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by slashdev 1y ago
Genocide is extremely vague. It requires intentionally killing members of a group just because they're members of a group. It makes no requirement about how many need to be killed - but obviously that matters too. Oct 7th had both inte
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by slashdev 1y ago
You can connect them with other equipment to do that, if that’s your goal. Not very effective though
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by slashdev 1y ago
That’s what I’m using as the benchmark, but I was thinking more like bio engineering to create an organism that gets closer to solar panel efficiency. Would be potentially very useful for timber or biomass production. I doubt people would t
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by slashdev 1y ago
Evolution has had billions of years to improve on photosynthesis, but there still seems to be a lot left in the table. Could we engineer a more efficient photosynthesis?
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by slashdev 1y ago
There are a million sources saying the same thing on X, but how about the latimes? https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-25/israel... There are videos of Hamas stealing Gaza aid. How widespread t
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by slashdev 1y ago
There's more to that story: https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1948097196055810061 > Do we have to literally wait for these people to starve to death before admitting that maybe this rings of ethnic cleansing,
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by slashdev 1y ago
There is a number. If the casualties were above 200,000 it would certainly make the case for a genocide much stronger. That's a high civilian to combatant casualty ratio. Hamas has an estimated 30-40K fighters. Numbers like that would
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by slashdev 1y ago
I knew you were all talk and no substance. It took me 10 minutes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695878
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by slashdev 1y ago
Did you read the article? Instead of making ad-hominen attacks, can you counter the arguments within? > The first question the anti-Israel genocide chorus needs to answer is: Why isn’t the death count higher? If it's a genocide, it&
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by slashdev 1y ago
Depends what country you're in. In most of Canada grocery stores do not sell liquor. But at any rate, they're going to ask for ID when you buy it. Children can't access it.
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by slashdev 1y ago
This is a little crude still, but the fact that this is even possible is mind blowing. This has the potential, if progress continues, to break the vendor-locked nightmare that is GPU software and open up the space to real competition betwee
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by slashdev 1y ago
Here’s a New York Times opinion piece (penned literally one week later) that comes the opposite conclusion. Unsurprisingly people disagree about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/no-israel-
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by slashdev 1y ago
You and I disagree on everything, let’s leave it at that. Further discussion would not be fruitful.
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by slashdev 1y ago
That’s a cheap cop out to not do the work. Multiply the numbers by two to account for your alleged undercounting. Estimate how many of those are combatants and how many civilians. Compare to other urban guerrilla warfare. I’ll respect you i
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by slashdev 1y ago
You claim my opinion doesn’t matter, but you want others to care about your opinion. You see the problem with that right? You can repeat it as much as you want. It’s not a genocide. Obviously not all wars are fought in the trenches. This on
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by slashdev 1y ago
Use the health ministry numbers, let’s pretend they’re accurate. Compare that with wars versus genocides and tell me which this resembles more closely. It’s an easy exercise. I’ve done it. It’s a war.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Prove it with numbers. There are plenty of criticisms one can make about how Israel is behaving in this conflict. But that’s a far cry from a genocide.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Prove it with numbers, not feelings. Israel is making mistakes, and doing things they shouldn’t, no doubt. But they’re not committing genocide.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I read the entire article and was unconvinced. For a genocide expert, he really didn’t lay out the argument well. And I think that’s because, at the end of the day, you can’t. The numbers don’t support it. It would be very easy to change my
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by slashdev 1y ago
Air Canada is a terribly run airline. I avoid them whenever possible. They lost my luggage once and it took a year of badgering them to get them to pay up for it.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It is good that it doesn't give you an option. I don't want some app on my phone telling me its database is corrupt, I want it to always load back to the last good state and I'll handle any missing data myself. The checksums
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by slashdev 1y ago
How would this work differently? As soon as you encounter a checksum failure, you can't trust anything from that point on. If the checksum were just per-page and didn't build on the previous page's checksum, you can't ju
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by slashdev 1y ago
How on earth is that less cruel? Have you seen how birds eat each other?
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by slashdev 1y ago
Yes, it helps a lot overcome that initial momentum. I also find it helps at the end of the day when I’m tired. I can just tell it to do the work a little bit at a time and review/fix the output. Takes less out of me.
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by slashdev 1y ago
My commit messages have always been crap, so this doesn’t bother me much. I squash it all at the end anyway. Still sometimes I forget to commit between tasks or it goes wild fixing compiler errors I didn’t want to address.
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by slashdev 1y ago
It’s mostly nonsense https://youtu.be/Q6FknMOlU_w?si=8eyTIE-HeEulHNZO
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by slashdev 1y ago
How does this help with the second issue, the write locks?
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I keep a per project file like that with common commands and related things.
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by slashdev 1y ago
AI is so helpful for doing those kinds of tasks in the terminal that you only do a couple times a year and can never remember the exact incantation
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by slashdev 1y ago
The numbers have been so consistently wrong in the same direction. It could be that there are other things going on, but simply that volatile numbers come in later doesn’t seem to explain the bias.

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