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by nico 3y ago
You said Israel can’t defend itself, it clearly can, even if it’s expensive to them But instead, for whatever reasons, it’s choosing to attack To me it’s clear the end goal of their attacks is not peace but rather domination and eviction Al
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by nico 3y ago
> Genocide, which is the intent and actions to destroy an entire people, is never justified, because it presupposes you'll target and kill many civilians to achieve it And that’s exactly what Israel is doing to Palestinians Many gov
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by nico 3y ago
> Gaza is the agressor Sure, if you completely ignore any previous history and the fact that Israel was created by stealing Palestinians’ land From the other side, you could say Palestinians have never stopped defending themselves This i
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by nico 3y ago
> They can't. Hamas launched thousands of rockets on October 7th, and Israel has no way of stopping something like that again The Iron Dome stopped pretty much all the rockets What didn’t stop Hamas on Oct 7th was Israel not paying
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by nico 3y ago
You are correct that there is a history there, but They way you put it, it sounds like Israel wasn’t created by forcefully stealing land from the Palestinian people that were already there
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by nico 3y ago
It’s like the night people episode from Season 6 of Rick and Morty Watch it if you want to see how good of an idea it is to be able to work in your sleep
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by nico 3y ago
Highly, highly recommend the book The Charisma Myth It has some really great exercises, and it goes from easy to difficult It’s a pretty good read, but by far the most important thing is to do the exercises If you want to try to out, google
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by nico 3y ago
Really impressive. Is that video sped up at all? Crazy fast!
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by nico 3y ago
It’s my impression, as an engineer, and as expressed in other comments here, that a lot of (most?) engineers rather be doing/making things rather than managing people/processes/politics I wonder if it’s difficult for companie
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by nico 3y ago
They ramped up blocking text messages for months before introducing a2p 10dlc They certainly haven’t gotten rid of spam messages, but they still block a lot of fully compliant text messages Unfortunately, they could probably keep raising pr
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by nico 3y ago
The timing of this article now seems to be making a reference/parallel to what is going on now with Israel/Gaza
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by nico 3y ago
Reminds me a lot of Omm writer, really nice peaceful writing experience, designed to keep you focused on just writing
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by nico 3y ago
We could be exploring the inside of our own planet. We have literally only scratched the surface and we barely know anything about the deeper parts of Earth, yet we are obsessed with places that are incredibly far away and hard to reach
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by nico 3y ago
I’d prefer less violence. It’s crazy that showing one breast will immediately make something pg13, but showing guns, people dying and all sorts of violence is considered appropriate for all ages
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by nico 3y ago
And what is the cost difference in fuel? Gas is pretty expensive, and some EVs are cheap or even free to charge How do total ownership costs compare?
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by nico 3y ago
I live in the LA metro area, 15min from downtown, and we only get Spectrum (coaxial cable) The only alternative is to get something wireless, either a microwave antenna service or a cell-based hotspot It doesn’t seem any companies are tryin
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by nico 3y ago
> I also believe that within say 1-3 years there will be a different type of training approach that does not require such large datasets or manual human feedback This makes a lot of sense. A small model that “knows” enough English and a
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by nico 3y ago
They are both amazing storytellers Love Alan Watts lectures, the way he explains things they just seem to make sense. He’s very good at translating the meaning of eastern philosophies into western concepts
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by nico 3y ago
That’s true, the book is very secular and maybe the most scientific you can get about the topics and practices discussed
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by nico 3y ago
His book is essentially meditation/realization for overachievers. It is almost the opposite of Zen If you take everything as a task to be done and life as goals to achieve, then that might be a good book Otherwise Reddit’s /r&#x2
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by nico 3y ago
Checkout the movie The Creator for a dystopian (or at least disturbing) use of that technology
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by nico 3y ago
This topic is somehow explored in the movie The Creator There’s a lot of wholes in the plot, but the overall premise and scenario seem eerily plausible
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by nico 3y ago
From the Wikipedia article: > The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb > In both cases, an experiment was intended
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by nico 3y ago
The use of the caduceus as a symbol of healthcare is a modern American thing. Someone used the caduceus instead of The Staff of Aesculapius, and it stuck The symbol most universally, and historically, used for healthcare is The Staff of Aes
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by nico 3y ago
In the AppleTV series Foundation, there is a scene where a “mentalist” says that feeling the suffering of the food they are eating/about to eat, makes them more thankful and more careful/thoughtful about the things they consume I
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by nico 3y ago
Don’t know if this is what he was doing, but I know in LatAm people pay for some sketchy “lists”, that they then put into some streaming software and then are able to watch movies, series and sometimes even live sports Have no idea if it’s
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by nico 3y ago
It’s right under the title: > Humane, founded by ex-Apple talent, might be working on a laser projection system to that replaces our phones and tablets Laser projection system So either a projection on a surface, or maybe directly into t
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by nico 3y ago
Yes, I do realize that, and acknowledge it in my comments I’m not saying they are “the same thing” I’m saying the basic mechanism and potentially motivation is the same: They buy their own thing and make the price go up
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by nico 3y ago
It’s called buyback because the companies are buying back their own stock It’s akin to the loop you describe, they sell the stock to someone else, then they buy it back I’m aware the timing, the disclosures, the regulations, etc are differe
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by nico 3y ago
> How are these even remotely similar? In both cases the original owners are buying their own assets in a public market and driving the price up You explained how they are also very different in the way they are done and regulated, but t

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