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New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:15:36 +0000

Relatively speaking Trump 1.0 had a sane cabinet. Yes, there were some crazies, sure, but relative to the people he has around him now, they seem sane.

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:09:51 +0000

If the President hires someone who then restarted research that previous admin stopped for being too dangerous, does the President get no part of the blame? The buck stops with the President. If he hired the wrong person--and he has hired plenty of wrong people this time around--he gets the blame for the disasters they cause.

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:49:43 +0000

Not sure what is partisan about this. Some facts were presented. Not opinions, facts. If you dispute any of the above is factual please back up your assertion with citations.

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:47:37 +0000

Citation needed. If you are going to say NYT article is wrong we need more than just your words.

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:31:27 +0000

Not many people know that Trump had a hand in starting the pandemic.

Here's what we know: In 2014, Obama administration halted the so called "gain of function" research because of risk of laboratory accidents. In 2017, the Trump administration restarted this dangerous research. See links below.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/white-house-to-cut-fun...

Excerpt: [Obama administration] White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous. The White House said the moratorium decision had been made “following recent biosafety incidents at federal research facilities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...

Excerpt: [Trump administration] on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal. Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic.

So, Trump restarted the dangerous research that Obama had shut down. You may be thinking, what does that have to do with Covid? Covid started in Wuhan, China, right?

It turns out that the Trump administration, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided funding to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American non-profit organization focused on studying emerging diseases. The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses. The rest is history.

And then Trump also disbanded the pandemic preparedness team in 2018 just in time for the pandemic. See link below.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-t...

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:56:50 +0000

You do what you have to do when people are dying in droves due to a pandemic and morgues are running out of room.

New comment by petilon in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

petilon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:55:59 +0000

The science doesn't matter to this administration unfortunately: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo

New comment by petilon in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

petilon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:47:07 +0000

> China has not been threatening military annexation

Maybe not in Europe, but ask their Asian neighbors.

> The USA is far more dangerous a "friend" than China is an acquaintance.

That's true and will continue to be true for 2.5 more years. European countries too have had bad leaders (like Germany), but have recovered. So too will the US.

> China is a far better international partner than the USA.

China is not a democracy and does not share western values.

New comment by petilon in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:54:18 +0000

This just came out: Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures [1]. He received more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded. Trump reported another $635 million from the sale of his $TRUMP meme coins.

$TRUMP meme coin shot up to $75 two days after launch. It has lost most of its value [2]. Guess who got rich off the people who invested in $TRUMP coin?

A UAE-linked investment firm acquired a 49% stake in Trump's World Liberty Financial for $500 million just before Trump's January 2025 inauguration, directing significant upfront payments to Trump family entities.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reports-more-than-14-...

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

New comment by petilon in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:27:17 +0000

That's partial jurisdiction at best.

New comment by petilon in "One million passports leaked online"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:19:12 +0000

Sure, but what if someone steals your money by impersonating you? Here too, ideally the victim is the bank, but now the onus is on you to convince the bank that they are the victim. They are going to say you're the victim, your identity got stolen, sorry you lost all your savings!

We need to update our laws. This is not "Identity Theft", this is "Negligent Verification Fraud", and it is the bank's fault because they were lax in their verification process.

New comment by petilon in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:15:54 +0000

Only one-third? They are slowing down. Crypto companies accounted for almost half of corporate donations in the 2024 election cycle [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/crypto-companies-are-pouring...

New comment by petilon in "Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:40:58 +0000

No, you can't rename a file in use, unless it is explicitly opened with a sharing flag (which most applications don't).

New comment by petilon in "Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:23:10 +0000

On Linux if a file can't be edited because some process is holding it open you can just mv the file to /tmp and create a new file in its place. The process that has it open is unaffected because the handle is independent of the path.

On Windows a file that is open in an application cannot be moved, plus it won't tell you which process has it open. Yes you can use some sysinternals tool but this is basic info that should be immediately available without installing some additional tools.

New comment by petilon in "One million passports leaked online"

petilon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:51:14 +0000

Exactly. We should stop saying "Identity Theft" because that lets financial institutions off the hook. "Identity Theft" sounds like it is either your fault for being careless with your identity, or the thief's fault for stealing it. How about "Negligent Verification Fraud"? That makes it clear it is the fault of the bank. It is impersonation enabled by the bank's lax verification process.

New comment by petilon in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

petilon — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:47:33 +0000

> insane amount of effort goes into getting more powerful models to run with the same or less RAM

The same can be said about operating system memory requirements. I am sure Linux and Windows kernel developers can confirm. Yet 30 years ago Solaris used to run comfortably in 16 MB of RAM, today you need 512 times that to run Linux.

New comment by petilon in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

petilon — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:44:38 +0000

Memory requirements of newer models will increase, so while the hardware may last 10 years it won't be able to run the latest models for 10 years.

New comment by petilon in "Why One of Tech's Biggest Gamblers Is Betting Against Elon Musk's AI Vision"

petilon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:30:03 +0000

Son's point is that even if the idea is solid, it will take at least 10 years to get it to work. That's too long to wait, the winners and losers in the AI race will be decided long before then.

Also: if it does work, all it does is save on the cost of electricity. But just 7% of operating a data center on earth is the cost of electricity. The rest are the chips and other things.

Why One of Tech's Biggest Gamblers Is Betting Against Elon Musk's AI Vision

petilon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-one-of-techs-biggest-gamblers-is-betting-against-elon-musks-ai-vision-7529f5c2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712286

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New comment by petilon in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

petilon — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:54:06 +0000

> You can call it a failure, it's just not a military one.

Would that work in corporate America? Try telling your boss, "I didn't actually fail because had you given me an unreasonable amount of time and resources I would have succeeded." Every project has an expectation of time and cost, and if you can't meet that expectation then you failed.