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by zen_1 3y ago
> Honestly I'm not sure how we can start a peace process after the terrorist atrocities that were committed? Israel somehow managed to convince other arab states and the US to make peace after the Lavon Affair and USS Liberty incide
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by zen_1 3y ago
I'm glad that I grew up in {shithole} (as Trump would put it) where I was able to threaten to (and follow up on in one case) beating the shit out of my bullies in school. It didn't magically stop the bullying, but it made it much
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by zen_1 3y ago
The problems public schools are facing aren't (all) funding related
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by zen_1 3y ago
Except with a much lower chance of kids getting bullied, assaulted, or shot
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by zen_1 3y ago
Which also has 8gb of dram. Funny how close these devices are becoming spec-wise
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by zen_1 3y ago
Always been a keepass user here, 100% worth it to me, the overhead of having to manage my own password db is well worth not worrying about it being hacked.
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by zen_1 3y ago
That hasn't been true since Hadrian
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by zen_1 3y ago
Sometimes you get to skip the line though, its not all downside
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by zen_1 3y ago
Hey if you're Arab or Palestenian you're likely to get scrutiny no matter what
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by zen_1 3y ago
Probably thermals, at ~3W/core TDP, 192 cores is gettingg close to 600W to dissipate from a single socket, which is beyond all off the normal heatsink/watercooling solutions I'm aware of
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by zen_1 3y ago
I realised this once when I was helping a female friend move and I was proud of how I packed all her pots and pans into a single box. She called me over a bit later because she wasn't able to lift it on her own, so we had to split t
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by zen_1 3y ago
Our ancestors didn't need to feel empathy towards words on a screen, and usually had powerful motivators (e.g. god, the threat of violence, imminent starvation) to work past together.
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by zen_1 3y ago
I just hope the BCM2712 has its full TRM released
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by zen_1 3y ago
Guess we're lucky that the US military is armed and ready to find WMDs in the next middle eastern country to fall afoul of the US's foreign policy goals (and butcher some civvies while they're at it. Fun!). But sure, Russia,
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by zen_1 3y ago
All Egyptian telcos are basically state-run even if they're not listed as state owned. iirc all network infrastructure is leased from TEData (TE = Telecom Egypt) and so they have the ability to block arbitrary ip addresses or mitm traf
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by zen_1 3y ago
The Arabic in the header image is about as fucked up as possible. The letter ordering is wrong (ltr instead of rtl). The word ordering is wrong (ltr instead of rtl). Somehow they also managed to get the letters not to connect to each ot
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by zen_1 3y ago
Modern Egyptian vocabulary: A7a
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by zen_1 3y ago
You weren't killed by the push, you were killed by the oncoming train. Big difference.
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by zen_1 3y ago
I wish your home is never fortunate enough to suffer such a US/EU "intervention"
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by zen_1 3y ago
If it's truly like that, you're usually not recruiting at job fairs but through friends and friends of friends.
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by zen_1 3y ago
Out of curiosity, who gives out real IPs?
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by zen_1 3y ago
Also worth noting is that in many countries Pharmacists can prescribe certain classes of medicines, again excluding most stimulants and opioids. But need some ciprofloxacin? Just rock up to your pharmacy and ask.
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by zen_1 3y ago
I'm also north african (in case the arabic in my parent comment didn't give it away). Can you even be racist against your own broad ethnic group (by asking a member of it to not just paint large swathes of it as "vile and
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by zen_1 3y ago
"Vile and barbaric" lmao. Is this the Arab equivalent of an uncle tom in the wild? عمو توم? Are there issues with the treatment of women in north africa? Sure, and we should address that, but please keep your self-loathing to you
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by zen_1 3y ago
It wouldn't, my suggestion was sarcastic.
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by zen_1 3y ago
I think we could combine all of those into an efficiency tax, any productivity that outpaces the baseline of what an average (otherwise untrained) highschool graduate can produce is taxed in proportion to the relative increase in productivi
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by zen_1 3y ago
There are sunni and shia arabs too, that's a separate distinction. It's more that Iranians and Arabs are two distinct cultures with different languages and histories (though a lot of the more recent history is common or shared).
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by zen_1 3y ago
No, Arab implies that someone is either ethnically Arab, or that their mother tongue is a dialect of Arabic
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by zen_1 3y ago
At setup time, yes. https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016614880-Ca... Look at the "few exceptions" section
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by zen_1 3y ago
I benefited greatly from having access to Uber and GPS maps as a teen (I started using those at 12-13 iirc). They gave me a lot of freedom and independence from relying solely on my parents or shitty+expensive taxis for transportation.

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