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811.
by bawolff 8mo ago
It does, but the primary concern is iran stopping oil transit by other countries in the strait of hormuz, not their own oil. Which they did just start to do.
812.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Because of their conventional military.
813.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Rational negotiations have to be based on the relative power of the parties. It made sense for iran to try to negotiate with the US because the alternative was a war they had no chance to win. Arguably it also made sense for them to not com
814.
by bawolff 8mo ago
But russia-ukraine is also a much more contained war between 2 parties that will likely end in a stalemate. The middle east is a much more tangled web of alliances and hatreds, i think the iranian regime falling would have much more harder
815.
by bawolff 8mo ago
>You need to look closer at how the government is trying to use the 'supply chain risk' designation. Hegseth said this: >> Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United Stat
816.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> Is it a principled stand or not I believe that anthropic is trying to frame it that way. My point is that if you accept their framing then this whole thing falls apart. That is true regardless of if its actually principled or not. >
817.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Tu quoque
818.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> So when is the US intervening in Ukraine then? Did you miss the absolute massive amounts of aid US has given ukraine? Regardless, there is a difference between how war is justified and why wars actually take place.
819.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Whether it will in this case i don't know. But yes, i do think sometimes war can be a net positive for civilians over the alternative in the long term. Not often, but sometimes.
820.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> The US and Israel are currently nuclear blackmail states. Neither of these states have at any point said anything on the modern era that can be implied to be a threat to nuke anybody. Part of that is because it would be a bad strategy
821.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Its probably not the reason they are attacking (except in as much that it makes the iranian regime vulnerable). However i would say that yes, humanitarian intervention is one of the only non self-defense justifications for war that anyone h
822.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> What are they trying for? Regime change in Iran? Seems like it. I can't imagine what else they might try for. I suppose USA might think some shock and awe will result in iran making concessions at the bargaining table, but that se
823.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I think its incredibly difficult to get confirmed numbers in a situation like that. I do think its on the higher end though as i dont think they would have bothered with a costly extended internet blackout if the number was small.
824.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Otoh, what russia desperately needs in the short term is oil prices to go up, so there is probably a major silver lining for them.
825.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Isn't it a literal supply chain risk, though? They want their products to not be used for some purposes. That's fine, that is their right. But that doesn't just stop at direct purchases. If the US buys from a defense contract
826.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I'm of the opinion that anthropic's "moral" stances are bullshit, not particularly coherent when you dig deep and more about branding. If so, this is grade A marketing. They want to present themselves as moral. What bett
827.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Have we banned advertising tk minors on tv shows aimed at minirs? Are barbie/action hero/etc commercial showing kids having fun with barbies on channels whose primary demo is children no longer a thing? Technology has never been t
828.
by bawolff 8mo ago
All the better to do targeted advertisments and underdeveloped minds!
829.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I used to hate the google AI summaries, but recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful. Especially when my search query is looking up something basic from the docs (like say library function name or argument orde
830.
by bawolff 8mo ago
That's super interesting, but at the same time, i think the primary concern is not if they are literally the same but if a user is likely to confuse them in a small font you dont have control over in a place they are not likely to pay
831.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> There were three hostages in his father’s apartment. He was also staying there, but the home belonged to his father. Does it matter who owns the apartment? It seems likely based on this description he could be deemed as participating.
832.
by bawolff 8mo ago
The post used the phrase "all known conflicts in the history of the world". Is world war 2 not a known conflict? I do not know how many journalists were killed in most conflicts. I do know more than 242 were killed during world wa
833.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I think UCA using a collation tailored for search would be the closest to what you are looking for
834.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I feel like for search, NFKD and then remove all the combining characters would be a better bet than NFKC. Of course there are also purpose specific algorithms for preparing text for search that would be even better.
835.
by bawolff 8mo ago
> Battle of Fallujah Which one? There was five, and they generally were pretty bloody. For the second battle of Fallujah (seems like the one you are talking about), US estimated that most civilians had already left the city. However that
836.
by bawolff 8mo ago
This list seems to include people who were journalists but weren't killed while acting in the capacity of a journalist (as far as i can tell). If this is how you define journalist then world war 2 was certainly much much deadlier for j
837.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Hmm, i googled it and i guess you were right. I suppose subjectively it was something i didn't particularly notice at the time.
838.
by bawolff 8mo ago
Without the witness we probably wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
839.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I think he's saying that this is par for the course for asymmetric conflicts with deeply rooted insurgent groups. So if you are going to say the handling of this conflict has more to do with Israeli training/mindset/etc and i
840.
by bawolff 8mo ago
I don't really think that follows. 5 minutes is a really short period of time, i can easily believe that a convoy of combatants might not return fire in that time period, especially if taken by surprise at night and the people shooting

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