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by istjohn 1y ago
If you read the section of South Africa's Application Instituting Proceedings in the International Court of Justice entitled Expressions of Genocidal Intent against the Palestinian People by Israeli State Officials and Others, you&#x2
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I would put it this way: in my eyes, the violent subjugation of Palestinians is brutal colonialism whether conducted by loosely organized vigilantes or officially state-sanctioned actors. Of course the PA could not maintain power without Is
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By NY Times "retraction," I assume you are referring to this statement: > Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnera
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The UN partition plan was a plan to take a huge chunk of Palestine and hand it to foreign settlers. Of course, Palestinians did not love it. Israel has never made a prolonged effort to build the mutual trust necessary to reach a negotiated
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And many of Israel's apologists point to the many, often horific, instances of Jewish victimization to justify Israel's crimes. It is a poor excuse. And pragmatically, it fails to persuade, only alienating anyone who isn't al
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The PA is a puppet government of Israel. The last elections for PA leadership were in 2006. I don't think the distinction between settlers and the IDF is as salient to most outside observers as you think it is.
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We have numerous first-hand reports from doctors of young children showing up at Gazan hospitals with gun shot injuries to the head. We have seen well-marked aid convoys blown up. Grutesque living skeleton children haunt our social media fe
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It's the "Jewish" in Jewish state that lies at the root of the conflict, isn't it? There aren't many options to maintain a dominant ethnic identity in a democracy when the land the nation was founded on was already
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To state the obvious, software developers are doing just fine.
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I'm loathe to suggest it, but perhaps LLM's could help here? Once local LLMs are a couple orders of magnitude better and resource efficient, a user agent LLM could decide what features are actually needed for each page.
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I'd like to see a toggle switch easing function. Slow down as you approach 40%, then snap to 100%.
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Decode it both ways and see which isn't gibberish.
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Also see Project Pigeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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They didn't mind burning MS
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A couple examples the author gave sounded plausible--though I hadn't seen the movies in question--but then I felt the author was beginning to reach. It's a bit of a humble brag to complain that movies are too obvious, isn't i
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Why do you think that's relevant?
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Interesting argument. But I think cancel culture often has more in common with a lynch mob than a boycott.
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No, but it is endemic to American colleges and universities which are government or government-funded institutions. Furthermore, spend a little time on BlueSky and you will find huge support for the hate speech laws found in other countries
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I worry that young people across the political spectrum increasingly no longer see free speech as a foundational value. Both sides pay lip service and deploy it strategically but are quick to sacrifice it when it conflicts with other values
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Convex curves can be approximated by a series of straight cuts tangent to the desired arc. It's concave curves that are difficult.
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That strawman never stood a chance.
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I needed to process a 2 GB xml file the other day. While my Python script was chugging away, I had Claude translate it to Go. The vibe-coded Go program then processed the file before my original Python script terminated. That was the first
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Again, you may want to read tfa
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I get good results with: "Can this be improved while maintaining simplicity and concision?"
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There's a place for policing language, but you're not doing anyone any favors by gatekeeping homelessness. This is not involuntary homelessness, but then a large number of unhoused people could live under a roof if they were willi
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> Prof Tomáš Hanke of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, disputed the idea that getting RNA into white blood cells had been a significant challenge. He said the hope that all cells in the body where HIV was hiding could be reach
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Wrong thread -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193198
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Where is this, if you don't mind my asking?
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WEasyPrint's Github: > From a technical point of view, WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. WeasyPrint is free software made available under
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I'm unconvinced that calculators have made most people a lot worse in arithmetic. There have always been people who are bad at math. It's likely there are fewer people who can quickly perform long division on paper, but it's

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