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by kyboren 10mo ago
I think this was a brilliant operation and perfectly lawful. I also think that if Lebanon (not Hezbollah) were in a state of war with Israel, yes, that would (depending on proportionality and target discrimination) be perfectly legal, too.
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by kyboren 10mo ago
At least one of mine, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219068
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by kyboren 10mo ago
It's a war, you know. People die. Sometimes in perfectly legal and justified strikes, sometimes in attacks that contravene the laws of war. And given that Hamas uses the civilians under their control as both a sword and a shield, and t
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by kyboren 10mo ago
I'll take this opportunity to get on a soapbox and preach: We need to shift our understanding of digital programmatic advertising to basically the pimp/hoe model. It's population-scale digital pimping. They put your ass on th
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by kyboren 10mo ago
Right, like imagine if the Fed gave you some sort of preferential access and sweetheart low rates. Then you could borrow money from them at a low rate, lend it out at a higher rate, and profit from the difference. It would be like some sort
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by kyboren 11mo ago
> are you really naive to believe cyclists wouldn't respect traffic lights on a city designed after walk and public transportation? or are you thinking on the minimal cyclists that get killed by tresspasing this rule by vehicles tha
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by kyboren 11mo ago
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once. I'm appalled it's got a negative score. Are we not on Hacker News? What the fuck happened to this community?
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by kyboren 11mo ago
I realize I was probably too oblique before, so let me be more specific. The US has pivoted from traditional AWACS to the proliferated warfighter space architecture, the idea being hundreds of LEO satellites can provide a cheaper and much m
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by kyboren 11mo ago
I'm quite impressed with Europeans' entitled attitudes towards the US security umbrella. First of all, none of this should be "unexpected"--Obama famously announced a pivot to Asia well over a decade ago. What exactly di
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by kyboren 1y ago
You created an account about half an hour ago and have submitted nearly 1/6 of the comments on this post. You're more or less uncritically parroting the talking points of the special interest groups behind this while dismissing re
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by kyboren 1y ago
The fundamental problem with this logic is that there is no enforcement body here. In a just society, the law defines who is "allowed" to steal from you and the state's enforcement arm punishes those who violate the law. The
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by kyboren 1y ago
Not sure how you expect to be taken seriously while your personal website is a weeaboo homage to anthropomorphized cartoon ponies. I can believe that in heavily left-leaning social circles unironically using the term "social justice wa
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by kyboren 1y ago
> [W]hen Taiwan will announce that they now have nukes Doubties. ROC's strategy right now appears to basically be: Give PRC no good reason to invade and lots of good reasons not to. Anyway PLA's invasion preparations are alread
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by kyboren 1y ago
What you're missing is that the US's BATNA here is awful. America relies on Taiwan for more than just advanced-node semiconductors. The island is the linchpin in the US's island chain strategy for the Pacific theater. Abandon
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by kyboren 1y ago
> Your right to something ends were a right of someone else is violated. That's the case here. Ah yes, that memorable trifecta: Life, Liberty, and the Right to Never Hear Mean Words.
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by kyboren 1y ago
I guess your position is "Better dead than red (white and blue)". If you really believe Americans are Nazis coming for Canada, you presumably believe the US has the capability and will to force that choice upon you. If so, posting
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by kyboren 1y ago
I wouldn't consider it a threatening act. But I am not Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces. I am not advocating an invasion of Canada. I deplore the annexation rhetoric coming from POTUS. I don't believe there is a serio
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by kyboren 1y ago
Obviously these situations are quite a bit different. Canada shares a border with the US and is an ocean away from anybody else. DPRK is an ocean away from the US and shares borders with and enjoyed very credible security guarantees from bo
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by kyboren 1y ago
If Trump is actually serious about annexing Canada (or at least retaining the option), development of nuclear weapons would seem more likely to precipitate an invasion than to deter one. Building nuclear weapons specifically to use against
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by kyboren 1y ago
> we'd be the ablative armour while the rest of the world got organized. If the trade negotiations are any indication, I wouldn't count on a magical solution to a global coordination problem. Those countries you are expecting t
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by kyboren 1y ago
> [I] am hoping Canada will move closer to the EU for military partnership as well. Have you ever looked at a map? If the threat comes from Russia, EU would struggle mightily merely to defend themselves; they're not crossing the Atl
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by kyboren 1y ago
I am not a lawyer but isn't this expressly forbidden by the Constitution in Article I, Section 9, Clause 5? > No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
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by kyboren 1y ago
Precisely. It's important to understand what modern digital advertising really is: Population-scale digital pimping. They put your ass on the RTB street to turn tricks. You get mindfucked by--and maybe catch some viruses from--any John
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by kyboren 1y ago
> The need to do routing etc. reminds me of the problems FPGAs have during place and route (effectively the minimum cut problem on a graph, i.e. NP) I'd like to take this opportunity to plug the FlowMap paper, which describes the po
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by kyboren 1y ago
Hallelujah. Shout it from the rooftops! Markets are powerful tools--perhaps the most powerful tool we have to shape human interactions. But too many people believe in a sort of market gospel ("Supply Side Jesus"); that market forc
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by kyboren 1y ago
Whatever the intent, this bill effectively legalizes wiretapping and pen register'ing (i.e. recording phone numbers and IP:port logs you've communicated with) as long as it's for a "commercial purpose". Far from mer
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by kyboren 1y ago
> I’m a big fan of congestion pricing. Of course you are. You're rich.
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by kyboren 1y ago
> What the VLIW of Itanium needed and never really got was proper compiler support. This is kinda under-selling it. The fundamental problem with statically-scheduled VLIW machines like Itanium is it puts all of the complexity in the comp
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by kyboren 1y ago
> it works even with such big "holes" I'm intrigued. Can you expand more on this? Why does it work? I guess because the hail is rarely coming straight-on at the holes and instead makes more glancing blows off the wire? In
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by kyboren 1y ago
I am not entirely convinced that capitalism is the best system for producing software, especially established "infrastructure" software like OSes, web browsers, office suites, etc. I'm open to the idea, and recognize there ar

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