slt2021

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by slt2021 1y ago
just FYI, USA has no problem with a country spreading fundamentalists, for example Saudi Arabia spreads Wahhabism, Syrian's various conflicting islamic fundamentalist groups were backed, some by CIA, some by Pentagon. Osama bin Laden a
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by slt2021 1y ago
their stockpile of enriched uranium is ~400kg, they had plenty of time to move it (400kg of uranium is 28 cubic cm or a half of an airline carry-on luggage bag) upd: corrected the weight from 100 to 400kg
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by slt2021 1y ago
be ready to walk away from their offer. Thats the only secret for negotiations, there is no other secret sauce. >Them: The offer is for $X. You: Thank you, but I will continue my final interview process with [CompetitorA] and [Competitor
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by slt2021 1y ago
memri is a propaganda site, funded by the US DoS and israeli entities
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by slt2021 1y ago
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by slt2021 1y ago
Its about impact, not only funding, because aipac has not only carrot ($$$), but also a stick (an army of lapdog press journos willing to write and smear anybody for anything). Just tells you how thrifty they are
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by slt2021 1y ago
don't you think that if there was some form of systematic extermination system, there should have been more than 161 people involved in it?????? this basic contradiction basically tells you that it was all bogus, either there was no sy
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by slt2021 1y ago
>>jury of your peers from your community according to our laws when it comes to Crimes against humanity (genocide, mass killings, tortures, etc) - our peers are whole Humanity, and everyone who support United Nation's Human Right
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by slt2021 1y ago
spending money absolutely does change minds of a politician, this is the main purpose of a lobby and this is how proposals become laws. for example the most recent bogus "IHRA definition of antisemitism" was heavily lobbied and co
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by slt2021 1y ago
you are being dishonest. Only 161 people were convicted at Nurembourg trials, Nazi Germany's population was 70 mln (I am not even including Italy or Japan). The rest of the Nazis were given amnesty and continued working for the USA, or
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by slt2021 1y ago
I dont get why Americans are willing to die on a hill of defending some third-world country's president who committed well documented crimes against humanity and genocide
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by slt2021 1y ago
you don't elect the leaders in america. Two major party leaderships nominate their candidates, backed by hundreds of millions of corporate and special interest funding. Then some process called electoral college (that has some vague re
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by slt2021 1y ago
https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1 aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the
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by slt2021 1y ago
not true, Israeli military campaign against Gaza forced White House to reroute military shipments away from Ukraine and into Israel. In general Oct 7 and aftermath stole the attention from Ru-Ukr war and subsequently the military funding
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by slt2021 1y ago
you are doing data warehousing wrong, need to learn basics of data warehousing best practices. Data Warehouse consists of Slowly Changing Dimensions and Facts. none of these require updates
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by slt2021 1y ago
Thank you for defending the common sense opinion. Some people here are too reactionary
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by slt2021 1y ago
Israel makes speeches that they will ethnically cleanse the area from the Nile to Euphrates
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by slt2021 1y ago
False, thr only country that ised nukes on civilians was USA when thry developed it first. As soon as USSR made their nukes, there was peace. As soon as DPRK made nukes, everyone stopped bothering them and threatening to invade
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by slt2021 1y ago
Using this argument Palestine Syria Egypt Lebanon Turkey Iraq Iran all need nukes since they face existential threat from israel
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by slt2021 1y ago
debugging is useful when your codebase is bad: imperative style, mutable state, weak type system, spaghetti code, state and control variables intermixed. i'd rather never use debugger, so that my coding style is enforced to be clean co
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by slt2021 1y ago
demand for food is very elastic. if beef becomes more expensive, cheaper protein options get more demand (chicken, pork, tofu, beans). fruits and all non-essential food items are famously very elastic, and constitute large share of the spen
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by slt2021 1y ago
nimitz was set to retire next year. it seems like its going to retire early
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by slt2021 1y ago
SSL is used in websites. TlS is used in other applications, as in mTLS
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by slt2021 1y ago
imagine building a whole MCP server to automate copy-paste from ChatGPT window into Wordpress editor and clicking Submit button
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by slt2021 1y ago
"just let me read the prompt, not the output" attitude should become more common
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by slt2021 1y ago
so much for System Design interview and bs gatekeeping...
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by slt2021 1y ago
if I want to play games, I will buy the latest iPhone. If I want to a smartphone with couple simple primitive apps that just send JSON and call REST APIs in the cloud, I don’t want to be forced to shell out $1500 every couple years
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by slt2021 1y ago
the software forces me to update
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by slt2021 1y ago
you just proved that MSFT released slow OS to force people refresh hardware. Plus, vista was released in 2007, XP SP2 (the most popular version) was in 2004. so its like ~3 years diff. So its not like hardware has progressed in 3 years, its
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by slt2021 1y ago
if conspiracy makes hundreds of billions $$$ then nothing stops people really. like Charlie Munger have said: "Show me the incentives and I will tell you the outcome"

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