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by cherry_tree 1y ago
You are commenting on a propaganda article. You have posted the same authors links before. You consume hacker news at all. Your implicit assertion that you consume no propaganda itself belies your naïveté to politics as a subject.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
>are still not an occupation >if Please provide evidence for your conclusion that it’s not an occupation; My source was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gaza... Full quote being: >The Un
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
> when Israel gave Gaza to the Gazans You’re so deep in propaganda you don’t even see how this sentence demonstrates the entire issue huh?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
> Israel still maintains direct control over Gaza's air and maritime space, six of Gaza's seven land crossings, a no-go buffer zone within the territory, and the Palestinian population registry
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
What do you think McCarthyism is?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
IMHO the problem with flagging on HN is its ability to kill a discussion thread in its infancy, preventing most users from ever seeing its existence or having the opportunity for discussion. Flagging should be just that; a flag for the mode
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
https://cert-manager.io/docs/configuration/acme/dns01/#deleg...
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
HN discussion of Hochuls actions at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629397
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
See also: Volkswagen emissions test scandal
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
I’m not sure the typical small business owner is thinking about the second and third order effects of reducing their labor costs from a Kantian categorical imperative perspective.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
There was a recent talk about using vision language models to train robots to do household tasks: https://youtu.be/a8-QsBHoH94 I wonder how advanced world models like genie 3 would change the approach if it all.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
>often don't endorse So you do not condemn the behavior of the illegal settlements?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
The state of Oregon does not provide trash pickup.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
But isn’t your assertion equally indirect? “I don’t buy from Mexican farmers because they are extorted by cartels and forced to give them money which they in turn use to fund activities I don’t approve of” Vs “I don’t buy from American farm
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
And I think that’s why the parent used the word “indirectly”. By supporting US industry you are indirectly supporting the US government and its actions, because those taking part in commerce in America pay taxes which support the US governm
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
That the US funds brutal cartels?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
If the Iranian people overthrow the regime I agree; that’s not what you are saying though. You are suggesting that Israel should overthrow the regime. You must understand from the last 20+ years of history that this would not be productive.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
Are you referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran%E2%80%93Israel_con... ? Or can you provide more information about Iran attacking Israel everyday in 2025? (Not to say that a few months means this conflict
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
Which of the three points are you suggesting “Iran supplies arms to the houthis in Yemen” satisfies in the above criteria to justify the preemptive attack in Tehran?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/war/just/preemptive.shtml#:~:te... > One ethical expert (Michael Walzer) has put forward some conditions that he thinks must be satisfied to justify a pre-emptive strike: >a
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. It’s too bad the “good hackers” have moved on and been replaced by selfish, money obsessed business fanatics.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
>Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a loanword from German. Schadenfreude has been de
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
No the problem is you have built nothing and are already imagining yourself on a pile of gold complaining about taxes.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
“I want to contribute to society, but if I earn more than X Millions of dollars 1% of my wealth will be taxed” I guess don’t try to contribute to society then. What you are describing isnt a hacker mentality, it’s one of an MBA graduate who
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
>A consent decree doesn't give the White House binding control over Columbia; it gives a federal judge that control. It’s gives the judge control to enforce the White House’s decree. What meaningful distinction are you making?
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
>Go developers seem to have taken no more than 5 minutes considering the problem, then thoughtlessly discarded it The issue you linked was opened in 2019 and closed with no new comments in 2023, with active discussion through 2022.
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by cherry_tree 1y ago
George W Bush first term is “the left” now?
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by cherry_tree 2y ago
In most societies in the world today you must have a job to survive and to support the survival of one’s family. Imho it is not morally wrong to do anything you need to do to achieve gainful employment so that you and your family can surviv
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by cherry_tree 2y ago
If Americans believed this there wouldn’t ever have been a problem.
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by cherry_tree 2y ago
Is one due the right to potable water at a tap at their home? Or is purified water a service offered by the government as one source of many available to the us population? Are you not allowed to pay for bottled water instead of paying your

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