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New comment by wqaatwt in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

wqaatwt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:12:30 +0000

That’s still eugenics, though. Except this time it’s not pseudoscience.

New comment by wqaatwt in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

wqaatwt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:52:59 +0000

So does Israel, it’s not even a war with Lebanon it’s just happening there but the Lebanese government and armed are not participating in it

New comment by wqaatwt in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

wqaatwt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:10:18 +0000

To avoid apple inevitably fucking up and breaking things like in this case. The risk to benefit ratio for allowing this is just very poor

New comment by wqaatwt in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

wqaatwt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:05:12 +0000

Well yeah and Apple wouldn’t be able to abuse its pseudo-monopolistic market position. That would be so sad…

New comment by wqaatwt in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

wqaatwt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:54:50 +0000

> endorsed by Snowden.

Who is endorsed by the Russian government

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:53:07 +0000

Yes but the article implies that they somehow made 15B in profit by selling the gold in US and buying an equivalent amount which can’t be the case.

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:13:34 +0000

Impossible to make anywhere close to that amount since they only sold 129 tonnes

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:11:39 +0000

They repatriated 129 tonnes in total, its was absolutely impossible to make $15B from that since that’s what 129 tonnes are worth in total more or less.

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:10:19 +0000

Well they has 129 tonnes in US which happens to be wroth around $15B or so. Probably the author has no clue what they are talking about and grossly misinterpreted..

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:47:02 +0000

Unless one reads between the lines.

New comment by wqaatwt in "France pulls last gold held in US"

wqaatwt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:45:55 +0000

Well they are probably just being diplomatic, there is no point in accidentally triggering the ape.

New comment by wqaatwt in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:04:21 +0000

Well there aren’t that many catholics who were personally criticized by two popes due to their publicly expressed religious views.

> The most obvious was his public and private stance on abortion

Yes but besides abortion you are entirely free to pick and chose right?

New comment by wqaatwt in "Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:37:38 +0000

> you listed

That seems like an assumption in this case

New comment by wqaatwt in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:08:11 +0000

So Biden being nominally Catholic wasn’t good enough, JD Vance ‘practicing’ a semi-perverse form of Catholicism is going to be the savior, though?

New comment by wqaatwt in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:59:52 +0000

> Example Finland

Example of a very different behavior than the claim above?

> Which law would be broken?

What is that supposed to mean? e.g. eating dogs or cats would be an even more significant taboo and its not even explicitly illegal in quite a few countries

New comment by wqaatwt in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:51:42 +0000

> hard core evangelical

One might have assumed that being an immoral degenerate and a hardcore Christian of any type at the same time might have been incompatible, but alas.

New comment by wqaatwt in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:45:43 +0000

Vance is Catholic and Thiel is kind of leaning that direction in weird ways, though.

And Catholics are still a very significant voting block for Republicans (of course quite a few are likely single issue but they specifically might take the pope’s views a bit more seriously as well than more liberal Catholics)

New comment by wqaatwt in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

wqaatwt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:34:41 +0000

Well they got caught..

New comment by wqaatwt in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

wqaatwt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:34:03 +0000

Is there any evidence that’s the case? They always had massively bigger margins than all other PC manufacturers so it’s unlikely they are selling it at a loss even if’s significantly reduced

New comment by wqaatwt in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

wqaatwt — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:48:32 +0000

> being made not purely on tech reasons.

As if that’s not true in the US (not just government contracts but VC in general as well)…