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by srean 7mo ago
30K to 50K Iranians killed by chemical weapons attacks by US proxy, Iraq. Credible sources estimate 100K killed and 30K-50K is a conservative lowball estimate. This is an active unhealed wound in Iran. Families of the dead still grieve thos
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by srean 7mo ago
[To the downvoter, downvoting is not going to change the historical facts] It was the US that upended Iranian parliamentary democracy with a military coup, sponsored chemical weapons attacks on Irani population (through its proxy Iraq). Thi
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by srean 7mo ago
US-Israel struck Iran's desalination plants first. Iran's targeting strategy has been a capability restrained tit for tat, for the most part. This is true except for attacks on other gulf states right after US-Israel decapitation
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by srean 7mo ago
This is so important. Kerala in particular had a treasure trove of varieties, some well suited to low rainfall, resistant to local pests. I am sure other states had/has such diversity too, I am just not knowledgeable enough. These geno
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by srean 7mo ago
Indeed. It's not very efficient though. If I remember correctly Scala does this.
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by srean 7mo ago
Oh they certainly can if they want to design and develop such a vehicle. Currently India does not have anything with that range in its arsenal. My original point was that indian nukes and their delivery vehicles as they stand now are a dete
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by srean 7mo ago
That does not address the use case where I find tail recursion most tempting. That would be mutually recursive functions. If the function can be written as an idiomatic loop I probably would do so in the first place.
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by srean 7mo ago
Ah! Thanks for the stimulation. That's an interesting problem that I had not thought of before. In fact a few related problems. What's the minimum set of requested key presses that will uniquely identify a keyboard layout from a s
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by srean 7mo ago
You think so ? That is interesting. I am no expert though. I expect Indian subs to be kept good track of. Threatening Florida seems a stretch. Assets in around Indian Ocean are a distinct possibility. In fact India does not need subs for t
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by srean 7mo ago
Depends on how poverty is being measured. Many measure it in terms of money and not the sum total of goods and services that they can claim. Infact in lay person literature it is usually measured in terms money (+ liquid assets), at best in
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by srean 7mo ago
Indian submarines are in general quite noisy. They bought a few that are more silent, but their acoustic signature got acquired through intelligence/bribery operations. Quite an irreparable loss that the Indian population is not as acu
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by srean 7mo ago
Not necessarily. If the size of the pie is growing then it might be ok for the 'poor'. They get a smaller share of the bigger pie that is still bigger than what they had before. However if the pie hasn't grown as fast as the
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by srean 7mo ago
Not necessarily with invasion to start with. First would be destabilisation. It's neighbors are not doing too well lately. Many of them imploded within a short time span. India can do what to the US with its nuke ? It's a deterren
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by srean 7mo ago
Watch their personal portfolios. Of course not an easy thing to do. If this will stop, it will do so because of the threat to Kushner's investments in the ME. To use a slight inaccurate historical cliche -- do you think Nero gave two h
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by srean 7mo ago
Ensuring unchallenged access to the Indian Ocean is a big deal and access to Indian market under US favorable terms and conditions.
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by srean 7mo ago
Easier to repay loans. Who has lots of that to repay ?
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by srean 7mo ago
I don't think it's idiocy. It's self interest of his and his cronies.
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by srean 7mo ago
Iran has been on the receiving end of those weapons of mass destruction. They have lost 30 to 50 thousand people to those US bankrolled chemical weapons attacks and its still an openly grieved unhealed wound in Iranian society. Most cities
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by srean 7mo ago
Cuba is already lined up. If they feel confident they would try on India because India often does not do what it is told. They have almost got that region under their thumb, except for India. Impressed by Srilanka though. North Korea is ano
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by srean 7mo ago
I don't think so. Much easier. Much easier to get away with. Administration charged with insider trading and corruption charges, that's not a very remote possibility. President and administration charged with treason -- quite remo
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by srean 7mo ago
Did the personal portfolios of US stakeholders gain? Trump and his ilk likely care about that more than what effect it has on the US.
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by srean 7mo ago
Yup. People were being pressured. Fired. To get them to state what the Bush administration wanted them to state.
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by srean 7mo ago
For the life of me I couldn't understand why anyone would downvote parent comment. Nothing offensive or disagreeable here.
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by srean 7mo ago
It's amazing what a local tribal religion can do when it gets to piggyback on an empire.
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by srean 7mo ago
Maybe had the US not upended their parliamentary democracy with a coup to grab their oil, they would have continued to maintain their earlier friendly relations with Israel. Burning US flags and calling for death to blacks has been a KKK th
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by srean 7mo ago
I largely agree with you. Yes there is ordering but there is no breaking away or denouncing. If you don't, you are always vulnerable to an upstarts who holds you accountable on those parts. But that said, it's really commendable t
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by srean 7mo ago
I have no F'ing clue what Iran wants to do. But I know that the intelligence agencies are well equipped and experienced to guess that, especially more than 'that guy on the internet '.
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by srean 7mo ago
This is very admirable of him to try, but it will always be very difficult, unless one breaks away from Deuteronomy, Book of Joshua and other such parts of the Bible. Koran gets a bad rap, but some parts of the bible are just horrific. Had
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by srean 7mo ago
Oh shucks! military intelligence and 19 different intelligence gathering agencies are such nincompoops that they completely missed what an expert HN commenter of sparkling genius pointed out. I don't have the expertise to know what use
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by srean 7mo ago
I didn't know this. Thanks.

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