AbouBenAdhem

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AbouBenAdhem,

Every time it caused a coup that we know about.

AbouBenAdhem,

It can mislead visitors about the severity of climate change… and it can impact the local ecosystem, if there are organisms around the waterfall that depend on there being a dry season each year.

AbouBenAdhem,

Most likely the dry season is naturally occurring, but the length and severity are affected by climate change.

Netanyahu and Putin are both waiting for Trump (www.washingtonpost.com)

Netanyahu reportedly met this month with three foreign policy envoys working with former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump — who could yet win the election despite being convicted Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York state hush money case....

AbouBenAdhem,

I fear that both situations will get uglier after the US election, regardless of who wins. If Trump wins, Biden will try to force things to a definitive conclusion before he leaves office, and if Biden wins, Putin and Netanyahu will give up on trying not to provoke the US in hope of working with Trump again.

AbouBenAdhem,

And it’s even easier to convince them that everyone else has been fooled.

AbouBenAdhem,

The right way to do it would be to outcross Golden Rice with local strains to transfer the beta carotene gene while preserving other traits that are already adapted to the local ecosystem, thereby maintaining biodiversity and allowing the rice to continue to coevolve with other local organisms. But that would threaten Monsanto’s patents.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

And even those who saw it would have seen it in the context of a lot of other portraits in the same style, where it doesn’t stand out as anything personally directed at Rinehart.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

The vessel, Alboran Cognac, […] encountered the highly social apex predators

The highly social orcas were clearly aware that the only true Cognac comes from the Atlantic coast, not the Alboran Sea.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

He’s only one year older than Biden. If Sanders acts like he’s too old to serve another term, it’ll make Biden seem too old as well.

AbouBenAdhem,

If you’re trying to solve inequality through tax policy alone, I wonder what the effect would be of having the top tax rate vary with the Gini coefficient. The idea being that the wealthy can theoretically reduce their tax burden if (and only if) they figure out how to use their economic power to reduce inequality by other means.

AbouBenAdhem,

You wouldn’t—they’d have to work together. (Something they do seem capable of, when there’s profit in it.)

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Right.

If they can proactively reduce inequality, fine; otherwise taxation will do it for them.

AbouBenAdhem,

Partly—but depending on how much you want to prioritize redistribution vs revenue, you could adjust the tax/Gini curve to set the equilibrium wherever you want.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

If your criticism of the state of Israel is that it gives unequal treatment to Jews and non-Jews, how do you distinguish that from conceiving of it as a Jewish collectivity?

Or if you criticize an action that no other country is engaging in, how can your criticism be similar to that leveled against other countries?

(To be clear—there are purely antisemitic critics of Israel, and the above criteria are potentially useful for distinguishing them. The issue is, can the criteria be deliberately misapplied to silence legitimate criticism?)

AbouBenAdhem,

They’re parallel terms from two different languages/cultures—it’s not a perfect overlap in meaning, but the terms were never meant to be contrastive or mutually exclusive.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Sotomayor should have asked about assassinating “corrupt” Supreme Court justices, in case some of her colleagues need help connecting the dots.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Yeah, that’s the expected result for any party that isn’t a cult.

If 62% wanted to replace him with the same alternative candidate, that would be significant.

AbouBenAdhem,

It’s similar to how Adobe Illustrator works—if you leave the default compatibility options checked, saving in PDF or native AI format results in an identical file with the only difference being the filename extension.

AbouBenAdhem,

Our Abrahamic concept of “religion” bundles together a lot of tendencies that aren’t necessarily linked, anthropologically. If we translate another culture’s relationship with some natural phenomenon as “sacred”, that doesn’t mean it has the same specifically religious connotations for them that the term would imply in our culture. And it doesn’t mean that our attitude toward religion should carry over to their relationship with their environment.

AbouBenAdhem,

Lies help get to the truth that the person telling them is a liar.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

The message should be that those cost-of-living, housing and healthcare issues arise from the subversion of the democratic institutions responsible for addressing them—and that one of the motivations of those who threaten democracy is to produce that outcome.

AbouBenAdhem,

But 3 + 5 = 8.

Is addition an unluckier operation than averaging?

AbouBenAdhem,

the rocket self-destructs when it detects errors in its flight path, speed or control system that could cause a crash that endangers people on the ground

More AI hallucinations?

AbouBenAdhem,

Right—the way they’re describing it sounds like they replaced a human range safety officer with an autonomous AI.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Except for this line: “The rocket terminated the flight after judging that the achievement of its mission would be difficult”.

Either the company president being quoted or the translator seems to be implying that the system is modeling the outcome of the whole mission, not just checking if sensor readings exceed some preset threshold. They’re trying to portray it as an AI-like decision, whether that’s really the case or not.

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Are there any other Soviet-era territorial changes that took place under similar conditions, that might threaten the integrity of other former Soviet republics based on this precedent?

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

“I like it when companies game search engines by titling their promotional pages to mimic search query results.”

AbouBenAdhem, (edited )

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences … Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one?

What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on...

AbouBenAdhem,

The Mac keyboard layout was largely inherited from the Apple ][ and pre-OSX systems, which were non-Unix. The original Unix keyboard layout differs from both Mac and Windows layouts.

AbouBenAdhem,

Start by spelling “finite”, then add the relevant prefixes and suffixes.

AbouBenAdhem,

Interpreting “a previously-unrecognized weakness in X was just found” as “X just got weaker” is dangerously bad tech writing.

AbouBenAdhem,

I did most of the labyrinth! My original idea was that it would be more of an interstitial background linking other artwork together.

AbouBenAdhem,

Yeah, it was fun!

AbouBenAdhem,

I don’t know if there’s already a convention for naming Canvas-related communities, but it seems like it would make more sense for them to start with “Canvas” so they all sort together in peoples’ community lists.

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