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The link worked for me just now.
> The United States had on June 30 condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti, urging the government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence.

I’m not up on what’s been happening in Haiti but this one little paragraph at the end here tells the whole story… the same playbook that’s been used again and again.

Don’t see what this has to do with tech.
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I did, and wanted to encourage others to do the same.
Why? This website caters to more than just you and other software engineers.
To be fair to the OP, this probably would be on TV news so is likely to be off-topic. That said, you're right - you only need to flag it. Comments about a post being off-topic are boring and noisy, and flagging a post is sufficient.
I don't see how that intention justifies violating the guideline.
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Little known fact about semiconductors: nobody really knows how they work, beyond that doped substrate, it's all voodoo. And now, a cleansing ritual will have to be performed before our Ryzens turn against us. Again.
Not quite correct. The condensed matter physicists do understand how they work. The problem is it's complicated so the "theory" they teach undergrads is dumbed down to be more palatable.

The sleight of hand comes in where, in the beginning, the "holes" are atoms in the substrate that have lost an electron which, by the time the hall effect appears, those holes are now moving but in the beginning they were stationary.

In fact, in semiconductor physics as taught, both the 'electron' and 'hole' are in fact quasi-particles and only tenuously connected to the electron of the standard model.

I would not have been aware of this news without HN. Thank you for sharing this OP.
Is it unusual to assassinate a president and then not claim responsibility? If you're trying to take power, wouldn't it help if people knew who you were?
JFK, no one did.

Don’t need to publicly claim you did so.

David Runciman's book "How Democracy Ends" covers in great detail how coups are now extremely complicated. The people carrying out a coup often want to deny there was a coup, and that "democracy has prevailed".
>The people carrying out a coup often want to deny there was a coup, and that "democracy has prevailed".

Now beginning at the turn of the 20th century?

Haiti and Dominican Republic - one island - such differing outcomes.
It's almost like half of the island revolted against slavery and has been attacked and robbed for it ever since.