jtgeibel

Please stop your obvious trolling. This contributes negative value to both the HN and Rust communities.

You're definitely right, I should have done that instead. I reached out after seeing your post last night and it appears that the mods have removed the flag from the original post.

I'm not trying to split the discussion, the original post should clearly not be flagged. Also, I've never seen a post organically fall off the front page in less then 3 hours with hundreds of votes, unless the number of comments exceeds the post upvotes.

Forcing brick-and-mortar stores to show a higher price including tax than that shown by online stores seems like it would have some unintended consequences. It would likely push more people towards online purchases even if the final price is identical.

I doubt adding paywalls and more 3rd parties will help reverse the trend of rising healthcare costs. But also, just why? Why not keep this information that our tax dollars have already paid for in the public domain? I thought we were supposed to care about efficiency and that information wanted to be free.

I agree with what you say here, but think there is more to it than just Trump himself. A complicit media, key backers in congress, and the courts went a long way to sanitizing his reputation over since the events of January 6th.

Beyond right-wing media's unrelenting support for him, plenty of other media outlets had no problem playing up (and probably helping to drive) economic vibes in favor of dry statistics of economic indicators. (Not that the economy has been perfect for everyone, but the post-covid recovery in America broadly seems to have done as well or better than most other countries.) Then you have the NYT running headlines like "Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months". Even if every word in such an article is entirely factual, we're clearly well into the media environment where social media and cable news networks will splash this headline (and largely only the headline) all over the place. It was clearly an editorial decision to have headlines like this dominating coverage for more than a month while Trump was ranting about Hannibal, sharks, and windmills at his rallies.

Of course the Senate and McConnell could have tried his impeachment while he was still in office at a time when it seemed like even his most ardent supporters in the media were trying to figure out how to spin things. Instead, they waited until he was out of office and then said "hey, this isn't our problem any more, let the courts handle it".

Which brings us to the courts. Without key allies like Judge Cannon (delaying and even dismissing his documents retention case) and SCOTUS (first delaying and then jumping in to intentionally tie both of Jack Smith's hands behind his back in the conspiracy case with their immunity ruling), the American public would have had far more public information to base their decision on. Plenty of his base seems to be immune to facts and evidence, but with more of this evidence in the public sphere it is certainly possible that enough swing voters would have rejected the "witch hunt" narrative.

Finally, there is the post-covid effect worldwide of incumbent parties being driven out. So yeah, I definitely think Trump's ability to manifest his reality distortion field played a large role, but he was far from acting alone. Once Trump is no longer relevant maybe we'll see that he alone was capable of wielding these superpowers, but many of these dynamics and existing power players seem poised to outlive him and I fear there is a deep well of savvy opportunists looking to replicate his success.

Yes this has been planned for a while. But accelerating the existing schedule by 4 or 5 years would almost certainly result in a large increase to the existing $843 million dollar contract that Space X has. Elon definitely has a conflict of interest here.

So he is going to accelerate the existing $843 million dollar contract for free? If not, that sure sounds like a conflict of interest to me.

Do you give the same benefit of the doubt to the 10s of thousands of civil servants who have already been abruptly fired without cause? Do you assume that they are capable and productive members of their departments who have been making good faith efforts to improve the lives of their fellow Americans? If so, then shouldn't the administration take a bit more than 30 days of careful analysis and deliberation before declaring their jobs wasteful and fraudulent?

What specifically about the article do you dispute?

Well RH is already locked into this level of maintenance support for existing RHEL releases. By dropping Xorg support now, they can fully drop this effort in a decade plus. If they keep Xorg support in new releases, it keeps pushing that horizon out further and further.