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by Qem 1y ago
Iran was also an ally... until 1979. Saddam was another ally... until 1990, et cetera.
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250621153024/https://www.curre... Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
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by Qem 1y ago
Let me get the full paragraph: > 5.5.2 STATE INTENT The jurisprudence on genocidal intent on the part of a state is more limited. The ICJ has accepted that, in the absence of direct proof, specific intent may be established indirectly by
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by Qem 1y ago
Well, if you have an expansionist apartheid state nearby, bent on seeking any pretense to sabotage or get your infrastructure air raided, higher enrichment factors would make much easier to safeguard fuel, given not high enough to easily ca
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by Qem 1y ago
> Amnesty international emitted report that say "Israel is not commiting genocide according to existing definitions, thus definitions should be changed" Source? Perhaps older report, before the country dropped any pretense of r
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by Qem 1y ago
Your calculations appear to be off by a factor of ~1000. Not half a kiloton, but half a ton (~500kg), assuming fall in a vacuum (upper bound on impact energy): Python 3.10.12 (main, May 27 2025, 17:12:29) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux Type &q
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by Qem 1y ago
> The hard part would be training on them, since training data is not as comprehensive as JavaScript, for example From terse languages surely there is a lot of training data for Perl. Not nearly as terse as J, K or Klong, although.
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by Qem 1y ago
He was lucky being born when there was still a lot of low hanging fruit lying around.
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by Qem 1y ago
The devil is in the details. Where did the land used to plant it came from? What was there before? Deforestation emits a lot of CO2. Fertilizer needs fossil fuels to be manufactured, tractors and harvesters burn diesel, et cetera.
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by Qem 1y ago
Most crops beyond sugarcane in tropical areas lack biomass output high enough to compensate the need for fossil fuel inputs and land use emissions.
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From the wikipedia article[1] on his grandfather: > Tyler and his son Lyon remarried much younger women and fathered children at advanced ages, such that Tyler's daughter Pearl did not die until the 157th year after her father'
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250612142016/https://www.thegu...
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by Qem 1y ago
"Preemptive". Yet I bet later many news outlets will label an eventual iranian response "unprovoked".
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Money not infertility, UN report says: Why birth rates are plummeting(aljazeera.com)
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> AI girlfriends? Let's say, it's still on the fence. Perhaps we already managed to create AGI, but as soon as it woke up, it figured out it's better to pretend being dumb and clumsy, barely helpful enough in most tasks ju
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by Qem 1y ago
I still keep my Alcatel One Touch Fire, from circa 2014, as a keepsake. One funny detail I noticed recently was that its battery was made by BYD, back then an unremarkable brand. So its operating system stalled, but at least the maker of an
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by Qem 1y ago
> they might want to retaliate with sanctions at the very least. Just like what happened to the International Criminal Court recently, when Microsoft tried to obstruct war crimes investigations by blocking their email: https:/&#x2F
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Italy cuts ties with Israeli spyware firm Paragon amid surveillance scandal(aljazeera.com)
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Sparkfox.
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> Now if games were played to make most of the terms expire at the end of the term that's also not okay under any means. I think terms in boards like this should be filled under a different periodicity from the presidential term, pr
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder what are the errors bars for calorie counting, even assuming one measures food intake by weight accurately. Are the reference values in food package labelling any good, or is the variability from one batch to another and variabilit
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Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages (By H. G. Baker, 1992)(xahlee.info)
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From Spain to Mecca on horseback: The men performing Hajj like medieval pilgrims(middleeasteye.net)
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder, given the instances of common diseases that were discovered/strongly suspected recently to have a microbial component (eg. ulcers + heliobacter pylori, Guillain–Barré + cytomegalovirus, Alzheimer + HSV, Several cancers in men
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250604194632/https://www.972ma...
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by Qem 1y ago
> What I am getting at is that most people are not able to initially grasp this nuance, and the fundamental fact is that there IS a threshold of calories where you WILL lose weight no matter what. Once you cross this threshold, the organ
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by Qem 1y ago
He's a flawed human. But his masterpiece, Dilbert, is a gift to humanity. I hope the legacy of his masterpiece will last much longer than that of any BS views he has.
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by Qem 1y ago
Electronic cigarretes should be made at least as bad smelling as the original ones. Without the foul stench that acted as a barrier of entry before, I suspect vaping has potential to eventually get >50% of the population hooked.
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I also wouldn't count prostate cancer on the "conquered" group, as recent news about the great Scott Adams reminds us.
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> sleep loss during child-rearing and menopause The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea is much larger in men than in women. If sleep loss were the only factor we probably would see greater dementia incidence in men, due to long-term c

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