing Roe v Wade was a good thing, but it didn't have a solid legal foundation.<p>It's not all about getting your way... well maybe the better way to say it is that the left got their way, for sixty years. And some of those wins from that period for the left were built on shaky ground. There has to be give and take in any healthy political system.</p>
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<p>We are all Americans. I however don't want to be constantly re-told why our great, if flawed, history makes WASP Americans out to be the bad guys at every turn.</p>
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<p>But it's obvious when people say "dictatorship" or "fascism" today in the USA it is just a dog whistle for not liking Trump. Nobody called Obama a fascist for how Chelsea Manning was treated.</p>
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<p>So it wasn't political hacks that tried to add their left spin to every piece of American history that they could get their hands on? Not trying to be offensive, but the tone of how American history is re-told today is not what I would consider moderate.</p>
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<p>Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were both pursued aggressively during the Obama administration. Next, please. I can go all day</p>
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