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>* USAID shutdowns The rest of the world is not entitled to unlimited American funds for all time. >* DOE downsizing (ie. killing education) Canada doesn't even have a federal-level educati…

I was surprised to recently learn that NASA has aimed pretty much everything it has at 3I/Atlas, even the Perseverance Mars rover! < https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/c…

>2. A country with no first class citizens Wait. A country that does not favor its own citizens? At all? Why even have "citizenship" at all? Put another way, why would anyone want to …

And what a meltdown it is. Good grief. Reminds me of this meltdown at Mastadon. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195 >…

This may offer some hope: Thomas Yuen lived for 42 years on dialysis. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Yuen >…

Gift link from author's Bluesky account: < https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-26/the-vi... >…

>I'm confused as to why they decided to build this when they already previously built the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard all-in-one for under $100. As you would have been told in the second paragra…

>They simply have no reason to prefer foreign domination, when they can simply be sovereign. No, they can't. The likes of Palau are (barely) viable as sovereign countries, because at least the…

>I don't think it's a good idea for the US government to dictate (or attempt to dictate) specific deals and specific terms for those deals. The US government is mandating the transaction …

When the Trump administration came close to forcing a divestment/shutdown on TikTok in 2020, Americans were 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Of the top 50 most-followed accounts…

The law mandating TikTok's sale requires the president to formally state whether TikTok is in compliance with the law's requirement of at least 80% non-Chinese ownership. The EO is the execu…

I was struck by that quote, too. Set aside IBM inventing RISC in the first place. How was it possible that in 1992, two years after RS/6000 hit the market and made IBM a first-class RISC workstat…

And, in fact, Mashey specifically discusses what you identified, and what Houle wrote (rushing to post a gotcha on HN, obviously without having read Mashey's lengthy writings).

I misspoke. The 7800's sound hardware is worse than the 5200's (which is the same as the Atari 8-bit), but is the same as the 2600. Still, having audio hardware (or, really, anything else) d…

> better sound Amazingly, the Atari 7800 has worse sound hardware than the 2600/5200! That's got to be up high on the list of Tramiel skinflinting.

2600's sprites and better-than-beeper sound aren't enough to make up for the Apple II's other advantages. Consider this homebrew version of Pac-Man for 2600 < https://www…

In 1977, the Apple II was the only personal computer in the world on which this sort of game—color, animation, sound—was possible. Not TRS-80, not Commodore PET. Put another way, from 1977 to 1979 (wh…

Patanegra wrote: > To get in, you need 4 A* from an independent schools, or just 3 As from state schools. In reply, I provided a recently prominent example of someone recently admitted to Oxford wi…

Publicly cheering Kirk's murder is what made Abaraonye notable. I provided a citation for the ABB grades, which is relevant to the comment I replied to.