Hacker News: notlukesky

CIA Helped Quash Major, Star-Studded Tax Evasion Case (1980)

notlukesky — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/04/24/cia-helped-quash-major-star-studded-tax-evasion-case/a55ddf06-2a3f-4e04-a687-a3dd87c32b82/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443803

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New comment by notlukesky in "How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?"

notlukesky — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:04:48 +0000

What was the easiest and the most frustrating part?

China's Huawei poised to overcome US ban with return of 5G phones

notlukesky — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-huawei-poised-overcome-us-ban-with-return-5g-phones-research-firms-2023-07-12/

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New comment by notlukesky in "Dogs attacked more than 5,300 mail carriers last year, the Postal Service says"

notlukesky — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:42:48 +0000

And if there were any stray dogs.

New comment by notlukesky in "Dogs attacked more than 5,300 mail carriers last year, the Postal Service says"

notlukesky — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:24:02 +0000

I remember when there was a phrase called “going postal” in the 90s when the postal workers shot up places. Now they are the victims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal

Cyberweapon manufacturers plot to stay on the right side of US

notlukesky — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/11cb394d-a13e-4826-b580-823b9367fedb

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New comment by notlukesky in "Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold"

notlukesky — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:27:07 +0000

Your point on many Europeans seeing Churchill as a saviour and not caring about his victims in colonies is just normal by historical (and modern) times. Romans were proud of all the genocides Caesar committed (and proudly self documented). See for example his own account of the Gallic wars and the killing of women and children of tribes from current day Switzerland (the Helvetii). Obama destroyed multiple countries (non-European) and killed and displaced millions and is considered a hero as well in the West like Churchill is. Joe Biden took all the reserves of extremely poor Afghanistan and is starving 40 million people to there to death today. He is considered a hero in the West as well. So like most things it all depends on where you are and who you talk to and their background (European and non-European for example).

Americans in general (and the US mainstream media in their coverage) frame deaths emanating from the US (and it’s close allies) as collateral damage, killed terrorists, eliminated insurecctionists or mistakes or just even ignore it by omissions. From other countries that are not “allies” they are victims or murdered innocents or massacres or genocides etc… Just look at the favorable coverage of Madeleine Albrights death who said in her very own words that she owned to killing 500,000 Iraqi babies and children and said it was well worth it.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bibracte

https://jacobin.com/2022/01/sanctions-financial-assets-afgha...

New comment by notlukesky in "Larry Page Missing as Google Founder Faces Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit"

notlukesky — Mon, 15 May 2023 18:56:15 +0000

Due process and “human rights” do not apply when the government has resolve or perceives the transgression to be beyond the pale. The law or constitution does not matter then as well. Just ask Eugene Debs. Or see Julian Assange. Or Korematsu. Or Joseph Nacchio who refused to violate the law and do illegal surveillance on US citizens for the government without a court order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

New comment by notlukesky in "The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever"

notlukesky — Fri, 05 May 2023 03:13:18 +0000

South Park blamed Canada

New comment by notlukesky in "Historians have found little evidence that Manuela Beltrán existed"

notlukesky — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:11:34 +0000

I find it strange that your comment on the embellishment of history (an incredibly common phenomenon of the past AND the present) is being downvoted.

China chip tool makers see windfall from semiconductor investment boom

notlukesky — Tue, 02 May 2023 18:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3218899/tech-war-china-chip-tool-makers-see-windfall-semiconductor-investment-boom-amid-us-trade

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New comment by notlukesky in "Sudan’s Descent into Chaos"

notlukesky — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:45:58 +0000

Interesting timeline with warnings of consequences if Sudan allowed the Russian military base:

https://sudantribune.com/article264733/

My guess is that there will be other places with eventful consequences like the Solomon Islands if they allow a Chinese military base.

New comment by notlukesky in "Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years"

notlukesky — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:42:26 +0000

Where is that? And which language and where? Sorani? Kurmanji?

New comment by notlukesky in "Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years"

notlukesky — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:40:50 +0000

The PKK terrorists inflict bombs and child rapes and kidnappings outside the white world. Hence the “tolerance”. A report by the UN of their child kidnappings and rapes in Syria, Iraq and southern Turkey:

https://menaaffairs.com/un-report-again-reveals-ypg-pkk-terr...

New comment by notlukesky in "Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years"

notlukesky — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:37:10 +0000

This is a myth. Sweden violates its own laws and has kidnapped people and sent them to torture chambers in what is called extraordinary renditions. Swedes openly acknowledge this. Their rules apply selectively as is the case all over the world. Just some believe in the smokescreen.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...

New comment by notlukesky in "Brandolini's Law"

notlukesky — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 02:11:28 +0000

Brandolini's Law existed 100s of years before the advent of the Internet.

One of my favorite "Mark Twain" quotes is:

“a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes”

The best part is that we actually have no proof that he said it proving Brandolini's Law way before the Internet was invented. In fact, this quote and variants of it have also been misattributed (perhaps not??) to other great quote misattribution folks like Gandhi, Churchill, and Einstein.

https://professorbuzzkill.com/twain-lie-travels/