> You couldve seen anti militsry industry sentiment on HN for years, which apparently worked for US adversaries, who knows who was behind that propaganda

Me.

Of course they're using the best chips they can get, but this is a bizarre theory. English is the lingua franca of scientific publishing.

If you're so brave, you should state what these fundamental cultural differences are.

This news doesn't magically make those 2018 accusations true.

2,500,000,000 is a lot of cash

It's a bit contrived, but a global with a nontrivial constructor can spawn a thread that uses another global, and without synchronization the thread can see an uninitialized or partially initialized value.

I haven't written C++ in a long time, but isn't the issue here that the initialization order of globals in different translation units is unspecified? Lazy initialization avoids that problem at very modest cost.

Yeah, that is part of it.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The most popular stories are the ones when they detain US citizens, rough them up, and then dump them on the side of the road somewhere without even apologizing.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/ice-immigrat...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-u-s-citizen-says-ice-f...

[3] https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

I assume this is probably a function of our respective locations, because the most popular stories I see as an 'outsider' are those that would discourage tourism or immigration, not those that would worry already-citizens.

To address your stories specifically, my point would be that I'm still not sure whether this shows the US is notably worse on this than any other place.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal

Was Saddam's Iraq (post Desert Storm when he no longer had the ability to wage offensive war) really that bad compared to what came after?

For a large share of the population, yes, by a huge margin. For an even larger share, no, by a large margin.

Both regimes were deeply racist.

Anyway, I don't think that information entered on the US decision making in any way.

You mean immediately post Desert Storm when this happened? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings

HN really can't handle comments like these huh.

You first, buddy.