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"Bollocks" feels like a very uncharitable read. Sure, investing time/money into creating a better chess engine instead of building a faster computer would not have worked out for IBM, but the post never argues that they should have done that. It makes the point that the majority of improvements of chess engines since have been algorithmic and not "free" gains from faster CPUs.

Deep Blue is just used as a point of reference to illustrate that fact.


You can't disentangle the compute from those algorithmic gains, though. Every small adjustment to its algorithms is made on the back of tests relying on compute.

"most relevant info" is highly subjective though. One mans "most relevant info" is another mans "unsatisfying read".

The difference with Wikipedia is that additional articles can be added for more details; they don't all need to be crammed into a single article.

> Because of the news articles.

Yes, obviously people are only angry about things they know about. This says absolutely nothing about the news articles, as the same thing thing can be said about any event, no matter how justified the anger would be.

An article making people angry doesn't automatically make the article rage- or clickbait.


Problem is, AfD voters also don't want to drive Teslas (not because they disagree with Elon's politics, but because "only hippies drive EVs, patriots drive real cars".)


Well for one thing, different currencies have different rates of inflation. If one currency has 10% inflation and another has 1%, the second countries bonds at 5% will have a higher real return than the first, even if the risk of defaulting were the same, so the first country will have to offer a much higher coupon to find any buyers.

Also governments can influence demand, e.g. by mandating banks or pension funds buy their bonds, thereby pushing yields down, without changing the risk of default.


> If one currency has 10% inflation and another has 1%, the second countries bonds at 5% will have a higher real return than the first

It's not how it works. If both currency maintain change parity over time, then the inflation rate in one country compared to the other is irrelevant. “Real” (inflation adjusted) numbers make sense for consumers and local governments, but from an investing standpoint, the only thing that matters is the variation on FX rate.

And unlike what the myth of “inflation is the loss of value of a currency” says, those are actually very loosely correlated (and it tends to be anti correlated during inflation spikes due to central banks' interests rates).


I'm pretty sure 1st and 4th are the ones GP meant.

The 1st amendment (free speech) in order to protect the right to host the service in the first place and the 4th one (unreasonable search and seizure) to protect against surveillance.

Not sure how the 3rd (lodging of soliders in peacetime) would be relevant.


> My opinion is that the way Omarchy is developed leads to gigantic security holes

>> Fix it. If you see a problem in the world, fix it.

You can't "open a pull request" to fix a projects development process. The point of the article isn't about any specific security issue, it's that these vulnerabilities will keep getting introduced due to the lax attitude the project takes towards security.


https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
  
  Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Posting guides explicitly state "That includes more than hacking and startups".

I would say that this post definitly falls squarely into the "interesting new phenomenon" category since it's the first time a country has proposed a population cap (as far as i am aware).


Considering the last sentence in the comment you are replying to, i doubt they missed it...


Their use of the word "probably" rather suggests they did miss it. By a country mile.


No, I think you missed it by a country mile. “Probably” was meant in the sense of “out of all the things the gulf states have reason to be mad at the US about, starting the conflict is ‘probably’ (obviously, lol) the thing they’re most unhappy with”. They weren’t saying the US “probably” started the conflict.


>‘probably’ (obviously, lol)

My point precisely.


> It has been working quite well until recently.

I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but average uptime seems to have dipped measurably starting within a year of the aquisition, according to https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/


FWIW, I'm not convinced that chart is necessarily an accurate representation of pre-acquisition reality. It would really surprise me if GitHub did not have a single sev-0 pre-acquisition, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were not formally captured and reported in a format that would make its way into their current status page's database.


They moved to Azure. Nothing improves on Azure.


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