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by romwell 3y ago
>Why would you omit the qualifiers? Because we're talking about Gaza, to which the qualifer ("notably in densely populated areas") most definitely applies.
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by romwell 3y ago
>See jhallenworld’s comment elsewhere in this post: > “Hamas terrorist” criteria: a male or fighting age… Notably, this is not a criterion used by IDF, even though Hamas does everything to make it so. Consider the usual criteria u
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by romwell 3y ago
>And yet, somehow I still feel like the answer to this problem still isn't "authorizing up to 15-20 civilian deaths for every enemy militant killed" as mentioned in the article. See, that's how you feel , because you
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by romwell 3y ago
And don't forget this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Jewish_conspirac...
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by romwell 3y ago
>Good call. I guess I didn't perceive HN as for-profit. Perhaps OP's "At some point" is now, for me. Props to you for consistency! No more questions.
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by romwell 3y ago
You just provided free content (a brief opinion piece) for publication on a commercial entity (HackerNews, run by YCombinator)... ...which, according to you, is a "bad idea all around", since you exploit yourself and harm others
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by romwell 3y ago
They're not defending the CEO, it seems, but rather shift the blame onto volunteer mods who put in the hours into sustaining a commercial platform rather than joining a "community-run" one. Which isn't making it a better
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by romwell 3y ago
> turns out this software is hard to build and we need to pay smart people to work on it. Well, I'm reasonably smart (math PhD, FAANG experience, etc), and I interviewed with you a couple of years ago. Went through all technical r
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by romwell 3y ago
The line does end with the file, so it's logically consistent. It's not matching the newline character after all.
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by romwell 3y ago
Thank you! Saving this for my next time in Czechia <3
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by romwell 3y ago
Whatever you'd call a place where you sit down for a beer (...or ten) and have conversations with friends.
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by romwell 3y ago
>I think an entrepreneur should establish a tour in the Czech lands, to walk in the footsteps of švejk as of when he drank away the money for his train ticket sending his company to the front, thereby forcing him to zig zag across the la
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by romwell 3y ago
> You will find me every day after six o’clock in the 'U Kalicha' Context: "U Kalicha" refers to a bar in Prague (translation: At the Chalice ). The wikimedia link takes one to a photo of the bar today.
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by romwell 3y ago
I'd say it's more cynical. There's a place for hope in Catch-22. In Svejk, the gruesome absurdity of the war prevails in all situations.
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by romwell 3y ago
>How does it compare to Catch-22? It's the Catch-22 of WW1. A bit more gruesome and obscene, both less serious and much darker than Catch-22, and highlighting a wider scope of social (and military) issues.
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by romwell 3y ago
Of course mass timber won't solve the housing shortage. The housing shortage is entirely a self-inflicted problem arising chiefly from insanely restrictive zoning laws that prevent construction of high-density walkable neighborhoods
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by romwell 3y ago
Fair. Seems like that's the root of disagreement. If they can't do their job without Twitter, then I can agree with the rest of what you said. Sadly, the entire Congress is so dysfunctional that it's very hard to determine wh
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by romwell 3y ago
"Your PhD advisor isn't going to hold you after your cancer diagnosis" — not saying this would never happen, but it's certainly not the norm. "Together till death do us part" (as, sadly, was the case here) is
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by romwell 3y ago
>I read it as an implicit critique of US politics being so dumb that a UK student can become an expert in a few short years. We both read the same thing. The thing is, a UK student can't become an expert in a few short years. T
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by romwell 3y ago
The critique is based upon an implicit, unstated assumption that the UK student is not extraordinary . The conclusion that "the bar is set very low" follows from that. Note that utltmately, knowing the intricacies of procedures a
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by romwell 3y ago
I changed supervisors 5 years into my Mathematics PhD program. As in your case, everyone was cordial. But even so, it was immensely difficult, because, as you said, there was no protocol for "breaking up" with the supervisor I was
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by romwell 3y ago
> But for the ones you do use, yes, you should have a good working knowledge of their spec, and should be able to look up details when you need to, and not depend on someone on Twitter (or Stack Overflow, for that matter) to do it. The
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by romwell 3y ago
It's rare in any field, that's why he's coonsidered a savant . But it's possible in many fields too - including mathematics[1][2][3], aerospace engineering [4][5], theoretical physics[6], computer science[7], etc. [1]
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by romwell 3y ago
>Um, the fact that they did not know the rules of their own institution? If you don't find that appalling, I gotta ask, why not? These are the people who run Congress. It's their job to know these things. I'd say that prob
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by romwell 3y ago
>Maybe the bar is just set super low? Or maybe it isn't, and this person is a rare savant? The article presents a very clear case that it's the latter, but I guess it's much easier for some to dismiss an entire field a
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by romwell 3y ago
>Or perhaps really well trained AI? We are really not there yet. Not to mention the fact that he's been pouring through video archives to do his research, and finding the information needed for research is a big part of the wo
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by romwell 3y ago
> But that just means that the common practice for Congress and its staffers involves an appalling level of ignorance about the rules and procedures of the very institution they are working for.& And what basis do you have to say tha
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by romwell 3y ago
> We can just compare the books, per the article the Congressional procedures are 1000 pages and the International Building code is 832 pages It keeps getting better! Coming next: judging the complexity, importance, and impact of code b
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by romwell 3y ago
> Why not both. Because there's no basis or evidence for the latter claim (hence, baseless ). The justification "look how inept they are, they rely on a help of a 20-year old " is just circular reasoning, and nothing el
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by romwell 3y ago
> People are acting like this guy is some sort of savant. And we have an extensive record that shows that he is one. > Congressional procedure is not even remotely as complex as what you need to know to build an average office buil

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