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New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:57:34 +0000

They've also stated at various times that they believe first use or any use to be against Islamic law.

I don't find any of these statements to be particularly credible, but I also don't think they're going to strap the first bomb they make to the closest missile they find and immediately send it at Tel Aviv when it surely means the total destruction of the Iranian state.

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:48:45 +0000

> Ideally both Israel and Iran as well as North Korea, maybe also Pakistan and India should not have nukes.

I assume this applies to the big H as well! Their follow up was in the context of a very different world than that of WWII.

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:47:17 +0000

Trust me, I wish it weren't the case. Nobody likes being bombed and he's now a symbol of resistance. Most of the urban middle class has always hated the mullahs and various ethnic groups have conflict with the state as a whole, but Khamanei had and has support from basically every other element of society.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/polarised-ira...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rare-moment-indias...

[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/3/1/thousands-in-iran...

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:40:31 +0000

Hitting desalination plants across the gulf isn't much better than a nuclear war. If anything, the takeaway from this conflict is that nobody is ready for even the modest number of conventional ballistic missiles produced by an impoverished and dysfunctional state.

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:38:18 +0000

Yes, we basically pressed a magic button that eliminated two layers of leadership (as well as hundreds if not thousands of civilians). Now, what strategic objectives have we accomplished?

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:32:43 +0000

Is "something something Hitler" your best argument?

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:31:20 +0000

It's pure conjecture that they are now collecting tolls from ships that transit the Strait of Hormuz? You don't think they're going to sprint for nukes at any cost now?

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:28:17 +0000

He was 86 and is now, unfortunately, a beloved martyr rather than the symbol of an old and decaying regime.

New comment by platinumrad in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

platinumrad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:27:06 +0000

I have it on good authority that Hitler didn't want Iran to have nukes. Are you siding with Hitler??

New comment by platinumrad in "The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign"

platinumrad — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:52:20 +0000

The Trump regime is still borderline, but I think it's fair to call Netanyahu a dictator at this point.

New comment by platinumrad in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

platinumrad — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:49:50 +0000

I agree that HN often turns a blind eye to all of the awful things that the US and Israel do, but Iran is hitting civilian targets as well.

New comment by platinumrad in "The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign"

platinumrad — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:24:16 +0000

I agree with you on principle, but you're oversimplifying things if you think that opposition to the United States or Israel is all about a single person.

New comment by platinumrad in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

platinumrad — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:26:48 +0000

If a button existed that magically turned Iran into a secular-ish democracy(-ish) like Turkey then, yes, I would expect the President of the United States to press it.

No such button exists, and it's increasingly clear that this war will leave the entire world far worse off while further entrenching the current Iranian regime.

New comment by platinumrad in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

platinumrad — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:43:49 +0000

> You couldve seen anti militsry industry sentiment on HN for years, which apparently worked for US adversaries, who knows who was behind that propaganda

Me.

New comment by platinumrad in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

platinumrad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:07:09 +0000

Of course they're using the best chips they can get, but this is a bizarre theory. English is the lingua franca of scientific publishing.

New comment by platinumrad in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

platinumrad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:22:36 +0000

If you're so brave, you should state what these fundamental cultural differences are.

New comment by platinumrad in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

platinumrad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:20:14 +0000

This news doesn't magically make those 2018 accusations true.

New comment by platinumrad in "Best Performance of a C++ Singleton"

platinumrad — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:14:08 +0000

It's a bit contrived, but a global with a nontrivial constructor can spawn a thread that uses another global, and without synchronization the thread can see an uninitialized or partially initialized value.

New comment by platinumrad in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

platinumrad — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:44:22 +0000

I haven't written C++ in a long time, but isn't the issue here that the initialization order of globals in different translation units is unspecified? Lazy initialization avoids that problem at very modest cost.

New comment by platinumrad in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

platinumrad — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:47:11 +0000

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The most popular stories are the ones when they detain US citizens, rough them up, and then dump them on the side of the road somewhere without even apologizing.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/ice-immigrat...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-u-s-citizen-says-ice-f...

[3] https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...