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Chris Krebs' key offense: "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen".

Trump has asked the Department of Justice to investigate him [1]. Trump is actively weaponizing the DOJ... while saying he is ending the weaponization of Federal Government.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justic...

Trump is actively weaponizing the DOJ... while saying he is ending the weaponization of Federal Government.

You are going off on a tangent. Freezing grants to universities has nothing whatsoever to do with antisemitism. The administration says it does, but then so did Putin when he invaded Ukraine: his claimed goal was to de-nazify Ukraine. Would it have made sense to discuss antisemitism in the context of Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

Trump himself dabbles in antisemitism, see evidence I have provided here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43640267#43640505

From the story: "Last month, White House began to pressure Columbia over its handling of anti-Israel protests and other allegations of antisemitism at the university..." If anyone thinks this is about antisemitism please check out the links below.

John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, reiterated his assertion that Trump said, “Hitler did some good things, too,” in a story published Tuesday in The New York Times. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-...

Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-nazi-allusions...

Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53098439

Trump’s latest flirtation with Nazi symbolism draws criticism https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-...

Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/11/fac...

Donald Trump's 'Star of David' Tweet About Hillary Clinton Posted Weeks Earlier on Racist Feed https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-...

This time around he has made sure there are no advisors strong enough to stop him. That means he is far more dangerous now than he was in the first term. And not just in the area of the economy.

> finally got a chance to do it

He could have done it in his first term.

The worst part is that the Supreme Court isn't bothered by this at all. They are letting Trump continue this while they debate the legality.

Trump tax cuts for the wealthy is a significant source of our debt. There is more of that coming.

You do have to make stuff. That doesn't mean bring sweatshops here. Read my post before replying.

Just because something can be made in the US doesn't mean it makes sense to. If Americans make the same things as the rest of the world, why would Americans continue to be wealthier? Think about that!

For America to continue to be wealthier than other nations, we can't make the same things that others make. We have to make things others don't know how to make, and charge a premium. That's the way to wealth. Let other countries make t-shirts, sneakers and even cars. Anyone can make those things. We will buy their stuff low and sell our stuff high.

So what should we make and sell for a premium? Boeing airplanes, GE & Pratt & Whitney jet engines, Satellites and aerospace systems, NVIDIA chips, Heavy machinery (e.g., Caterpillar, Deere), Automation and robotics components, Immunotherapy and gene therapy, DNA sequencing and gene editing tools, Implantable devices, Robotic surgery systems (e.g., Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci), Diagnostic imaging machines, Cloud infrastructure and Enterprise software, Hollywood movies, Advanced materials (DuPont, Dow) and so on. In other words, things other countries don't know how to make, or aren't as good as us.

What wee don't want is sweatshops paying peanuts.

The ideal from Trump's pov is being able to deport US citizens to El Salvador... without due process. Until he can do that he can only pretend to be king. He's slowly shifting the Overton window [1] in that direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Moving Apple to Korea or Ireland won't let it escape US tariffs. Tariffs are based on where the item is manufactured not where the company is headquartered.

Soon iPhones will be the most smuggled item from Canada into the US. Unless you are wealthy you won't go to Apple Store to buy your next iPhone. Instead you will meet a stranger in a dark alley to buy a smuggled iPhone.

> Monday is going to be an absolute bloodbath.

Don't start such rumors. It is not that bad, you can see pre-mkt trading here: https://www.cnbc.com/

We should let Asian countries manufacture things like t-shirts, sneakers, bamboo baskets, toys and so on and sell them to us for almost nothing. If we made those things here, we wouldn't be able to afford them! Consider this: minimum wage in Vietnam is $200 per month!

What we should be doing is not bringing back manufacturing of such cheap things. Instead, we should manufacture things other countries cannot easily manufacture, such as Nvidia chips, Boeing airplanes, GE jet engines, heavy machinery such as from Caterpillar, medical equipment including robotic surgery machines, immunotherapy and other advanced treatments, gene editing and other biotech products, implantable medical devices, DNA sequencing, nanotech, satellites and aerospace tech, telecom equipment and so on. We can charge a premium price for these products because other countries cannot easily copy us.

Let other countries manufacture cheap things like toys and t-shirts. We'll buy their products low and sell our products high.

Now, a fair question to ask here is, what makes us uniquely qualified to manufacture such high-tech products and sell them to other countries for premium prices? The answer is our universities. Our universities attract the smartest students from around the world. And they stay here after getting their masters and PhDs. The answer is also immigration. We are able to attract the best and the brightest scientists and engineers from around the world.

Trump's mistake is spraying tariffs across everything without carefully evaluating what type of manufacturing we want to bring back to the US, and of course, disappearing immigrant university students under various pretexts.

Don't understand your point. Everyone's life is important, which is why I said: the expectation is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. It is insufficient for self-driving cars to be as safe as, or even slightly better than human drivers. Which is why, better-than-human sensors are needed.

From the article: While Elon Musk is best known for making statements on this, Karpathy was his go-to guy on backing up that reasoning.

I read that as Musk wanted this done and asked Karpathy to find a way.

Cameras have poor dynamic range and can be easily blinded by bright surfaces. While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes, our eyes are significantly better than cameras.

More importantly, expectations are higher when an automated system is driving the car. It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents. If you lose a loved one in an accident where the accident could have been easily avoided if a human was driving, then you're not going to be mollified to hear that in aggregate, fewer people are being killed by self-driving cars! You'd be outraged to hear such a justification! The expectation therefore is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. Self-driving cars have to be significantly better than humans to be accepted by society, and that means it has to have better-than-human levels of vision (which lidars provide).

Lidar was expensive a few years ago, but it is around $1K now.

https://www.wired.com/story/lidar-cheap-make-self-driving-re...

> If you have two sensors, one says everything's fine but the other says you're about to crash, which one do you trust?

Neither. You stop the car and tow it to the nearest repair facility. (Or have a human driver take over until the fault is repaired.)

> dubious assumption that Trump gives any fucks about the US economy

I do believe that. If the economy crashes he will lose support from his billionaire friends. Also, the economy (along with immigration) was one of the top reasons people voted for him. I do believe he doesn't want to lose popular support. Currently GOP senators won't speak up against him because they know MAGA supporters will turn on them. But if he loses support GOP senators will be emboldened.

My assumption is that Trump understands what a mess he has gotten himself into and wants to extricate his head, without losing face. Congressional action will allow him to do that because he can blame congress for undoing his tariffs which was a good idea all along. This is the only way out.

That's like saying you shouldn't use a spellchecker because you should be learning the correct spelling yourself. But the point of a spellchecker isn't to replace learning — it's a tool that supports and accelerates your work. In the same way, AI tools aren't a substitute for understanding; they're productivity enhancers. They help you move faster, reduce routine effort, and give you more time to focus on deeper learning and problem-solving. Used wisely, they complement the learning process rather than undermine it.

That was the promise of COBOL as well. It was designed to be a "English-like computer programming language", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

But that doesn't mean you don't have to learn COBOL. It has a specific syntax that must be learned. Same for SQL.

> But what exactly are they doing with the cash?

Buy Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) and hold them to maturity. (Don't buy TIPS funds, their value fluctuates based on interest rates. Buy actual TIPS instead, at either Fidelity or Vanguard.)

There is away out of this mess: A U.S. Senate bill that would require congressional approval for new tariffs gained more Republican support on Friday [1].

Trump is not going to back down since that will make him look like a loser. Neither is China. But GOP can help Trump out by creating a new law that automatically expires all new tariffs after 60 days unless approved by congress. This will let Trump extricate his head from this mess without losing face.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-us-senate-republicans-...

> Those are our error messages of today.

Is that in your .NET code? Time to switch to Java!

I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg. But that doesn't mean he is never wrong. Hejlsberg doesn't think anyone would want to recover from exceptions. "There's a bottom level exception handler around their message loop. That handler is just going to bring up a dialog that says what went wrong and continue." Okaayyy... I think we know a bit more about exception handling than that today! Real-world applications often need more sophisticated exception handling strategies.

Incorrectly. Wherever they deviated from Java they messed up. See exceptions, for example: https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-ex...

That's absurd. Trailblazer means a pioneer; an innovator. Apple is one. Microsoft isn't. Microsoft is known for copying ideas, not for innovating. If there is one thing that hasn't changed in 50 years, it is the fact that they don't innovate. Take their recent products: Teams is a copy of Slack. Loop is a copy of Notion. This has been going on throughout their history. .NET is a copy of Java. Windows is a copy of MacOS. Excel is a copy of Visicalc and Lotus 123, Word is a copy of WordStar and WordPerfect, PowerPoint a copy of Harvard Graphics and Aldus Persuasion, and Access a copy of dBASE and FoxPro.

What about Microsoft makes them not innovate? To innovate you have to hire smart developers and let them do what they love doing. This will result in some waste, as only some of the ideas will be successful financially. But the ones that succeed will be innovative. Microsoft doesn't do that. They hire good developers and assign them to a Program Manager who gives them a fully nailed-down spec for what to build. Inevitably the Program Manager (who are often business people) will find financially successful products to clone. This rarely results in waste as the product they are cloning has already created a market, Microsoft only needs to take the market from the innovator, which they do by bundling the product with either Office or Windows.