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1. Vance built a lot of support in Silicon Valley.

2. Tech donated to Vance (and Trump) under the understanding that they would be a protected class.

3. By tagging Vance publicly and directly, he’s calling a favor.

4. If Vance doesn’t take action, it’s a signal that he’s not worth investing in.


> Vance built a lot of support in Silicon Valley.

That's a polite way of saying Thiel successfully installed a puppet as the heir apparent to the most powerful position in the world.


The USA was always on the path on becoming a corpocracy, not a democracy. Musk/Thiel and their puppet JD Vance has cemented it.

Especially for the use case they’re talking about. It makes sense to have open standards for something like filing taxes so many companies can compete.

Having source code for the tax system itself is interesting, but I think the market for “run software for processing incoming taxes for polish citizens” is exactly one.

Unless they expect pull requests, which could be fun, but as OSS maintainers know, it’s a ton of work and boy would there be a ton of spam on something like this.


Maybe auditing companies can run their own tax servers?

Their headphones are remarkably comfortable

I have a pair of Bose QC35s and a set of AirPod Pros. More often than not, for a late night YouTube binge in bed, I’m reaching for the QC35s.

CarPlay is wonderful and Google Maps on a display is a hell of a lot safer than paper maps.

It is leftist compared to the baseline of American politics, which is center-right compared to the opinions of the American people.

The CFPB was a hub of good works as well.

Does the caller of the method need to know the three days? Why? What if you update to FED Now and it changes?

It seems like the caller only needs to know that it’s checking within the window, which is then likely a constant (like SETTLEMENT_WINDOW_DAYS) that gives the context.

If you need to, you can add a comment to the constant linking to whatever documentation defines why three days.


> No one would get this consented / permitted within their own seabed, so why do we do it in international waters.

They do it in international waters because no one would consent in their own seabed.

It’s really the perfect example of libertarianism. When no one is considering the externalities, nothing matters except profit.


The only country I could imagine doing this is North Korea, because, while we would carpet bomb them, they can delete Seoul from the map with traditional artillery that we can’t stop.

But I don’t think that their leaders are actually suicidal. They’ve played their hand pretty well over the years, for their own survival and enrichment (no pun intended.)


I don’t know how many Americans actually approve of this. The left will hate it. Trump’s base has largely been isolationist.

Obviously if someone like Italy bombed us we would invade and beat the shit out of them. We did a two decade, trillions of dollars revenge tour for like 2700 people dying.

(I’m not advocating for any of this but US policy is pretty consistent. Part of the value of a US passport is knowing (and everyone else knowing) that the government will go to incredible lengths to get you back.)


I don't know either but I've spotted two comments in this thread that pretty much argued for that. Multiply that by the US population ratio vs HN size and it could really add up.

> Part of the value of a US passport is knowing (and everyone else knowing) that the government will go to incredible lengths to get you back.)

Is this even the case anymore?

The government has shown to turn a blind eye when natural disasters affect states that voted majority voted for the other party. Their own citizens.

If you were stuck overseas but are an outspoken Democrat, I would not count on your government to get you home.


> Trump’s base has largely been isolationist.

Given the Jan 6th insurrection attempt (which made trump ineligible for office) I think a clear eyed spectator thinking deeply about the US political situation would find that his base will think whatever he tells them to think


Huh, I thought that the courts said he could run.

The point is we say "well some people don't think much of their elected leader in X, so that justifies us destroying their cities, overthrowing their government and killing hundreds of thousands of people there!"

Alright, is this the global rule now? Where's the cutoff? Trump is getting 41%, is that low enough? Who gets to overthrow Washington? My vote is the Swedes, they seem pretty nice.


> We did a two decade, trillions of dollars revenge tour for like 2700 people dying.

Then what is the expected scale of a revenge tour for 48,422 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2024 and 76,282 in 2023?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/releases/20250514.html


The US isn’t too progressive about addiction. The culture tends to blame it on the individual vs. the environmental causes (including over prescription of opioids) that lead to it.

We’ve pressured China to crack down on fentanyl and its precursors, which they have to some extent, but there isn’t someone to invade, really, to stop it.


Can you truly not see the fundamental difference here? Taking drugs is voluntary and the risk of drugs being laced is known by effectively everyone. Comparing THAT to people getting incinerated in their office place is nothing short of daft and insulting.

How about you stop using drugs, how about that?

Really if you want to bomb the people responsible for the overdoses it's probably the overdosers parents who abused them.

What happened to individual responsibility?


Beyond the other replies to your 'point', fent has nothing to do with Venezuela⁰. It's pretty obvious if you think about it for 5 seconds, it's a dense synthetic opioid. Is there incredible chemistry knowhow in the quite far off Venezuela? No. It makes as much sense as making meth on the Peruvian jungle.

The precursors are made in legal-ish Chinese and Indian labs and shipped to the US and Mexico (y'know close where the users are). It's finished state-side or in Mexico where the DEA has less power. In fact one of the routes is:

China Lab -> Conventional Post -> Porch of a clueless gringo with a new 'online job'-> Smuggled to Mexico -> Mexican Lab -> Smuggled to the USA -> Distribution

[0]: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...


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