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passing_by_and··on My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill
You missed the part where it put private grocers out of business and forced dependence on government largess. Contrary to popular belief, more power to those with a monopoly on murder rarely works out for regular people.
passing_by_and··on Staying ahead of censors in 2025
No, and no one can.

My real point here is that this discussion specifically has been so thoroughly debated by brilliant people that I have trouble understanding why this hasn't been simply closed as proven like we do in math. Eventually you reach a level of argument where there is simply nothing left. We have reached it. Curtailing speech and thought simply never works as intended and always brings greater harms than the alternative.

passing_by_and··on Staying ahead of censors in 2025
Why on earth would you support arresting people for any speech, hate or otherwise? It is just so obviously a terrible idea that has been regurgitated over and over for thousands of years, countless books, wars, philosophical treatise and here we are. No wonder we aren't going to make it.
passing_by_and··on Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia
Why do you think that?
passing_by_and··on Why the Amish have almost no allergies
Vaccines?
passing_by_and··on Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' resigns en masse
Do we need more? There are literally millions of DoD employees. Nothing presented here (in this or related articles) is convincing. Typical FUD.
passing_by_and··on Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' resigns en masse
In what way does it make America weaker?
passing_by_and··on Startup founder convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175M, faking success
The plucky underdog JPMorgan Chase was taken advantage of by a 25 year old pilates instructor.

What an embarrassing thing to even acknowledge.

passing_by_and··on Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
That only happened because they needed some show trials to pacify people. A few were picked to take the fall and the rest were quietly brought to universities and government labs all across western powers. The United States has a proud tradition of totally ignoring all the agreements that came out of those trials.
passing_by_and··on If you need the money, don't take the job
This is a claim without evidence and simply not true. There is no argument that private organizations are perfectly efficient. Rather, that there are built in feed back loops that drive towards efficiency. This includes bankruptcy as ultimate conclusion in some cases.

Government on the other hand, has no such feedback loops and misaligned incentives which produce enormous fraud, waste, and abuse. There is no example of government being more efficient at any activity. Pick one, and there is a counter example in private industry doing it better for less.

passing_by_and··on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer
How do you know this?
passing_by_and··on Go ahead and alter the atmosphere, no one's going to stop you – probably
Why? It is plant food. Are we all supposed to be against greener trees?
passing_by_and··on Judge Fines Ex-Fox News Reporter for Not Revealing Sources
The USA executes people with impunity anywhere in the world. It has secret torture cells where people disappear or just die. Internally, it jails people for wrong think, manufactures terrorist threats, forces businesses to filter and send data to allow sweeping surveillance. It then spreads democracy by conducting coup operations, selling drugs, fixing elections, or if none of that works, plain old bombs work fine. At the same time running the most sophisticated propaganda campaigns in the world with the full support of almost everyone who reads this website.

Why would you imagine that this system would have justice or functioning courts?

passing_by_and··on The Fascist Simulation
Yes, and we are seeing the side effects of their takeover.

This website is a cry for help and a great example on what happens to individuals when the brainwashing works.

passing_by_and··on Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show
The land is owned by the crown. In private hands it would be used productively. It has nothing to do with "misery or impossibility."
passing_by_and··on Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show
Bingo. Canada is empty. It has the second lowest population density in the world. Most land is owned by the crown and is simply parcelled out to the friends and family's of the ruling class.

Adding to that, you have some of the worst zoning and development practices in the modern world. Most of the country is simple a piggy bank for money laundering in the form of empty condo towers.

passing_by_and··on Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings
In what reality do you live in? He is the most successful and transformative figure of his generation.
passing_by_and··on CIA and Mossad-Linked Surveillance Being Installed Throughout the US
Excellent, so it should be easy for you to support your argument with the factual data to back it up instead of ad-hominem attacks.
passing_by_and··on The FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data
Why do you speak with such certainty? How can you possibly know if anything you just said is accurate?
passing_by_and··on The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves
I am curious how you have come to this conclusion in characterizing the motivations and reasoning for preppers in the US.

>...apocalypse fantasy, settler-colonial "rugged individualist" entitlement...

Is this based on any conversations with any of them? This reads like a fantasy and very at odds with the actual humans I have met who are "preppers."

passing_by_and··on Ask HN: Are junior developers entitled to work machines?
Likely the company simply does not find value in your work (I don't say this to disparage you). The general rule of thumb is companies spend money where they find value.

Look around, find who gets the money and support. Decide if you can move there, accept it, or find a new company.

Don't get down on yourself or try to fix it. Neither is worthy of your time.

passing_by_and··on Plainclothes Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters
Are you disputing any claims or do you expect ad hominem attacks to be an effective persuasive tool?
passing_by_and··on Ask HN: What are some truly innovative ways people have tried to fight fake news
Unrestricted speech is pretty good. People can listen to arguments and then make up their minds. Heck, even ask questions without the person rehearsing their answer in a committee before hand. Seems to work everywhere its tried. The trouble is that people might not make the "right" decisions for people who matter.
passing_by_and··on Ontario government staffer fired after $100 donation to Ottawa convoy
BLM in Minneapolis burned down a few blocks of the city and killed people[1].

This person gave $100 so people could buy food.

Losing your job is not mild. This behaviour is not something we should encourage for anyone whether we agree with their views or not.

[1] - https://www.startribune.com/death-of-man-found-in-torched-mp...

passing_by_and··on Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?
There is a bit of data here -> https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

It is not directly helpful (or unhelpful) to your point or to the parent as data doesn't seem broken down in that way. However, in all these sorts of discussions it would be really great if things had context. So, for example (and sake of argument) if someone says 800 children per day were admitted, we had a comparison. Is it high, low? How about a rate per 100,000 comparison across other countries? Not asking for anyone to do this, merely attempting to articulate my point.

A bit of eyeball math shows 12 million people in UK under 16. Even if 800 a day was true...should I worry?

Anyhow, thank you for moving discussion forward.

passing_by_and··on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
We have excellent outcomes with monoclonal antibody-based drugs (the expensive route). Monoclonal is interesting because we may be able to take it preemptively. We have excellent results with steroids, vitamins, weight loss and exercise (low cost).

One way to search (and ignore random people like myself) for this, is to look for different countries treatment protocols (they are often published into other languages). There is a lot of serious people working hard trying to find good solutions.

passing_by_and··on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
You have a good point, thank you for stating it clearly. My contention here is that instead of promoting treatment steps, and working towards helping each other we are tearing each other apart and the discussion is oriented completely wrong. Punishing people, fines?
passing_by_and··on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
What I really like about all these different threads and topics on COVID is the mastery of control that is shown. We have viable treatments that work and could be prescribed en masse. Not discussed, not mentioned. The sole discussion topic is "vaccines" and mask theatre. Totally ignoring any inconvenient data about either.

Everyone's focus is to tear each other apart about which level of destruction is best for the non-vaxed. They are the problem and need to be crushed. Just excellent demonstration of media control and emotional manipulation.

Here we see the Germans following the leaders of human rights: China, Austria, Australia in preparing further legal frameworks to make the non-vaxed into non-people. Their futures will be fines, imprisonment and hopefully their lives permanently ruined. With cheers from the vaxxed.

After this we will be imprisoning or maybe just hanging from lampposts those who don't get enough boosters. For the safety of the children.

passing_by_and··on Ask HN: What life or career advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
I have been thinking about this quite a bit. Thank you for your answer.

It is sort of funny that collectively, people whose minds are so good at synthesis and analysis never lifted their heads up to see what we were creating.

passing_by_and··on Ask HN: What life or career advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
Do you mind expanding what you mean here? I think you are touching on something but I can't be sure.

What would you tell you younger self to do instead?

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