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by bhouston 4mo ago
Autocracy thrives when there is an enemy to point to. If Iran is integrated into the west it is likely to become less theological and more about just doing business just like China has become more capitalist oriented after Nixon detente. So
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by bhouston 4mo ago
My lessons on 10G networking at home is here: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons
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by bhouston 4mo ago
Yup. Netanyahu tried to get most presidents in the last set to attack Iran and they were smart enough not to.
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by bhouston 4mo ago
There will like be settlements in Lebanon. And then Israel will need an expanded buffer zone and then rinse and repeat.
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by bhouston 4mo ago
Gaza hasn’t got its $10b funding yet so do you really think Iran will get $300B? And remember most of the fund are just confiscated Iranian funds anyhow.
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by bhouston 4mo ago
> So, it's an even worse position for the US than before launching the war. True but continuing the war is worse for Trump. There was no real way to win.
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by bhouston 4mo ago
From who? Trump can not even get the $10B he said would go to Gaza?
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by bhouston 4mo ago
This is nothing significantly different from the Obama P5+1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal
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by bhouston 4mo ago
Is this going to end Israel’s offensive into Lebanon? It isn’t clear. It may be that Israel has permanently expanded its borders into the ethnically cleansed southern Lebanon just like it has into Syria recently. This is what Katz is sa
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Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged(cnn.com)
5 points by bhouston 4mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 4mo ago
I am researching Proof of Possession for API authentication as a means of reducing the impact of credential their: https://ben3d.ca/blog/proof-of-possession-api-tokens
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by bhouston 4mo ago
I wish it has an image of the earth with the assumed density of fungal biomass.
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by bhouston 4mo ago
Isn't this self-dealing? Basically Trump while in office is specifically promoting his own company, and thus increasing his personal wealth? The fact that no one is really blinking means we have really changed.
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A Solution to Rampant Token Theft: Proof of Possession(ben3d.ca)
2 points by bhouston 4mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 4mo ago
It was called here on Hacker News by SilverElfin back in early February (4 months back), and I remember because I agreed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863028
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by bhouston 4mo ago
It is covered in the Financial Times and New York Times as well, but they are paywalled: https://www.ft.com/content/155db8a4-f2ff-463b-9c6c-2b1a81047... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10&#x2F
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US bombs Iran's water facilities(aljazeera.com)
31 points by bhouston 4mo ago|6 comments
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by bhouston 4mo ago
So the port makes sense logically but how easy it is to contribute new features to it? Does the complex memory model (arena) impose complexity?
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by bhouston 5mo ago
You should publish that as a new page. It would be good to have that history.
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A Pro-AI Super PAC's Meme Sockpuppets(twitter.com)
4 points by bhouston 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Is there a long-term Shopify status graph? How common is this lately? I ask because with the major AI push at Shopify lately, I would like to know if it is affecting stability.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
What does protests have to do with Mosque shootings? What does it have to do with those protesting the sales of illegal Israeli settlements in NY City buildings? I have no clue what point you are trying to make.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
TL;DR summary quote from the Manhattan Institute: "Today’s left-wing agitators deploy random acts of lawlessness designed to inconvenience and disrupt as many civilians as possible, hoping to pressure them to get the government to chan
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The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It's Coming for Protests(wired.com)
6 points by bhouston 5mo ago|6 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
It is a little underpowered though compared to modern processors.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Yes, the CPU+GPU+Memory is fused but the rest of it doesn't have to be. These are still separable components and they do cost something: - NVMe drive (or two) - Bright, wide gamut, high resolution screen - Aluminum case - Great keyboa
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> M-series MacBooks stink I've been around a lot of modern MacBooks both in my company and I've also owned a bunch, none of them stunk. I think this is a rare issue. At least it is lower than 1/20, if not much much lower.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> CPU, GPU, and even DRAM sitting on the same "die" This is actually great. The laptop body stays the same and you swap out a small mini circuit board that has the CPU + GPU + DRAM on it. This is the point of the Framework lap
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Amazon MGM Studios Embraces AI: 3 New AI-Created Series Coming(variety.com)
3 points by bhouston 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Ah. So it was English language sources and not English cooking. Got it.

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