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by edanm 3y ago
> The standards of intellectual and academic rigor in physics and aerospace engineering is far higher than nutrition science or whatever. I'm not sure that's justified, at all. The domains are harder to experiment in - so the
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by edanm 3y ago
> the terrorist fake state "Israel". This is pretty combative language. Real people live in your so-called "fake state" and are on Hacker News. Even if you think you are 100% correct in your analysis of what is happe
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by edanm 3y ago
Not sure why you're putting the word country in quotes - it is a country. As for dual citizenship, it might be large, but it's still estimated at only 10% if the population. And that includes lots of people with citizenship in cou
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by edanm 3y ago
The US isn't supporting a specific faction, it's supporting Israel in general, and that faction is (very sadly) in charge. The US has reportedly made quiet overtures to the other parties, and certainly Obama and Biden haven't
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by edanm 3y ago
> This is simply not true. With the exception of the recent Ukrainian war, violent deaths on Earth have been massively trending downward for decades. "Decades" is a really short time frame IMO, especially if you're compa
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by edanm 3y ago
This is almost certainly not true, at least to the extent you portray it. Sure, domestic Israeli politics plays into everything (as politics always does in a democracy). But you have to realize a few things - this is wrecking the Israeli
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by edanm 3y ago
> The occupation wouldn't exist, If you meant the Israeli occupation, you're wrong. Israel isn't "The West" and isn't able "to leave" in the same way that e.g. the US could leave Afghanistan. This
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by edanm 3y ago
Look, a lot of this thread was with me and I have some of my own thoughts on your comments, and why they're hard to deal with and/or flamebaight. But I don't want to impose my thoughts on you - so if you want me to give you m
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by edanm 3y ago
Technically speaking, it appears that to optimize muscle-building, spacing out protein feedings is better, with optimal being 5-7 feedings IIRC. Of course this is only for optimizing - not relevant for almost anyone except elite athlete
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by edanm 3y ago
Yes, you're right of course. It's just... the whole "someone is wrong on the internet" thing and this being a personal issue. Happy new years! We celebrated by being bombed with rockets, no siren where I am but we heard
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by edanm 3y ago
> Anyway, %50 women and children causality rate on top of illegal occupation and other atrocities wouldn't convince anyone about it being a "collateral damage". Gaza isn't occupied any longer, or at least, not in the
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by edanm 3y ago
> Not by committing an even bigger atrocity. Because if 1000 Israelis warrant murdering 10000 Palestinians [...] Let me be very clear, killing 1000 Israelis doesn't "warrant" killing a single Palestinian. Revenge killing i
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by edanm 3y ago
> Anyway, I would suggest you to research the anti-American movements all over the world and you will see that Americans(the state) are actually treated as evil by many people who are affected by the American atrocities or sympathetic wi
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by edanm 3y ago
> Half of the people they kill are women and children. That’s lots of regret they will have to go through the upcoming years. Yes, it is. I think almost all of those deaths are on Hamas, they brought this on their own citizens that they
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by edanm 3y ago
> That isn't war. IDF soldiers filming themselves rifling through the underwear in a private home talking about how Arab women are sluts because they dare to have nice panties, isn't war. IDF soldiers should never do those thin
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by edanm 3y ago
I don't understand people who say this, I really don't. If I were to say "the US is capable of nuking Iraq and killing most of their civilians", that would just be a true statement of the capabilities of the US. That the
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by edanm 3y ago
> They are conscripts, so I would imagine there's a range of positions when they are killing thousand of women and children alongside with combatants. Firstly, the majority of the IDF isn't active-duty conscripts, they're
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by edanm 3y ago
If you're referring to the current Israel-Gaza conflict - this is basically not true. Israeli soldiers are fighting because they think that, if they don't, their friends and families will be killed. They might be right or wrong -
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by edanm 3y ago
Look, you obviously care a lot about this topic, but I think you're really wrong on your facts. For the record, I'm Israeli, so take what I say with your appropriate level of skepticism - but I'm going to at least try to ge
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by edanm 3y ago
> If the reasons about killing each other were openly discussed in a logical way without the emotional overload, People wouldn’t bother to kill each other. That’s something undesirable in the context of war. That's incredibly wrong.
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by edanm 3y ago
What do you mean when you say "appropriation and privatization" of "all human output"? The output is still there for anyone else to train on if they want.
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by edanm 3y ago
> patents lasting 20+ years are bad Why do you say that? Do you disagree with the idea that patents promote innovation? Or do you think that 20 years specifically is too long, and if so, based on what analysis?
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by edanm 3y ago
> I've had plenty of interviews that didn't involve high-pressure, time-sensitive whiteboards and still managed to draw out my knowledge and ability. I personally dislike "whiteboard" testing as well, and I think it&#
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by edanm 3y ago
Interesting, I just ran other numbers too and got: "26 lb of bricks weighs more than 25 lb of feathers. The weight is directly compared, and 26 lb is greater than 25 lb."
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by edanm 3y ago
Interesting, I copied the text into gpt 4 and it did run python as well.
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by edanm 3y ago
There's very unlikely to be a general way to interview people that will fit everyone. These kind of cases happen, but how often? 1% of people? 10% of people? I'm guessing it's far less prevalent than some people seem to think
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by edanm 3y ago
> Ultimately Israelis don't have to suffer serious attacks from Hamas. Hamas doesn't have that power, militarily - only gross incompetence from the IDF allows that kind of attack. While there were gigantic failures that no one
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by edanm 3y ago
I don't think that's fair. dang is a great moderator, and this is a particularly tough subject to moderate - as he says, every side tends to feel that people are biased against them, and to some extent it's true. (If you wond
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by edanm 3y ago
OK, fair enough. My intuition is that we will "get lucky" in developing new math for proving P!=NP, but that's just an intuition and I'm not a theorist, so you probably have a better sense for this than I do.
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by edanm 3y ago
This sounds absolutely wrong to me. (Though note - I'm not a complexity theorist.) For one thing, the proof of P!=NP (which is what most people assume) will almost certainly provide us a lot of new math and insight. So yes, there won&#

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