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by oa335 10mo ago
> it is rational to draw the conclusion that your reasoning (and sourcing) is motivated. Have you provided any sources at all for you numerous claims throughout this thread? Would it also me rational to draw a the conclusion that someone
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by oa335 10mo ago
Do you have any sources at all for your assertion “This was very probably the most precisely targeted large-scale military strike of the last 100 years”? It is hard to engage with your statement in any reasonable fashion without knowing wh
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by oa335 11mo ago
You will end up paying that "interest" on long put positions. The advantage of options is an ability to make more granular bets.
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by oa335 11mo ago
I’m using it now, feels so much snappier on my 10 year old iPhone than the previous version on Orion.
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by oa335 11mo ago
Vortex is a file format, where as delta lake and iceberg are table formats. it should be compared to Parquet rather than delta lake and iceberg. This guest lecture by a maintainer of Vortex provides a good overview of the file format, moti
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by oa335 1y ago
https://investors.palantir.com/governance/executive-manageme... Four out of the five top executives of Palantir earned degrees from top 10 US universities.
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by oa335 1y ago
> The U.S. has almost no skilled immigration until 1990, Where did you get this statistic?
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by oa335 1y ago
Acemoglu has argued that colonialism helped develop European economies: "Our hypothesis is that Atlantic trade—the opening of the sea routes to the New World, Africa, and Asia and the building of colonial empires—contributed to the pro
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by oa335 1y ago
> You're implying that the colonial powers got rich by taking natural resources from Africa and forcing Africans to work without pay. I don't interpret the OP comment as restricted to Africa - e.g. https://en.wiki
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How and why did a news business that makes $18 million in revenue get valued at $150 million? That sort of multiple is typically only seen by high growth tech firms .
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by oa335 1y ago
> If and how much the colonies made them even richer is debatable, but it was probably a net cost on average. This is one of several insights counter to "common sense" that economists have figured out. I haven't heard this
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by oa335 1y ago
> The history of oil development is so poorly known in the Arab world. Comment you replied to is talking about the history of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Iran is outside the Arab world.
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by oa335 1y ago
Postgres also supports query pipelining - at it seems like the popular go Postgres client library pgx supports it: https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/1113#event-6964024724
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by oa335 1y ago
> Israelis, have (with very very few exceptions) have never engaged in ethnic cleansing. You are wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet
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> In 60% of polling this issue, Gallup has found that the support for increasing immigration has never exceeded 34%, and was under 10% from 1965-2000. From 2016 until now, Gallup polling has found that over 50% of the country supported i
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by oa335 1y ago
> What this really underscores is that what the PRC is doing through these proxy actors is really reckless and unbounded, in a way that is significantly outside of the norms of what we see in the espionage space," What norms are he
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by oa335 1y ago
What "massive string of failed attempts" did Zuckerberg or Bezos ever accumulate?
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> Before the state of Israel, Jewish groups were bombing British mandate offices. Not civilians, and definitely not on purpose. Why did you make this assertion? And what makes them terrorist attacks?
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by oa335 1y ago
Do you believe these events were terrorist attacks? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1937) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balad_al-Shaykh_massacre https://news.google.com&
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by oa335 1y ago
> WASP culture always highly valued “well rounded” students and looked down on people who single mindedly perused an end Citation please.
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by oa335 1y ago
settler attacks against West Bank Palestinians were not caused by Hamas, but by the settlers religious belief that the land is promised to them. That is a key part of the context as well. And in that vein, what options to Palestinians have
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by oa335 1y ago
I don't care about the usage of the slogan. I care about what Hamas has represented regarding their acceptance of a partial Palestinian state. Also, at what point in history has Likud not used this slogan? https://www.jewis
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In response to > ... the Palestinians and Palestinian organizations - even including Hamas - have to varying degrees accepted or shown willingness to accept a Palestinian state that does not encompass all of Mandatory Palestine. you say
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> You're confusing hatred for Palestinians with hatred for Gazans. Most Israelis do not hate Palestinians. Hate is an emotion and hard to quantify; what's easier to measure are actions and intentions. https://archive
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> The majority of Israelis don't want to genocide the Gazans. According to a recent poll: Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelite
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>Hamas bombed the peace process to death (alongside with hundreds of random civilians) and also directly cause the rise of the right in Israel and the change of opinion in the Israeli public from accepting the idea of a two state solutio
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Meanwhile, two comments up you say "This cannot be reconciled with the meaning of the slogan "from the river to the sea"." ...
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https://youtu.be/nZUXjEgsduU
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> Israelis are brutalized, by the actions of Hamas and at having no choice but to fight Hamas in horrible circumstances. No matter how many times I see it, the constant shifting goalposts and lack of self awareness will always startle me
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I posted that because it was illustrative and the podcasters used the same phrase, without any shame or compunction. Here’s a survey conducted by Israeli researchers showing that vast majority (82%) of Israelis surveyed support forcibly ex

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