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by yyyk 5y ago
>Why is dismissive labelling ok in one case, and not another? Because the only source given for the quote was Chomsky himself*. In that case, the question of Chomsky's credibility is directly relevant. * It's possible Chomsky h
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by yyyk 5y ago
The quote in question provides no sources beyond that Chomsky said it (no direct sources or anything). So the question of Chomsky's credibility is important, and well, Chomsky's own record in the Balkans and earlier in Cambodia sp
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by yyyk 5y ago
Nearly all of the statements and actions in issue with Corbyn have nothing whatsoever to do with Israel. 99.9999% politicians manage to avoid antisemitic murals and endorsing antisemitic books just fine. It's not remotely difficult, an
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by yyyk 5y ago
We should never consider any voting system that is not simple to the point of being almost-trivial. Anything even slightly more complex than necessary will lead to accusations of cheating which are enough to create massive instability - eve
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by yyyk 5y ago
The comparison is to the rhetoric used to ignore bigotry (see the absurd defence of Corbyn in the comments). The alleged sins of a country are irrelevant to that issue.
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by yyyk 5y ago
People who write an encouraging and approving forward to a book are endorsing what the book says, duh. That's very different from a general reference to a phrase that a person said (Brown) or mentioning a person as part of an historic
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by yyyk 5y ago
>That was only very recently codified and was very controversial inside and outside of israel. Very recently as in 'in the UN assembly resolution authorizing the creation of Israel' (1947) or the 1985 basic law etc. >Noam Ch
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Israel plays the anti-semitism card much too loosely to be taken seriously. This rhetoric is not any different than conservatives arguing Af-Am play the 'race card'. In both cases there's actual bigotry that some people w
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by yyyk 5y ago
VirtualBox (owned by Oracle too) will work, and is free to download.
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by yyyk 5y ago
>... So biolab conspiracy nonsense (the US was funding the dismantment the old Soviet biological weapon program) + nonsense about GE (US went max pressure and GE left too). Kremlin probably can't pay even for a decent bot program?
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by yyyk 5y ago
>You are mistaken if you believe that Russian society isn't already enthusiastic. It's a society where showing up for what the authorities do is common. >Which law is that? A long codicil of war conventions (Geneva, Hague) a
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by yyyk 5y ago
Am too a non-statistician. If I understand correctly: The two groups have very strong statistical relations across multiple variables (not just COPD), yet the study clearly states they were chosen almost randomly. This is extremly unlikely
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by yyyk 5y ago
"The" person. How do we know there's only one? Well, in this case, the story was sexy enough to be transmitted all the way to HN. Also two decades have passed. But in general, the 'post removal notice on some list and ho
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Ah yes, because seizing Russian assets overseas is the same as "not trading with them". Your bank account is held under terms. There are cases where freezing withdrawals is allowed. If you wish to avoid that, you are entitled
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by yyyk 5y ago
>That's just absurd fanfic. Sending in untrained "manpower" with no equipment would not help advance Russian goals. Some of them probably have military training, and quantity has a quality of its own. Regardless, Russia wi
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by yyyk 5y ago
There's an obvious difference between trying to hurt people and not trading with them yourself. If the distinction is difficult, there are laws to define this 'war crime' thing, you may wish to consult them. Also, Russia is r
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Do you believe that node-ipc would do this but the current vastly more impactful sanctions regime wont? >There's no other kind of "massive war" he could launch at this point. Russian society isn't anywhere near en
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by yyyk 5y ago
I can't agree with these arguments. A) IP geolocation is far from perfect, quite a few completely unrelated people could have been affected. B) There was a chance of massive collateral damage to stuff like hospitals, water company, etc
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by yyyk 5y ago
The modern story is to use jlink instead of asking the user to download the JRE (which doesn't exist anymore). https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/jlink.html
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by yyyk 5y ago
NFTs are not semi-centralized because Web3 or blockchain. They are like this because our current notions of 'ownership' are intrinsically centralized. Social reality beats tech, so the tech will end up either emulating it regard
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by yyyk 5y ago
It's not abandoned, but the intended use case is not consumer use: https://gist.github.com/0xbadfca11/da0598e47dd643d933dc
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by yyyk 5y ago
This fails the 'proportionality' test. Contrary to popular knowledge, it does not refer to number of civilians killed*, but to whether any legal goal could reasonably be achieved proportionate to the hurt. Now, there's nothin
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by yyyk 5y ago
It's difficult to trust NPM after node-ipc. After all, it's pretty close to a software eqivalent of warcrime. Imagine a hospital used node-ipc and got its files deleted.
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by yyyk 5y ago
The legal basis for presence in the Ukraine would be no different from the legal basis for Russia's presence in Syria (except this government isn't in the habit of using WMDs against its own citizens). If Putin wants to commit sui
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by yyyk 5y ago
I heard various casualty reports, doesn't really matter though. These are volunteers, with no official backing. Not the same as a true deployment. Apparently I'm not the only one thinking this: https://news.ycombinator.
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Putin has been bombing in the West, but there's no Russian troop presence anywhere nearby and he wouldn't dare bomb near an actual deployment of foreign troops.
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I recall these soldiers were evacuated just before the war. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/12/uk-troops-se...
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by yyyk 5y ago
Sure, we should act according to Putin's whims. So if Putin says 'do not help Ukraine or else' we stay. If Putin invades the Baltics, well, no ICBMs, right. If Putin nukes Ukraine we do nothing (no ICBMs right?). Can't w
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by yyyk 5y ago
There's much more the international community could do even without direct war. It should be possible to station troops in the West of country, thus freeing up Ukrainians to fight. If Putin wishes to attack them, than he'll be the
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The allies fought Germany because they had no choice - the Nazis basically declared war on the world. Yet the Holocaust is very much a post-facto justification. At the time, the allies did nothing to impede the Holocaust, and it played very

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