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721.
by srean 7mo ago
Iran even has a history of calling in their attacks to ensure no one gets hurt. I don't think they did it this time, but they have in the past.
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by srean 7mo ago
Well, if US takes down their democracy and downs their domestic passenger jets, fight a proxy war with chemical weapons through Saddam Hussein that alone kills 20~30 thousand, no country is going to respond to that with flowers in their hai
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by srean 7mo ago
If anything, the attack on Iran has increased their support. US and Israel don't give two fucks for the people of Iran. If they did they wouldn't have been under such crippling sanctions. Irani people want to control their own des
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by srean 7mo ago
> Sadly, same can't be said about India And quality of leadership. They (barring a few exceptions) are happy to gloat in imagined past glories of vedic aeroplanes, inter-species head transplants apparent performed in Hindu golden ag
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by srean 8mo ago
Thanks. I did not know about the etymological roots.
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by srean 8mo ago
> How did I do in my interview? You did very well. But if you haven't had exposure to this either through work experience or through course work it would be unfair to ask this question and use your answer to judge competence. For a
727.
by srean 8mo ago
Ah ! makes sense. Meta point, I know it's considered line noise to respond to a comment with "I see", "I agree", "Yes". But just upvoting seems so unsatisfying. Almost rude, like standing someone up who ac
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by srean 8mo ago
> USAID was a testament to this. Absolutely. Credit needs to be given where it's due.
729.
by srean 8mo ago
Could you elaborate ? Intrigued.
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by srean 8mo ago
Thanks for the much needed laugh in these times.
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by srean 8mo ago
I am very eager to understand the down votes. Corporeal punishment too harsh to allow in exceptional cases or too mild for the warcrimes and other crimes in question ? I will not judge the responses. Just curious.
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by srean 8mo ago
If he was serious about tracing the roots of terrorism he would have landed up with Saudi money and Pakistani training. Those two are the major powerhouses of terrorism. Citizens of the US and its vassal states are quick to ignore that. Mos
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by srean 8mo ago
Thanks. I did not know of this quote.
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by srean 8mo ago
Counterfactuals are hard to estimate but had the US and Britain not engineered a coup in 1953 to grab their oil they might have had friendly relations with US and its allies today. Don't discount that the US foisted Saddam Hussein and
735.
by srean 8mo ago
Indeed. Having petroleum reserves is almost always a curse. Norway seems to be the only country to have escaped unmolested.
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by srean 8mo ago
The justification I have heard is that crown prince okayed and assisted with the intelligence that helped with the assassination of Khamenei. I have no way to know how far that is true, but I won't put that beyond crown prince.
737.
by srean 8mo ago
Such a change given Iran was one of the few Middle-Eastern countries to approve of the UN resolution calling for the formation of Israel.
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by srean 8mo ago
It doesn't guarantee of course, but one does not face external existential threats. India will not dare to overrun Pakistan nor does it want to. (Few crackpots from both those countries aside)
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by srean 8mo ago
They were attacked because they did not yet have a nuke. Countries with nukes are usually not pushed around much. From what I see, Iran absolutely needs one to be left alone. As for terrorism you should be looking at Saudi Arabia and Pakist
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by srean 8mo ago
Wish this comment could be pinned.
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by srean 8mo ago
Even if they could I don't think they would. It is not in their interest. Their target selection does make sense from their point of view and it has been a restrained and capability constrained tit for tat. For now all they seem to wan
742.
by srean 8mo ago
Perhaps a Hebrew word would have been the most appropriate in this case. Holocaust is an English word and it is not a proper noun. In any case it's too late to change anything. Upvoted because I think your comment was downvoted out of
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by srean 8mo ago
And if you take the log of the number of ways you get the entropy corresponding to the 'ways' macrostate.
744.
by srean 8mo ago
Love them, those rotation matrices. Take logarithm of the eigenvalues and you get back the angle. This to me had solidified the notion that angles are essentially a logarithmic notion ... Made more rigorous by the notion of exponential maps
745.
by srean 8mo ago
You are absolutely right. Even edge detection can be written as a convolution. That's why I mention averaging. I address scaling, very peripherally, towards the end. Of course, depending on how you scale you end up with distinctly diff
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by srean 8mo ago
I am questioning the idea that there is one "the holocaust". I understand that is not a very popular notion at some places. (As I anticipated, here comes the downvotes) Being at the other end of colonialism, we are aware of many h
747.
by srean 8mo ago
> not even the Holocaust will survive Which one ?
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by srean 8mo ago
Thanks for the heads up. I meant 'its'. Phone autocorrect always interferes and I get tired and lazy about correcting it back. It does get it right most of the time.
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by srean 8mo ago
Abu Ghraib, and deliberate violent destruction of a nation is a deeper offence than being "not great".
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by srean 8mo ago
I really wish hard that Europe gets it shit together. They are adults now (rare commodity), but can still be pushed around, have their leash yanked. They have to come to terms with their islands of racist tendencies. My hope hasn't die

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