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by bjourne 1y ago
That is patently false. Publicly, the Yishuv was against underground organizations. Privately, there was much cooperation and coordination. For example, Haganah handed Deir Yassin as a target to Irgun because they knew their fighters were i
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by bjourne 1y ago
Your calculations are completely wrong because what you need to charge your clients to survive is not your take home salary. The assistant has many expenses that needs to be covered. You'd need to double or triple that 10k figure. Besi
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by bjourne 1y ago
If Irgun and the Stern gang didn't have popular support it would have been trivial for the Haganah to disarm them at any point in the 1940's. Instead, the Haganah frequently cooperated with the irredentist groups. The "good c
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by bjourne 1y ago
Maybe my perspective is slanted, but it seems that nobility was way more badass back then. Nowadays they just hide out in Saint-Tropez, Monaco, or chill on their yachts and don't care much about the world.
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by bjourne 1y ago
I hear you are not actually addressing my argument? Stopping Windows Updates would do more short and long-term damage to the Chinese economy than embargoing rare earth metal exports ever will.
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by bjourne 1y ago
It is not realistic to expect a modern supply chain to be completely uninterruptible. The US has large stockpiles of (not very) rare earth metals and there are multiple ways of acquiring them in case China stops exporting. If China ever emb
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by bjourne 1y ago
no
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An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods [video](youtube.com)
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by bjourne 1y ago
According to Wikipedia between 25 and 33 thousand Bosnians and Croats were killed in the Bosnian genocide. Thus your argument doesn't hold, unless you contend that there was no genocide in Bosnia either.
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by bjourne 1y ago
It's part of a broader phenomena: feelings over facts. Doesn't matter how many commissions say it's genocide and how much evidence is presented, people don't "feel" it is true, therefore it is not true. Zero di
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by bjourne 1y ago
You can't. 10k articles are published daily. It's doubtful you'll have time to even download them all.
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That's why I wrote "generally". There are many countries, subjects, and years of education to compare so you can always find some statistic that bucks the trend.
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by bjourne 1y ago
I agree and I don't think gender-segregated schooling is a wise idea. But the argument is Kryptonite to those who favor school segregation because they realize that they more likely than not would end up in the loser group. Works wo
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by bjourne 1y ago
If it's trivially untrue find me a Western country where boys generally do better than girls. I'll wait!
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by bjourne 1y ago
Yes, water is wet and all that. The harm done by Google and others by running ads for casino sites is probably much greater than the harm done by running Israeli propaganda. However, that battle has already been lost, in a way, and Google w
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by bjourne 1y ago
Try writing a comment alleging that Israel is an apartheid state and see how long it stays up.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Google and Meta penalized and curbed Covid vaccine misinformation. No reason they cannot do the same with state-sponsored Zionazi propaganda.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Well, Mojo hasn't been released so we can't precisely say what it can and can't do. If it can emit CUDA code then it does it by transpiling Mojo into CUDA. And there is no reason why Python can't also be transpiled to CU
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by bjourne 1y ago
Yes, they kinda do. The computational graph you specify is completely different from the execution schedule it is compiled into. Whether it's 1, 2, or N kernels is irrelevant as long as it runs fast. Mojo being an HLL is conceptually n
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by bjourne 1y ago
> Why can't there be a language which is both as easy to write as Python, but can still express GPU kernels for ML applications? That's what Mojo is trying to be through clever use of LLVM MLIR. It already exists. It is called
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Ask HN: Where do you find free music?
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by bjourne 1y ago
It’s hard to understand what you’re actually asking here. Right now your post is too vague — you hint at a problem, but don’t give enough detail for anyone to meaningfully respond. On HN, it really helps if you spell out exactly what you me
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by bjourne 1y ago
> In a less alarmist take: this could also be read to show that AI use effectively simplifies the essay writing process by reducing cognitive load, therefore making essays easier and more accessible to a broader audience but that would r
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Python logging made (stupidly) simple(github.com)
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by bjourne 1y ago
I think the amount of whines proved the inclusivity people right. Fwiw, in git the main branch doesn't dominate the other branches and it is not an expert so it is not a master. It is main in the same way the main street in a city is m
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by bjourne 1y ago
If you're talking about bash the shell scripting language then yes. In fact, I assert that removing dumb "features" is the only way to make it better.
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by bjourne 1y ago
What? Most people are either incapable or unwilling to run their own mail servers. People could hack together their own social media or messaging sites in PHP, that doesn't mean Facebook and Twitter aren't centralized. That's
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by bjourne 1y ago
Sure, but how many email users have a reverse DNS entry or even know what that is? DKIM? It is, de facto, beyond the reach of 99.9 % of all email users.
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by bjourne 1y ago
So we are not decentralized. Git was a good attempt, but it kind of got centralized around GitHub, GitLab, and other variants. BitTorrent was decentralized, except tracker sites were the natural centralization points. Bitcoin was also decen

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