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by kyboren 8mo ago
60% is very close to 93%; see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198239 > They said they were not pursuing weapon enrichment. There is literally no other reason for Iran to enrich to 60% U235 than fo
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> fake WMD fiasco https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-stored-highly... The IAEA estimates that Iran had 440.9 kg of uranium enriched to up to 60% before last year's Israeli-U.S. attacks -
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by kyboren 8mo ago
60% is actually very close to 93%. To go from natural uranium (<1% U235) to 60% represents the vast majority of the effort. From 60% to 93% is actually quite quick; most of the material is already U235. And they already have enough to bu
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> That's a well debunked lie told by zionists for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Square_Countdown_Clo... The clock was programmed to count down from 8,411 days, corresponding to a 2015 s
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> The US has absolutely no business attacking Iran. Iran's theocratic regime just murdered tens of thousands of protestors, regularly organizes chants of "Death to America", calls the US "The Great Satan", sponso
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Where the fuck do you live? Both an apartment you lived in and a house you moved to had neighbors who cracked your WPA3 network and compromised your infrastructure? Also: You use EAP TLS on your home network but not SSH keys?
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Look, I support Europe's push for computational sovereignty. It's frankly long overdue. But Europeans still consistently underestimate the scope and difficulty of that task, and it must be undertaken simultaneously with building
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Bizarre that you hold the validity of the ICC's claim to jurisdiction up as some fundamental truth. It's a creature of its signatory states and is not some arbiter of morality. Regardless of the US's willingness to ignore cus
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Maybe this will happen eventually but decoupling any time soon is a pipe dream. For the foreseeable future, Europe's BATNA is shit. Forget Microsoft and Google services, what about the hardware? To support all this new demand for Europ
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by kyboren 8mo ago
ICC claims[0] that since: - The Palestinian Authority claims to represent 'Palestine' - UNGA Resolution 67/19 "Reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self- determination and to independence in their S
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> Meanwhile a US citizen was jailed for a meme quoting Trump after Kirk death. And that was wrong, too. Also newsworthy because it is so unusual. > First link I think it's probably legal under US jurisprudence, but fine, you can
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by kyboren 8mo ago
I support free speech through any media, including all noncommercial speech not including: - defamation (with extra lenience for speech about public figures) - evidence of child sex abuse - incitement to imminent lawless action like
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by kyboren 8mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-court-jails-man-racist-tweets-s... https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> When the US is a rogue, isolated idiocracy This reads like wishful thinking from a butthurt European. I am not a fan of many of Trump's policies and I think ex-US investor sentiment has definitely soured. But it's not like th
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> As for how useful you'd find it, I think that depends entirely on the overlap between my interests and yours. If that specialized-bibs repo is any indication, there seems to be reasonable overlap. > For copyright reasons I can
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by kyboren 8mo ago
How many GB is your PDF collection? Have you considered sharing it more widely? I know about Sci-Hub, Anna's Archive, etc., but I'm not so interested in a giant landfill containing all papers ever written. I'm much more inter
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by kyboren 8mo ago
It wasn't incorrect, it was just misleading. Hence, "That's not entirely true," rather than, "Liar liar pants on fire!"
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by kyboren 8mo ago
They do support Tor, actually[0]. Which makes this even more confusing. [0]: https://www.torproject.org/about/supporters/
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by kyboren 8mo ago
A whole bunch of obviously biased reports from the Cuban government's UK propaganda arm and the famously impartial UN. Farcical. The economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the US government against Cuba is an act
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by kyboren 8mo ago
That's not entirely true. Yes, Puerto Ricans do pay some federal taxes (tariffs, FICA, gift and estate taxes) but do not pay federal income tax unless they have income from sources outside Puerto Rico. Anyway many Puerto Ricans probabl
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by kyboren 8mo ago
"I used to resist the boot, too. Then I was successfully conditioned by the environment that's been engineered around me. Now I just lick it subconsciously."
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Can you show any evidence of any such medical equipment whose export to Cuba was prohibited? You deftly avoided the question, so I'll ask again: Where are you from?
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Japan and America have now both gotten TSMC to commit to a decent level of domestic advanced-node fabrication. Meanwhile Europe only got 40k WSPMs of 12+ nm capacity: https://overclock3d.net/news/software/bringing_
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by kyboren 8mo ago
And from which perfect utopia held back only by the evil West do you hail? Given your apparent desire to put us in chains to experience pain and suffering, perhaps that's the next place we ought to suppress through threats and force. I
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Blockade != Embargo. Canadians have famously enjoyed tourism in Cuba for decades. I've purchased Cuban cigars in Europe. European and Canadian divers have gushed to me about their amazing dive sites. I'm not going to say US trade
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by kyboren 8mo ago
No, the shitty regime has stolen, squandered, and prevented the vast majority of Cuba's (potential) income. They've received free oil from Venezuela, Mexico, and Russia for decades. This whole crisis is because the country is horr
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> how do we explain how so many votes are unanimous when, on the day of the vote, some regents express opposing views? That reminds me of the Politburo voting scene in The Death of Stalin . Small group politics at their finest. Anyway,
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by kyboren 8mo ago
Great tool! First: Are these constant dollars? Or nominal dollars? Maybe there should be a toggle? Second: I suggest you extend the historical time horizon by a decade, as it will help to demonstrate how Prop. 98 and the insane rise of K-12
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by kyboren 8mo ago
> USA spends 3.4%. So 10% would be wildly excessive by any measure I see this argument a lot, and I think it's totally bunk. The point of military spending isn't to sacrifice a certain number of goats at the altar to ensure the
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by kyboren 9mo ago
"Tax what you want less of." Do you want less investment?

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