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New comment by matteoraso in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

matteoraso — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:01:33 +0000

They've already attacked Syria and Lebanon multiple times already. There's no doubt that they're already planning for new wars once this one is over.

New comment by matteoraso in "Let me pay for Firefox"

matteoraso — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:06:22 +0000

I'm in the same boat as you. Even if there's slight issues with Firefox, being able to synchronize my profile with my phone using the Firefox app outweighs all of that. AFAIK, Chrome doesn't have that.

New comment by matteoraso in "An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers"

matteoraso — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:39:44 +0000

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I highly recommend "The Real North Korea" by Andrei Lankov. It really helped to demystify the country for me.

New comment by matteoraso in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

matteoraso — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:07:16 +0000

Check out Libreoffice. It's like MS Office, but less resource-intensive.

New comment by matteoraso in "Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left"

matteoraso — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:29:49 +0000

I don't think that people realize that this is bigger than just the tariffs now. Even if Trump completely backs down, he's shown himself to be too unstable to do business with. I don't think that I'm exaggerating when I say that American hegemony is in terminal decline because of this. Maybe forcibly removing Trump (which will never happen) can help slow the decline, but the international community is still going to divest from America.

New comment by matteoraso in "Pope Francis has died"

matteoraso — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:32:03 +0000

Yeah, I can see that. Having a pope that's denounced by more conservative Catholics for truly believing in Catholic ethics shone a light on how far people were straying from the church. Really makes the pope look a bit like a Christ figure, when you think of it like that.

New comment by matteoraso in "Pope Francis has died"

matteoraso — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:06:19 +0000

RIP. I think history will find Pope Francis to be a man who was a fairly average pope that constantly got taken out of context. Nothing he did was really far out of line with Catholic doctrine, but he was often portrayed as being more liberal than he really was.

Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack

matteoraso — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:38:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infamous-message-board-4chan-taken-down-following-major-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43696792

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by matteoraso in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

matteoraso — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:27:50 +0000

Wouldn't be too suspicious, since Trump people told people to buy into the stock market before announcing this.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

New comment by matteoraso in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

matteoraso — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:25:08 +0000

Doesn't help America as much as some people might think. The world has seen that Trump is erratic, and America imports too much from China to just ignore the 125% (!!!) tariff on the country.

A Deep Dive into Wikimedia

matteoraso — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://matteoraso.github.io/a-deep-dive-into-wikimedia.html#a-deep-dive-into-wikimedia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624061

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matteoraso in "A university president makes a case against cowardice"

matteoraso — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:48:36 +0000

>It's not that hard as a foreign student to not join political protests in favor of terrorist groups.

I obviously don't support terrorism, but people unambiguously have the right to protest in favour of terrorist groups. It's only when they provide material support to these groups that they actually commit a crime.

New comment by matteoraso in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

matteoraso — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:33:58 +0000

I really doubt that worked, given that North Korea does most of its trade with China and Russia, who don't participate in the sanctions. Besides, they already have nukes and the ability to launch them over the ocean. The military presence has grown as much as the regime needs it to with the sanctions, so there's no point to keeping them anymore.

New comment by matteoraso in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

matteoraso — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:42:04 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. If this even slightly jeopardizes America's ability to pay off its debt, the entire world will suffer. Something that occurred to me from talking to Americans online is that most of them don't realize just how much soft power they have across the world. I really feel that China becoming the global superpower might end up becoming the least bad option if America keeps destabilizing.

New comment by matteoraso in "Moving on from 18F"

matteoraso — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:24:03 +0000

>It looks like it's still chugging along.

To this day, it remains rate-limited for people who don't have an account. Also, that fact that you (and most people) keep calling it "Twitter" is proof that the name change was an absolutely horrible idea.

New comment by matteoraso in "Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement"

matteoraso — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:34:51 +0000

Oh, I'm not denying climate change, I'm just saying that we can't say for certain whether or not we passed the Paris Agreement threshold, even though it's likely that we did.

New comment by matteoraso in "Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement"

matteoraso — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:13:13 +0000

>I doubt very much that it was an anomaly.

The article that OP posted says the odds that it's not an anomaly is around 80%, so there's still a 1 / 5 chance that this is just noise.

New comment by matteoraso in "Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement"

matteoraso — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:32:30 +0000

I hope this turns out to just be an anomaly, but I know that's likely not the case. The kicker is that global warming isn't even terribly hard to prevent, just give up your car and you've pretty much done your part.

New comment by matteoraso in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

matteoraso — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:34:22 +0000

Why is it even important to stay informed? In virtually all cases, there's very little that I can do about anything, so I'm just wasting energy by looking at the news.

New comment by matteoraso in "ChatGPT Pro"

matteoraso — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:42:59 +0000

>Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent.

I really doubt that, actually. The only thing that LLMs are truly good for is to create plausible-sounding text. Everything else, like generating facts, is outside of its main use case and known to frequently fail.