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Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by dbwkdofpqndjflf »

ajewhere wrote: post #40
riddlemethat wrote: post #26

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Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

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One can oppose Israel and the virulent Jewish hate that has exploded in the last few years. It’s not as if massive violence against Jews has never happened.

I don’t believe for a second you’re a Jew.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

adrian_b wrote: post #2

Michael O. Rabin had important contributions in many domains, but from a practical point of view the most important are his contributions to cryptography. After Ralph Merkle, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Michael O. Rabin is the most important of the creators of public-key cryptography. The RSA team (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman) is better known than Michael O. Rabin, but that is entirely due to…

Nobody has hidden the history of contributions of Rabin to cryptography or computer science.

He is a Turing Award winner.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by apical_dendrite »

ajewhere wrote: post #40
riddlemethat wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

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The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today:

> Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their military research on efficiently culling goycattle in "Greater Israel".

Nothing about this edit is legitimate criticism of Israeli policy. It is pure anti-semitism. Rabin spent most of his career in the United States and worked in abstract mathematics.

I generally agree that legitimate criticism of Israel is often unfairly criticized as anti-semitic. I would like you to also acknowledge that many people on the left summarily dismiss blatant and rank anti-semitism, as you did here.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by ajewhere »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #46
ajewhere wrote: post #40

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The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today: > Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976…

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Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by herodotus »

frig57 wrote: post #47
riddlemethat wrote: post #26

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Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

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I don't know what country your ancestors came from, but I assume you are not held responsible for any horrible thing that government does.
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