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> By conflating pro-palestine protests with pro-hamas

Actually, you conflated the two. I explicitly said "pro-Hamas" and not "pro-Palestinian" because I meant "pro-Hamas".

If you watch the hearing, the most contentious question was in reference to actual calls for genocide coming predominantly from pro-Hamas protesters.

Yup, this was exactly the point and has largely been the major gripe when talking about the pro-Hamas protests. These are the same people that literally destroyed livelihoods over "hate speech" (their definition of what constitutes as "hate" has sometimes been dubious at best). This sort of lack of principle and inconsistency is not healthy for universities.

And other goings on in the life of a random guy on HN.

That this happened the way it did is deeply concerning and should anger you. The media worked with a rare diligence to help the government apprehend someone who made information about which we've been repeatedly lied to available to the public. Let's not forget both the media and the government have spent the last couple of weeks on a gaslighting tour telling us the leak was Russian propaganda, etc. The tenacity with which they pursued and arrested the leaker is astounding considering we still don't know who leaked the Supreme Court draft decision, or who was on the Epstein client list.

This is just gross. It doesn't matter where you align politically, the degree to which the media has been working with the government against the interest of the public is unprecedented. We have US troops on the ground presumably fighting Russia - who is, contrary to what we were told, winning the war - and there was no formal declaration of war, nor was the public informed of it. And not a single journalist in the recent WH press conferences has asked about it. Instead, we got questions such as "How do we prevent leaks like this in the future [so we can keep lying to the public]"?

Perhaps Elon was being a troll by labeling some of these outfits "state-sponsored", but they sure as hell have earned the moniker.

Obviously we disagree on this and JavaScript (as I mentioned in the post), but wholeheartedly agree about c/c++. Trying to figure out how to share a C library, for example, is a huge mess.

Java is a great language with a terrible ecosystem. Why is it so awful, and what can be done about it?

My Friday source code review of Matthew Dillon's dcron program.