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Comment · 1 year ago
The Nakba is not without prior history either.

It's simply the most complex sociopolitical issue on Earth today, if not ever in human history, it can't be "summed up" in some hot take.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think this "claim to land" works in the modern age.

Countries were established and fought for in blood all thorough history, and the winners kept their land. End of story.

Unless we are talking about some remote village, every single country was funded on blood and violence, and after a certain point it just makes no sense to track it.

Comment · 1 year ago
"The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group.."

From Wikipedia. You are absolutely wrong here, it is as much an ethnicity as it is a religion.

"Palestinian" didn't mean anything before, it's just the name of a land where Jews and Arabs coexisted.

Comment · 1 year ago
Would you be okay with being responsible for the never before seen bloodshed that would result in, with millions of innocent people dying as the direct result of your actions?
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe the "solution with the lowest Kolmogorov complexity".

In a sibling comment, I replied that usually a repeating pattern can also be applied, but that one usually requires storing the n-sequence, rarely making it the shortest encodable rule.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is exactly what I hated about these kind of questions!!

Or just, the pattern simply repeats for the n next number.. like come on, there is no objective metric for which rule is "better".

Comment · 1 year ago
The implementation details don't matter. LLMs not being able to properly reason though is a fundamental limitation and no amount of re-running will help.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nation/culture != the current regime
Comment · 1 year ago
But it's not itself, it's an array of characters. It's AST can be represented as simply as a recursive list data structure (with a head and a tail), but I think this is a bit over-mysticized.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, foreign projects communicating with each other is always ground for a mess, but this is not an either-or question.

Also, your mileage may vary based on the niche you are working on - in case of, say java, the initial setup of the build system may not be "fun", but it will just work from then on.

Comment · 1 year ago
More like there were actually multiple vendors that would have to agree on a common thing, but they died out so the single leftover can do whatever it wants...
Comment · 1 year ago
Miro board is simply unusably slow, but plenty of other commonly used websites have annoying breakages, like login screen not actually logging in and the others.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Or they could do what Brave, Vivaldi and others do and simply use Chromium as a base.

Don't you even see the problem?!

Even Microsoft dropped out from developing a web browser, it literally has a larger scope than a whole OS.

But sure, enjoy your Chrome OS proprietary "open" web.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sure. Continuing my analogy to the British empire's rule over the seas has also surely resulted in technological improvements, but that is not the only way to achieve that.

For a more practical example, Linux is also developed mostly by paid employees, but they are from many different companies and thus improvements can't be weaponized as easily.

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