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by montblanc 5y ago
Got it and we don't even mention Uganda in all of this. Makes sense.
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by montblanc 5y ago
no military danger aprart from Russia and China I agree. And perhaps Iran/Turkey etc. Other than that the EU is super secure.
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by montblanc 5y ago
> I believe the purpose of keeping Israel there Here's part of the problem. Does it make sense to you Israel just disappears? Sounds like it from what you're saying. Isn't it weird though - how many nation states do you
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by montblanc 5y ago
Ah sorry my bad
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by montblanc 5y ago
You do realize it was Ugandans who actually ordered the hack yes?
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by montblanc 5y ago
I don't know much about chess but Magnus throwing away his queen like that (traded his queen + rook for two rooks), was that a common thing to do? Looked outrageous to me but what do I know.
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by montblanc 5y ago
That still doesn't mean they knew about this. How would they even know it were American phones? Its very possible it were some IPhone with a Ugandan sim card. How do you know who's using it - do the Ugandans tell you? It's a
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by montblanc 5y ago
It being Israeli is definitely a big part of why this story is so huge. Why do you think it's making huge headlines then - what's your theory? The fact that 8 American diplomats got their phones hacked?
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by montblanc 5y ago
U.S drones and F-15s don't have software?
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by montblanc 5y ago
The U.S sells super sophisticated weapons such as attack drones, F-15s or nuclear submarines. The tech behind these things is probably super interesting and there's a lot of software involved. If you look at the comments here, around 9
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by montblanc 5y ago
Uganda is not an American enemy.
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by montblanc 5y ago
I'm not attacking NATO. I'm saying the U.S is subsidizing Europe's defense in the trillions (if we count since WW2 end). It could be beneficial to the U.S, or not. I'm only saying U.S aid to Israel is not unique and is p
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by montblanc 5y ago
The intervention in Syria? That's a military operation done by the U.S for Israel? How did you come up with that? If there's no Israel tomorrow the entire region is still messed up with possibly tens of millions of new refugees fl
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by montblanc 5y ago
You are being a demagogue here. It's 8 phones that were hacked, by someone in Uganda - a friendly country to the U.S, with NSO probably not knowing and Israel as a state definitely not knowing. Was any of the 8 Americans harmed physica
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by montblanc 5y ago
I find it very unlikely they knew about state department phones. Why bring up M4 rifles all the time? That's not how the U.S or any other arms seller makes money at all. The big money comes from planes, drones, etc. 350 billion worth o
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by montblanc 5y ago
> Only if you count general American military spending Of course I do. Europe has no real army. France kinda has an army and the U.K got out. If America didn't provide a military umbrella Europe would need to actually build a real a
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by montblanc 5y ago
Attacks Americans? Come on now, don't go overboard sir.
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by montblanc 5y ago
The U.S basically protects the whole of Europe by subsidizing NATO. It's probably in the trillions. Sorry but Trump had a point there. What it gives Israel is peanuts compared to that. Without U.S support to Europe who knows what happe
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by montblanc 5y ago
What is your definition of rogue states? The U.S sells weapons to the Saudis in hundreds of billions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Sau... . So I should believe the U.S thinks it's OK to s
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by montblanc 5y ago
> unless you consider the existence of a Jewish state within the 1948 armistice lines a "settler colony" (which admittedly some do). I'm pretty sure OP means exactly that. In fact there are very few progressive leftists wh
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by montblanc 5y ago
What do you mean by settler colony and what are you suggesting exactly - Israel should dismantle itself and send away its citizens to whoever will be willing to take them?
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by montblanc 5y ago
> However Haaretz routinely publishes opinions against the editorial line NYT also has Bret Stephens , up until recently Bari Weiss and I assume there are a few more centrists? Haaretz tries to challenge its readers with opinions from th
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by montblanc 5y ago
Israel isn't criticized on mainstream news outlets? Lol
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by montblanc 5y ago
It has many tech companies in general, way more than its relative size.
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Ask HN: Remote/Offshoring – Jobs Unaffected?
2 points by montblanc 5y ago|0 comments
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by montblanc 5y ago
stripclubs? Edit: OK yes there were a bunch of stripclubs lol
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Rust Is Not a Good C Replacement(drewdevault.com)
15 points by montblanc 5y ago|3 comments
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by montblanc 5y ago
I was only saying that tracking adjacent cellphones to find possible Covid carriers is low-tech. It's something that has been done since the 90s and Israel is definitely not some pioneer in the field. And it has not much to do with ter
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by montblanc 5y ago
> Network operators don't just pass along their complete cell tower logs to the authorities They do under a judge's order, a lot of murder cases or other heavy crime cases are solved that way. The data is collected probably fo
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by montblanc 5y ago
mostly this. The "counter terrorism" is a bit of a click-bait. There's no NSA type surveillance with sophisticated machine learning algorithms going on (these are unneedded), its simple tools any police department in any mode

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