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10 Years Ago, Trump Promised to Eliminate the National Debt. It Has Doubled

rawgabbit — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/03/31/10-years-ago-today-trump-promised-to-eliminate-the-national-debt-instead-it-has-doubled/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656767

Points: 4

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New comment by rawgabbit in "A brief history of instant coffee"

rawgabbit — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:31:48 +0000

Thanks for the article. I don’t know where it falls but I have been drinking the Nescafé Tasters Choice from Costco for two decades. Even that is getting a bit expensive so I have been scouring Asian stores for the instant Nescafé from Vietnam.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

rawgabbit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:22:22 +0000

If I interpret the odds correctly the site is saying Newsom has 22% chance and Vance has 20% chance. These odds seem rather low.

Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

rawgabbit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/05/us/colorado-field-drug-test-law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648438

Points: 115

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New comment by rawgabbit in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

rawgabbit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:04:22 +0000

I believe the author was arguing that “calibration” is also rational but it cannot be transmitted. You cannot learn it from reading or following a framework. Books and frameworks are too lossy. The author cited the example of doctors in their residency as an example of this second mode of learning. They are learning from hands on experience what other doctors had also learned before. With residency there are others who oversee the residents.

Got an awkward or embarrassing Gmail address? Google is letting users change it

rawgabbit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/gmail-email-google-internet-27fc7d9ec927ee7aef2e4b1716667338

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639943

Points: 1

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Tokyo turns its phone booths into free Wi-Fi hotspots, and

rawgabbit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://soranews24.com/2026/04/02/tokyo-turns-its-phone-booths-into-free-wi-fi-hotspots-and-heres-how-to-use-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635371

Points: 1

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New comment by rawgabbit in "Adult German men must request permission to leave Germany for more than 3 months"

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:03:41 +0000

I am a US citizen and I try to see the world as it is.

>Will the US help? That was a given even just 1 year ago, but now is strongly in doubt. With the current commander in chief, the US will do nothing except talk a lot of nonsense contradicting itself daily.

>What will happen to world trade?. World trade as we know it is done. National security interests will force strategic industries to be on-shored. New trade deals will only be made with a short list of trustworthy allies.

If Russia does attack, the US will take 1+ years to ramp up and we will take a long time before we reach Europe in large numbers. The rapid reaction forces we have are not prepared for the new way of fighting we see in Ukraine.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Microsoft execs warn Agentic AI is hollowing out the junior developer pipeline"

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:39:51 +0000

I told my college age son to stay away from Computer Science. And my reasoning has nothing to do with AI.

Police officer top dream job for boys in Japan, cake shop worker for girls

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:05:46 +0000

Article URL: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260403/p2g/00m/0na/014000c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629241

Points: 3

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New comment by rawgabbit in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:15:35 +0000

The US government’s experts called Azure “a pile of shit”; they got overruled.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-c...

New comment by rawgabbit in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:13:00 +0000

Instead of zero trust, it is 110% trust.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rawgabbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:54:01 +0000

I believe the author was referring to this https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts....

Microsoft hired Chinese engineers to manage US Department of Defense Azure VMs.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

rawgabbit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:00:25 +0000

For me the danger of AI is that it enables the surveillance state through facial recognition and the instantaneous aggregation of all my data. For "national security" reasons, I may be detained and denied of my rights if Palantir hallucinates. Who do I sue if Palantir decides I am an illegal?

New comment by rawgabbit in "SpaceX files to go public"

rawgabbit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:24:08 +0000

Some very rough math. $16 billion in EBITDA with 9million customers. This translates to about $1800 average annual subscription. Per month this is $150.

Starlink for Land 500GB subscription is $165 per month. https://starlink.com/business/maritime.

That is I think Starlink's target customers are ISP deprived. I asked Gemini estimate the size of that market. It said about 10 million in the US and over a 1 billion worldwide. I assume the Elon is pushing the 1 billion number. The problem I see is that outside the US, not everyone can pay $165 per month for internet.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

rawgabbit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:28:34 +0000

I am interested in learning more about EHCI? I found this link from 2018. It gave high scores to Switzerland and Northern Europe. France and Germany were the middle of the pack?

https://santesecu.public.lu/dam-assets/fr/publications/e/eur...

New comment by rawgabbit in "[dead]"

rawgabbit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:30:46 +0000

April Fools joke.

New comment by rawgabbit in "We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How"

rawgabbit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:47:51 +0000

React, Spark, Elasticsearch, AWS or Rust were deterministic programming languages; they did exactly what the developer specified.

With Claude Code, they are semi-independent non-deterministic agents; they are more like consultants that the developer manages. The fact that they tend to generate verbose code which overwhelms the developer's ability to review is also troubling.

New comment by rawgabbit in "We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How"

rawgabbit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:28:04 +0000

We sacrificed everything at the altar of shareholder value. What we received is a dystopian hellscape.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Trump suggests in new interviews he is considering withdrawing from NATO"

rawgabbit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:25:44 +0000

Many years from now, historians and students will be writing endless papers debating if he was/was not an asset of a foreign power.