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My favorite deepfake is Sassy Justice by the South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

The US has always put arms embargoes and blockades on Turkey, even having formal ones in the 1960s and 1970s. The US also arms the terrorists in Turkeys south to attack and terrorize the country. According to CIA agent John Stockwell and others they have been arming those terrorists since the 1970s on Kissingers orders to attack Turkey. The US also refused to sell defensive systems to Turkey under the Obama blockade. The Turks bought it then instead from the Russians. Other NATO countries also have both Russian weaponry and the S-class defensive system like Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. Turkey is clearly not competent enough to build it itself which is why it bought it.

Fake news. Turkey has some of the most active crypto exchanges in the world.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/exclusive-turkeys-cryptoc...

Donald Trump only won 46.1% of the vote in 2016 and that was enough. In fact no one got over 50%. Hillary Clinton had a plurality with 48.2%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...

In England David Cameron had a parliamentary majority with only 38% of the vote.

He lost all three of the biggest cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Yet his coalition actually increased their total votes in the municipal elections by getting more votes in other cities.

I looked up the core values of Turkey. And their debt to gdp ratio is 40%. Neighboring Greece is 200%. The Turkish economy was the second fastest growing economy last year in the G20 and is on pace to be the one of the fastest growing economies this year. Turkey has had record exports and been one of the most successful in tourism both last year and this year helping the current account deficit. Yet bankrupt Greece can borrow at almost 1% interest rate with over 200% debt-to-GDP ratio. Meanwhile there is an unofficial blockade on international lending to Turkey from the US and its cluster of allies/subjects. That is the real story of the attack on the currency and the financial system. The US did the same to Chile by undermining its economy and killing its financial system before staging a coup (Obama attempt to kill Erdogan and stage a coup in Turkey failed in 2016):

https://youtu.be/EYrznlDTE_M?t=7576

My favorite two passages:

Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. Republican or Democrat. Conservative or Labour. Trump or Biden. It does not matter. The goons who oversee the empire sing from the same Satanic songbook. Empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds. Rome’s long persecution of the Carthaginian general Hannibal, forcing him in the end to commit suicide, and the razing of Carthage repeats itself in epic after epic. Crazy Horse. Patrice Lumumba. Malcolm X. Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Sukarno. Ngo Dinh Diem. Fred Hampton. Salvador Allende. If you cannot be bought off, if you will not be intimidated into silence, you will be killed. The obsessive CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, which because none succeeded have a Keystone Cop incompetence to them, included contracting Momo Salvatore Giancana, Al Capone’s successor in Chicago, along with Miami mobster Santo Trafficante to kill the Cuban leader, attempting to poison Castro’s cigars with a botulinum toxin, providing Castro with a tubercle bacilli-infected scuba-diving suit, booby-trapping a conch shell on the sea floor where he often dived, slipping botulism-toxin pills in one of Castro’s drinks and using a pen outfitted with a hypodermic needle to poison him.

The current cabal of assassins hide behind a judicial burlesque overseen in London by portly judges in gowns and white horse-hair wigs mouthing legal Alice-in-Wonderland absurdities. It is a dark reprise of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado with the Lord High Executioner drawing up lists of people “who would not be missed.”

The All In podcast with Balaji Srinivasan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iNXMiGEms

Instead of fixing our concentration camps of forced prison labor and torture, we should admonish other countries for alleged abhorrent behavior. The torture we did to this poor young black child at Rikers Island is unconscionable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

Joe Biden is chiding the Chinese for the alleged mistreatment of Muslims.

Meanwhile he is killing Muslims and their children and he will not prosecute anyone for deadly strikes on Muslims and Muslim children:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/politics/afghanistan-d...

https://www.dw.com/en/us-drone-strikes-killed-thousands-of-c...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/us-drone-s...

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20211214-no-us-troops-t...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59647065

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In ancient Egypt they tried to treat breast cancer with rudimentary methods around 3000 BC:

Our oldest description of cancer (although the word cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to about 3000 BC. It’s called the Edwin Smith Papyrus and is a copy of part of an ancient Egyptian textbook on trauma surgery. It describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/history-of-cance...

Unfortunately Snopes has a checkered track record and fluidity with the truth.

An example of their bias:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-democrats-police-ta...

Their co-founder got himself into trouble for plagiarism as well:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snope...

This could be partially wage push inflation because of the covid free checks in addition to an aggregate supply shock (due to supply chain breakdowns):

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wage-push-inflation.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/supplyshock.asp

A lot more companies will go to a multi-cloud active active architecture with maybe even bare metal redundancies.

Should we demand that companies avoid California suppliers as well because of the extensive use of prison labor:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-11/californ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2020/11/11/c...

https://www.freedomunited.org/news/forced-prison-labor-in-ca...

London is the surveillance capital of the world:

London is often called the CCTV capital of the world, and for good reason. The city is home to hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras, and the average Londoner is caught on CCTV 300 times a day.

https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-lo...

Facial recognition software is being integrated now into this network. No one seems to mind at all. It seems that the same is in most of the rest of the world.

HN has definitely changed the conversation for developers, hackers and entrepreneurs. YC has also had an outsized influence on the tech world in mainly North America and to a much lesser extent Europe. Meanwhile they are a negligible force in China, Asia, Africa and Latin America where there are many regional accelerators. But they did inspire many copycats and thats their biggest contribution. I assume there 1000s of accelerators/incubators around the world now.

I heard that having this data led to the destruction of Nokia as it bred huge resentment and jealousy among employees who had joined later because of lower upside from stock.

It is not proven but highly suggested from the data:

By comparing OES bead characteristics, such as total diameter, aperture diameter and shell thickness, Miller and Wang found that between 50,000 and 33,000 years ago, people in eastern and southern Africa were using nearly identical OES beads. The finding suggests a long-distance social network spanning more than 3,000 km once connected people in the two regions.

There is a unclear reference to Intel in the article. Was Intel working with NSO?

"In recent weeks, for instance, Intel asked all its employees to cease any ongoing business relationships with NSO, one person familiar with the matter said. Intel said in a statement that it “complies with all applicable US laws, including US export control regulations”."

Bumble banned Sharon Stone and then backtracked when they realized who she was.

https://www.nme.com/news/film/sharon-stones-bumble-dating-pr...

This is one of the better framings of differences to authoritarianism and liberty and acceptance of change that I have seen.

This is the website of the Apple accuser Ashley Gjøvik:

https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

The ubiquity of power laws never ceases to amaze me.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that.

While correctly pointing out that it is algorithms at play I can't be amused at the history of the word algorithm itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#History

The word algorithm is derived from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, whose nisba (identifying him as from Khwarazm) was Latinized as Algoritmi (Arabized Persian الخوارزمی c. 780–850).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

The term algebra itself comes from the title of his book (the word al-jabr meaning "completion" or "rejoining"). His name gave rise to the terms algorism and algorithm, as well as Spanish and Portuguese terms algoritmo, and Spanish guarismo[18] and Portuguese algarismo meaning "digit".

Here is a post on why feature engineering is easier in fact:

https://gab41.lab41.org/feature-engineering-is-just-easier-1...

To complicate matters there are "European" companies like Booking that are totally Dutch but owned by a hands off US holding company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings

The main takeaway:

Engineers prioritizing making systems easier and more consistent end up with overly complex, difficult to operate systems

Product managers prioritize shipping features and end up making the software development process slower

Security prioritizes minimizing risk of change and ends up maximizing the risk of out-of-date software.

Flat organizations prioritize open communication and end up with cliques and internal politics.