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Well, it's a question of scale: swiss banks took in hundreds of billions of swiss francs out of the loot - that must be an astronomical figure, in today's money.

But even that has apparently been squandered by the super competent swiss bankers...

my comment here on switzerland during the second world war. these are really more than a bunch of atrocities, if you ask me.

During world war II the swiss national bank took all of the gold looted by the nazis - these were astronomical sums, it's really a shameful chapter of their history which is not widely known.

In addition to turning back Jewish refugees at the border. Also the swiss government even requested the nazis to mark the passports of Jews, so that they could be better turned down at the border.

https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%2060...

Also there was a big court case during the nineties, because credit suisse withheld the money of holocaust victims, while at the same time former nazi officials had no problems with their accounts - all at the same bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jewish_Congress_lawsuit_...

https://www.ft.com/content/f80088e4-5f0d-11ea-8033-fa40a0d65...

I can't tell if the answers of the tool are objective or if the answers aren't biases by the training corpus (or some collective bias ingrained within the training corpus). I really can't tell much about it. It's very much a black box - take it or leave it.

I think that's a great deal.

I mean science is all about objectivity (or so i was told)

not sure that it will be able to produce any breakthroughs, given this limitation - but who knows...

In a way that is the dictators dream come true: something that is competent enough for most task, but something that would never ever question anything around it.

This is like a hotfix.

I don't think that the pile of money is unlimited - all bets are off if something happens to a big bank.

Or they stop raising interest rates, and then inflation goes up. Don't know how the banks will cope (or anyone else for that matter...)

I guess the banks know that, so they may be afraid to take up new risks in the near future.

(i think HN needs a black bar, we are all screwed)

That's the same kind of trade off as with zero as end of string marker.

On the other side: the platform might not have received any following without saving a few bytes here and there, computer memory was a scarce resource at the time.

There is GNU pascal. https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html - they page says that they do support some of the Delphi language features/extensions.

GNU pascal is a gcc frontend - so it must support a lot of platforms https://gcc.gnu.org/frontends.html

So there are probably some people who are still using Pascal, not just as part of the Delphi IDE.

It should be possible to make a web framework for GNU pascal, the executable could then run on any server.

Also there seem to be several options for web frameworks for pascal and/or delphi, interesting if people are using it for production (never used any of this personally)

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_Framework

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/learn-about-a-solid-and-robust...

https://fanoframework.github.io/

https://github.com/EtheaDev/kitto

it's not the mainstream, however there seems to be some action going on here.

I thought they are mainly dealing in nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. What is the overlap between things nuclear and genetic research? The USA doesn't have a biological weapons program since 1972, says wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapo...

There is an easier path: you can test your C or C++ stuff with valgrind and get reasonable certainty that it work.

However nowadays we are putting our trust in the borrow checker, and quietly ignore the fact that half of the rust stuff needs to use the 'unsafe' keyword.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/roald-dahl-fam...

“It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media – jolly clever thing to do – that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”

'Jews are controlling the media' isn't antisemitic? 'der Stuermer' was depicting caricature Jews with long noses just for the fun of it? And yes, fictional conspiracies were a big deal in antisemitic propaganda - 'the protocols of the elders of zion' is just an example.

The movie paints them with orange colored skin, no one was protesting that edition of the original text.

That's probably a matter of interpretation, I am not an expert in these matters.

I also don't have to like his books, if I need to check upon these questions on a permanent basis. I got better things to do.

Also this post by @jasonhansel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849383#34853283

I wouldn't judge anyone for the deeds of his parents.

For example it can be taken it as a call to others to hate your guts too, and it can play out pretty nasty, if the economy turns bad and if people will start to look out for scapegoats.

This is not something entirely abstract, it happened before.

It turns out that this has a direct bearing on my perception of his writing.

For example i don't have to pay for his stories, if the author doesn't like me for the color of my skin or for belonging to people that the author happens to dislike.

I am also allowed to say that these are very objectionable attitudes. And i can also remind other people that these are very objectionable attitudes.

"Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB"

i guess that would also make a more secure phone, one that is less likely to call it's mother ship.

thanks for the tip!