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by berntb 13y ago
You misunderstand what I wrote, it seems? I argue trivial game theory. If brutal dictators can get their way by hurting their own civilians, it will be very bad for a lot of civilians. For a parallel, there would be very few kidnappings if
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by berntb 13y ago
It is funny when you present an argument, like I did a few times here, to a bunch of True Believers which can't disprove it -- and they instead down vote you. :-) You're funny enough to be worth the Karma, idealists. You do make m
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by berntb 13y ago
I don't see any relevance. I showed your Poland argument wrong, re WWII. Since you lack better arguments, you're going to make me drag up definitions for casus belli and discuss this a long time, I take it? But I don't need t
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by berntb 13y ago
>> How do you differ from "If you don't censor your newspapers about the Archduke's death, we will invade?" If you make a bad argument, admit it. Don't equate declaring a defence alliance with making threats o
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by berntb 13y ago
>>exterminated millions and millions of lives Wow, many times more than the Wikileaks data and even the most extreme academics. HN is going downhill :-(
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by berntb 13y ago
>>If you hear that someone is abusive to their 5 children, is your solution to cut their wages in half? My point was that it is very, very bad to let dictators use their own civilians' suffering as an argument. But you knew that.
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by berntb 13y ago
Wasn't there an ultimatum re WWII that if you start this war -- then we are part of it? That is, joining an attacked ally in an existing war.
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by berntb 13y ago
You still ignore every argument I wrote. Including the internal documents (Wikileaks). So I'll not add more arguments, just a quick note: AGAIN -- IBC write explicitly they are a lower bound. Claims 7-14 times greater than the IBC do n
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by berntb 13y ago
I answered someone arguing that legally -- someone that starts a war is absolutely responsible for the effects. But then he turned around and wrote that one group was responsible for starting a war they weren't really involved in, exc
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by berntb 13y ago
Blix I know about of course, a good source. But he did work for the UN, where quite a few of the parts still are taken over by dictators not criticising each others. (See UNHRC on Wikipedia, for instance. It is the less bad successor of wha
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by berntb 13y ago
Uh, I can't see how that is relevant to the specific points I raised. (It isn't relevant to talk about someone else using the IBC data in a way IBC don't recommend. And there were lots of criticism before, see the first Lance
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by berntb 13y ago
Oh my god, conspiracy theories abound on HN now. :-( Living in Western Europe, life is busy. I spend all my time implementing conspiracies against Russia, Pakistan, etc, etc... In fact against all countries which are controlled by authorita
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by berntb 13y ago
I remember this hilarious reality check from the Iraq Body Count project. I never saw it answered... Do you have a link? http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/reality-checks/ This was also quite funny:
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by berntb 13y ago
>>I clearly remember how all that WMD stuff was obvious propaganda at the time. Interesting, do you have references? To me, it seems really hard to distinguish "obvious propaganda" from low details due to protection of intel
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by berntb 13y ago
>>since without the invasion, there wouldn't have been a civil war. Uh... This happened: A starts a war W with B. As a follow on effect, some groups inside B starts a civil war W2 with others in B. You say that A is responsible f
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Because of the sanctions in the 90's there were also up to half a million excess deaths of children aged under 5 Saddam wanted to get rid of the sanctions, it was in his direct interest to inflate the statistics. (There were re
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by berntb 13y ago
I live[d] in Sweden. There has been lots of immigration. You can describe the present situation like that the Social democrat party is actively courting the religious muslim vote and pushing homophobia and anti semitism under the carpet. Th
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by berntb 13y ago
Good linux support seems common with Dell these days? Looks nice, I'll compare that to the Mac competition next year when I change my Latitude e5520. The Latitude has non-glare FHD screen for less money. (Bought an SSD separately.) Onl
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by berntb 13y ago
You're preaching to the quire. I'm from Scandinavia. We're generally not like the more ... well, talkative cultures. Point was, I'm so "lapp-sjuk" ("Same disease", lack of human seeing humans) daily,
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by berntb 13y ago
Oh, how things change. Time was, that comment wouldn't need to be written. Let me note that Halo was made by Bungie, a Mac company. It was going to come out for Macs, but it went Xbox after Bungie was bought. Everyone with monopoly mon
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by berntb 13y ago
I'm an introvert, but people around me don't realize that. Too little social interactions is bad for me and at work I sit most of the day with headphones and keyboard. When I go get coffee or lunch, I need my socializing dose.
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by berntb 13y ago
Sadly, that term seems to have fallen out of use -- I have had to explain it to lots of young computer people in Cluj. :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
This has been discussed often, some web sites keep cost statistics. For example, Google: living costs london cluj (I was outsourced to Cluj, Transylvania in Romania. I recommend it. 250 Euro/month for a nice, central 50 m2 apartment. P
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Can somebody who disliked Python please tell me their reasons for doing so? Well, for one thing -- the programming language culture seems to have something rotten [as in cult like] in it, if people really find it surprising that any
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by berntb 13y ago
A friend of mine grew up in Norrland and sings punk. Long ago, when I talked to her about the obvious superiority of Death Metal and why Meshuggah is the Answer, she said -- "Oh, drool... some of those cute boys were a few classes be
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by berntb 13y ago
I'm Swedish, like metal and only got 18 of 20. [Edit: Time to get more into Black Metal :-) ] (My absolute favorite Swedish [Technical] Death Metal is Meshuggah -- complex, fast.)
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by berntb 13y ago
>>The software that runs these industries just happens to be written upon an MS platform due to a number of unfortunate market incidences that forced other OS players out of the game for less than technical reasons. It should also be
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by berntb 13y ago
At least anyone trying to port your code to Windows will be a bit surprised... :-) Edit: Or /.*BSD/. :-(
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by berntb 13y ago
There is a problem at the other end, after the clinical trials, if a problem is found in use. There were complaints about memory damage for Lipitor for over a decade, without public warnings (the warnings came recently, a while after the pa
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by berntb 13y ago
6 weeks?! That is the worst I've heard since 1999, a year or two before all the software jobs disappeared...

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