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New comment by hmm37 in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

hmm37 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:19:34 +0000

The tariff route is what happened in the 1970s under the "chicken tax", which still exists today to protect the US light truck industry, and is pretty much the reason why SUVs reign supreme in the US market. SUVs are classified as "light trucks", which has caused a Galapagozation of the US car industry/market.

New comment by hmm37 in "US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires"

hmm37 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:48:51 +0000

Now they just need to get rid of stuff like Sec. 622 of this bill proposal (https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s4615/BILLS-119s4615pcs.p...) which would give all US intelligence to Israel.

New comment by hmm37 in "As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury"

hmm37 — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:56:37 +0000

Whenever I read about this, it always just sounds like nonsense to me, and probably another American agency simply trying to do some security testing. They said the same thing was happening around NJ a couple of years ago. How many countries can fly drones across the Atlantic, etc., or have some secret aircraft carrier that is so stealthy it can deploy drones without them being detected.

New comment by hmm37 in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

hmm37 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:15:37 +0000

Very similar to Zhuangzi (Daoism).

荃者所以在魚，得魚而忘荃蹄者所以在兔，得兔而忘蹄言者所以在意，得意而忘言吾安得忘言之人而與之言哉？

The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

New comment by hmm37 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

hmm37 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:35:44 +0000

Generally, historically it didn't because of what happened during the Sui Dynasty, which was short lived. The lessons from that period is still fairly engrained in the mindsets of Chinese people.

Manjaro Linux 2.0 Manifesto

hmm37 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392719

Points: 5

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New comment by hmm37 in "Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws"

hmm37 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:17:33 +0000

Showing your id at a liquor store doesn't have near the same issues of invasion of privacy, and big tech companies sucking down all your information, etc., while knowing your exact identity.

New comment by hmm37 in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

hmm37 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:51:04 +0000

In China at least the equivalence of WWI and WWII was basically the Warring States period (around 400-200BC), where tons of people die, therefore generally a strong dislike for war in Chinese culture. I always thought that WWII created a similar feeling in at least Europe.

There were other periods also of disunity in China, and consequently tons of people ended up dying as well. I'm sure it's similar with e.g. Japan where they had their own "three kingdoms" period.

New comment by hmm37 in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

hmm37 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:53:40 +0000

CMUS for me, and for internet radio pyradio.

New comment by hmm37 in "TikTok removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture"

hmm37 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:48:26 +0000

I'm curious if you could just sideload the international version, or are there checks/it automatically accesses the US servers based on location.

New comment by hmm37 in "US oil giant ExxonMobil says Venezuela is 'uninvestable'"

hmm37 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:59:42 +0000

Exactly it has more to do with which end of the stick you're on.

New comment by hmm37 in "So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video]"

hmm37 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:16:55 +0000

This is great. A few years ago, I decided to buy a WII U, since I have basically every Nintendo console system since the NES. But the gamepad screen was broken and I couldn't sync the gamepad to the screen until I fixed it. And I tried to see if there was any alternative, but there wasn't until now. Hopefully that means more WII Us can be saved... You can sometimes find used Wii Us for $30 without the gamepad, while the gamepad itself costs around $100..

New comment by hmm37 in "US bars approvals of new models of DJI, all other foreign drones"

hmm37 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:32:57 +0000

Perhaps Trump Jr's Unusual Machines.

New comment by hmm37 in "Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance"

hmm37 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:13:34 +0000

Even if US seems like it's acting in bad faith here, I rather the Pope not step into politics of this sort and concentrate more on the religious realm. It seems like the papacy would be stepping backwards if it got more involved in politics/geopolitics again, and not simply looking for peace.

New comment by hmm37 in "Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC"

hmm37 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:35:46 +0000

Except for a very important one. Taiwan is not internationally recognized as an independent country by almost all nation-states. And those few that recognize Taiwan (or rather ROC) as a country do not recognize PRC as a country.

You may say that ROC is a de facto separate country, although the constitution doesn't imply necessarily so, but simply that there's a different government.

The fact that the international community and even it's own constitution doesn't recognize it as an independent country shows that it's more than legal fiction and simply that de facto China is still under civil war.

New comment by hmm37 in "While Eyes Are on Takaichi, Taiwan's Lai Is Quietly Redefining the Status Quo"

hmm37 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:15:16 +0000

The Malacca Straits not being that wide, would make it easier for China's carrier killer missiles to destroy them.

New comment by hmm37 in "Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network"

hmm37 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:02:41 +0000

Huawei at least is giving their source code to be scrutinized. What can be said of other vendors?

New comment by hmm37 in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

hmm37 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:51:38 +0000

Is the per capita still rising rapidly? China's CO2 growth levels have already started leveling off, and actually showed a slight decline as of late.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-c...

New comment by hmm37 in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

hmm37 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:23:26 +0000

But commercial jet liners aren't as important to China for security. They have high speed railroads for that.

New comment by hmm37 in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

hmm37 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:53:14 +0000

I'm pretty sure there were children where the parents basically locked them in cages or chained them to a post in the basement, where they had almost no social contact, etc. And in these cases they were considered effectively mentally disabled by the time they were rescued.