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by yyyk 3y ago
I think we have a very different definition of 'blockade'. West Bank isn't blockaded by any normal definition. Gaza had some import limits, as it turned out not enough. Its beyond Israeli capability to 'support democrati
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Israel had military and, far more critically, economic control. They could at any time have worked towards a two party system or one of the other proposals - except that the people in power were committed to not doing that. I don't
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>That makes no sense: why prevent an election you’re going to win? Because it is Abbas (PA President) who decides when there are elections and he was always going to lose badly? > If the Israeli government had done anything to help Pa
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by yyyk 3y ago
1. Hamas is still holding hostages and firing missiles and promises to attack over and over, leading to a situation where the border communities are ethnically cleansed because nobody sane is going to just wait there for the next attack. Th
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You massively discount the radicalizing effect. After what happens, neither side will agree to peace under your formula (which never worked even in more optimistic times).
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There was never any agreement on borders. You can look at any past offer and see one side or the other complaining why it's unacceptable.
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Note no promise of peace. So they just continue the war. Besides, return just means they can take over 100% from within. Either way it's not a 'compromise'.
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>most people are also capable of knowing when they’re not getting the whole story. Most people are conformists. >Only around a quarter of Palestinians approved of Hamas before the war. But a lot more approved of violence and terrorism
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by yyyk 3y ago
I actually remember quite a bit of opposition. Just not on these grounds.
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I suggest separating 2 from 3&4. 3,4 are debates about facts and intentions. 2 is a counterfactual which is logically not dependent on 3,4 (any combination of T/F values would be consistent here if not necessarily moral). IMHO it i
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I don't think there's much comparison between 2014 and 2023 given high international profile. Turkey already promised to pitch in[0] and I'd surprised if others won't follow. I'd rather put the focus on people and n
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by yyyk 3y ago
It should not be difficult to declare a tunnel a shelter with the UN. Also, any one who could dig so extensively could dig shelters. Hamas officials have a more parsimonious explanation: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news&#
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Not true. Some of us have direct memories of the time and it was very much true... >I certainly wouldn’t refer.. They weren't even aware they weren't any patients. And it's not the only hospital attacked at Mosul. Most
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>I do recall opposition to America’s post 9-11 response based on the same arguments Very much on the margins if any. The overwhelming consensus ignored these considerations. >The current laws of war do not allow, for instance, strikes
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by yyyk 3y ago
Let's use the right timeline. The pullout you describe was in 2005, and handed Gaza to _Fatah_. The Palestinian elections in 2006, and Hamas did not control Gaza prior to 2007.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Take that logic further. Israel's enemies outnumber it by 10x or more and are more than ruthless enough to sacrifice as many as necessary*. There's no way ever that Israel could avoid having the other side having more casualties.
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"massacre of civilians under the orders of Likud" "scale of the atrocities" * There really isn't any better deathrates when the other side is explicitly based on indifference to its own civillian casualties. Mosul h
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Buildings and temporary displacement inside the Strip aren't interesting - some Gulf states will cover reconstruction, and the royal houses will have a few less yachts. Ukraine lost a double-digit % of its population when you include p
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by yyyk 3y ago
They do have the right to decide if they accept refugees, but the justification is inconsistent and odd. Do the countries accepting refugees from Ukraine support ethnic cleansing there? Or same for any other conflict? There also a similar
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That's just untrue. Sudan, Yemen and (earlier) Ethiopia had much much more, without even going into Ukraine (nobody should accept the Russian figures) or Syria (death toll exceeding all Israeli-Arab wars combined). Doing a death toll p
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by yyyk 3y ago
CSS seems better? Much less verbose for same effect, doesn't require enabling Javascript. The 'with' selectors do predate jQuery and querySelector, but that was a problem with Javascript and not CSS.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Maybe this will help? https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories Also note https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463 (which is larger - obviously size still does contribute to performance)
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If data quality is good, one can reach results with much less data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759
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Well, they never really solved that problem, so it can be argued the answer is historically accurate...
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by yyyk 3y ago
There's a sufficient number of old texts - far more than necessary - if we were willing to converse with it in Latin*! Perhaps we could make a translator LLM to converse with the 17th century LLM... * I'm not talking about Roman-e
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These comments are not complete without recalling the sound of modems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w
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* I can't think of any case where Downfall or the AVX vulnerabilities have been used in the wild. It seems too complicated/unnecessary to use in practice even against high-value targets. The lawsuit cannot demonstrate real damage
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https://archive.li/rcigr
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Here is what we know about generative AI's impact on white-collar work(ft.com)
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There's always a need for grave diggers.

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