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by kyboren 10mo ago
I know it's supposed to be an oversimplification, but this is pretty shockingly ignorant of the scope, scale, and brutality of the Japanese campaign. They didn't merely "shoot some of our boats"; that's an egregious
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Since 1354. 4 State immunity evolved in close connection to the development of the concept of sovereignty and the territorial State. It can be traced back to the principle of par in parem non habet imperium which was mentioned
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by kyboren 10mo ago
There is no such state as 'Palestine'. The PA is widely recognized and has acceded to the Rome Statute, but it has never held sovereignty in Gaza, making ICC's recognition of 'Palestine'--specifically including not
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by kyboren 10mo ago
A deer was walking through the forest when she suddenly noticed a hungry-looking bear stalking her. Quickening her pace, she ran headlong into her old friend the wolf devouring a rabbit. "How dare you!" Ms. Deer bellowed, "Th
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by kyboren 10mo ago
The US is under no illusion that France of all countries will go to bat for the US in a Pacific war. And Macron has made clear that they will not: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/france-president-m...
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by kyboren 10mo ago
This is cute, like a little boy charging you with a cardboard sword. Better take him seriously or you're gonna get "attacked" by his model airplane collection next! pats head That's nice, Billy, it sure is fun to play
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by kyboren 10mo ago
No need for grave consequences, just mandate the destruction of any personal baggage after an evacuation and add a hefty fine to boot. If it's all gonna get destroyed no matter what, there's no reason even to try to take anything
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by kyboren 10mo ago
I have noticed that a few years ago, at least in Zürich, small unobtrusive black enclosures have appeared everywhere on traffic signal/lamp posts along the roads. I can only assume that they contain cameras. But nobody else I've t
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by kyboren 10mo ago
> This problem is entirely under the control of Newsom and the CA legislature yet they seem completely uninterested in fixing it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understand
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by kyboren 10mo ago
It is, but you're really talking about the same thing: Gavin Newsom is corrupt and comfortably ensconced within the investor-owned utilities' pocket. Recall that it was so important for Newsom to attend that dinner at the height o
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by kyboren 10mo ago
The takings issue is why I believe that rather than invoking eminent domain, the CA government should institute a Uniform Water Use Tax, whose aim is to establish a single price for any use of water (charged per gallon/acre foot) in th
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by kyboren 10mo ago
You do know that the Internet and "the cloud" are not the same thing, right?
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Obviously faulty logic. This isn't a zero-sum game. In fact, the whole point is to increase our combined combat power . For too long European NATO countries have kept token militaries lacking any substantial combat power. They have ce
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by kyboren 10mo ago
The problem is really that Europe has a few dozen weak consumer markets. If there really was a proper single market, I suspect the EU would be much more competitive in digital services. Unfortunately despite their best efforts this isn&#x
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Heavens to Betsy, someone online just disagreed with the Correct Political Views! Better ban their account and send an officer to their door to arrest them now , before they can further poison our beautiful free democracies with their righ
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Indeed. I believe it is retribution for the Opium Wars. Sure the US isn't the UK, but it's the successor Anglo empire and is obstructing China's return to their rightful place as global hegemon. I think Xi Jinping and his CPC
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Perhaps they should just give them cash. But that wouldn't guarantee future sales and they wouldn't make a few extra percent margin off of people who never redeem their cards. We're a multi-trillion dollar company and your BA
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by kyboren 10mo ago
But then how can IP companies like Google leverage zero marginal cost of production to achieve infinite scale? Customer support costs scale linearly with the size of the customer base! Won't somebody please think of the shareholders?
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by kyboren 10mo ago
I think the broad thrust of your argument is right on the money. Officers' perception of heightened (or unfair) accountability has turned every police interaction into a risk for the officers and department, too. However, I think the p
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by kyboren 10mo ago
No, the ability to know the current whereabouts and location history of practically all private vehicles is a new capability afforded by deployment of ALPR mass surveillance. Previously, we had some balance between privacy and accountabilit
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by kyboren 10mo ago
In a free and competitive market, the price of any good trends towards the marginal cost of production. Producing de novo some valuable information--a YouTube video, blog post, software program, news article, song, etc.--has a real cost t
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by kyboren 10mo ago
You have that luxury. Israel doesn't. With civilians under constant rocket and ATGM fire (actual, real war crimes BTW), under threat of Oct 7th-style infiltration and invasion, with tens of thousands of civilians displaced and numerous
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by kyboren 10mo ago
To be clear, I am not suggesting to eliminate any form of moderation whatsoever. I think threads like these require intensive manual moderation. I recognize that's a big ask for an already-overburdened mod. I just don't see any
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by kyboren 10mo ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-mossad-pager-walkie-tal... > Gabriel said Mossad had learned that Hezbollah was buying pagers from Gold Apollo, a company in Taiwan. > "When they are buying from us, they
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by kyboren 10mo ago
No, I am not a lawyer. Does that preclude my having an opinion on the value and legality of a military strike? Anyway it seems to me that it was: - highly discriminatory - only Hezbollah commanders received these devices - it&
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by kyboren 10mo ago
The point isn't so much to litigate each flagged comment, just to highlight how pervasive the flag abuse problem is. And of course, when the flag abusers 'defect' and gain some utility, it is only rational for the 'victi
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by kyboren 10mo ago
OK, sure. How 'bout this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221729 Or this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221631 Or this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by kyboren 10mo ago
The most brilliant part about the civilian casualties from this operation is how many fewer of them there were than there would have been with any alternative means available to Israel.
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by kyboren 10mo ago
These pagers weren't purchased in stores by civilians. You see, Hezbollah had a problem: Their phone network was totally compromised. Israel was using operatives' phones as tracking beacons. So Hezbollah purchased a few thousand p
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by kyboren 10mo ago
> The reports are 4,000 wounded and 12 killed unintended targets Which reports? According to whom? Hezbollah?

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