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diordiderot··on What shall I teach my son?
Anyone who disagrees is either

1. not internationally wealthy 2. drank the kool-aid and never stepped too far away from their family money.

diordiderot··on South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state
> trust me bro
diordiderot··on South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state
> We need you guys to think about how you overcame those problems so those lessons can be applied to countries that desperately need the help

We have studied this problem ad nauseum. The West knew the answer until about a century ago. Europe became orderly through shame culture, executing criminals and destruction of clan culture.

El Salvador is a modern example.

The remedy is violent, unkind, and not communist so we get indefinite unbounded suffering instead.

diordiderot··on As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
«don't prevent much»

Of the measures available to the justice system for deterrence, increasing the perceived certainty of arrest is possibly the most effective.

An arrest also prevents the same offender from committing more crimes. Since offending is highly concentrated among a relatively small number of repeat offenders, this isn't insignificant.

A camera does not prevent the first crime that it records. But a system that makes detection more likely can reduce later crime.

diordiderot··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
Hence why the EU is competing so well against the US
diordiderot··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
This type of comment is generally frowned upon on hn.

That's what the upvote/downvote feature is for.

diordiderot··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
That's not saying what you think it's saying...

They're saying, that social media use before suicide is like drinking water

diordiderot··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Chopping wood is for suckers. Half your woodpile will get redistributed to strangers who just moved in down the road.
diordiderot··on Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
There was no option to select no!

Only which age you wanted the ban to start

diordiderot··on Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed
You'd think that an army full of oppressed Roman citizens would've overthrown them right.
diordiderot··on Solar Overtakes Coal in US Electricity for the First Month on Record`
You're mixing up two different things. Moving electricity with HVDC is easy and cheap... building the grid infrastructure is, well, not so easy or cheap.

The system cost depends on connection queues, transmission buildout, substations, transformers, planning permission, curtailment, etc.

Production of transformers, cables, and labour capacity are bottlenecks. Planning is a bottleneck.

diordiderot··on Phone-Free Events Grew 567% Globally in 2026, over 900% in US Alone
Still notably lower than the previous high of March 7, 1876
diordiderot··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
Zuck has a lot of money in biohub iirc
diordiderot··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Lol, sure. until the first "revolutionary" takes one in the chest.

Americans are too comfortable. Leftist rhetoric is virtue signaling and costless.

diordiderot··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Get some skin in the game then smart guy
diordiderot··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Land permitting is tough maybe why they use tents
diordiderot··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
90s medical advertisement disclaimer voice

Only if what those people want is something I agree with otherwise I think the state holds the monopoly on violence and we need to mobilize it against the wrong thinker.

diordiderot··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
People have weird kinks these days
diordiderot··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
They're building more coal than anyone.

Also more nuclear than anyone, which one must assume you hate, because preferring solar requires you don't actually understand thing

diordiderot··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
Exactly. Same with tractors. Once they arrived, nobody benefited except Big Tractor.

Famously a net loss for humanity.

diordiderot··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Yeah, crazy for a company with nothing but the largest civilian satellite network and what amounts to a monopoly on space flight.
diordiderot··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Boomers and luddites won't let them be built on earth so no other option really
diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Lol it's American whites who are so detached from the reality of violence.

Why did people suddenly stop talking about body cams after mass adoption. Maybe it didn't show you what you thought it would.

diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Side note, UK police harass people for 'non-crime hate incidents' and put people on terror lists for being critical of protected ideologies.

Judges give longer sentences for mean tweets than hoarding child pornography or months long torture and rape of children.

More euros die of heat stroke than Americans die from gun violence.

Edit: NHS waitlists are double digit months to years. You have one of the worst birthing outcomes in the OECD. You have relatively poor cancer treatment outcomes

I won't take any lecturing on societal ills from such a perverted system.

diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
> if you look at the right parts of the US

No, I’m saying almost the opposite.

Crime in the US is highly concentrated. A large share is committed by relatively small groups, in specific places, and follows a power-law pattern rather than being evenly spread across the country.

There are large, fully developed, highly populated parts of the US where you are very safe. Often moreso than places people assume are “safer” because they are outside America.

diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
> risk of being a victim of violence is higher in the US

You really gotta look at how those numbers break down.

Who's killing who and where. Be in the right places and you're much safer than anywhere in Europe

diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Like trial by jury... Oh wait. Going this year

Or freedom of protest... Er ehm, that was three years ago

Well at least no Double jeopardy... until 2003

Right to silence! Oh no not that one either

Shrugs and scratches head

diordiderot··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
It's actually easy to avoid getting killed.

Simply don't chase, harass, attempt to run over, or assault LEOs doing their jobs

Hope that helps.

diordiderot··on New York passes pied-a-terre tax
Wealth cannot be created or destroyed, only distributed. /S
diordiderot··on Can we have the day off?
You know who will shut up and do as their told, the H1B replacing you this fall
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