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by pphysch 3mo ago
> the us in its current form will not tolerate an existential threat to israel It seems to be tolerating Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir just fine! Imagine the different place Israel would be if it pursued Oct 7 as a criminal act instead of a pre
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by pphysch 3mo ago
It absolutely does, it can simply choose to not bomb Iran after Iran enforces regulations on its (shared with Oman) waterway. Bombing Iran for a month because Iran fired on 4 ships that were violating its SoH rules is wildly disproportionat
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by pphysch 3mo ago
Opportunity for what?
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by pphysch 3mo ago
Cool. The pot is surprisingly small. Is the sauce in it highly concentrated or something?
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by pphysch 3mo ago
The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes. For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school gir
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by pphysch 3mo ago
What do you think happened in Xinjiang?
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by pphysch 3mo ago
The fact is GingerBill or someone else could have kept the article up with enough money spent on the right PR firm that knows how to turn the Wikipedia knobs.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
> A CTO friend uses the metaphor of clearing two paths up a mountain. The left-hand path is quick and dirty, cleared with a machete and brute force—you do not expect anyone to follow you, you just hack your way through—but you make progr
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by pphysch 3mo ago
I wouldn't equate incel with manosphere. Manosphere is often hypersexual and about greed/consumption and being insecure and getting scammed, whereas inceldom is more hate-based.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
The Associated Monopolies of America.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
There are millions or billions of quadrupeds surviving on 3 legs every day. 4 legs is evolutionarily superior to 3 but 3 gets the job done, especially if you don't have to worry about agility or repair.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
Manosphere content is toxic and harmful but the hyperviolence and desensitisation of the former should not be downplayed. That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
Everybody knows which country AIPAC is loyal to, and it's not the USA. The bad faith arguments undermine your hasbara.
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by pphysch 3mo ago
AIPAC is just the most well-known and representative entity in a large constellation of a hostile foreign lobby that has somehow avoided accountability under FARA. Qatar didn't spend 9 figures getting Trump elected, but an Israeli gamb
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by pphysch 4mo ago
I thought the whole point was that the reactor would deliver heated water to the surface for utilization...? But it will magically stop trying to do that if the main shaft is obstructed and there is a separate egress? Or are you also buryin
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by pphysch 4mo ago
Kinda like how the USA respected the previous elections in Venezuela?
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by pphysch 4mo ago
I'm not talking about elections that far right lunatics* allegedly win by 1%. I'm talking about what happens after. * Colombia's new guy boasted of strapping fireworks to cats, and married his wife when she turned 18 and he w
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by pphysch 4mo ago
It's way too early to declare total victory. US also swiftly deposed Chavez, but Chavismo came roaring back. Maduro himself is unlikely to escape his abduction, but the actual power structures and grassroots opposition to Washington&#x
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by pphysch 4mo ago
Seismic activity collapses the well, trapping the nuke underground, pressure find a way to escape via polluting a "faraway" aquifer, or it doesn't escape and you have a man-made volcano in the works
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by pphysch 4mo ago
You claiming that Valve hired an economist to study digital scarcity, not because of Valve's booming ingame economies, but because Bitcoin was at $10. Sure.
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by pphysch 4mo ago
You elided the part where you are adding an extra column to your database just for this rare corner case.
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by pphysch 4mo ago
Bitcoin was not much in the public consciousness by then. It was trading at ~$10, mainly on MTGOX. It's likely its transaction volume was much lower than other non-crypto digital assets (and MTG cards) at the time.
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by pphysch 4mo ago
These aren't global timezone changes, these are changes to individual or small batches of timezones. If you are not scheduling future events in these timezones, they do not affect you. You are welcome to overengineer systems to possibl
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by pphysch 4mo ago
The first thing is false or worded poorly. Before Bitcoin became globally popular, there were many examples of digital scarcity driving significant transaction volume: Early online games with tradeable game objects, gimmicks like Million Do
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by pphysch 4mo ago
This is one of those cases where I would prefer to be antifragile and rapidly "patch the data" once as opposed to trying to perfectly solve problems like this before they arise. In all likelihood this will never happen in a partic
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by pphysch 4mo ago
Valve could have made a $2-$3K rig that outperforms other consoles for 4K gaming but I'm glad they didn't. It's genuinely unfortunate the components market went crazy at the same time. I hope this and the steam deck-likes co
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by pphysch 4mo ago
The next generation of life-improving technologies will likely come out of AI/robotics trained on high-quality data that hasn't been collected yet. Medical, ecological, resource and waste management, agriculture, home automation,
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by pphysch 4mo ago
Dismissing software non-buyers as irrational, or asserting certain purchases are "no-brainers" is missing the mark. Acquiring new software is a major commitment beyond just the price tag. It means integration, continuous maintenan
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by pphysch 4mo ago
This differentiation is amplified in (pure) mathematics, where two different subfields can have essentially zero overlap*, making peer review and general QA difficult to scale. * Physical sciences also have a lot of diversity, but at least
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by pphysch 4mo ago
What an truly incredible article, particularly the way the color space diagrams are used to gradually tell the story (and the prose is great too). I actually want to read it again tomorrow morning in more depth.

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