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by edanm 2y ago
I'm sorry, I certainly don't mean to be off-putting. The way I parse a sentence like "I don't love this idea", and the way I meant it, is that I think the idea has some merit, it's not terrible, but I'm no
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes, if you consider #1 an issue, then you're right. But I'm not sure that's an issue that should actually be addressed, because: 1. It's not anything new, unlike this "ghost jobs" thing which is a supposed new
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by edanm 2y ago
I don't love this idea. I feel like it's just going to force even more busybody work into the process - now companies will need to "respond" to every applicant, no matter how irrelevant, so that response isn't going
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by edanm 2y ago
Hey, this is really cool! Thanks for the article and the tool itself. One question - in the RAG projects we've done, most of the source data was scattered in various source systems, but wasn't necessarily imported into a single DB
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by edanm 2y ago
Look. We're discussing horrible things here. I want to make sure it's clear that I think every civilian death is a tragedy. Hell, almost every non-civilian death is a tragedy too - Hamas militants were born in a pretty awful situa
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by edanm 2y ago
> The sheer amount of ordnance dropped in the first few weeks after October 7th was indicative of a completely permissive air campaign. In other words, it was conducted with NO concern for collateral damage, probably against a bunch of p
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by edanm 2y ago
I can't speak to the more military/combat aspects of this - I honestly know very little about it personally. I'm leaning on analyses done by people who do know, and have spoken about what Israel is doing. Regarding your poi
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by edanm 2y ago
> So what is the threshold past which even Israelis would acknowledge that what Israel is doing is both morally repugnant and illegal? What would that look like, in terms of actions on the ground? I can't speak for Israelis in gener
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by edanm 2y ago
> But you are doing whataboutism. I'm not, because the debate is on the comparative feelings towards Israel vs. other countries, so actually comparing to other actions is specifically what is necessary. > [...] Israel’s crimes fa
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by edanm 2y ago
> I’ve always had a problem with this statistic. It is at best an irrelevant obfuscation of more plausible explanations, the most plausible—as well as simplest—being the one that your parent offered. You think the world feels this way be
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by edanm 2y ago
Some experts call it apartheid, most Israelis disagree (and Israel officially disagrees). [1] > If it is, is there a justification for implementing it? Or maybe I’m missing your point. Well, yes. That's exactly the other side of the
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by edanm 2y ago
1. That's just one interview, I'm not sure it's actually representative. 2. Even if you think it is, that's just the US media specifically. I agree that they tend to be relatively pro-Israel, especially compared to oth
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by edanm 2y ago
> Bezos owns 9% of Amazon. His personal share of any 10bn contract might be a few hundred million over many years. He doesn't care! The rest of your comment aside, I think this sentence proves too much. You can use it to prove that
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by edanm 2y ago
Food heist! If anyone here is a fan of Brandon Sanderson but doesn't listen to his podcast with Dan Wells, called Intentionally Blank, you might enjoy it. And one of their things is to start off most episodes with a news story about a
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by edanm 2y ago
> The reason AI is hyped is because it's easy to get the first 80% or 90% of what you need to be a viable alternative at some task. No, it's because if the promise of certain technologies is reached, it'd be a huge deal. A
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by edanm 2y ago
That is not what most Israelis think. The fact that you so easily think this badly of an entire country speaks a lot about your own biased views.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Though global populations show a larger anti-Israel sentiment, Western media and internet forums don't reflect this balance. I'm not sure you're right. Isn't this a bit hard to judge without first deciding what is
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by edanm 2y ago
Israel hasn't blown up a hospital.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Tons of Israeli military bases and weapons manufacturing his placed directly under or very close to civilian domiciles. This is nonsense propaganda that keeps getting repeated. Israel has some army bases in or close to civilian areas,
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by edanm 2y ago
> the israeli "human shields" narrative is pure hasbara and israeli projection anyway Saying this is, frankly, ridiculous. There is massive, extensive documentation of the vast tunnel networks and terrorist infrastructure hidin
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by edanm 2y ago
I mean, you can also just value all human life equally, and not shoot at soldiers unless there's a really good reason to do so. You really shouldn't target civilians, almost ever, cause there's never a good reason to do so
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by edanm 2y ago
> Take a step back and observe you've erected a mental block for yourself. We've got a false dichotomy here - either we shoot through human shields or we do nothing. No, you're the one making imaginary false dichotomies. S
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by edanm 2y ago
Maybe. Worth considering that in terms of relative size, Israel has a population of 10 million, Jews in the world number ~14 million. Whereas the Arab world, which tends to be relatively anti-Israel, numbers ~220 million. And Muslims, which
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by edanm 2y ago
> So perhaps you'd like to address those most recent instances instead. I'm not sure what more you think I can say beyond what I've already said - "It is very clear that some soldiers in the IDF, like in any army, hav
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by edanm 2y ago
> Today we work more than ever together with increased automation, I don't think we work "more than ever", not at all. This is something that's really hard to quantify, but even harder to get an idea about "anecd
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by edanm 2y ago
You don't really need to imagine this though - generative AI is already extremely useful in many non-nice applications.
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by edanm 2y ago
Are you talking about Automattic? I'm not talking about the lawsuit, I'm talking about the things surrounding. Especially the checkbox when logging into Wordpress.org in which you must proclaim you aren't affiliated with WPEn
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The argument isn't that Hamas put their HQ next to civilians. It's that they store their munitions and shoot rockets out of schools. Israel's military HQ (not the ministry of defense), which is indeed located in Tel Aviv -
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by edanm 2y ago
Even if you agree with the trademark claim (I have no idea one way or the other), the way that Automattic is acting is wrong, pure and simple.
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm not sure you're grappling with the actual claim parent is making. Of course for every individual user, it's better to have minor health problems than be thrown in jail. The question being posed (if I understood correctly)

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