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New comment by thiagoharry in "Cuba's Fragile Power Grid Finds a Powerful New Partner"

thiagoharry — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:50:49 +0000

Sure. But why only DR? We also have Jamaica and Haiti near Cuba.

The Human Development Index:

Dominican Republic: 0,776 Cuba: 0,762 Jamaica: 0,720 Haiti: 0,554

Only Cuba is socialist. The other three are capitalist. Considering that Cuba suffers from sanctions, like Haiti, it is impressive how they managed to achieve an HDI almost as high as the DR, a value considerably higher than the average in the Caribbean.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Chuck Norris has died"

thiagoharry — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:47:22 +0000

And yet death was defeated. And with that, Chuck Norris took up its mantle.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power"

thiagoharry — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:46:03 +0000

Yes, they are already doing that. Tourism, exporting skilled workers (doctors), exporting rum and cigars. Exactly the economic activities that do not require external raw materials. And with that, they have achieved social indicators vastly better than all their neighbors. So I don't really see the basis for your accusation of incompetence: Cuba does well what it can.

But what it can do is fragile. Without industrialization, there is no way to have stable wealth. China and Vietnam themselves only industrialized and followed that path after trade blockades were lifted. Without that, the Chinese reform and its opening to the market would have come to nothing.

Moreover, it is strange to defend a crime by naturalizing the idea that the criminal will always act that way. That may well be the case. In that case, it is morally necessary to turn against him and stop him.

New comment by thiagoharry in "The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why"

thiagoharry — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:39:36 +0000

Sure, starting a prolonged war, having the Strait of Hormuz closed and its military bases destroyed while having the largest aircraft carrier forced to retreat, is all part of a larger plan. Everything going as predicted.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power"

thiagoharry — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:27:40 +0000

You are forgetting the criminal economic and trade embargo against Cuba. With what money would they buy these Chinese solar panels? How exactly would they obtain the dollars? What economic activity do you propose for them to industrialize and become internationally competitive, given that they are an island with very few natural resources and, thanks to the embargo, have to pay much more for any resource compared to any other country?

New comment by thiagoharry in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

thiagoharry — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:47:24 +0000

No, the private ownership of the means of production needs to be created and maintained by a state. There is nothing natural about it; if you see it as natural, it is because you naturalize the society you live in. First of all, like any type of property, it is a social construct that must be upheld by laws and instruments of coercion. And speaking of the means of production, to ensure wage labor, a process or arrangement is needed that guarantees one group of people holds ownership while others do not. In the case of land, for example, this requires enclosure, the destruction of the concept of land as something communal.

New comment by thiagoharry in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

thiagoharry — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:38:36 +0000

I don't think the American people can change their country's policy oriented toward a constant state of war, aggression, and invasions of other countries under the current system. This is a constant state policy, regardless of the party or the president. So it can be said that the United States is not a democracy. Money and capital rule, not the people.This can only be changed by a fundamental shift that empowers people over capital.

Of course, I agree that Trump is worse because, by removing the mask of civility and attacking others without first bothering to create propaganda and a narrative about how it is for the greater good and justice, he made the plundering and crimes faster and more efficient.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

thiagoharry — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:39:07 +0000

We let the market dictate how society's resources are allocated. And we see, as a result, how the market is actually not at all interested in the satisfaction and well-being of the people in society.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

thiagoharry — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:46:49 +0000

It will not. Chavismo did not end with the death of Hugo Chávez. Nor will it end with the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

thiagoharry — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:42:26 +0000

That was the policy that allowed him to build a social welfare state for people tired of being exploited. Famine decreased, life expectancy increased, and the HDI became high. Unfortunately, this ended when the country was sanctioned and embargoed.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

thiagoharry — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:37:23 +0000

They just do not want colonizers to steal their country and interfere in their internal decisions. Unfortunately, this is the story with every First World colonizer: they do not agree with that.

New comment by thiagoharry in "US Removes Brazil Supreme Court Judge from Sanctions List"

thiagoharry — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:39:13 +0000

Well, putting Supreme Court judges on this list solely to try to force the release and acquittal of a criminal never made any sense.

New comment by thiagoharry in "US Removes Brazil Supreme Court Judge from Sanctions List"

thiagoharry — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:37:03 +0000

Source?

New comment by thiagoharry in "Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela"

thiagoharry — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:28:16 +0000

She advocates for U.S. bombings against her own country. She supports the illegal killings that Trump is carrying out against ships in the Caribbean. She participated in the 2002 coup and signed the Carmona Decree, which erased the Constitution and dissolved all public institutions overnight. She supported Israel’s genocide in Palestine, saying she would reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Jerusalem. Not all Maduro opponents support these things.

New comment by thiagoharry in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"

thiagoharry — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:57:58 +0000

They did not subtract anything from anyone.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails"

thiagoharry — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:15:54 +0000

The World Wars? It was after capitalism conquered the entire planet, and the main powers began disputing markets and colonies.

New comment by thiagoharry in "What will become of the CIA?"

thiagoharry — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:13:49 +0000

They will continue commiting crimes around the world. Do not worry.

New comment by thiagoharry in "What happens when housing prices go down?"

thiagoharry — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:55:00 +0000

Adam Smith also would agree with the argument.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

thiagoharry — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:29:09 +0000

https://github.com/thiagoharry/weaver-interface-metafont

I started by trying to reimplement the METAFONT language, adding support for real-time rendering with OpenGL. Eventually, I decided to introduce some incompatible changes, creating a new language. But it still retains a syntax and internal logic very similar to METAFONT.

This new language also supports animation, and since it is part of a larger project (a game engine), it can be used not only for font rendering but also to generate textures and sprites for games.

The language is successfully compiling to WebAssembly, and I’m currently working on a web page with tutorials, documentation and examples where you can modify the code and instantly see the results. Since this is a literate programming project, there is also an English and Portuguese version of the code. But the english version still needs considerable polishing.

New comment by thiagoharry in "Literate programming tool for any language"

thiagoharry — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:47:14 +0000

> FWIW, I am working to reimplement parts of METAFONT in my current project (need the curves, and want an implementation which will also allow me to write out a .mp file) and I'm finding _METAFONT: The Program_ very helpful.

I have a reimplementation of parts of METAFONT as a hobby project. In fact, it is no longer METAFONT; it is a language based on METAFONT. However, I used the same Hobby's algorithm to generate curves. It understands pens, paths and renders it to an OpenGL texture. The results are not compatible with Knuth's METAFONT, as I use floating-point numbers instead of the fixed-point arithmetic. It is still under development and needs some cleaning, but if what you are developing is for personal use or is free software compatible with GNU Affero GPL, perhaps parts of the code, or even the whole, could be of use.

https://github.com/thiagoharry/weaver-interface-metafont