Hacker News: sampa

New comment by sampa in "Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition"

sampa — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:48:23 +0000

as if industrial sabotage was invented in Russia

New comment by sampa in "Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition"

sampa — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:43:14 +0000

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New comment by sampa in "Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)"

sampa — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:09:00 +0000

no, it's not

New comment by sampa in "Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming"

sampa — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:22:49 +0000

europe's being europe

New comment by sampa in "FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets"

sampa — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:25:02 +0000

would be funny if I didn't need to do that to know that first sanctions came in 2014, or do I?

New comment by sampa in "Apple WWDC Event Will Show Whether It Can Be a Force in AI Industry"

sampa — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:37:08 +0000

just like it showed with Vision in VR industry?

New comment by sampa in "EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services"

sampa — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:49:50 +0000

you can't do anything.

current governments in big/not-failed countries are way too powerful, so any idea that "people decide" is from an old age.

they just want you to continue to believe this, so they keep the sheep and you think you live in a good ole western democracy, while you're not

New comment by sampa in "Inventing Cyrillic"

sampa — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:59:55 +0000

but they have a Turkic family language there, not a Slavic one

New comment by sampa in "BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor""

sampa — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:43:56 +0000

maybe because 60 Hz on LCD doesn't make your eyes bleed like anything less than 85Hz on CRT does?

New comment by sampa in "Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD"

sampa — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:42:09 +0000

it's a well-known site and you could check that with web.archive.org dating it back to at least 2013.

New comment by sampa in "Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD"

sampa — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:52:51 +0000

oh that western superiority complex... hits once again... beside the mark

New comment by sampa in "Us revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei"

sampa — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:24:03 +0000

and don't forget Nokia, that MS bought and killed

New comment by sampa in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"

sampa — Sun, 05 May 2024 21:27:23 +0000

remember, when a hostile state does it - it is because they're dictatorial.

when a friendly state does it - it is because it was a threat to democracy.

don't confuse 'em

New comment by sampa in "A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World"

sampa — Thu, 02 May 2024 13:13:28 +0000

Trees don't grow to the sky

and there's no perpetuum mobile either

New comment by sampa in "Fed Says Inflation Progress Has Stalled, Extends Wait-and-See Stance"

sampa — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:48:03 +0000

bbbut, remember that inflation is transitory

PS just like they missed the window for hikes, now they miss the window for cuts, again

New comment by sampa in "A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World"

sampa — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:49:53 +0000

if only printing money could solve all problems

alas, but people don't like inflation

New comment by sampa in "A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World"

sampa — Wed, 01 May 2024 08:42:35 +0000

their debt is 230% of GDP

when global crisis hits again (pretty soon, I'd say), they will have major problems

for now people (carry traders) are happy to borrow yen for 0% and convert and earn 5% in USD, hence the falling yen

New comment by sampa in "A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World"

sampa — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:57:21 +0000

Japan monetary policy is a ponzi scheme waiting to crash

been that way for decades

New comment by sampa in "Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]"

sampa — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:42:01 +0000

no, it's not "established". it's just another suspicion

New comment by sampa in "Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]"

sampa — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:42:44 +0000

tear-squeezing teen novel

PS When I read it was so fake when the then-genius protagonist (that is on above-human level) finds it oh-so interesting to talk to that woman-professor.