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by statguy 4mo ago
It is reasonable for Iran to do things that hurt the US (and the world) when the US hurts them.
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by statguy 5mo ago
The down votes to this suggest that many in the west are in denial. China doesn’t need to fight a hot war with Taiwan, they can incrementally pressure Taiwan while their western allies issue impotent statements.
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by statguy 5mo ago
The casualties are low largely because US troops simply abandoned their bases and moved to hotels, treating the citizens of their gulf allies as human shields.
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by statguy 5mo ago
Exactly, Trump was high on the Venezuala “win” and Netanyahu managed to suck him into this war with disastrous consequences for US and the world.
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by statguy 5mo ago
The Taiwanese know they can't take on China directly, they now know that Western support is meaningless - in fact it pushes them more into conflict with China. Given a choice, I think the Taiwanese would prefer a Hong Kong like outcome
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by statguy 5mo ago
This has massive strategic implications for the US. The US couldn't protect its bases in the middle east from a middle power like Iran and in fact its bases were the reason that its "allies" in the gulf were attacked. Iran wo
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by statguy 8mo ago
I don't doubt that the Iranian regime has committed some atrocities during the recent protests. However, I would discount any person/source who - supported the Iraq war, cheered America/Israeli bombing of Iran in 2025 and has
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by statguy 10mo ago
does it matter if you are the one on the receiving end?
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by statguy 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/nGmOJ
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by statguy 1y ago
It doesn't work that way. The dedicated machine for running agents will have very limited utility because it will not have access to anything it needs like your credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf etc.
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by statguy 1y ago
Any idea roughly how many $100M offers have been made. I initially thought that there were maybe 1-2 such offers and the remaining were maybe around $10-25M. However, judging by this particular case and another report where a $1.5B offer wa
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by statguy 2y ago
Nvidia is also going to keep improving, so it will be a moving target.
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by statguy 2y ago
I was curious so I looked it up, it turns out that the men’s world record for a mile is 3 minutes and 43 seconds, the women’s is 4 minutes and 7 seconds. These are the very best in the world at their prime. I would conjecture that less than
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by statguy 3y ago
You knew this when making the booking? Why didn’t you book a hotel instead? Airbnb or the host have no incentive to change if people like you keep going back. They will change only when it starts to hurt their bottom line.
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by statguy 3y ago
Cam here to say the same thing, the map appears to be overly smoothed and does not capture the sharp rainfall changes that often occur due to the local topography - e.g. when going from the windward side of a mountain to the leeward side. F
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by statguy 3y ago
I remember that during the early nineties, when I was kid, I often used to see over a dozen vultures perched on my maternal grandparents’ terrace in New Delhi on summer evenings (I visited them only in summer). A few years later I noticed t
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by statguy 3y ago
What is with this webpage, it appears to be blocked by pretty much every browser?
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by statguy 3y ago
Previous discussion on the same study from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083620
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by statguy 4y ago
RSS is a straight up fascist organization: "India has the longest-running continuous fascist movement in the world – the RSS was founded in 1925. It’s nearly 100 years old. Their internal language hasn’t changed; they’re still using te
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by statguy 4y ago
I am guessing that you are upper caste, which is why it didn't really come up. If you were lower caste it would have been a different story.
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by statguy 4y ago
In principle yes, but in practice no: https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/who-are-dalit-sikhs-n...
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by statguy 4y ago
The current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning
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by statguy 4y ago
For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful
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by statguy 4y ago
I was once talking to a senior dev from country X, he explained to me how vaccines cause autism, or how the moon landing is fake or Bill Gates is implanting microchips in all of us, that sums up how I feel about the country X.
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by statguy 4y ago
It won't matter anyway, New York will be submerged well before 2055.
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by statguy 5y ago
So the outage lasted 3 days and the postmortem took 3 months!
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by statguy 5y ago
> The dead body floating thing happened in 1 or 2 states. Those were the worst hit states - UP and Bihar. What was observed during the second wave was not normal, something like that last happened in 1918 after the Spanish flu: https:&#
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by statguy 5y ago
> You may not believe it, but India's response to the pandemic has been nothing less than fantastic Come on, India was probably the only country in the world where there were dead bodies floating in rivers. https://www.bb
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by statguy 5y ago
Showing one bitcoin at 789 Billion!
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by statguy 5y ago
This does not address the problem of “Michelle Obama is a chimpanzee” or the “holocaust did not happen” going viral in one of those communities!

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