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> And the approval rating: ~91%

In a country where one can be disappeared without recourse into a brutal prison system I have my doubts anyone can meaningfully collect something like an approval rating. I for one would not answer anything but yes to someone asking me if I approved of Bukele if I lived in El Salvador.

While plenty of people would prefer 2) there would be a lot less outcry if they were allowing 1) especially in cases where the kid already has a legal USC guardian like the one discussed here where the father couldn't even speak with the mother before her and his child was deported.

How do you arrange this when not allowed to speak with anyone?

It certainly wasn't sold to the public as "these are going to be forgiven". After all they are called loans not grants. And given all the retoric around "it's simple you took out a loan, now you pay it back" or "why should my tax dollars pay for your loan forgiveness" I think it's very fair to why this logic applies to people not businesses.

> Transactions like full user flows start to finish, or 1 transaction = 1 post/get and 1 response?

For most applications we are talking closer to 1 transportation 1 web request. Distributed tracing across microservices is possible, the level of extra effort required depends on your stack. But that's also the out of the box, plug and play stuff. With lower level APIs you define your own transactions, when they start and end, which is needed for tracing applications where there isn't a built in framework integration (e.x not a web application).

> which means they're going to step in and replace him next.

Or discover they can't. The thing about strongmen dictators is they aren't that easy to just replace.

That poll has 74% support for "Deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes".

It does not ask about "Trump's Deportations". I support deporting criminal immigrants. I even support deporting those with no criminal record who are here illegally (with some caveats). I don't support sending innocent people to brutal slave labor in a country not their own.

Supporting "Deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes" is not the same as supporting "Trump's Deportations".

I mean I don't trust the guy either, and readily acknowledge he may be lying or even could just change his mind at any moment. That doesn't somehow make the situation better. We have a bunch of people now held at the whims of a capricious dictator, and our own leader is sending them more people, and suggesting sending our citizens, while claiming it's impossible to fix any mistakes, because "who knows what that guy will do, I can't control him"

And yet Bukele's Justice Minister (sorry misremembered not Bukele himself) has said they will "never return to their communities" and somehow we are unable to get back this one man. Saying everyone is lying to openly defy a Supreme Court order when they can get him back anytime just by asking, and he'll be released "sometime" is not the comfort you seem think it should be.

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-us-rubio-prison-de912...

> Just admitting the mistake was a positive step, which means they do care at least a little bit to not repeat it.

Huh? They are sending more people even now, and discussing sending US Citizens. Where is the sign they are taking care not to repeat it?

> But Occam's razor here... what's more likely? That the sky is falling and the US can and will now send people to their (presumed) death without any charges or day in court whatsoever (while you sit here accepting it, doing nothing), or that this is not actually the beginning of the end of the entire country in one fell swoop?

Given that they've been sent to a brutal prison involving torture and forced labor, and that the people who sent them there are now claiming they have no power to bring them back?

Yeah man Occam's razor says we have a dictator doing and end run around the constitution, not that they are just being held for a few months before their trail date.

> Nobody is going to hold prisoners from another country indefinitely for free.

Remember they will be doing forced labor. They've essentially been remanded into slavery.

> According to who? Why do you think this is somehow the case?

Bukele says he doesn't forsee ever releasing anyone from CEDOT and has specifically ruled out doing so in this case. Trump says he's powerless to get him released.

> In what scenario does indefinite detention make any realistic sense even for the best-case scenario of its intended purpose i.e. rightfully-deported violent criminals?

Slave labor, which is what the people in CEDOT are being used for, again per their own president.

> Do you honestly think the US is actually sending anyone to indefinite detention who has not received a life sentence in court?

Yes! That's the whole problem!

A quick search tells me the median plumber salary is ~$60k. Your telling me your entire tax burden is ~1k? I find that hard to believe, and if true is pretty darn atypical. That's closer to what I was paying when I was making ~10/hr.

Forget scraping. I can't read Twitter, as I don't have an account. A normal person is now locked out of SSA communications unless they sign up for Twitter.

Probably yes, even before the pandemic. Packing thousands of people into a tight space is a great way to spread disease.

Post-pandemic it's become a highly political thing now and depending on where your at you may get some unfriendly looks.

> If I’m hiring “senior” developers, being comfortable communicating technical topics and answering questions is a requirement.

While I agree completely, I also know plenty of people who fit this description, but would probably aren't the folks you ask to give a power point on a technical topic.

TBH I've done my time in management and done my fair share of presentations, but I would HATE this to the point that I might well opt out.

There's a reason I'm not in management anymore, and a presentation like described is a far cry from working with stakeholders and engineers to define and document technical requirements. Or even presenting those to a group with shared context.

I might well take the fact that you've made it a part of the interview process to be an indication that this is a regular job requirement as opposed to something I have to do here and there.

And has strict limits as to their authority which don't appear to be being followed. Is he the head of DOGE or isn't he? Depends on if it's a reporter or a judge asking.

> Presumably, even if people supported this tariff strategy, they might still disagree that the president should be the one doing it.

You can sort of count me among this number. Not this wild tarrifs everyone strat, but I've long thought we should have tarrifs on goods from countries like China that are happy to exploit their workers to steal market share. 54% doesn't seem crazy to me. The thing is to actually encourage investment they'd need to a) phase in over time to give companies a chance to react, and b) be something more permanent than an executive order.

If it was the legislature putting in place something more targeted and gradual I'd probably find myself arguing for the Republican position on something for the first time in a long time.

> Could there be a reason that the Trump administration is continuing to persevere on something that is seen across the board as an objectively bad idea?

From cofefe to tarrifs there's always someone out there insisting that whatever inexplicable move Trump is making at this moment is actually 4D chess, and ready to explain how this is some convoluted move we just don't understand. In reality I think the answer is no. I've seen nothing to convince me over the years that Trump is operating at this level, and it's telling that it's never Trump whose explaining how these moves are supposed to lead to wonderful outcomes through convoluted paths, but instead some rando on the Internet.

If pro-life people really cared about babies they'd put more effort into making sure they were fed and cared for after they were born instead of decrying any programs meant to help. Or about the mothers suffering medical complications because they can't have their non-viable fetus aborted. Pro-life is generally code for pro-birth.

Exactly this. If it's a novel test, it might cost $50,000 a person to do the test, while if it's mainstream and your doing millions, it might cost $50. Doing the test on one person at $50k may prevent you from ever having to reach the scale where you can do it for $50 (but have millions of infections).

Right, that was also discussed in the comment.

I think you and GP are in agreement. If you have a sensor with a really bad .5 chance of failure, by having to your chance of failure decreases to 0.5^2=0.25.

I can confidently say I, and pretty much every other engineer I know would have been categorically opposed to having a hackathon to rip out and replace IRS systems no matter who was doing it.

Techies like those of us on HN understand the difference between safety critical systems and throwing ideas at the wall in a startup.

If this was being done in a careful methodical fashion, with deep care given to data integrity and security I'd support it regardless of whose doing it. This 30 day move fast and break things would be bad from Biden, Obama, or in a better timeline Bernie.

Refresh my memory, who was sent to an extrajudicial prison in a foreign country without so much as a trail for a spicy social media post in the UK?

Off the top of my head my understanding is a lot of collectables traded at shows (e.x. sneakers, antiques, cardsa) are done as cash transactions, so that could be one possible reason. If someone is an avid collector, or makes a living trading this stuff they could be going to a show with a large amount of cash in anticipation of buying.

(Not my world, so I welcome being corrected here)

And right on que we have someone who the administration admits they wrongly sent, but also say the courts don't have the authority to bring him back:

https://archive.ph/LGs2Z

That's only true in the case of very specific life threatening conditions. If your having a heart attack, sure the insurance company doesn't get a say. Long term illness? 100% the insurance determines treatment.

My sister has MS. After failing to respond to a variety of interventions, and losing her ability to walk (for context: this is a woman who ran an ultra marathon the year she was diagnosed) her neurologist wanted to put her on a new drug with lots of studies backing it. Insurance said no. Both my sister and the hospital appealed. Still refused. Sure technically the doctor was still free to prescribe it, but with my sister unable to pay out of pocket, what good does a prescription you can't actually get do?

It wasn't until about a year and a half later when she landed in the emergency room for two weeks that the insurance company finally relented.

MS is a progressive condition. The nerve and brain damage done during those 18 months will be with her for the rest of her life, and will shorten her lifespan.

The idea that insurance companies only make calls on "optional" things that don't affect if the patient lives or dies is simply false.

No. Signal stores messages only on the receiving device by design.

If there were it would still be irrelevant. They specifically used the settings to delete messages after a few weeks.