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by yyyk 5y ago
>It is really the result of not thinking ahead and letting the business lobbies have what they want today There's a tendency in the West to airbrush history, and pretend that the opening to China was just a result of business lobbie
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by yyyk 5y ago
>so it seems far-fetched to believe that educated people in 135 AD would have intimate knowledge of the Jews' relationship to them. Hadrian did not have to know anything whatsoever about the Philistines to make the choices he did. A
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by yyyk 5y ago
Place names can be resilient. They can be also very political, e.g. the different spelling of places in Ukraine, which depends if one is looking at them from a Russian POV or not. Even Ukraine itself is spelt differently (Russia would rathe
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by yyyk 5y ago
Funny, but super-reductive. It's like describing every country fighting in WW2 as a 'Christian urban state' - with the exception of the officially atheist USSR. Obviously the war was between USSR and everyone else. Oh, that&#
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Well, everyone has their own bank account. There's a lot of potential there to just transact directly The technical problems with that are much less important than the legal problems. It's likely that the IRS will maul users (
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It is undisputed the Philistines existed and were of Greek origin, that an area around today's Gaza was settled by them and later named after them, and that the name was known to Greeks - though even Gaza itself was assigned to the Jud
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by yyyk 5y ago
Both cites following that sentence agree he's the likely suspect, and agree with the motivation. The difference is that the first is certain, while the second merely thinks the evidence points to Hadrian (though I wonder who else cou
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by yyyk 5y ago
Many ancient societies had a very different conception of 'good guys' than the modern one. It was very easy to justify very aggressive war with some of these alternative conceptions. 'Good guys are the ones who worship the ri
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Pretty much every culture around the world in ancient times had some sort of moral explanation for why infanticide was allowed. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide At least half of the history in the wiki
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>Another theory is that Palestine came to be known as Palaistine after the Philistines via a process called "pars pro toto", which means that a part becomes the name of the whole. The history is well known, and there's no
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by yyyk 5y ago
>And still not a single example of a good real world use case. Ransomware, tax laundering and a relatively safe method for organized crime money transfers are excellent use cases (just not 'good' ones).
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Alphabet is more like a holding company which Google was put under, right? Google kept its name and its trademark. Compare https://about.google/ with https://about.facebook.com/ . The first is all about Goo
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MAGMA is a better acronym nowadays, as Microsoft is far larger than Netflix, and Facebook renamed to Meta.
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>I am actually afraid for small tech now. And that one day me using a PiHole might get criminalized. Or a rootless VPN used for blocking invasive traffic on an Android phone might become a reason for some lobbyists to pressure my ISP int
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by yyyk 5y ago
The 'debunking' is just noting that the book in question has over 400 pages. Shouldn't we expect a guy writing a glowing foreword to have actually taken the time to read the book he's praising? As far as I can tell, ther
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by yyyk 5y ago
IMHO, even if the rules do change someday, it's not likely Amazon would return the money: it's an administrative burden going over old records of Sellers that might not even be alive anymore, and which boss which like to make his
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by yyyk 5y ago
>I've been wanting to take them to court over it; but most lawyers have quoted me at the process costing ~$8-9k; which, I'm terrified to be on the hook for if I lose. You could try to crowdfund a lawsuit (promise to donate the
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by yyyk 5y ago
>Jeremy Corbin constantly being accused of anti-antisemitism for criticizing the state of Israel A 2 minute web search: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/01/jeremy-corbyn-r... "Before bec
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by yyyk 5y ago
You have a good point, however HN etiquette is to be as close to the original headline as possible. Perhaps there should have an exception for sports.
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by yyyk 5y ago
Yet another example of the Carlsen special - drag a game to a long not-obviously-drawn endgame, and grind a win from that. Carlsen seems to have this match well in hand.
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What does 'right to encryption' actually mean in this new plan? Can anyone explain in English? For example, Google Translate (always dubious) gives the following*: "The state must also offer the possibility of real encrypted
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by yyyk 5y ago
>How much worse could it possibly be? (Ominous music) >Infection seroprevalence in blood-donors was at 20% by July[1] Seriously though, two points: A) I have doubts about this measurement - that level (83.3% with antibodies!) should h
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>In other words, there's no good control group here. There isn't. We have to theorize on the move, so to speak. >Frontloading the risk of infection versus vaccination may well be justified in the young and healthy population
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>Vaccines target a spike protein specifically... Natural immunity targets the whole virus, so whatever immune-escape such a virus evolves, it would have to be far more comprehensive A virus avoiding spike antibodies would have an advanta
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The Delta variant outcompeted the previous variants everywhere. The earliest finding of the new 'Omicron' variant was collected in Botswana on November 11th[0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/
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>It's true that South Africa is largely unvaccinated, but seroprevalence is over 70%, making it one of the most immunized places on earth. OP was suggesting intentionally limiting vaccination. If 'natural' immunity can als
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Pakistan, duh. Pakistan-Taliban links were widely known for decades.
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All the concerning mutations we keep hearing about arose in overwhelmingly unvaccinated populations*. Alpha in Britain before it widely vaxed. Beta in South Africa. Gamma in South America. Delta in India. And now this in Africa again. If we
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Covid is known to be transferrable to animals and back. There's no way to kill it without measures that make the lockdowns look pretty or futuristic tech we don't have (no 'vaccinate everything' won't work, unless
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> transactions between entities of different currency types. Because crypto->USD doesn't have any conversion fee. Right. >Plus the added benefit of not converting your money into an unstable currency (ie, Turkish Lira) You mea

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