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New comment by stufffer in "Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts"

stufffer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:37:58 +0000

According to Wikipedia, kyivinsider.com was founded with a grant from European Endowment for Democracy which like its American cousin, National Endowment for Democracy, is an NGO explicitly set up by Western intelligence agencies to push pro NATO narratives.

New comment by stufffer in "UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan"

stufffer — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:25:54 +0000

The people you see with tables full of firearms for sale at gun shows are literally all FFL dealers.

New comment by stufffer in "How Crypto Founders Got Debanked"

stufffer — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:15:14 +0000

Bari Weiss’s substack had an article month ago that talked about some of the known cases of claim #2.

https://www.thefp.com/p/debanking-america-melania-barron-tru...

New comment by stufffer in "I became an anarchist while working for the Nevada state democratic party"

stufffer — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:19:40 +0000

Here is a thought experiment: what if Bernie had won in 2016 and remade the Democratic party in his image the way Trump eventually would?

Would the media and political power centers align with the Republican party?

New comment by stufffer in "Chinese hackers breached US court wiretap systems, WSJ reports"

stufffer — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:42:37 +0000

If a local police department wants phone records they have to go through the company's legal compliance department.

The disturbing revelation here is that it sounds like the federal government has direct backdoor access to all these records without having to show any warrants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

New comment by stufffer in "Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047"

stufffer — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:54:51 +0000

>subvert an election by any means possible is not yet one of those warts

The Democrats are famous for trying to have 3rd party candidates stripped from ballots. Straining smaller campaigns under the cost of fighting off endless lawsuits.

Democrats invented the term lawfare.

New comment by stufffer in "Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC"

stufffer — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:57:42 +0000

Would love to see SMIC apply for CHIPS act grants. Would be like the time Russia asked to join NATO.

New comment by stufffer in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

stufffer — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:42:36 +0000

Even in the USA courts have some limited investigation powers over matters under the jurisdiction of the court, for example when a draft of the Dobbs abortion ruling was leaked.

Brazil has dialed this up to 11 by declaring the Internet as being under their jurisdiction. That means they can act as judge, prosecutor, and jury and issue court orders regarding anything that happens on the Internet. There is zero recourse because they are the supreme court.

New comment by stufffer in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

stufffer — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:14:36 +0000

Laws don't even seem to be applicable at this point. It is one supreme court justice that is issuing court orders as if he were a king.

New comment by stufffer in "Pavel Durov is questioned on 12 charges [pdf]"

stufffer — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:10:00 +0000

Durov was forced to divest and flee Russia because he refused to censor and share private info on his users with the Russian government.

Now he has been arrested in France for refusing to censor and share private info on his users with Western governments.

Say what you want be he does stick to his principles.

New comment by stufffer in "Susan Wojcicki has died"

stufffer — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:19:43 +0000

>Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy

Yet strangely every person I know vaccinated or not still got COVID. YouTube banned people for even simple observation like this.

New comment by stufffer in "World's largest 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas"

stufffer — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 02:22:59 +0000

If one needed to re-run electrical wires, I assume you could drill holes and pull new cabling through the walls into the attic space.

If you had to re-run water or sewer, you have to jack hammer the foundation. But that is the same a wood frame homes.

New comment by stufffer in "World's largest 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas"

stufffer — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:04:50 +0000

I toured their factory one time and saw some demo print structures. The walls were double layered, spaced out 8-12? Inches. The bead would flip from inner to outer to give lateral support. Inside the walls were insulation. Plumping in Texas is embedded in the foundation but I believe electrical wiring was in the walls as well.

The printing gantry only could move in one axis so building width is limited.

Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

stufffer — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:41:40 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-search-engine-verdict-apple-319a61f20fb11510097845a30abaefd8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167157

Points: 2

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New comment by stufffer in "US chip factory workers say a struggle to survive on wages as industry booms"

stufffer — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:32:01 +0000

$21 an hours is not unreasonable for entry level technicians. These are in line with other entry level blue collar jobs such as automotive factories.

keep in mind experienced fab technicians are making much much more.

New comment by stufffer in "US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year"

stufffer — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 02:19:16 +0000

Solar panels are great at a consumer level due to utility metering agreements. At a grid level they are another story. Decentralized, fault tolerant, power grid with fall back generation just in case, is a tough challenge. This is why Europe pays the highest electricity prices in the world.

New comment by stufffer in "Show HN: PDF to Podcast – Convert Any PDF into a Podcast Episode"

stufffer — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:28:43 +0000

What extensions/apps would you recommend?

I have tried to set up something similar with text-to-speech browsers extension but I loose my place if I have to close and reopen.

New comment by stufffer in "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"

stufffer — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:30:37 +0000

>> it would be entirely non-immersive because moving your upper body

>Not sure what you mean by this?

Imagine full 3d scan of the players in real time. You could move around the court and watch them play.

New comment by stufffer in "Food delivery apps rack up $20B in losses in fierce battle for diners"

stufffer — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:51:52 +0000

>Are there really that many HNers who subscribe to FT, or have we devolved into having entire conversations as a mere reaction to a headline? (as I post this 2-3 hours after many other comments) Damn. :-s

There are paywall bypass browsers extensions. I don't even notice when a site has a paywall.

New comment by stufffer in "Mortgages Stuck Around 7% Force Rapid Rethink of American Dream"

stufffer — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:36:41 +0000

The Simpsons started playing on TV in 1989. Single income family, no college, working low skill blue collar union job. Yet they still owns a large home with a yard. That premise is absurd by modern standards.