bawolff

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by bawolff 7mo ago
This is silly, plenty of wars, even vicious ones, have ended in peace without killing everyone on one of the sides. > This permanent war economy is perfect for Israeli business owners and for the Israeli government. This is obviously not
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> The violations of ceasefires by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon were a clear indication that there was no desire for diplomacy Israel has pretty consistently claimed they never agreed to a ceasefire in lebanon (and nobody is claiming this c
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by bawolff 7mo ago
I agree with most of what you wrote other than the first sentence. Iran is weak right now, relative to the past. That is probably why the war is happening now as opposed to in the past. Nonetheless, Trump has been utterly incompetent on the
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> What leverage does US actually have here? Even Israel for that matter? Arguably, in a continous war setting Iran eventually runs out of money to pay its soldiers or build new misiles. Especially if their oil facilities are bombed. I do
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> The U.S. hasn't even come close to trying to seize the uranium and open the Straight militarily. That's true, but also irrelavent. USA probably could do these things if they tried, given enough time and resources. It seems pr
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by bawolff 7mo ago
That's true of pretty much every ceasefire ever, and both sides are almost certainly taking advantage of the ceasefire to do that. Even ceasefires entered in good faith often collapse so countries always try and reposition stuff during
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Not really surprising to me. Neither side had really backed down from their conflicting demands, at least publicly (albeit keeping track of what trumps public position is, is basically impossible). Maybe something different was being said p
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by bawolff 7mo ago
In fairness, i assume any headline that emphasizes some excessively large storage density is probably at best something useful for archiving and not a replacement for an SSD. If they were targeting latency they would lead with those number
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> Thus, there is no universal taboo against "unlawful eating". That's probably a poor choice of example given cannabilism is pretty uniformly condemned. Even ignoring that, pretty much every society regulates food. The hea
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by bawolff 7mo ago
So your claim is that there is a universal taboo against things that there is a universal taboo against? If your definition of murder is taboo killing, it is very curcular to claim there is a universal taboo against it since by definition i
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Difficulty and block rewards are separate things. There is no contradiction here. Block reward stays constant, amount of work required (on average) to get a block reward is dynamic in order to make it so that total number of rewards given o
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by bawolff 7mo ago
But doesn't that distinction kind of prove the point? Essentially killing people is fine when society approves and not fine when society doesn't implies that there is no built in norm against killing, its just society's &quot
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> Murder = Bad. No disagreement across cultures. Yeah, but almost all cultures consider killing people in war not to be "murder".
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by bawolff 7mo ago
In fairness, i dont think dying to impress a girl is particularly common among humans either.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> They're two similar, but distinct pollutants. They aren't particularly similar. Honestly, the way the two are conflated is quite annoying. You should be terrified of PFAS. You should be mildly worried about microplastics, mos
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by bawolff 7mo ago
TFA also says the police were involved. It seems unlikely MS would call the police just for a flagged account, or that if they did, the police would care.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
According to the post, they called the police (!)
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Wait, reading between the lines it thinks his face is CSAM? I guess its a hash collision, but that is pretty crazy. Sounds like the plot to a scifi dystopia.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
That's my complaint, this page is essentially a meme. And yes, i know enough about computer science to know that making an axinomic system with a short grammar that has a proof that the halting problem is undecidable, isn't partic
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Surely there is a middle ground between a book length treatment and whatever the linked page was that fails to give a definition or motivation.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
I feel like neither of these just give actual formal definitions, which would be much clearer.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Well now it looks like the ceasefire never went into affect at all. Iran never stopped firing and the parties disagree on what was agreed on with regards to lebanon. What a mess.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
[Citation needed] Seriously why would gov use pgp? They would be the last group i would expect to use something like PGP.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Or other countries will see what happens when you try and get nukes and decide they want no part in it. And i dont just mean the war, some estimates say iran has spent 2 trillion dollars trying to get nukes. If they spent that on convention
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> Therefore Iran and North Korea and any others have the right to make nukes. Unlike Israel, they signed the treaty in question though. More to the point though, just because something is technically "legal" doesn't mean o
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> There is no military solution to open the strait. There is no cheap & fast military solution. There are certainly military solutions if you are ok with it taking a while or costing a lot of lives. > Iran has capability to hit ba
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> This 10 point plan is just a place to start talking Its probably not even that. PR statements for public consumption rarely reflect bargaining positions behind closed doors.
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> Israel has illegal nukes They aren't illegal. The nuclear non proliferation treaty is an optional treaty. The nukes are only illegal if you sign it. Israel hasn't. Most countries sign the treaty because it comes with a lot of
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by bawolff 7mo ago
> is that really reason to go to war though? Funding armed groups to essentially make war on your behalf does seem like a valid reason for the person being targeted to go to war. As a general rule, if you shoot someone they will shoot ba
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by bawolff 7mo ago
Although i think they mostly recognize it as customary international law. Nonetheless international law isn't really worth the paper its written on. The bigger thing is there are a bunch of other countries dependent on the strait that

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