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jacquesm01/04/20261 replyview on HN

Because you should update your figures based on past performance.

If you don't see this as anything new then that is not in my power to change. To me it is something new.


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mattmaroon01/04/2026

This isn’t out of line with past performance. We have spent decades toppling regimes. Basically since WW2.

Hows this any different than what we did to Noriega? Saddam? Qaddafi?

That’s my original point, to anyone who is paying attention it’s already been priced in. The method was novel perhaps, but nothing else about it was anything different. I’m not that old and I’ve already seen it happen several times.

If somebody punches you in the face from Monday through Friday, then they punch you in the face on Saturday you probably don’t feel any different about them on Sunday.

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