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Of course, smartphones' cameras are so good and accessible, but not anyone who became a professional photographer?
And of course, isn't software engineering far beyond than simply writing code in any form - whether in English or in symbols?
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Well there's Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya etc which would tally ~300k civilian deaths alone. Given the blatantly false pretences that America invaded Iraq under, and the sectarian violence that significantly flared post-Saddam, I don't see why you'd not want to involve Iraq in the stats?
I accept US responsibility for a great many of the civilian deaths caused in Vietnam. I don't accept US responsibility for Islamists of different varieties blowing up each other's markets and places of worship with weapons provided by Iran and Syria.
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Returning land to the people it was brutally taken from is not “ethic cleansing”. The right of return is still valid.
Do you not understand the irony of what you are saying?
All these things are so amusing. Amjad Masad dislikes Israel and is fine with Saudi Arabia. Palmer Luckey will spend his life doing rainman calculations on the angle of the car in Minneapolis. One is a “terrorist”, other is a “fascist”. But you can tell it’s all motivated reasoning. Standing with your tribe. It’s not much of a matter of honour. It’s just flashing your banners. In the end, they are wealthy, but they a…
A reminder that antizionism is not antisemitism
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My bet is they sold lots if data for llm training
I think they are just hitting the consumer market hard. I have friends who have never coded & are using Replit. That said, not a single one of them has launched.
Unfortunately they added a limit to the number of collaborators per account and we had to stop using it.
"one being so good that anyone can become a software engineer". Of course, smartphones' cameras are so good and accessible, but not anyone who became a professional photographer? And of course, isn't software engineering far beyond than simply writing code in any form - whether in English or in symbols?
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It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.
Gaza population September 2023: 2.3 million. Gaza population September 2025: 2.1 million. Hamas casualties make up only a portion of palestinian casualties; palestinian casualties make up only a portion of excess deaths; excess deaths make up only a portion of total deaths.
It’s not clear that Hamas limits their counts to excess deaths. Even if they intended to, a lot of it is based on a web form, with not much validation besides basic checks that the person exists etc.
As with pretty much any conflict, there's a ton of uncertainly, and people shouldn't be recklessly speculating based on things like WhatsApp chats. Responsible casualty estimates would look more like Ukraine, where for example Zelenskyy said "tens of thousands" (one significant digit) were killed in Mariupol.