DaveFr

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by DaveFr 5d ago
The Taliban hosted al Qaeda and sheltered bin Laden, they were plenty involved.
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by DaveFr 5d ago
Israel is a nuclear power. Seems obvious that if Iran gains and uses nukes, they'll receive nuclear retaliation. Does Iran want that?
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by DaveFr 5mo ago
> I think you’re ignoring the historical context. Jews were being systematically targeted all over Europe, and at the height of the Islamic empire they held ministerial positions in the royal court. I don't understand what point you
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by DaveFr 5mo ago
??? The US gives billions in aid to Jordan and Egypt, who torture and kill dissident civilians. And, it's not a genocide to lose a war you started.
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by DaveFr 5mo ago
(Looks like I can reply now) I feel I've pretty clearly answered your question of "what 'revisionist' means in that context". Dhimmitude is absolutely not a basis for peace. If it helps, think of Zionism as a civil
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by DaveFr 5mo ago
This part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi Edit: Sorry, I can't reply to your comment below, for some reason. This part, > Did you know that Jews lived among Muslims for over a thousand years in peace? is r
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by DaveFr 5mo ago
Nobody says this about any Islamic country
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by DaveFr 6mo ago
The idea is that this is a political deal, not a business deal - by buying WBD, the Ellisons add CNN to a portfolio that already includes CBS and TikTok, and shaping coverage matters more to them than the stock price.
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by DaveFr 3y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the reply
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by DaveFr 3y ago
I have a few questions: Can you buy and sell shares tax-free if the cash > security > cash conversions all happen inside the IRA? What about capital gains taxes? Can the money inside the IRA be spent? Could you borrow against the IRA
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by DaveFr 3y ago
This is closer to a subtweet than meaningful writing, but I bet it's cathartic.
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by DaveFr 3y ago
So then we're not worrying about the "anti-war" position anymore, alright. I mean, grassroots Republicans elected Reagan who beat the Soviets and Bush who wanted to "fight them over there so we don't face them here&
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by DaveFr 3y ago
The US isn't at war in Ukraine, we're not fighting there. Nobody who's actually anti-war looks at Russia's invasion and says "oh that's fine let it happen", everyone supports the right to defend yourself.
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by DaveFr 3y ago
It's not anti-war for a country to defend itself against an invader, and Democrats have been and are still against wars of aggression.
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by DaveFr 3y ago
Airbnb reduced partying by 55% between August 2020 and August 2022 ... hmmm I wonder if some other factor had an impact.
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by DaveFr 3y ago
Per the NYPost article on this, > During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. The CEO told hi
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by DaveFr 4y ago
For my purposes, they're not interchangeable.
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by DaveFr 4y ago
I really like having a lot of screen real-estate. So, I bought a LG 34WK95U-W, which is a 34" 21:9 monitor with a 5120x2160 resolution. It was about $1100. I also bought a very sturdy monitor arm ($100). The monitor floats above my lap
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by DaveFr 4y ago
Is it good coffee? That seems important.
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by DaveFr 4y ago
Yes!
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by DaveFr 4y ago
There is still https://github.com/explore . Are they getting rid of a universal feed in favor of a personalized feed? I really hope not.
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by DaveFr 4y ago
If they are in a post-Eternal-September situation, they follow the Facebook.com path: grow at all costs, then coast and squeeze revenue until the last wave of users leave. (FB's TAM is "everyone", so it's lucrative. Most
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by DaveFr 4y ago
> Looking ahead, Fulford said, Feeld might expand to connecting people in physical spaces and at events as well as online. “We don’t see ourselves just as a dating company,” he said but, rather, as “something that potentially looks like
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by DaveFr 4y ago
It's not, see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Simp
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by DaveFr 4y ago
In my experience, mindfulness meditation is a form of exercise for your brain. You are increasing your brain's capacity to control, move, and manipulate your thoughts and mental processes, analogous to how weight training might allow y
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by DaveFr 4y ago
FAANG became MAANG when "F"acebook changed to "M"eta. The 2nd M in MMANG is probably Microsoft.
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by DaveFr 4y ago
1:1, as in, every commentator is both. And we usually don't know which we are.
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by DaveFr 5y ago
Reddit is bigger, and most communities get fall off as they get bigger. The solution is to find smaller subreddits, and to contribute the content you want to see.
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by DaveFr 5y ago
A version of the classic Tank Wars game, where your artillery's shell follows the path of your mathematical function. Also available on Steam. The game is free and FOSS and really fun.
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Graphwar: Aim your artillery using mathematical functions(graphwar.com)
2 points by DaveFr 5y ago|1 comments

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