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New comment by monideas in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

monideas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:25:11 +0000

There are so many companies working on this now (cheap anti-drone tech, cheap cruise missiles, cheap missile interceptors), what you're saying is kind of moot.

New comment by monideas in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

monideas — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:14:26 +0000

I really appreciate the way you've explained this. Are there any resources you recommend to reach your level of understanding?

New comment by monideas in "I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini)"

monideas — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:52:27 +0000

I run this instead of openclaw, mostly because Claude Code itself is sufficient as a harness.

New comment by monideas in "Communities are not fungible"

monideas — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Communities aren't fungible (in the sense that the actual particular culture and values of a particular group of people living in a particular area do have an extreme impact on that area) but also communities are not defined by particular areas that people live.

People who are from the same community tend to settle in particular areas and I think that is what the author is getting confused by.

Also many people in the developed world don't really have any community that they're a part of at all.

If you're interested in learning more about this you can look up the phrase "covenantal vs majestic community".

New comment by monideas in "Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?"

monideas — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:06:41 +0000

I bought one a few months ago off of ebay after I realized how important logarithms are in many different domains (including machine learning & information theory)

New comment by monideas in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

monideas — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:26:15 +0000

> It's 40 beheaded babies all over again.

No official source ever claimed this. You are disgusting scum for promoting this lie.

Lying and trivializing the brutal murders of Israeli children and tens of thousands of Iranians civilians is utterly reprehensible.

New comment by monideas in "Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties"

monideas — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:45:57 +0000

Making money and other types of material gratification has trumped ethics, notions of virtue and honor, and responsibility towards posterity in the general US population, the US ruling class, and US elites.

Ascribing this to just "US companies" is a cop-out or a cope. The US is in complete social collapse across the entire spectrum of society.

I am coming at this from a right-wing perspective.

New comment by monideas in "US Green-Card Holder and Columbia Student Arrested by ICE for Protest"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:07:12 +0000

It's a bit pointless to repeatedly have this story on HN given that most of the heterodox comments just get flagged.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:04:47 +0000

> 1/3 of one claim

This should be your clue that there are multiple claims which is why I asked you which ones you wanted evidence for.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:47:19 +0000

> For asking you to source one claim?

> not backing up your full claim

Does this help you understand your issue now?

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:57:51 +0000

Ok you want the source for one of the claims?

Here's Al Jazeera calling Mahmoud Khalil a "student leader of Columbia protests":

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/mahmoud-khalil-stude...

You can find many other mainstream sources calling him a "leader" by simply doing a Google News search for the term "Mahmoud Khalil leader".

This is something you could have taken 2 seconds to Google. This is why you're trolling and acting in bad faith. Regardless of our discussions here, Mahmoud is being deported and many more are to come according to statement put out by the White House.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1899151926777749618

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:10:22 +0000

Deportation and having a formal judicial process are not mutually exclusive. It seems that you're not thinking very clearly about this topic.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:39:24 +0000

You are trolling or I suppose you are just upset that your guy is being deported. If there's something specific you want me to find a source for, let me know.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:18:31 +0000

Which specific thing are you questioning?

That he was a leader of protests at Columbia? That the protests involved physically blocking Jewish students? That the protests involved intimidation directed at Jewish and Israeli students?

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:34:40 +0000

What claim?

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:11:33 +0000

I did not claim that he directly participated in that. If you simply google his name, in every article the word 'leader' is used to describe him in relation to the Columbia protests, protests which did include such acts.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:10:08 +0000

Non-citizens should not be participating in or fomenting political protests, especially ones that involve harassment, intimidation, destruction of private property, occupations of buildings, (all of which occurred throughout the Columbia protests).

If you are talking about deporting someone for getting a speeding ticket, that would be pretty draconian unless it was something very dangerous like doing 25 over in a school zone during school hours, etc.

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:52:43 +0000

I will check back but there are literally pictures and videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16rEIXWcGs

New comment by monideas in "US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms"

monideas — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:42:07 +0000

> Pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University early Tuesday charged the same campus building that students advocating for racial justice occupied in the 1960s, a significant escalation at the elite institution that launched dozens of campus demonstrations across the world.

> “We will not leave until Columbia meets every one of our demands,” one of the students yelled from a balcony window. The demands include university divestment from Israel, disclosure of Columbia investments and protections for protesters.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/30/pro-palestinian-col...

Why post a comment like yours that can be disproven within 2 seconds of Googling?

There was literally a song written about this by Macklemore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind%27s_Hall

New comment by monideas in "Superintelligence Strategy"

monideas — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:31:27 +0000

This is nonsense and simply an expression of narcissism on the part of the authors, trying to fashion themselves in the style of Guardians from Plato's Republic.