<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sQL_inject</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sQL_inject</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:36:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sQL_inject" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sQL_inject in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"And justifying them on the basis of politics—prohibiting, for instance, grants that include language referencing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)—was unheard of until now."<p>You could rewrite this the other way for the prior administration, simply replace the word "include" with preclude.</p>
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<p>Setting a reminder on my phone to come check back on this in five years.</p>
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<p>You're right, but because nuance isn't allowed on HN, you'll be down voted.<p>Primarily the focus has shifted to faster approvals with evidence for new methods and drugs coming down to one high quality trial, and removed stipulations for randomized control trials for ultra rare diseases.</p>
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<p>It's self-selecting. Pro-growth states will flourish, attract intellectual talent. Support auxiliary careers, and grow their educational institutions.<p>The rest will fallow.</p>
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<p>Gotcha so no real ability to recall this is the same outlet that worked hard to reveal private details about the lives of people it is also now calling anti-intellectualism.<p>The article is just a regurgitation of the zeitgeist including the vague notion of hating successful rich people without real criticism of the actions they've taken.</p>
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<p>This comment is devoid of data. There have been less stoppages and detentions than you can count on one hand of scientists and mathematicians. There are hundreds of thousands classified via various levels of visa. None have been arrested in some unlawful manner, and the onus is on you to define "asshattery" in a way that is defensible. Foreign adversaries have been embedded within the US academic institutions before the Cold War. Just because the current US president is a divisive convicted felon doesn't suddenly mean we shouldn't care about controlling our own borders.<p>The US (and many nations for that matter) monitor, track, and protect their borders by foreigners and of a group of mathematicians cannot fathom why this may be the case amidst all-time high mistrust, spying, and academic and corporate espionage and then they should've studied harder.</p>
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<p>This is just wrong and frankly  naive. While Israel has always been crying wolf over them having nuclear weapons, they had facilities purifying uranium to weapons grade up and running.<p>We can debate whether they were close to a nuke or not, or whether they'd strike as far as the West, but Iran wasn't stopping trying to create a warhead.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure where or by whom you you were told it's a fragile, prone-to-collapse form of government, but I wasn't. Communism has a stranglehold on the societies it spawns within because the elite keep it that way.<p>Show me a country that espouses true Communist principles and I'll show you ten successful Capitalist ones. Don't confuse corporatism with capitalism, the latter which is the free exchange of ideas and goods mutually beneficial to both parties in an open market.<p>The US's enemies keep Cuba on life support for one reason.<p>Work a day in the gulag for your pithy apple ration and you'll be begging to sit in an air conditioned office and choose from ten apple varieties at different prices at your local Corporate Grocer.</p>
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<p>"The main responsibility of every Soviet citizen was to facilitate the arrival of Communism, where people would contribute to society according to their abilities, and receive from society according to their needs -- has there ever been a nobler sounding goal? And yet historians cannot agree on an estimate of many millions of people were starved to death, tortured to death, or worked to death, all in the name of that goal."</p>
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<p>I'd take a vile imperialist over a murderous, suppressing, rights abusing, child killing, raping evil despot "Supreme Leader" of Iran any day.<p>Not justifying his death by Israelis, but the Persians I know are dancing on his evil grave.</p>
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<p>Most of this land was low-utility anyway. You should realise it is good for the land owners to convert it to high yield output, which in turn the government can tax and return some of the gains to the people.<p>What's the alternative ?</p>
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<p>And look how it has worked out for them.</p>
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<p>This sentiment, branded differently but functionally the same, is punished in the US currently, because the hordes are upset their Shein costs more in the short term.<p>We've entered a new era where every nation is walling up its industries (tariffs and fines), its demographics (via immigration), and it's culture (internet and social media control).<p>A customs duty and a tariff are functionally the same, raising the cost of foreign goods to protect local industries.</p>
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<p>This take is bunk. I travel to China every year and in each major city, for each filled skyscraper, there is another that is half built and empty.</p>
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<p>Hyperbolic drivel: : “The people sitting in that building (Google HQ in London) are probably having a pretty good time. They have lots of ping pong tables and Huel. But the cobalt that they’re using in their microchips is still often dug up by artisanal miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, getting paid less than a couple of dollars a day.”<p>Like much of the oligarchic class, the boy-gods of Silicon Valley still cleave to Hobbesian myths to justify their grip on wealth and power. Their techno-Utopian convictions, encapsulated in Bill Gates’ mantra that “innovation is the real driver of progress,” are merely a secular iteration of the divine mandates that Goliaths once used to legitimize their rule. Promises of rewards in the afterlife have been supplanted by dreams of a technological singularity and interplanetary civilization."<p>- Google doesn't serve Huel
- Google has maybe two total pong pong tables in the London office and staff here are some of the most diligent coworkers I know. 
- Google actively is working to, and has reduced, conflict cobalt from the supply chain.
- No one I know in Silicon Valley "cleaves to Hobbesian myths" to "justify" their grip on anything. Everyone I know shows up to work to provide for their family, grow professionally, or self-actualize. 
- People who "dream of Singularity and interplanetary civilization" isn't a thing, no one <i>dreams</i> of this fantasy.<p>If the so called professional being cited here cannot avoid use hyperbolic drivel and unfounded fantasy to substantiate the claim, it's difficult to give credence to the case.</p>
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<p>To not be would be utter madness. For those who can and opt not to, they are perpetuating the tragedy of the commons.<p>We face the largest demographic crisis ever and we're passing the problem onto the young while draining them via taxation, whislt demanding ever increasing benefits in an all out land grab.<p>In 1950 the ratio of those paying into the system versus withdrawing was 15:1, were now at 2:1.</p>
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<p>Not sure why you're being down voted. SNAP was bleeding us on the front end by subsidizing sugar water mega corps and on the backend by subsidizing the collosal medical bills that come from the overweight, diabetic millions.<p>One day we'll look back and wish we had the self-control to both impose  austerity measures to get the spending under control and the foresight to spend wisely on long term functions like infrastructure.<p>Until then it's business as usual from both political parties.</p>
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<p>"The notion of “identity” under capitalism has always been bound up with surveillance and discipline."<p>This is the classic surface level grasp where the author uses words like capitalism where they really mean corporatism -- I hope the author isn't against <i>the free and mutually beneficial exchange of goods and services between two willing parties</i><p>Secondly just replace the word in this quote ^ with communism...or any large state apparatus for that matter, and it still could work.</p>
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<p>These EU taxes and fines are the panicked clutching amidst the slow, dying gasps of a continent that's only a museum of its former self.</p>
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<p>It is certainly possible. It's also not just possible, but true where some private stewards cultivate beauty (vineyards) and some public lands cultivate destruction (downtown Seattle). Violence takes place on land, but stewardship I don't think is some inherent thing. All animals war over territory.<p>"The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending."</p>
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