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brepppon Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

isn't avx-512 one of the more poorly supported set?

brepppon Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

I think a good example of how this plays out is the way Gulf countries are buying European soccer clubs and Museums.

Countries that are economically conscious of a future time where they will be left producing nothing (oil replacement) are seeing the european model as inspiration

Your examples such as telecom and banking are supposed to support and grow out of a real economy, not replace it

brepppon Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

thanks for being the voice of reason, however futile it is in a social media scoring system

brepppon Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

At least everyone gets an RSU

brepppon Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

While there are outliers, most of the European economy is Spain rather than Sweden

The European economy is still largely the same as pre-WW2, heavy machineries, cars, chemicals and these are becoming less relevant with Chinese competition. However, the move to tech never materialized like in the US, so no surprise when soccer becomes more important than anything else, it's the only long term viable export in bleak places like Spain

brepppon Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

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brepppon How to convert between wealth and income tax

You are always so progressive up to the point you meet a progressive tax

brepppon How to convert between wealth and income tax

If most people you meet will pay a wealth tax how can you remember those who don't

brepppon War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

Yes, the context however is not cultural continuity but national continuity. When someone claims Iran is bound to win because of 2500 years of empire, that seems like a joke considering the amount of foreign rule it endured.

Some hermetic cultural continuity except for language is also doubtful, Iran culture is grounded in Arabian culture no less than it is grounded in Persian culture. Hence the entire national unifying concept of Islamic Republic and heir to the Khalifates.

Regarding Susa, as far as I understand they haven't spoken an Indo-European language and Elamite is not related to Persian at all, so why do you think it shows cultural continuity?

brepppon The IBM-ification of Google?

For choosing Google Cloud? When was it ever conventional to choose Google Cloud?

brepppon Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

Good thing it eventually grew to replace NTFS

brepppon War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

What is cultural continuity? Is France, a far more coherent nation is cultural continuous to the Gauls? Even though completely subjugated by the Romans?

Is the Islamic Republic more culturally similar to the Arab Khalifate it professes to emulate or Cyrus?

Also you brought up Sumer, how is Iran related to Sumer more than it is related to the actual Mesopotamian empires? I never heard someone claim that

brepppon Gemini Omni

I am for decades watching movies generated with the sterility of CGI

brepppon War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

"2500+ years of continuous operations"

I see it repeated a lot, but Iran is not a direct descendent of some Persian empire, it was conquered by Greeks, Arabs, Turks and Mongols and ruled by Arabs and Turks for most of its history.

These nationalist myths are not taken seriously for western countries but that criticism usually does not extend to foreign myths

brepppon Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

This entire thread is generally weird.

If someone has this kind of exploit and can't get a bug bounty for it, and desperately needs the money, he can sell it for 100k+ in a shady black market

brepppon Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

Similar to the British in India, it was first controlled by some kind of company that benefitted the host country by extracting resources, and later on the host country took control. Belgium took control of Congo in 1908

brepppon Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

The worse example I know is the time the Belgians forced the Congolese to harvest more rubber by cutting their hands if they haven't reached the correct quota, ensuing a cross-tribe hands trading economy

brepppon Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

and so is ARPANET

brepppon Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

That slide was about the NSA sitting inside Google data centers without Google's knowledge.

That doesn't mean collusion

brepppon Show HN: Race to the Bottom

If this was framed as things you'd eliminate from society tomorrow, maybe pharma would fair better

brepppon Toxicity on Social Media

I agree with the notion in the post, though I do not agree that users will feel the format is not being pushed top-down by the man

I just had an issue with the way that number was completely overlooked

brepppon Toxicity on Social Media

"What percentage of the other side supports political violence"

Both Democrats and Republicans estimated 30% but actually.. only 10% of both sides supported political violence

That number is crazy in so many ways and the post is overly nonchalant about it. The "distortion" isn't what's worrying here

brepppon A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

That's presumably great for legal exposure because it increases deniability

brepppon Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

In the context of war profiteering this is a long used racist trope, intentionally misquoted

brepppon Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

and not only one https://www.cyera.com/press-releases/cyera-raises-400m-to-me...

brepppon Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

There's a company doing this, and I don't think they were super successful

https://www.getnexar.com

brepppon AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

or less aesthetic versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#/media/File:A...

brepppon Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

from doc.new to blog.google, they are on top of that

brepppon UAE to leave OPEC

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained...

https://israel-alma.org/special-report-for-years-iran-planne...

There was extensive planning for a multi front attack including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.

The story of this war is the previous idea in Israel that you could work out with an extremely religious enemy at the border as underneath their claiming to want to destroy you, they are rational.

After Hamas decided to go on a national suicide for no achievement except for a single day of an orgy of violence and the complete destruction of gaza, that view has changed.

This puts Hezbollah similar to Hamas, and their patron Iran ballistic and nuclear weapon program in a different light, and makes preemptive strikes and the complete destruction of the Iranian Axis (largely successful) as an important goal for Israel

brepppon UAE to leave OPEC

Probably Saudi Arabia is more important in OPEC, so that might be actually a middle finger to SA. Saudi Arabia and UAE had a recent dispute in Yemen that went pretty hot.

An alternative is the US trying to dismantle OPEC together with its new found supply in Venezuela to drive prices down