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Comment · 20 days ago
Not more than those of farmers who "lost their jobs" to tractors, switchboard operators to switching systems, brokers or postmen (and countless other jobs) to the Internet, etc. And why do we blame the innovators and not the government for not making up useless jobs to keep these people employed? It is just as responsible.
Comment · 6 months ago
The lost jobs and the decrease in the demand for software engineers doesn't seem like an illusion. It might come back eventually but I wouldn't bet on it.
Comment · 6 months ago
Might as well add The Talos Principle then
Comment · 1 year ago
They were putting together advanced parts towards a nuclear weapon and IAEA says they weren't cooperating. Everyone knew what this meant. Even themselves, why did they need JCPOA otherwise? Just explain why you have 60% enriched uranium.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why bring him up? No one cares about him. He's been lying about it all those years until it became true, that doesn't mean it's still false. I can say the universe will be destroyed in a year, I'll eventually be right.
Comment · 1 year ago
Everyone will agree with that. It's pretty obvious NK got nukes because they had an ally strong enough to shield them. "Unauthorized" referred to precisely the lack of credible support from a strong ally.
Comment · 1 year ago
Saying "Khomeini" on current day Iran casts a large doubt on how much you know on the topic.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am familiar with IDF headquarters, they are located in a clearly marked base, you can see it on Google Maps. This is similar to French army's Hexagone Balard in Paris or the Italian and Dutch armies HQ for example, from a cursory search, ask your local LLM for more.

Can you say the same about Hamas?

Comment · 1 year ago
The word massacre is loaded and does not represent the typical reality in Gaza. Most estimates place the ratio of combatant to civilian casualties within the range for armed conflicts, nevermind guerilla warfare settings.
Comment · 1 year ago
You used the word indistinguishable, the other person used "deep". You are factually wrong since the ratio of Hamas to Gazan casualties does not represent random targeting even by the worst estimates. You also ignore the possibility of Hamas eventually giving up or some other diplomatic solution being reached.

We are a highly technical community, we should be able to debug the situation and find edge cases rather than trivialize it.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
What was the point of the parent comment?
Comment · 2 years ago
Unless the company has a very negative outlook with outstanding debts (which Squarespace is not AFAIK), the price they have to pay to take over is much lower than the value of their assets.

And even with a negative outlook and debts (i.e. liquidation), extracting value without making bigger issues is not at all simple.

Comment · 2 years ago
Note he's not a cybersecurity researcher, he's mostly a database engineer (a great one, making significant PGSQL contributions), so I'm not sure he's familiar with statistics and variety of backdoor attempts.

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