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And water is wet. Israel is at the forefront of it https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/in... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-... Y…

> It only takes 3 votes for a new story to get on the front page. That's not true because I've seen posts with far more than 3 languish in the "new" section. > It drops off pretty …

> but never with any support for the claim. Because it's well known and established. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/israel-wont-stop-spying-u... http://www.spiegel.de/internati…

> The Russians and Chinese manipulate the American public every day all day So does our media, government agencies, NGOs, Canada, Britain, Israel and many european nations. But let…

What makes you think they don't do that? Of course they do that. They even send chinese women to seduce lonely pathetic FBI/CIA/etc officials to get information. There was a huge s…

Welcome to hacker news. A few days ago we have some drivel from the nytimes [2000] on the front with no comments and no votes. Sometimes you wonder if HN is broken.

> I've always admired Canadian culture/values What is canadian culture? What are canadian values? I've never heard anyone mention canadian culture or values before. > would love to…

Exactly. Exceptions prove the rule. But this applies to everything, not just databases. Never write your own OS, unless you are faced with an exception where you have to. If you ha…

SCMP was founded as a pro-british propaganda newspaper in the early 20th century and has pretty much remained so while switching owners ( rupert murdoch then robert kuok ). SCMP's …

Just like sql and regular expressions. You work hard to get it to work and then forget about it.

One of the top stories on HN right now. "Health dangers of sleep deprivation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954079 And then we have this. Do journalists get together to tr…

> All of their products, while undoubtedly groundbreaking But that's not true. None of their products are groundbreaking. It's all decades old battery tech. What was revolutionary …

> Not to worry just yet as AI still hasn't been realized. AI has been realized. We have tons of AI in every facet of industry from the car to the food to gaming industry. AI is eve…

> I really hope Gates gets nominated for a Nobel Prize. He deserves it. For creating a monopoly and setting back computer science and computing by decades? For sheltering his billi…