Sporktacular

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by Sporktacular 1y ago
"people with hostile drones inbound" People under treat will justify all sorts of things. It's up to everyone else to to balance whether their response is reasonable.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
I'm as against the genocide as you can be, but what you are saying is historically completely inaccurate. Discrimination against Jews is old, older than Israel or Zionism. The arguments against the land theft and genocide are strong en
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Genocide is not the same as extermination. The goal of expulsion is to obtain land. Surveillance programs facilitate ethnic cleansing by countering resistance.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Reading the article you'll see that much of the surveillance is against the West Bank population, which has nothing to do with Hamas or Oct 7. Israel has been very effective at blurring that distinction, using that attack from Gaza as
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Arguing that mass surveillance is not unethical but actually a way to save lives is pretty disingenuous, absurdly so considering how little the country wielding it cares about collateral damage.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Cue the victimhood - how unfair it is that the IDF gets singled out for doing what every military does - how Israel is the real victim here.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
It's not. They are used for SIP gateways and calling card services all the time. Against TOS but hardly an illegitimate use.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
So they find some SIM boxes and assume terrorism? It's the way calling card services offer cheap rates to various countries. They suck from a cell planning POV but they're hardly nefarious.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
This feels slight of hand - like redefining what a written language is in order to claim discovery of a new record. There were older ways of communication, but to be a writing system it needs symbolise a spoken language.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
It's been suggested that cuneiform was driven by exactly that.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
I take Gaza and censorship very seriously, am comfortable here and am happy to stand behind every comment I've made.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Naver and Kakao lists businesses for free but offers paid services to businesses for enhanced visibility and operations. Their combined annual revenues is around 10 billion USD. And the apps still suck. They could do with some competition.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
If other countries give market access to Korean companies, then as a member of the WTO, South Korea's non-reciprocity comes with significant penalties. This isn't about nimble startups being protected against Google and Apple. It&
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Pretty good summary of the arguments here: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/travel/south-korea-google... Of course the pearl clutching by Korean mega-corporations that Google would behave monopolistica
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
It was flagged 20 minutes into being posted, and was respectful until that time. Really, stop lying.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Ah, this comment was apparently too much too. All, very quickly as well. The threshold for taking down a post should be higher. Seriously, do the people doing this think they're doing Israel any favours? Everyone knows about the Hasbar
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Ah, got it. Thanks.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
No matter how civilised the discourse, for some it's too much. Is there a way to take away the veto of any 10 people who don't like what they see?
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Was there a threshold as to why it wasn't one last month, for example.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Couldn't find the actual light levels associated with relative most/least bright.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
That's not clear at all. What is clear is an apparent impulse to shut down an unfavourable discussion and throw unproven accusations. There are lots of articles on non-tech posts on HN, you haven't shown he's unfair.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
There is no such thing as an unavoidable war crime. Reporting is one way they are brought to light. Commenters are allowed to discuss the validity of the claims, whatever their reasoning. You have decided to believe the Israeli military, ot
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Good. Because a couple dozen people are not the whole community and should not get to decide what's allowed to be discussed by the rest.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Funny how exiling Gazans to the West Bank is out of the question. It's almost as if they have designs on the entirety of it.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Perhaps it shouldn't be up to Israel to decide the future of non-citizens then.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
You don't decide what's on topic or the spirit of HN. If anyone does it's Deng, who you're arguing with. Sorry you feel the need to decide what adults can talk about.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
"all"
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Irrelevant. Israel is obliged to not prevent civilians from receiving food, water and medicine. If it can't do so without 'aiding' Hamas, that's Israel's problem.
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Before levelling claims of bias and racism, consider that the reporting is by a Jewish run, Israeli newspaper and that the sources are IDF officers and soldiers. To jump to a claim of anti-semitism suggestions you really need to examine you
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but under the previous process, submitting a policy with an update freezes it to a specific version. That holds the developer to account at least for that update.

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