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by dlubarov 1y ago
It's not documenting historical facts about Israel that's problematic, it's using that history to justify calls for the destruction of Israel. Does anyone cite the Thirty Years' War to advocate for the destruction of Ger
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by dlubarov 2y ago
For example, the university appointed Joseph Massad to teach a class on Zionism. Check out his article about the "astounding", "awesome" massacre on Oct 7 by the "innovative Palestinian resistance" (Hamas) - h
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by dlubarov 2y ago
You don't believe that Jews were ethnically cleansed from Muslim countries? Considering Egypt for example, what else would we call the expulsion of 25,000 Jews? Morocco in particular didn't have an explicit state policy of ethnica
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by dlubarov 2y ago
On what basis are you asserting that no explanation for her detainment was provided? Or by explanation, do you mean a public announcement? But let's say for the sake of argument that no explanation was provided, even privately to her a
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by dlubarov 2y ago
AFAIK the state has not explained why Ozturk's visa was terminated. The idea that it was because of an op-ed seems to be speculation by her supporters. I wouldn't be confident that a better justification exists, but we shouldn&#x2
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by dlubarov 2y ago
There are other ways to encourage spending though, like a wealth tax. Not that I necessarily support it, but that would be the more comprehensive solution to hoarding, since it couldn't be worked around by just exchanging fiat for othe
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Were the Houthis actually concerned with the legal or ethical status of Israel's operations though? They do have "Curse be upon the Jews" on their slogan... Even if their cause was noble, rewarding piracy seems like a bad pre
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Jimmy Wales has no involvement in editing such articles. The Wikipedia Foundation doesn't involve itself in such matters either. For example, when concerns were raised about the ADL (a Jewish NGO) being banned as a source, they respond
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by dlubarov 2y ago
As a WP editor, the anti-Israeli editors have become a very strong majority, making it a poor source of objective information. For example the first paragraph of the Zionism article now reads: "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state
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by dlubarov 2y ago
It's a stretch to call Screams Without Words debunked. There were fierce attempts to poke holes in it and frame it as debunked, but no real evidence of any inaccuracies. The NYT stands by it: "We remain confident in the accuracy o
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Wikipedia's neutrality has become a joke when it comes to Israel-related topics. For an obvious example, the first paragraph of the Zionism article says "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as
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by dlubarov 2y ago
AGI wouldn't necessarily entail any autonomy or goals though. In principle there could be a superintelligent AI that's completely indifferent to such outcomes, with no particular goals beyond correctly answering question or what n
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by dlubarov 2y ago
> Precisely zero civilian casualties inside Israel proper since Oct 8th I don't see why it would make sense to ignore the Israelis killed on Oct 7, which was very much part of the war. In any case, lots of wars are fought on one sid
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by dlubarov 2y ago
You agree with which part? Hopefully not the part about only counting hospital deaths, which was inaccurate (I'm sure it was an honest mistake). Not trying to minimize the suffering that's happening, but it's important to hav
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by dlubarov 2y ago
This was true early in the war, but Gaza's health ministry has long since shifted to collecting reports of deaths from "reliable media sources". One source of data is a Google form which they set up in March. There are also r
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Wouldn't that be for fixed-dollar fees? I think here all the costs we're talking about are percentages. I.e. ignoring taxes, the amount I theoretically expect to exit with should look like entry_cost * (return_rate * fee_rat
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Wouldn't fees generally be more significant if holding over a significant time period? Like VOO's 17 bps would mean ~2% over 30 years. Not sure what the weighted average spread of broad index funds looks like, but I would have tho
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by dlubarov 2y ago
(2) is interesting, but I'm not sure if resistance heaters will remain common in the long term, as heat pumps become more widely available? Also this seems like a sort of free-electricity scenario (mining with electricity that was goin
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by dlubarov 2y ago
I'm not sure people care much about the debt repayment thing? If I rack up a bill at a bar, I can technically force them to accept a sack of pennies as repayment, but most people use digital payments like credit cards. At that point it
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Well, not just predictable but hard capped at 21M, about 19.8M (or ~94%) of which have already been mined. So in some sense, inflation tax can't exceed ~6% over all time. (I don't think it's a sustainable model, as security e
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by dlubarov 2y ago
About 2% of Gazans have died from the war (including militants etc), so that could maybe explain a 2% difference, like perhaps there was a 42nd person who was going to die of starvation but was bombed first. I don't see how it would ex
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Not really, most of that number is a prediction of future deaths based on data from other conflicts.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
This doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The 63k "expected" starvations are spread out over a period beginning Nov 24, 2023 [1]. Over that period, something like 30k deaths have been recorded in hospitals and morgues. The 63k starv
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Why would it matter? I don't think we should ever justify Islamophobia based on the actions of Islamic states or other Islamic groups; by the same token we should never justify antisemitic hate crimes regardless of our views on Israel.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Civilians in Ukraine are normally evacuated to safer parts of Ukraine or other European countries. Unfortunately Gaza is tiny and no countries are accepting war refugees.
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Note that the 186k figure is not an estimate of deaths to date; the bulk of it is anticipated future deaths attributable to the destruction of hospitals and so forth. Lancet has also published some criticism of that correspondence - https:
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by dlubarov 2y ago
As I understand it 41 is the number of starvations recorded in hospitals. 63k is a highly theoretical "estimate" based on the IPC scale and data from food insecurity in other parts of the world. It seems absurd on its face, since
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by dlubarov 2y ago
Those were ostensibly aid funds; it's not as if Qatar was sending rockets. Do you think Israel should block such aid?
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by dlubarov 2y ago
That's quite far from being a credible source. The author is being investigated by Met police for encouragement of terrorism, I would guess for his promotion of propaganda from Hezbollah and other terrorist orgs. At least on EI he&#x27
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by dlubarov 2y ago
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