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by dlubarov 1y ago
It's not a perfect solution, but at least GHF is distributing aid directly to civilians who receive it for free, unlike the old system. > Prior to October 2023 there were 400 aid stations in Gaza requiring 500 truckloads of aid Why
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by dlubarov 1y ago
GHF has ramped up to distributing about 3 million meals per day now. Reportedly 58 Gazans have starved during the conflict [1], implying an FMR of something like 0.0005. Any starvation is awful, but it's nothing compared to global aver
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If there's some universal principle underlying your treatment of the US, I wouldn't really call that a double standard, assuming the principle is based on things like economic or military capabilities and not race, national identi
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How so? Double standards for the only Jewish state seems like a pretty clear example of antisemitism, at least. (It's usually difficult to decisively prove that someone is applying a double standard, but I think here we're assumin
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Not really, they're responding to what they consider an existential threat against them. If you were to ask them to justify the legality of their operation, the argument would presumably be based on self-defense (Article 51), not the N
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I wouldn't say such a universal expectation exists; NPT itself has a mechanism for states to withdraw based on "the supreme interests of its country". Countries with generally unthreatening neighbors might be expected to sign
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by dlubarov 1y ago
What do you mean about defiance of the NPT? Israel isn't a party to it; Iran is a party but hasn't complied with it.
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It's an unverified quote which Netanyahu denied saying. In any case, Israel never funded Hamas as many claim; they allowed aid from Qatar which is pretty different.
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So just to clarify, when you said "Palestinians are not allowed", you meant that they are allowed but might experience racism? Why not say that? > how many non-jewish Israelis do you think live in these neighborhoods Both Ramat
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by dlubarov 1y ago
By Palestinians do you mean Palestinian nationals? Palestinians who are Israeli citizens are certainly allowed Ramat Eshkol, like any other community.
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> The ICC specifically ordered Israel to introduce immediate measures to prevent genocide. Can you quote the order you're referring to? That doesn't sound right, ICC would have no authority (under its own rules) to issue injunc
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This isn't accurate, genocide isn't among the charges that the ICC is trying to prosecute Netanyahu for. Khan's initial list of charges included extermination, but that was rejected by the pre-trial chamber. Do you mean the I
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They didn't actually declare the genocide claim plausible, but rather the Palestinian's right to be protected from genocide. At least that was the then-president's interpretation - > “It did not decide - and this is someth
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I think it's just understood that the flotilla is performative. Their supplies are negligible, and in any case there's no shortage of supplies at the borders of Gaza. The challenge was never procuring aid, but getting it to civili
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by dlubarov 1y ago
You said "assassinations by the IDF", not just "assassinations". You also mentioned "directly funding Hamas" which isn't accurate. You might be thinking of when Israel facilitated a transfer of funds from
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Hamas' feelings about the case aren't really relevant to jurisdiction, partly because the ICC doesn't recognize Gaza as a state, and partly since Hamas hasn't accepted the ICC's jurisdiction. The latter would requir
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Yeah, the ICC considers itself to have jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-parties if they're within the territory of a party to the Rome Statute. Here the argument goes that the State of Palestine is a party, and Gaza is somehow
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by dlubarov 1y ago
You're saying Netanyahu runs The Times of Israel..?
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I think that's the best practice, also for avoiding condensation, but isn't it pretty uncommon at least for residential builds in the US? Here in Washington, codes were recently changed to require continuous insulation, but I beli
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by dlubarov 1y ago
Air has very low thermal conductivity, so for a lot of materials, thermal conductivity is primarily a function of how much air they contain and how it's structured (ideally in tiny pockets to minimize heat transfer through convection).
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Yes, but if it's a much worse insulator, the extra heat transfer through studs might be more significant? I'm not sure if it's been measured, but I imagine this densified wood would probably have at least twice the thermal co
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by dlubarov 1y ago
I wouldn't say there any major technical hurdles to bootstrapping PoS, the project just has to decide where the initial tokens should go - insiders, ICO, airdrops, etc. Many modern chains have been PoS from the start, like Cardano, Sol
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by dlubarov 1y ago
He wasn't ignoring anything, he was pointing out that that criticism is based on outdated information. Almost all modern blockchain designs (from the past ~10 years) do not promote energy waste via PoW. It's fine to point out the
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I wouldn't necessarily say that the State of Palestine is not a real state, but it just isn't a state whose territory includes Gaza under any reasonable interpretation, despite what some international lawyers say. It's unprec
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With the ICC's indictment of Putin, my understanding is that at the time Ukraine hadn't formally ratified the Rome Statue yet (so the clause I quoted wouldn't apply), but they had accepted the ICC's jurisdiction in a mor
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by dlubarov 1y ago
The jurisdictional argument you're alluding to is based on this bit of the Rome Statute: > the Court may exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are Parties to this Statute ... (a) The State on the territory
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by dlubarov 1y ago
> He makes excuses about Linux market share when asked why Fortnite isn't on the Steam Deck, then ships a build for Windows ARM. What's the implication here, that he has some personal vendetta against Linux? A sibling comment s
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The vast majority of Jews are Zionists, and the two topics are inextricably linked. What would expect antisemitic bias on Wikipedia to look like? What would you accept as evidence?
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Egypt's naval blockade was secondary. Israel struck preemptively mainly because it was clear that Egypt intended to invade, between the 100,000 troops they amassed near Israel's border, and Nasser's statements which left no d
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by dlubarov 1y ago
As a long-term editor, this is pretty off base. The discussion [1] that led to Grayzone being deprecated had almost nothing to do with Israel/Palestine. Meanwhile most Israel/Palestine articles are driven by Al Jazeera, Middle Eas

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