srean

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1. 571.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   Could you suggest any books, resources.
2. 572.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   Yeah. So disheartening. Wish you are able to one day and wish none of those have sustained any damage. Many have, in Tehran. By the way you might like making kaleidoscopes. I have found using compass and ruler only methods much more accurat
3. 573.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   Ah symmetry. I am still besotted with spirographs. Happy to meet you. Want to visit Isfahan someday. Now is not the time I guess. The standard recommendation is Alhambra of course.
4. 574.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   Ah! Thanks for clarifying.
5. 575.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   It is a very moving story. I can't help posting it as a comment when parrot and bird intelligence gets discussed on HN.
6. 576.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   I had no idea. I thought rats would make great pets but the idea that you get attached to a guy who would die in a couple years is quite discouraging. You updated my knowledge. My grandmother had an African grey parrot she had inherited fro
7. 577.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   You have a point.
8. 578.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   I wouldn't say it's gentle but it certainly is a great book. Great exercise problems. Some of the proofs are so elegantly done, especially the way calculus of variations is avoided. David Mackay's book hand holds a little mor
9. 579.▲
   by srean 7mo ago

   Holy over the top almighty. Is this comment even real ? "Mind blown" and all. Tomorrow, the sun rose, "blown is my mind". Apologies for the snark but I can't fathom how someone who is aware of the definition of KL n
10. 580.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Very interesting. The earliest example of the familiar cube shaped dice I know if is from Indus valley civilisation from around 2600 BC, closely followed by Mesopotamian dice. This discovery pushes the history of dice from 5K years to 12K y
11. 581.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Trump is not insane. He is self serving. Monitor his and Kushner's portfolio.
12. 582.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    > Trying to disentangle who did what first in the Middle East is a fool's errand. Not at all and we are talking Iran not ME in general. Your sentence recalls to the mind that famous quote by Upton Sinclair about self imposed lack of
13. 583.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    If Bibi wants to nuke without US's blessings just let him try. He would remembered for ending Israel or Ukraine or both.
14. 584.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    At least force them to try exercising it.
15. 585.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    You are right.
16. 586.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    If many people 'vouch' for it, it will get unflagged.
17. 587.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    They made me incredibly proud that day !
18. 588.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    It is to you and me. Not everyone sees it that way. When one day the dust settles, hopefully of the benign kind, I wish some lessons to be learned on what kind of leaders to elect. This has had me so disturbed, that I have barely been abl
19. 589.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    There's the 25th too but I dont think anyone with access to that option has the spine.
20. 590.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Unless Trump perceives a new unexpected threat I don't see him backing down. Russian and Chinese opposition has been accounted for. Europe's more belligerent opposition as opposed toothless diplomatic speeches may give them a reas
21. 591.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    I had no idea.
22. 592.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    I agree. What I mean by Israel's war is that the motivation was Israel's, they got Americans to be their grunts. I don't see this de-escalating soon unless Europe shows more teeth. It's pretty much nightmare fuel out the
23. 593.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Tehran to this day hosts Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center, a Jewish charity hospital, the largest charity among the religious minorities in Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini himself wrote a personal note thanking the hospital for its help after
24. 594.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    This is Israel's war and the American democrats have traditionally been very supportive. Last place to expect anything like what you are calling for.
25. 595.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    So unfortunate. Short term thinking doing its damage.
26. 596.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Here is some Hebrew bible. So much for stoning and glass houses. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202 ... "When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they acc
27. 597.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    This "both sides" game does not carry much weight when one side, the US and Britain, made the bad faith move on Iran first. Stubbing one's toe and complaining "both sides" - the pebble and me. Complaining I am being
28. 598.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    There is a difference between "attack" (that has a connotation of being unprovoked and in bad faith) and "retaliation" against acts of drawing first blood. More so if those primary attacks had 50K killed by way of proxie
29. 599.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    > if its religion would not involve destroying all "unbelievers" in the middle east - That would be ultra orthodox zionists and illegal settlers that has been stealing land for decades now. https://www.primevideo.com
30. 600.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    When the comment is a response to another that justifies current attacks on Iran because Irani proxies killed US, it matters a big F'ing deal that those were in retaliation of the US historically scuttling Iranian parliamentary democra