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by ble 5y ago
Read a little further down and the description has a different character: the Imperial Japanese Army showed, at best, an indifference to the lives of Japanese and indigenous civilians in Okinawa. Worse than the indifference, they propagand
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by ble 5y ago
What evidence is there, other than propaganda on both sides, that the Japanese were ready to use old people and children in a military defense?
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by ble 5y ago
Thank you for this context! I left the article curious to better understand the author's particular frame.
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by ble 5y ago
While the author may draw some questionable or disputable conclusions, I think he is aware that different parts of the city and different parts of NoVA look very different; it seems like it's part of the point of going for a walk to ma
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by ble 5y ago
> Yeah it makes the people across the river pretty uncomfortable. They like to have their abstract model of a poor victim they support but that often doesn’t jive with reality. Most of them wouldn’t even dare walk through that neighborho
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by ble 5y ago
I appreciate your moderation and I've attempted something reparative: a much more substantive and engaging response.
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by ble 5y ago
I hope the piece wasn't a total turn-off for you. "Uptight" is a subjective judgment and a comparative judgment but I think the author is hitting on something real - though different people might perceive or phrase it in dif
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by ble 5y ago
You are doing a wonderful job of letting someone be wrong on the internet.
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by ble 5y ago
As a native of the DC area familiar with one of these neighborhoods and living right next to the other, the author's descriptions are pleasantly familiar to me. The author seems eager to fit the neighborhoods into his sociological and
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by ble 5y ago
people who are the opposite of uptight are usually okay with unimportant disagreements, like letting other people be wrong in their harmless opinions.
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by ble 5y ago
> The world does not turn on elite cultural panic. Hear hear! I feel it should be said as a bookend: elite media discourse _does_ turn on elite cultural panic.
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by ble 5y ago
Thanks for the link, this is a much clearer example of how prototype pollution can be an important vector. As another commenter noted, if one can directly inject literal JS code that writes to __proto__, you've already got RCE. The cas
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by ble 5y ago
The history of 'scientific' human eugenics is absolutely full of controversies and links to controversial things like involuntary sterilization campaigns, genocides, etc. Oddly, people tend to get touchy when someone starts trying
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by ble 6y ago
Interesting that ships turning off their AIS transponders can still be picked up from their radio or naval radar signals from orbit. It seemed a bit extreme that the single satellite RF detection and localization technique referenced in the
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by ble 6y ago
I suppose you're right, though I'd call it less "fealty" and more "relevance". In this case, it looks like the discussion in the comments flies to a subject that people feel they have familiarity with (satellit
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by ble 6y ago
I see a few comments where people refer exclusively to satellite imagery despite the fact that this story is about RF-detection satellites. Has Hacker News ever flirted with a "commenter did not read the linked story / page but is
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by ble 6y ago
It would be a shame if politicians got some Politics in our politics. /s
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by ble 6y ago
I can imagine some GOP senators voting for this bill but I feel I have to get pretty imaginative to imagine it passing.
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by ble 7y ago
After reading Rampersad's biography of Ellison, I feel like I'll eventually pick the book that this piece reviews. I'm not sold on the idea that Rampersad's biography was being wholly unfair to Ellison, at least on the
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by ble 8y ago
The distinction between different kinds of time is really pretty key to having a clear understanding. Civil time is different from atomic time and different from sidereal time or solar time. Civil time is how people, businesses, and governm
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by ble 8y ago
"Downlink into AWS" would be a clearer name. This is just about passing your data down from orbit and getting it into AWS.
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by ble 8y ago
I'd like to think Shotwell et. al already have a pretty well established convention as to how much Musk is allowed to intervene directly in operation and decision-making. He can pretend that he knows better than automotive engineers bu
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by ble 8y ago
SpaceX is not a public company so I don't see how a ban would affect Musk w/ r.t. SpaceX. also, otoh: think about the good things that could happen to $TSLA when Elon is removed from being a CEO.
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by ble 8y ago
Peer review can't fix broken incentives.
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by ble 8y ago
Why indeed. The article also stated that Google had twice attempted to broker access to the dataset and twice been turned away.
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by ble 8y ago
I'm of the opinion that the complexity of possible human behavior and phenomena is too great to allow for some experiments to be replicated and controlled. There are some scientific facts about humans that you can establish because you
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by ble 8y ago
>There is really no excuse for them not trying to replicate each others studies this whole time I think that this statement fails to account for the incentives for researchers: what kind of things they get success, praise, and support fo
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by ble 8y ago
Can you substantiate this claim? "Doctors and lawyers who strategically go bankrupt to avoid paying student debt" sound like made up boogeymen... boogeymen who perfectly justify parts of the US' 2005 bankruptcy reform.
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by ble 8y ago
The federal government of the United States of America. I feel like your question is supposed to be making a rhetorical point but it has an extremely literal answer as of a few years ago.
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by ble 8y ago
It sounds like you have a hard time putting yourself in this person's shoes. Why are you using a 6-year old account to (not quite) anonymously request assistance with your personnel concern? I'm not going to try to find out who y

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