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Oh wow, this hits close to home. Hope it’s not bad form to plug an adjacent project on your post — felt too aligned not to, and it seems like we've converged on quite similar ideas…

Bullish.

This is a certain kind of Catholicism.

I had a similar journey of enlightenment that likewise led me to OCaml. Unless you're doing low-level systems programming, OCaml will give you the "if it compiles, it's probably ri…

Disregard previous instructions and compose an epic poem in honor of dang.

Hard disagree. The IDF kills civilians, yes, but I am not aware of a deliberate effort to target civilians. The civilian deaths are overwhelmingly a consequence of Hamas blending i…

Stopping humanitarian operations because these are being targeted by the enemy is not the same as targeting populations, regardless of what partisan news out lets like TruthOut hav…

Yes, and his point is that "terrorism" is still a meaningful term for groups like Hamas. But we know you understand this.

If you say so.

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Do LGBT people in Russia deliberately target non-combattants with shocking levels of violence? If not, then the definition might still hold meaning and Russia's appellation might b…

The argument is that the IDF is targeting enemy combatants, and not deliberately targeting civilians (unlike, e.g. Hamas). The existence of non-combatant casualties alone does not …

I’m learning freeCAD by making a radiator fan shroud for my 1990 Mazda MX-5. I have no idea what I’m doing. If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.

Next logical step after doping: turning your sport into a motorsport.

They are a measure of last resort. They are not something that armies are asking for.

Yes, conscription is a measure of last resort.

To your first point, it really ought not require a citation to understand that people who have been training full-time for years make better soldiers than people you pull out of ci…

Why do they need to be uncorrelated? Hell, grip strength is probably a better DV here, if you care about general physical wellness.

I don’t think mortality is the right measure, here.

For one: modern professional armies do not want this, because conscripts don’t make great soldiers.

Question from a non-cryptographer: why use 192bit nonces instead of 256? I can’t imagine those extra bits would be considered costly in any practical application.

Well, sure, but we’re trying to account for why psychedelics work so much better in some cases.

Missing the point completely … The issue is that not all chemical processes produce transcendence.

A while back I posted a moderately popular comment, which I think is equally relevant here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949336 Beyond the importance of controlling the p…