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by pbiggar 2y ago
Though to be clear, that apartheid is an example of a lack of democracy.
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Until we actually have controls to protect against excessive force, which we patently do not and have never had, building better weapons will always be used against civilians to commit attrocities. Right now, we ignore the controls we do ha
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by pbiggar 2y ago
There are 40,000 people killed in Gaza by US weapons, in what even Biden called "indiscriminate bombing". YC should not be making cheaper ways for our allies to commit genocide.
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by pbiggar 2y ago
One of the biggest shocks to me was that YC now invests in war and killing people. Before their closest connecting to killing people was investing in companies that had severe negative effects for society, like Doordash or AirBnb. Now they&
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Shocking to me that a terrorist attack by Israel is being lauded in the New York Times (and indeed on HN).
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by pbiggar 2y ago
I imagine the flagging is to stop the conversation about the geneocide, especially since almost every conversation about Gaza gets flagged.
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by pbiggar 2y ago
"Should you accept to play this game?" Absolutely yes. I like games. The purpose of games is to have fun. This seems like a fun game for like the first $20, a sum I can afford to play a fun game for 10 minutes. Then at the end, I
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Lying in an SEC filing is not "just a few documents".
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by pbiggar 2y ago
It's not. If you can sacrifice just one without a cost to the other, than they will. Witness the US leaving Vietnam and what would have happened if US soldiers were not facing a grueling war. Witness other asymmetric wars such as Iraq
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by pbiggar 2y ago
In favor of sacrificing a different nation's youth, right?
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by pbiggar 2y ago
The claim that this is is about national security is absurd. It's about Palestine, and Blinken and Romney admitted as much. https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato... >
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by pbiggar 2y ago
Here's a twitter thread that documents the protest directly from the protestors, culminating in their arrest: https://twitter.com/NoTechApartheid/status/17804222178780817...
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Here's his original tweet: https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1712790539844612553... > I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in part
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Paddy Cosgrave Returns as CEO of Websummit(twitter.com)
12 points by pbiggar 3y ago|3 comments
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Meanwhile, BDS just announced a boycott of Intel > “Ethical responsibility and international law aside, by insisting on investing tens of billions of dollars in Israel, a ‘war zone,’ only miles away from occupied Gaza, Intel is putting i
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Imagine announcing you're going to build a plant in Israel in the middle of Israel committing a genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Evil company https://bdsmovement.net/Press-Release-BDS-Launches-Boycott-I...
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by pbiggar 3y ago
To "install" create a bookmark in chrome and then add this as the url. Then on anyone's twitter profile, just click the bookmark.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
That's because it's stated goal is a lie. If it's stated goal was real -- take out Hamas and follow the rules of war -- they wouldn't have killed 15,000 children.
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Targeting of IT Experts in Gaza(euromedmonitor.org)
68 points by pbiggar 3y ago|40 comments
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by pbiggar 3y ago
We're changing the license! Not because of this, but I guess it addresses it.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
This is because the kids are pro-Palestine [1], and because of that, so is content on Tiktok. The massive killing and destruction of Gaza is visible and the kids don't like it. And so, AIPAC is pissed that everyone can see the aparthei
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by pbiggar 3y ago
If you're going to quote Hamas, a bit dishonest of you to quote their 1988 document instead of their 2017 one. "16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas doe
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I addressed that in the first line! To restate: why is Hamas' attack on Oct 7 bad? It's because they killed civilians. If we condemn that, then we must condemn all the IDF killings of civilians. If we do not, what basis do we have
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by pbiggar 3y ago
You twisted my words: I said "not entitled". Accidental civilian killings are not acceptable but yes of course they happen. Deliberate killing of civilians are war crimes. We must hold the IDF to the same standard as we hold Hamas
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by pbiggar 3y ago
> What's going on in Gaza is an unacceptable humanitarian tragedy that is a reaction to an unacceptable attack. Why is one a humanitarian tragedy but the other an unnacceptable attack. You're trying to absolve Israel of its rol
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I can't believe that there's a US-supported genocide in Palestine and YC is advertising for "New defense tech". The most tone deaf thing I've ever seen
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Another area not discussed in the article is Meta's (especially on IG) suppression of Palestinian content. They're not alone in this of the social media companies, but they are the most aggressive. This means that Meta, and realis
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I worked on this a bit! As an summer intern at SCEE in 2004, I port the Eyetoy driver to PS2 linux. Sadly, it had some legal issues due to some proprietary code in the original drivers, and it ended up not getting released.
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by pbiggar 3y ago
Would love to be able to speed this up!
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by pbiggar 3y ago
I'm not an expert on terrorism, obviously. I just believe that it's immoral to drop bombs on civilians. Like any other conflict, for a positive end result there has to be a meeting of the minds on both sides, committed to peace. S

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