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by xg15 7mo ago
(Chess noob here) Always found the "protect the king" rules in regular chess interesting but also somewhat strange. (The rules that make it impossible to actually take a king and instead let the game reason on the "possibilit
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by xg15 7mo ago
European here, so I can only judge this from afar, but "Autopen" wasn't even an option anymore. And by now, honestly, Harris looks like she'd have been the WAY saner option. (And, the US being the US, the choice of the P
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by xg15 7mo ago
> Trump is an idiot, no doubt about it. But all those that voted for him and that continue to enable him are the bigger idiots, and if they're not idiots they are probably hoping to profit from the chaos he's creating. For al
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by xg15 7mo ago
Trump pulling an Uno Reverse and feeling very smart about it?
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by xg15 7mo ago
One of the more curious perks of being a democracy seems to be that you can also democratically (within your own country) decide about the fate of people in other, nondemocratic countries and then get to enforce those decisions by military.
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by xg15 7mo ago
I'm getting increasingly creeped out by the mental distinction that people seem to make between "warfare" and other kind of violence, but this is the first time someone argued that explicitly.
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by xg15 7mo ago
Can we at least drop the sports games terminology ("defense", "offense") and acknowledge we're talking about mass killing of people here?
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by xg15 7mo ago
The reality looks more like the worst of both worlds to me. If you genuinely needed only a handful of "surgical strikes", thete would be no need to "compress the kill cycle". What we see in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran looks m
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by xg15 7mo ago
There was also a nice dramatic arc to it, with the browser first (seemingly) behaving normally, then starting with a few scattered theme switches, then going increasingly off the rails as more and more extensions start up. Also the metal pi
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by xg15 7mo ago
> If your approval rating gets too low, your party will impeach you. I like how in this game, the approval rating actually means something.
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by xg15 7mo ago
Given how easily we can separate people into "ingroups" and "outgroups" and always fall into the same behavioral patterns regarding them, even if the actual markers for the ingroups and outgroups are completely arbitrary
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by xg15 7mo ago
Also enable sound. I think that video might even be better to listen to than to watch it...
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by xg15 7mo ago
> I did some research to find why this took so long. 13 years ago, extensions.json used to be extensions.sqlite. Nowadays, extensions.json is serialized and rewritten in full on every write debounced to 20 ms, which works fine for 15 ex
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by xg15 7mo ago
The eternal tension between "this service mesh is completely overengineered for our usecase" and "our broker is far to slow for our 84.205 microservices"...
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by xg15 7mo ago
The idea of "artificial beings" in some way or another seems to have been with humanity for a long time already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
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by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, the messaging felt weirdly pyromanic, like telling everyone about the unimaginable dangers of fire and then saying that's why I have I to burn everything, to protect us from the fire ...
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by xg15 7mo ago
As a Tolkien enjoyer, I'll wait for the quenyaflops.
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by xg15 7mo ago
> We're taking this as an opportunity to review how we communicate changes like this and make sure we're doing it better. As I'm sure the Vogons did after they blew up Earth for the hyperspace bypass road and realized th
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by xg15 7mo ago
Fair point. But even then, having to retreat to relative calculations is not exactly the best argument. In absolute terms, Hamas was at no point able to destroy anytime outside of the Gaza envelope. The attack was horrible enough, but there
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by xg15 7mo ago
And yet you can find maps with arab villages all over present-day Israel that were completely erased. There were battles in the War of Independence (independence from what?) to take over the large cities like Jaffa and Haifa and expel the p
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by xg15 7mo ago
Do you want to make the same calculation for the number of Gazans killed vs the total population of the strip?
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by xg15 7mo ago
We can agree that Hamas is bad - but Israel doesn't seem to make any difference between Hamas and the rest of the Palestinians. In fact, if I hear pro-Israel people talk, my impression is that there exists only Israel and Hamas - the l
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by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, if you only subscribe to the US view of the world, then of course the US are the good guys. Problem is that the rest of the world increasingly does not follow that view anymore. > Can anyone imagine just how far worse --horrific,
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by xg15 7mo ago
I like how this already includes the Polymarket estimate. Maybe there should be another category "new accounts on Polymarket that bet some suspiciously high amounts on those specific dates"...
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by xg15 7mo ago
Explain what "security control" means.
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by xg15 7mo ago
Come on dude, there are enough, very public indicators that it indeed had that intent. The quotes from various government officials are well-known by now. > Second, "apartheid" - Israel has arab supreme judges and muslim parli
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by xg15 7mo ago
Well, you can explain that to the arab world if you like.
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by xg15 7mo ago
"After Oct 7" realistically means "after Israel's reaction to Oct 7, and the US' tolerance of that reaction". The IDF took a day to stop and repel Hamas' attack on October 7. The attack lasted painfully lo
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by xg15 7mo ago
I guess in the end, Trump will have made good on his promise to pull the US out of the Middle East, bases, alliances and all. 5D chess, man, 5D chess...
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by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, that's usually called "reasoning" or "thinking" tokens AFAIK, so I think the terminology is correct. But from the traces I've seen, they're usually in a sort of diary style and start with repeating t

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