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The fact that the two highest profile examples of starvation in Gaza have confounding conditions makes me suspect otherwise. If it is as widespread as feared, it should be easier t…

Blown up hospitals can be secondary to firing rockets from the parking lot and using them as ammo dumps and military headquarters. You can take this line of reasoning back to the b…

“Automakers have been making hybrids long enough that they’ve gotten really good at it. Plus, many hybrids are also made by manufacturers that tend to produce reliable vehicles ove…

I agree that it shouldn't be used for anything complex, even if it reduces to one line. But I do like it for simple things. Maybe it's staring at very similar code all day, but suc…

Just 12 years full time with Ruby here, I'm a noob. But when I see that I could replace def initialize(text) @text = text end def inspect "# " end def ==(other) other.is_a?(Word) &…

In other words, to get your mass emails read, mimic personal emails more closely. It's a hack to use our noise filters against us. It's not exactly a dark pattern, even if it does …

See also Senator Paul going after the PATRIOT act in particular. https://www.paul.senate.gov/issues/protecting-privacy-civil-...

SEC v. Jarkesy is a current SCOTUS case recently discussed here that's very much about interpreting the body of the constitution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441401

> Kissinger saw combat with the [84th Infantry Division] and volunteered for hazardous intelligence duties during the Battle of the Bulge. Thank you for your military service Mr. S…

When you hire according to which candidate has worked hardest to fight against oppression, it isn't surprising when their academic work is about gathering evidence for the fight ag…

> AI is useful and transformative, but it is nowhere close to "general intelligence." Whether the intelligence is general or not, it is sufficient to automate and replace many many…

We talk about the evil wages of hate but seldom about those of love. People love those flat little anthropomorphic faces, often very fiercely. That love creates demand for an unhea…

Remember "Wilson" from Cast Away? That felt realistic to me. A psuedo-relationship in which the partner can actually reply intelligently is just an optional feature.