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Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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> All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. He is using a language that was mainly developed by Israeli and has Israeli on its core team, this is a flimsy excuse not to merge a PR. Laravele itself probably already has Israeli contributors too…

Doesn't change that people will be able to use this against him in the future, perhaps violently.

> Doesn't change that people will be able to use this against him in the future, perhaps violently.

The Iranian government already has a case against him then, he is using PHP and committing code on github.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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Weren't Iranian devs banned from github last year[0]? That aside, I dont see any first hand source for the repo owner being Iranian, only speculation in the comments. The situation is sad, but a reasonable response to a PR that has legal issues. I don't think there's much intelligent discussion that can be had about this. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-coun... EDIT: github doesn't show p…

Look at his profile.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.

Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…

All presidential candidates must be approved by a religious council. It's not democratic they just let you pick which of the narrow approved candidates gets in.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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post #93

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If it quacks ... The "supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate" may not always win, but he has to obey the supreme leader and his gang anyway. It's pretty close to a dictatorship, even if it's usually couched as "theocracy".

It's definitely a theocracy, but the president does have some measure of real power (e.g. for better or worse, the nuclear deal almost certainly wouldn't have happened had Rouhani not been elected). I'm not saying that the government isn't problematic, just that every problematic government isn't a dictatorship.

All presidential candidates must be approved by a religious council. It's democracy pastiche at best

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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How does this work considering PHP is heavily made up of code from Zend (which was an Israeli company) Can Iranian-built websites not use PHP?

It has nothing do with if you can or not. It depends on if you do something to attract their negative attention. Once you're being "investigated" anything you've said or done, your entire history is up for grabs. If that's not enough, the "investigators" will create the "evidence" or find "witnesses" who can claim you've said/done horrible* things so they can quickly handle the punishment. Astute observers will see s…

Cardinal Richelieu is alive and well and living in the Tropics.

“Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him.”

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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post #76

All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.

Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…

Nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I saw "semi-democratic" XD

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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post #129

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> the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win Candidates for president must be "approved" by the Guardian Council. Supreme leader hand picks half of the Guardian Council, the other half is selected by Majlis. But majlis nominees are "approved" by the guardian council. The circular dependency was seeded by supreme leader. If A = B & B = C Then A = C. He hand picks the nominees for presiden…

So is US. Last time I checked it was not possible for an outsider (third party candidate) to participate in US election. Forgot about outsider, look what they did to Bernie Sanders. Both 2016 and 2020. Should I explain more? Let alone third party candidates like Jill Stein. You have really bought the brand of bs the media is selling you don’t you?

Which religious council did Bernie have to be approved by? Or was it a political party? Your analogy is off base.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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It's scary business doing anything like that if you are living in Iran. Just read[1] what Behdad (guy who finally merged it) went through when he visited Iran recently. I don't blame them to be scared. [1][ https://medium.com/@behdadesfahbod/if-you-read-one-thing-fro... ]

Yikes. That's a great summary of what can happen to you when you piss off a government in a country where they don't have many limitations on what they can do to you.

He acknowledges the lack of human rights in Iran, but then casts blame on the US when Iran shoots down the Ukrainian airliner. Which is odd.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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post #76

All the people arguing semantics when the author lives in a repressive dictatorship that would literally torture you for a confession and then execute you for it.. if anyone EVER comes by this PR even a decade from now. Meanwhile, no one here would even think of violating US export controls against North Korea... when the consequences are likely just prison time. Armchair tough guys.

Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doesn't always win. The current president, Rouhani, is a moderate, and is not especially liked by the hard-liners. It's pretty crazy that your comment comparing it to North Korea and insinuating that…

An Iranian wrestler was just given two death sentences for participating in peaceful protests regarding economic policies, so someone being jailed or executed for merging a GitHub PR is not wildly out of possibility.

Re: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

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post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely a theocracy, but the president does have some measure of real power (e.g. for better or worse, the nuclear deal almost certainly wouldn't have happened had Rouhani not been elected). I'm not saying that the government isn't problematic, just that every problematic government isn't a dictatorship.

All presidential candidates must be approved by a religious council. It's democracy pastiche at best

That was where the "semi-" in "semi-democratic" came from in my original comment. It's in ways similar to Hong Kong's council elections.
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