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by edanm 2y ago
> It should be illegal. Not everything we don't like should be illegal. This sounds like the kind of thing that is incredibly unenforceable anyway. How do you differentiate between "we're not actually hiring" and &quo
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by edanm 2y ago
> Neither side is innocent—piracy is not theft, but let's admit, it is unfair. [...] The companies, with their excessive pricing, instead of selling their products once, turn them into SaaS with lifetime monthly subscriptions. They
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by edanm 2y ago
Yeah, don't even get me started on audiobook narrators. Sometimes these people read entire books of nonfiction that was written entirely by someone else.
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by edanm 2y ago
This mostly depends on what you mean by "these AI companies". If you're only referring to the big players creating foundation models, like OpenAI and Anthropic, it's mostly speculation of future improvements and revenue,
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by edanm 2y ago
> I don't agree that priceless art is above the importance of our planet or the lives of people. This is just a false dichotomy. You don't, in general, have to choose between priceless art and the importance of our planet.
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by edanm 2y ago
I completely agree. One of several reasons I'm against the death penalty. Then again, it's not like I'm super happy about someone being in prison for their whole life, if they're innocent. But practically speaking, there
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by edanm 2y ago
> It should require incontrovertible proof. There's really no such thing. Instead, there is a very high burden of proof, there's a lot of protections built into the process, and, most important, it's an adversarial proces
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by edanm 2y ago
Fonda Lee is Canadian-American. Definitely Western, though not a western white man. The setting of the books themselves are non-Western, though. So I'm not sure she strictly fits the question. That said, I adore The Green Bone Saga so
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by edanm 2y ago
Netanyahu had far less political power in 2001, and Israelis still elected, multiple times, people pursuing peace. Even very hawkish leaders like Sharon and Olmert eventually took steps towards peace, up until 2007 or so. So Netanyahu may h
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by edanm 2y ago
> Perhaps a more pertinent question to ask would be: do you consider the settlements (at more or less their current scale) as being helpful to Israel's security interests -- or unhelpful? No, I think keeping a war going with your ne
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by edanm 2y ago
> It was like that that they took my father's (christian) orphanage and school: pretexted the building was too old and needed reparation, put the Sisters and the kids out, destroyed the orphanage, settled the place. Easy. They proba
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by edanm 2y ago
The stark truth is that no one in the public really knows, yet, because there still hasn't really been any outside investigation of what happened. Netanyahu is pushing hard against such an investigation, btw. The little we do know doe
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm a big Netanyahu critic, as are many in Israel nowadays. And I think he'd do pretty much anything to stay in power, which is at least some part of the reason the war is still ongoing, if not the main reason. But the idea that h
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by edanm 2y ago
That's fair, though there was a lot of violence against Jews before this, things like the Hebron massacre, though they weren't terror attacks. Also, I'd point out that the attack on the King David Hotel was widely condemned b
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by edanm 2y ago
Hezbollah exists as an Iranian proxy, and Iran has repeatedly stated that their goal is to wipe out Israel. But yes, alliances with neighbors is definitely something Israel should pursue, as is working towards peace with the Palestinians. T
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by edanm 2y ago
I have no complaint with the idea of spreading more awareness, and think that's a good thing. That said, you were specifically responding to this comment: > Too bad militants don't really follow those same rules regarding unifo
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by edanm 2y ago
First, no - most Israelis have never lived under true peacetime. I do think there's a difference between the relatively peaceful times though, and the current situation, for all parties. > The Israelis have chosen to maintain a c
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by edanm 2y ago
Again, according to reporting, these bombs were placed specifically in pagers that were were for Hezbollah member's use. The reporting suggest that it was a shipment of pagers for Hezbollah members. Again, if we want to wait a bit more
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by edanm 2y ago
This line jumped out at me too. Because this is the perspective of someone for whom the war really is far removed. But it's emphatically not most Israeli's perspective. Israelis are very much in the front lines of this - around
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by edanm 2y ago
That's a ridiculous statement and complete misinformation. I'll just quote Wikipedia here: > Israel blamed Hezbollah for carrying out the attack with an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket equipped with a 53-kilogram warhead.[7][9] Hez
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by edanm 2y ago
Do you really think something from 1946, before the current state of Israel was even founded, is really relevant in this discussion? If we judged every country based on its 1946 behavior, we'd have to write off pretty much everyone .
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by edanm 2y ago
I mean, the author of the piece gets to decide what to call it and what they believe it to be about. I don't think there's anything wrong with them deciding to frame this piece around that concept. This isn't some random su
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by edanm 2y ago
> I was talking about the national identity. There is frankly no point to Israel's existence, internally and externally, outside of the existential threat. What is the "point" of any national identity? What is the point of
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by edanm 2y ago
Of course civilians aren't complicit, neither in Lebanon nor in Gaza. (Nor in Israel, for that matter, though few people seem to complain when Hezbollah targets civilians explicitly every single day.) I never said otherwise, not sure w
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by edanm 2y ago
> Yes, but these are more akin to bombings and not surgical strikes. Not sure why you think that? If reports are true, these were relatively small bombings that only impacted people carrying a pager that was specifically handed out to He
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by edanm 2y ago
> It's far too early for anyone to know that with certainty. And (for what feels like the nth time), Hezbollah is not just a bunch of guys with weapons, it's the civil administration in large parts of the country. Sure. Could b
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by edanm 2y ago
> As I've mentioned elsewhere though, this lack of culture isn't unique to Israel, it's just heavily multiplied due to the population being a collection of diaspora. This might change over the next couple hundred years but
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by edanm 2y ago
The reports say that these devices were specifically part of shipments that went specifically to Hezbollah. Which makes sense - I don't think the US Army is using the same walkies that a random hospital in the US uses, for example.
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by edanm 2y ago
What are you even talking about? Do you think a country of 9 million that's existed for 70 years doesn't have any unique identity? There's Israeli writing, Israeli music, Israeli theatre, Israeli dance... some of these are
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by edanm 2y ago
But Israel and Hezbollah are at war, and these are (reportedly) devices used by Hezbollah operatives. A war Hezbollah declared, btw.

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