alkyon

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by alkyon 1y ago
I didn't mention any HN rules, so you're mainly arguing with yourself. Shooting at mothers trying to get humanitarian aid for their starving children does not fulfil any definition of war I am aware of. Read history books yourself
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by alkyon 1y ago
Stop telling lies about Gaza conflict being "war". Israeli military has absolute superiority over Palestinians. What it is is a genocidal campaign meant to wipe them off the face of the Earth. Also, stop using the Holocaust as a p
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by alkyon 1y ago
They suspended they nuclear program 20 years ago. Still they keep enriching uranium as a kind of insurance policy. This is what US intelligence has been saying for years (as opposed to Israel who has vested interest in denying this).
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by alkyon 1y ago
If anything, the lack of competence is on the other side. Was enriched uranium destroyed? I doubt it. Have they even "obliterated" Fordow site buried 90 m deep inside the mountain? I have serious doubts. Iran's nuclear progra
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by alkyon 1y ago
To me Highsmith's fiction is more about psychology than suspense. It's not Agatha Christie, where you have no clue about what happens next or that the judge is the killer.
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by alkyon 1y ago
I would be surprised if the size doesn't matter in this case. On the one hand, tiny black holes tend to be rather short-lived. On the other, I suppose some threshold mass/energy is needed to generate a child universe that doesn&#x
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by alkyon 1y ago
The linked article about toxic blue-ringed octopus is even more interesting. https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/14/occasional-paper-the-in...
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by alkyon 1y ago
It's kind of insulting to the reader that they explain P complexity class without using the word polynomial ("all problems that can be solved in a reasonable amount of time")
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by alkyon 2y ago
Now you can upgrade to cat clock! What I once used at work was XScreenSaver, getting a lot of admiring views/comments from passers-by.
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by alkyon 2y ago
"Perhaps someone told Zelensky that Trump doesn’t read much, and reacts to images". This redneck has no empathy whatsoever and it's not fit to lick Zelenskyy boots. What he should read is Vonnegut and especially a chapter fro
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by alkyon 2y ago
Paid traitors are repaying their debts, hopefully they'll get what they deserve.
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by alkyon 2y ago
In no time it will be forked with the new name to make it even greater
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by alkyon 2y ago
Then we have read different canons of history textbooks. Engels used his inherited wealth to promote socialism just as Bernie could use his moderate wealth to promote social democracy. I don't see any contradiction here.
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by alkyon 2y ago
In the US they have the check & balances mechanism to ensure against "Who will watch the watchmen" problem. Still with the current president they are already being put through their paces. The constitution could be weakened by
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by alkyon 2y ago
Bernie Sanders if anything is a social democrat and certainly he is a poor man compared to Trump, Musk & affiliates. His net worth is "only" 3 million dollars, if you serve half a century in Congress you could accumulate this
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by alkyon 2y ago
One of the oldest representations of human face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy This Wikipedia article gives an example of a similar ivory figurine from Upper Paleolite, dated 26,000 - 24,000 BC.
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by alkyon 2y ago
I never actually heard about Pankaj Mishra, but the after reading this text I immediately ordered his new book. The attitude towards Gaza (with all the complexity of the subject) is a litmus test of humanity nowadays, just as it used to be
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Philip K. Dick: The Top Ten SF Novels(guysalvidge.wordpress.com)
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by alkyon 2y ago
"I could already see my salary doubling in front of my eyes" Where do they mention that they're unemployed now? A sufficiently strong candidate can afford to wait a litle bit more.
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by alkyon 2y ago
Failing this interview saved the candidate from working for a crappy company, doubling their salary isn't really worth it. Why on earth would the interviewer think that 0 is not a multiple of 3 and 5?
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by alkyon 2y ago
South Africa has currently so warm relations with Russia that Hungary is the only EU country that would not block its accession in this surreal scenario.
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by alkyon 2y ago
Finished Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator last year - what an excellent read! By Harris I also enjoyed Fatherland, his alternative history detective novel.
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by alkyon 2y ago
What a nonsense - Poland actually had full lockdown and did close schools during the pandemic (the English word is not pandemia but pandemic BTW). From Wikipedia: On 10–12 March 2020 lockdown-type control measures were implemented, closing
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by alkyon 2y ago
With low fructose content (less then carrots per 100g), it's not a stupid choice. Naturally, if you don't binge on it, otherwise 2-3 slices daily won't kill you. I mean wholegrain, sourdough bread, to be precise.
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by alkyon 2y ago
Math meets art, this is exactly what I thought too. Was always fascinated by Hilbert curves.
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by alkyon 2y ago
There are studies that support this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779525/ Conclusions: A pooled analysis of available randomized controlled clinical trials demonstrated that Vitamin B2 400 mg/day for three mo
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by alkyon 2y ago
Do you expect him to tatoo a word "racist" on his forehead (in kanji)? That you even dare to quote this pseudo scientific crook is just mind boggling. Relevant quote: What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the
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by alkyon 2y ago
Maybe parent was referring to the studies by Lynn, a self-declared "scientific racist". I think that despite lower IQ scores on average South Korea has been consistently beating Japan in go in the recent years, and more importantl
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by alkyon 2y ago
Lang Lang doesn't need further promotion, but still his showmanship is really not in the spirit of Chopin's muisc. I would like to hear an interpretation of it by someone who won International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in the r
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by alkyon 2y ago
This is not about handwriting, the key thing is that this really sounds like Chopin - a true signature is there even if not written by hand. I can't recommend more Alan Walker's "Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times", which

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