orwin

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by orwin 8mo ago
> It’s not “objectively bad” To feed your children ultra processed foods. It is though, it's in the definition, UPF are distinguished from processed food by having additives of no culinary nor nutritional value. So at best, they are
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by orwin 8mo ago
I think for myself, it's close to 25% if I only take my role as a dev. If I take my 'senior' role it's less, because I spend way more time in reviews or in prod incident meetings. Three months ago, with opus4.5, I would
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by orwin 8mo ago
Maduro was such a bad leader that his prime minister sold him to the US. Which means now Venezuela is still a chavist regime, but not under US embargo anymore. This will improve their economy a great deal, and if the regime doesn't cap
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by orwin 8mo ago
But at least for now, their fret trains have limited reach. They have a big country, with sparse population once you leave the coastal areas. I think this will help them push their railroad infrastructure though.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Unless you're living in Taiwan, I don't think you have a lot to prepare for.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Yeah, Shi'a are weird, on one hand it bear the most secular, laical Muslim society during all the middle age until the 20th century, on the other hand it regularly spawn death cults, with the IRGC being it's latest (and arguably s
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by orwin 8mo ago
> It's like saying "I mention she's whites because racists might not care otherwise". Which is a very effective technique.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Yeah, it is security theater, but other countries are way more relaxed than the US, especially small airports with few international flights. When i was ~17, i had a friend with a false leg, with metal in it. We were late to our plane at a
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by orwin 8mo ago
nvm i'm dumb, i can't read a chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/292518/contribution-of-t... 2023: 2.36T (i misread and took 2024 prediction) https://www.statista.com/statistics&#x
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by orwin 8mo ago
> How much of that 3% is from foreign tourists versus domestic Americans? Probably all of it since tourism was 11% of total GDP in 2023, a third of that being international tourism would be on par with european averages.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Yeah, my company delegation to a Vegas Conference (i don't know what they really do there tbh) got cut from 18 to two, with newly calibrated phone and empty laptops: no biometrics, no private keys, nothing, they don't even have ac
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by orwin 8mo ago
https://niacouncil.org/nationwide-poll-of-iranian-americans-... I know, material reality sometimes go against idealist fantasy.
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by orwin 8mo ago
You are comparing new car to new car, which is fair to you, but you probably aren't in the class getting squeezed yet. At least my country, the issue is with used car prices. The first car i bought, i bought for 300€ (+200€ of repair i
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by orwin 8mo ago
I know the 1953 coup isn't possible anymore, but like in Lybia, you have resistance from tribes (clans in Iran, but it's basically the same except richer and stronger) in the east and local Kurds in the west that you could have us
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by orwin 8mo ago
The chaos and suffering it will cause is extremely sad to think about.
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by orwin 8mo ago
I'm not lonely! And I stopped shouting that since 24, because you know :/
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by orwin 8mo ago
Here is my argument: Prior political choices prevent the US from saying to Iran "Sorry that Israel attacked you, that's unfair, please don't attack our base, we won't fund Israel military anymore, and we remove the embar
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by orwin 8mo ago
Do you agree there is a meaningful difference between the US feeling forced to follow Israel because of their own political choices, and the US being controlled by Israel ? The outcomes are the same, but acknowledging why and how the US got
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by orwin 8mo ago
What do you mean, Lybia happened 2 days after France met with Libyan rebels leaders and one of Ghadafi's son, the first strike targeted ground installations so that the rebels could take over. It was carefully planed for a swift takeov
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by orwin 8mo ago
Not really, I think it was more that Iran thought the US could control Israel, so they said 'if Israel betray the ceasefire agreement, we will hit your bases'. The US probably asked Israel to not betray the agreement, Israel as us
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by orwin 8mo ago
We talk about Mosques shooting, women and girls wearing the hijab attacked/assaulted in the streets (being a woman in the streets after the sun is down always is a risk, if you're wearing anything Muslim-looking, you multiply that
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by orwin 8mo ago
Let's count. Power consolidation (post-revolution): 10-20k. 100k during the first gulf war, but I think you should put that on the US (and maybe Irak, but it's the US that pushed Irak to attack Iran), then a bit more than 50 execu
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by orwin 8mo ago
300k? You mean 30k right? Iranian official numbers are 3.5k. the OSINT community say at least 15k in the 3 biggest cities (including peo-regime guardias of the revolution), and 'local' journalists (a lot with CIA ties though), not
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by orwin 8mo ago
Since WW2 maybe, with a very, very small sample. But historically, if you have a minority religion/heresy, you better live under a Muslim caliphate than a Christian monarch not that it's great by any mean, but the moors are a grea
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by orwin 8mo ago
They can make it very expensive though. And they can't negotiate, given it's the second time they are attacked during negotiations, so really, what can they do? Cause the most chaos possible around them, strain the relationships b
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by orwin 8mo ago
It seems Judaism also took from Aten, weirdly, because the cult died under Tutankhamun, at least in lower Egypt.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Historically, the opposite is true.
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by orwin 8mo ago
They have. Some paper journals even have a dedicated space in early pages (2-3) for corrections and retractation.
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by orwin 8mo ago
Mostly agree, I will push back on the '25% youth unemployment is western cope stat - broad PRC unemployment is like 6%, i.e. youth find jobs, PRC youth simply gets to fuckarounditis at home until they decide enter workforce later'
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by orwin 8mo ago
The Shah son doesn't have the local support his father had. Part of the diaspora like him enough, but the clans that brought him to power are way less aligned with the British ans US than they use to be. On the other hand, exchanging a

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