Hacker News: mda

New comment by mda in "Deciphering basmala"

mda — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:48:05 +0000

I have a question, what do you understand from verse 12:2, what is your personal interpretation?

New comment by mda in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

mda — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:58:59 +0000

Eeh, not really. German's think because some Swiss resent them a little, it is all about them.

EU countries, especially Italy, Germany and Portugal are the biggest immigration source in Switzerland (EU/EFTA immigration ~60%), Germany is ~13% of the total.

Non EU, especially outside of Eurepean immigration is a smaller part, but if you looked at SVP pamphlets you see a very different picture.

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/m...

New comment by mda in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

mda — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:24:48 +0000

I know right? countries with nuclear arsenal constantly attacking like rabid dogs and has no respect to human life, what a nasty combination.

New comment by mda in "Ferrari Luce"

mda — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:56:52 +0000

I don't think it is ugly (Except those wheels) but it doesn't look like a Ferrari.

New comment by mda in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

mda — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:32:31 +0000

In the Lazur's 256 colour rendition, it is curious that they got the details in the front very well but messed up the third guys face completely.

New comment by mda in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

mda — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:51:32 +0000

Iran is Turkey's neighbor and had relatively good relations for very long time, even with the strongman it doesn't make a shred of sense to change this. Especially for USA which has a tendency to back stab Turkey in any occasion (They could not get away from the time when Turkey did not allow them to invade Iraq from north, the previous BS war)

New comment by mda in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

mda — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:55:10 +0000

flatten with what?

New comment by mda in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

mda — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:53:56 +0000

Attacking as in a couple of rockets heading US bases which were intercepted. Of course nothing would happen, why would Turkey (or other European countries) join this pointless war?

New comment by mda in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

mda — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:37:29 +0000

Like they flattened Afghanistan? It is funny people thinks land war in an huge mountainous country with 90 million people is easy.

New comment by mda in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

mda — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:28:20 +0000

It didn't set the vibe though, After the strong start it is slow, wobbly and incoherent. It is ok, but could be much better.

New comment by mda in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

mda — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:46:52 +0000

"Ah look but they haven't carped bombed Iran" was their argument and it sounds really weird.

New comment by mda in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

mda — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:24:54 +0000

Absolute nonsense. If you have a smidgen of proof please tell us.

New comment by mda in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

mda — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:22:42 +0000

Overrun by muslims? Complete BS. I checked what he said, I don't see anything absurd, what are you talking about?

New comment by mda in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

mda — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:16:52 +0000

Unlikely, large proportion of population is brainwashed for 40 years. They will elect a "moderate" supreme leader, then business as usual.

New comment by mda in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

mda — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:10:37 +0000

I can totally see why you should quit, but we see different things apparently.

New comment by mda in "Do not apologize for replying late to my email"

mda — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:11:22 +0000

Such a weird thing to say, if this makes you uncomfortable, imagine how uncomfortable it makes the other side reading this.

It is common courtesy, not a big deal.

New comment by mda in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

mda — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:41:04 +0000

I would take these articles about vitamin D with a grain of salt, there is a big vitamin D supplement and testing market and most of the studies about the miracles of it are dubious at best

New comment by mda in "Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE"

mda — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:45:21 +0000

He is not good at manipulating the public, almost everyone knows what he actually is (there is not much to know at this point anyway). They are not applauding him, they do it because they need US economy to keep things afloat they smile and shake hands because of that. He could be just saying random words or saying only profanities from start to finish, the outcome would be the same, they would still give a standing ovation with eyes rolling.

New comment by mda in "Erich von Däniken has died"

mda — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:02:18 +0000

Yeah, but Monty Hall problem is so unintuitive even very smart and logical people has hard time accepting it. Even changing it to thousand doors variant doesn't help.

New comment by mda in "Welcome to Gas Town"

mda — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:31:02 +0000

Wasn't his name a unit of rant? (1 yegge is like 1 Farad, so usually used in minor scales e.g. "He made a rant worth of 3 nano-yegge")