Hacker News: jopython

New comment by jopython in "Tesla Roadster"

jopython — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:47:39 +0000

yes

New comment by jopython in "Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades"

jopython — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:12:31 +0000

The Founding Fathers would have rejected that premise. They designed the American system in deliberate opposition to the idea of an unchallengeable state monopoly on legitimate force.

New comment by jopython in "How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots"

jopython — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:58:02 +0000

AI is necessary evil.

New comment by jopython in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

jopython — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:23:37 +0000

The "Everest Economy" is worth around $500 million annually.

New comment by jopython in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

jopython — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:27:39 +0000

Article doesn't talk about battery life.

New comment by jopython in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

jopython — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:28:53 +0000

The United States is a Constitutional Republic.

New comment by jopython in "Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)"

jopython — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:07:35 +0000

High Trust Society!

New comment by jopython in "The Day the Telnet Died"

jopython — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:27:24 +0000

This is about Telnetd. Not telnet itself.

New comment by jopython in "Why poor countries stopped catching up"

jopython — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:53:07 +0000

The existing data leans heavily against "IQ is just downstream of GDP."

New comment by jopython in "Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?"

jopython — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:23:23 +0000

Ready to start packing heat?

New comment by jopython in "Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto"

jopython — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:48:59 +0000

By that logic even the Stock market is a zero sum game.

New comment by jopython in "How America's "truck-driver shortage""

jopython — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:50:44 +0000

You can't effectively teach safety regulations to foreign truck drivers if they don't speak a word of English.

New comment by jopython in "Why Nim?"

jopython — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:21:37 +0000

I would have used Nim if Go didn't happen.

New comment by jopython in "Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs"

jopython — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:10:25 +0000

United States is a Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy according to the US constitution.

   $ grep -i democra us_constitution.txt

   $ grep -i republic us_constitution.txt
   The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

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New comment by jopython in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

jopython — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:40:28 +0000

We lost 6 million manufacturing jobs over the past decade.

New comment by jopython in "German electrical engineer with green card stripped and 'violently interrogated'"

jopython — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 02:54:04 +0000

Imagine migrating million and millions of tired, poor and the huddled masses from all over the world to America?

New comment by jopython in "Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2012) [video]"

jopython — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:35:28 +0000

- shouting fire in a theater

Its a myth. https://reason.com/2022/10/27/yes-you-can-yell-fire-in-a-cro...

New comment by jopython in "Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023"

jopython — Mon, 15 May 2023 15:12:57 +0000

That has to be accounted for.

New comment by jopython in "US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country"

jopython — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:25:03 +0000

The US has the best, most expensive health care of any high-income country. Corrected the heading.

New comment by jopython in "Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem"

jopython — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 03:48:01 +0000

Second that. Pip has been the default for more than a decade. And yes it does have issues. Why not fix it or add options to pip instead of piling on more tools?