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New comment by thuridas in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

thuridas — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:32:57 +0000

The weapons flow from USA doesn't help.

US can afford to have militarized police with armoured cars. But the combination of drugs, poverty and weapons is very dangerous

New comment by thuridas in "Chuck Norris has died"

thuridas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:40:23 +0000

And it is not as if he was great at acting or as martial artist.

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were in a completely different league.

New comment by thuridas in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

thuridas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:31:17 +0000

I Will never understand why US allows this kind of political intervention.

New comment by thuridas in "Neurons outside the brain"

thuridas — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:55:38 +0000

What really called my attention is the personality change after transplants. I am not super sure about how good the science is.

Also. We are very neuro-centric, but the system also had all type of hormones and other chemical messages affecting it.

New comment by thuridas in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

thuridas — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:00:34 +0000

You need US dollars because you have with US. Tarrifs hurt the need for dollars.

New comment by thuridas in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

thuridas — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:34:22 +0000

Having dollars was useful to trade with US. But the trade has been reduced by tariffs.

Also. Any attack to the independence of the federal reserve damages whee vale of the dollar

New comment by thuridas in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

thuridas — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:07:36 +0000

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New comment by thuridas in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

thuridas — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:57:42 +0000

Europe is already considering to have a nuclear shield.

This is because if Trump

New comment by thuridas in "Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data"

thuridas — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:23:07 +0000

But that transferred very sensitive data to a third party without anonymising the amount.

Just by replacing the email with a random anonymizedAccountId the impact would have been reduced from disaster to who cares. This was bad design from the start.

We may see some interesting news in a few days.

New comment by thuridas in "Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight"

thuridas — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:43:07 +0000

That wasn't just automating... That was hiding the features from the manuals to avoid having to re train the flight crews.

New comment by thuridas in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

thuridas — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:41:11 +0000

I would consider paying premium if they allowed me to disable shorts

New comment by thuridas in "The Miracle of Wörgl"

thuridas — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:32 +0000

They can hide wealth (at their own risk) but it prevent them from extracting money from the country:

The cannot own houses, factories, monopolistic contracts o media. It makes harder to influence politics ( in a legal way).

The housing issue is specially important because city space is limited and the demand is very inelastic

New comment by thuridas in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

thuridas — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:43:45 +0000

Just by forcing to compensate passengers accordingly they would start to care more.

What is the lost productivity for having so many people waiting on airports?

But that is consumer protection regulation and it is not going to happen in America in a few years

New comment by thuridas in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

thuridas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:04:20 +0000

Without post WW2 taxes.

Part of the problem is that a lot of the extra wealth ends invested in the house market. This increases the cost of terrains for both old and new homes. It is also not very productive just to buy one thing to extract rents from it. ( There is value in handling the rent, building or reforming and old house).

The urban land is limited and requires government infrastructure to connect it.

Another big cost is the university.

New comment by thuridas in "Pharma is a small component of US health care spending"

thuridas — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:16:11 +0000

Not only the drug has to be approved but the production process and laboratory.

There is a lot of bureaucracy and audits. It is but as if a European laboratory is allowed to sell a generic drug without at huge costs for certifications ( and viceversa)

I am not saying that buying your medicines to questionable online web is a good idea. Just that other countries have their own controls depending on their policies

New comment by thuridas in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

thuridas — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:23:33 +0000

I had this feeling when Kotlin (that took a lot of ideas from Scala)

Intellij tools are great.

New comment by thuridas in "Java 25 officially released"

thuridas — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:16:10 +0000

And there is Amazon Correcto, Eclipse Temurin...

Sure, that could stop to maintain it, but would put the power immediately in the hands of other companies with a fork

That said, you always have oracle's greediness...

New comment by thuridas in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

thuridas — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:21:15 +0000

I would say that the causality goes in the other direction. We have big stores Carrefour and even some Coscos, but not in the middle of walkable cities.

New comment by thuridas in "Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers"

thuridas — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:36:21 +0000

Electricity prices go up? Are you blaming the windmills? It should you blame the new AI data centers

And windmills are profitable by themselves. And reduces foreign imports with increasing taxes on this goods. If we removed all subsidies coal would be the real affected.

I am not sure about property value but burning gas next to homes creating health problems to power Elon musk data centers surely doesn't help. The dark fumes from coal, gas or oil are going to affect it.

New comment by thuridas in "US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports"

thuridas — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:19:08 +0000

With less companies to compete you can expect it.

When Donald put tariff in dishwashers even the ones made in US rose it's prices.