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vanusaon Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

There's no escape. It's just a matter of time.

vanusaon Russia Plans Post-Invasion Arrest and Assassination Campaign in Ukraine, US says

vanusaon Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Feel Safe

And now that we have a trillion times the computational resources available at a millionth of the cost as when she started at Bell Labs -- it all gets used to run ... to defiling her obituary by running it through one of these fake ad-wrapping clickbait sites.

Here's a link to the original obit they ripped off, albeit paywalled and in German:

https://www.heise.de/news/He-who-touched-it-last-owned-it-Zu...

vanusaon Florida Girl Arrested over Threats She Didn’t Make Sues Her School

https://archive.fo/GctjK

vanusaon History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

Nor did he have any significant involvement in the Pacific theater to give credibility to his opinion.

An odd thing to say, given that he was assigned to the General Staff to assist in long-range planning for both theaters immediately after Pearl Harbor. And it wasn't like being a Supreme Allied Commander kept him in an information bubble in regard to matters outside of Europe.

Eisenhower was neither a Japanese cabinet official,

Did we hear you correctly? Is that even an argument?

vanusaon History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

I mean they lost that argument.

They were outvoted or simply not listened to, you mean.

Otherwise, the argument becomes circular: "Clearly there was no significant possibility that the Japanese Cabinet would have agreed to surrender had not the first two bombs been dropped. As evidenced by the fact that the bombs were dropped, and they did, after all, surrender."

vanusaon Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”

The straightforward answer is that FB leadership sincerely believes that yes, that will happen.

Or pretends to, at any rate.

As per the incentive structures they may be presumed to enjoy at that payscale.

vanusaon History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

If anything, when a country signals their willingness to use their children and grandparents as canon fodder -- it shows how close to collapse they really are (and that they know they are very close to collapse).

vanusaon ‘Coda’ Star Troy Kotsur on His Historic, Healing Oscar Nomination

https://archive.fo/Kffq8

vanusaon Why is the White House stealing $7bn from the people of Afghanistan?

Title edit for diction (which in the original was basically broken).

vanusaon History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

One can debate whether the Soviets would have been able to invade the Home Islands, or whether this would have been necessary to press the Cabinet into surrendering.

But it does seem strange to say they were not in a position to make a "meaningful" entry by that point, given the order of battle employed in the Manchuria campaign (per WP):

    1,577,725 troops
    27,086 artillery pieces
    1,152 rocket launchers
    5,556 tanks and self-propelled guns
    3,721 aircraft
    Mongolia:
    16,000 troops

vanusaon History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives.

You can believe that if you want of course - but it seems simplistic at best to ignore other factors, such as the planned Soviet entry into the war on August 15. And some believe even that wouldn't have been necessary:

Asked in 1945 for his opinion on dropping the atomic bomb, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower replied: “I was against it on two counts. First the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.” Fleet Admiral William Leahy, chief of staff to both Roosevelt and Truman, flatly declared that “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.” Even the official US Strategic Bombing Survey concluded unequivocally that “Japan would have surrendered if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

vanusaon Hire remote employees that write well (and how to do it)

Both are correct actually.

But at least you care - that's what really matters.

vanusaon Edward Snowden Says 'Media Pushing for War'

Also, he’s criticized the Russian government many times before.

Which makes his current silence all the more telling.

vanusaon Surveillance too cheap to meter

"Passive aggressive" is exactly how you expect people to behave when you force them to do things they don't particularly want to do -- and follow this up by not paying them for it.

vanusaon We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Huxley’s

Such twaddle.

As if Rogan's programs "pierce the veil of our own simplified reality".

vanusaon IBM executives called older workers 'dinobabies'

I would consider someone a moron if... I'd be pretty pissed if ...

Sounds like you'd be a natural pick to run a company with 270,00 employees.

vanusaon Edward Snowden Says 'Media Pushing for War'

I find the Russian demand that NATO not expand to Ukraine fairly reasonable given the history they have with NATO.

Do you find the act of holding a knife against the throats of 40m people to persuade compliance with this demand to be also ... "fairly reasonable"?

vanusaon Edward Snowden Says 'Media Pushing for War'

There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.

To say this about the media without making the same critique about the actions of the current leadership your host country -- which is very obviously the party doing the "pushing" here -- smacks of cognitive dissonance, or worse.

vanusaon Facebook's African Sweatshop

The important part is that people in these roles receive phycological support too,

That may be "the important part", but the article is very clear about the fact that, in you know, actual reality -- the workers at this company definitely are not receiving meaningful support.

vanusaon Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

The point is, like PHP and FORTRAN it got millions of people programming who otherwise wouldn't have -- precisely because of its loosey-goosey philosophy (and lack of default strictness). And because it could be used to do some seriously powerful stuff, and get it out the door much more quickly than in the C/C++ world (arguably its only real competitor at the time).

Of course over time, these same people learned to program better, and its looseness and general wackiness grew into a liability.

But the important point here is: language design decisions (just like product decisions) aren't so much intrinsically right or wrong; but right or wrong at certain times.

In its heyday, Perl was, for many people, definitely the right way to go.

vanusaon Ask HN: Why must there be war?

And so it goes through the ages. I dropped it in there because it's the famous refrain from the 1982 Fear hit Let's Have a War:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxkFCBPgx4

Which seems to find new relevance in the current moment.

vanusaon Ask HN: Why must there be war?

There's so many of us

vanusaon U.S. to send 3k additional troops to Poland, officials say

Could be.

vanusaon Putin says Ukraine joining NATO would make nuclear war more likely. [video]

Misleading title.

What he said was that that would be likely happen if Ukraine joins NATO and "attempts to retake Crimea by force" -- which would be a rather different set of circumstances than simply "joining NATO".

vanusaon OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

With no support whatsoever for that claim.

vanusaon US believes Putin has decided to invade and has communicated that to military

That is of course not what the article says.

vanusaon US believes Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, Biden tells NATO leaders

That's now what Biden actually said, of course.

vanusaon U.S. to send 3k additional troops to Poland, officials say

We're talking about a person who has less than 48 ours ago threatened nuclear Armageddon on the entire world. [1]

Strictly speaking, he said that bad things you're talking about would happen "if Ukraine joins NATO and tries to retake Crimea by military means." Not, as you seem to imply, just for the fun of it.

The U.S. has also threatened, or considered first-strike nuclear attacks several times (albeit not publicly) numerous times, as recently as 1997. Usually against smaller countries (the usual suspects) but also against the Russians in the event of an attack on Berlin during the 1961 crisis:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/10/jfks-fir...

So say what you want about the petulant madman - but really he was just pulling a move from Kennedy's playbook, essentially.