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by tgma 1y ago
Aren't regular fiber-optics just mass-deployed IP over lasers? (this message is brought to you by at least one, likely multiple, lasers in prod)
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> You can't do this in Iran. How are you sure about this? What evidence or statistics do you have that there have been enough people who want an alternative that is sufficiently different? It appears the regime is great at persuadin
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Strange that the mighty USSR broke down 10 years after that. In retrospect, the astute mind would recognize the two may have just been interrelated. In fact, one may have been part of the plan to accomplish the other.
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If you want to really argue this, you need to bring out specific claims one by one, as many have been either fake or overblown, or misattributed to SAVAK (acknowledged by the terrorists who taken over and are in charge now.) But in general,
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> Proroguing in parliaments is nothing new or anti-democratic. He prorogued the parliament and was calling for a referendum to overthrow the monarchy against the Constitution. He was terminated by the monarch per Constitution, but he wo
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Citation needed. Where did you get that additional term in front of it? Which United States founding document suggests that? Democratic Republic , just like People's Republic , is actually a euphemism for communism. What you are desc
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If you are referring to the Mosadegh story, that “apology” started with Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright trying to appease the current regime in Iran. Sadly, the “apology” itself is meddling with the historical facts. The Mosadegh governm
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I don't think that is necessarily true. First, I don't agree with the implicit premise of your statement, i.e. that democracy does not lead to concentration of power. Second, I don’t think it has been a requirement throughout his
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The US is not a democracy, by design. It’s a Constitutional Republic.
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The Democrats in the US have Superdelegates effectively vetoing candidates. So is the media and funding apparatus and the deep state by holding potential blackmail material. To be clear, I am not defending their system. I am suggesting demo
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> If that would be true, they would be a democracy. I am positing perhaps they are a democracy. Many of the "educated people" in question that the GP suggests "hate" the government, may say so but their actions neve
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You are therefore agreeing that sanctions works, but you oppose the goals of the US government and wish they did not work.
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You said "most" meaning more than 50%. I am curious if you have any data on that or it's just guesswork?
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Independent polls? How do you conduct such a poll reliably when there are legitimate consequences in expressing you have a certain opinion?
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This is an extremely important, often overlooked, point. I also know of many "educated Iranians" living in the US who voice their opinion as GP suggests, and are self-proclaimed to be anti-regime. However, they travel to Iran to v
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by tgma 1y ago
The sanctions on the Mullah regime have prevented financing of more proxies. There is a direct correlation between loosening enforcement and lifting such sanctions and increased support for Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. It's preposterous to
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Or rather if you start aiming for democracy (the actual definition, not the 200 co-opted bastardized definitions,) that's where you always end up, as people from Plato to American founding fathers clearly understood.
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I explicitly mentioned GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, did in fact get an OFAC license. I was suggesting them as an example of how it can be done, not the other way around.
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> Most educated Iranians hate their government Where did you get that data from and what do you mean by "hate" in quantifiable terms? (just being "unhappy" with outcomes of certain policies does not mean they would ne
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Where did I say or imply I am against sanctions on the Islamic Republic and/or its affiliates? I was simply describing the dynamic of how things like that get decided inside American companies.
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> Sanctions don’t apply to Iranians in the US There is some nuance here. While some "sanctions" may not be applicable, the United States has a concept called deemed export , where exposing a non-US Person (~non-citizen with no
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by tgma 1y ago
This is partially true, but not the entirety of the story. There are blanket sanction waivers ( General License ) by OFAC to allow certain things. There's also the possibility to get an OFAC license (as GitHub did.) The real issue is t
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The sad part about living in Iran from a technology perspective is you are often blocked from both sides. Often you have to circumvent the government's aggressive internal firewall and other times you will have to hide your IP from the
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Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment. I am not litigating this exact incident (which in all likelihood had most to do with busine
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I often talk with friends about organization design in the context of tech companies and have a saying: an effective organization needs to find ways to be able to compensate high performing ICs more than their boss. One way this is de facto
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There's no contradiction. I am not necessarily talking about the same people. That is the point, i.e. you need to add voters (via more population in good districts or conversion of direct beneficiaries of such immigrants) and that driv
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The same licenses restrict badwords. You can't even say fuck on the same airwaves. That spectrum is public property licensed with restrictions. That's not a First Amendment issue at all, it is a contractual issue.
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If you are talking about patronage and other forms of artist compensation, nothing about the economics of that is less robust today than ages ago. NFT craze of yesteryear is proof. So is OnlyFans success. Taylor Swift collects a billion b
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Someone once told me you can't understand US politics without understanding Linear Algebra. End of the day each party needs certain to appease certain people in certain locations. Like any marketing team they segment their "custom
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As a former ICPC participant, albeit not first place (hats off to you), I would generally characterize it as "having a good team," much more so than what's usually considered "teamwork." It is a parallelization&#x2

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