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China already uses the same logic to ban American apps. People still try to do business with China, including other American businesses. And people will also continue to do business with America, including other Chinese businesses

This doesn’t really seem germane to what is going on here though. An individual subscribing to mail is quite a bit different to Chinese spyware tracking and propagandizing citizens (without their knowledge or consent).

Jewish conspiracy theories? Nice!

Does China have the freedom to operate spyware and propaganda outlets worldwide? Is that articulated in some statement of universal human rights I missed?

Quite the opposite. Israel owes its existence only to its willingness to fight tooth and claw for that existence. The UN has never shown even the slightest willingness to police or enforce any of its resolutions. (Also I think you’re referring to the partition resolution of 1947, which was a dead letter literally on its arrival as civil war had already broken out in Palestine.)

Anything! Israel has gone to the UN before and the response is radio silence. Oh, except for literally anything Israel itself does, which results in waves of censure and resolutions condemning Israel and its existence.

Given the UN’s history towards Israel, why would it ever take anything to the UNSC or believe that its arbitrations and judgments are anything but massively biased against it?

In what sense does your quote confirm that Israel is engaging in collective punishment? Israel believes it is rooting out Hamas and that there is an embedded civilian component to its operation (which is unequivocally true). This is the problem with taking three sentences out of someone’s mouth and deciding they support an idea as broad as “collective punishment.” Perhaps you should understand the context of his words before you use them?

In any event, you asked for one time Israel brought a complaint to the UN and I provided it. Please don’t alter the goalposts you yourself set.

What was the UN’s response? Was there an intervention? A censure of Hezbollah or Lebanon? An investigation?

Uh Hamas and Iran have been in bed together for decades: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/09/middleeast/hamas-iran-isr...

That you don’t know this seems to indicate you might know less about this conflict than you believe you do. Your further contentions that the US could magically wave a wand and make Hamas disappear confirm it.

This is untrue. See articles like this:

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/4/21/fatherhood-fin...

> Today in China, gestational surrogacy is illegal for everyone, regardless of sexual orientation. Adoption is restricted to people in heterosexual marriages. This means gay people can't have kids.

China lags significantly behind basically any European country in terms of gay rights and gay families and it’s getting worse:

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/china-bans-gay-coupl...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna85528

Asserting people don’t care when the government continues to pursue obviously anti-LGBTQ policies is silly.

Israel does not view its current military operation as collective punishment, so certainly it would not go to the UN and ask for its permission to do something it does not think it’s doing.

Leaving your disingenuous framing aside, yes, Israel has brought complaints to the UN before. See: https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-complains-un-over-hezbol...

Iran is funding basically the entire terrorist campaign against Israel: https://www.acfcs.org/unraveling-a-complex-web-a-primer-on-h... So yes, it is trying as hard as it can to not just delegitimize Israel but destroy it.

What Israel is doing domestically is entirely irrelevant to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, who have all said numerous times that they want to kill all Jews. This stance has not altered or varied even when Israel had pro-peace governments.

The claim that there is no threat to Israel’s existence is totally absurd. It has fought multiple existential wars in many of its citizens’ living memories, and just suffered an enormous terrorist attack whose authors’ ultimate stated goal is, again, the destruction of Israel.

And then talking out both sides of your mouth that actually “the west” is fine with destroying nations so that rhetoric is okay is simply disingenuous. Is Israel under threat of annihilation and that’s okay, or is it not?

Anyway anyone who knows anything about the conflict can immediately see your framing is extremely disingenuous.

Is anyone saying this? It seems like the vast majority of comments are in agreement the refugees should be fed. If anything most people here seem to basically agree with the Houthis.

The UN has never censured Palestine, Gaza, or Hamas. Not even once — not as a response to any of the terrorist attacks against Israel or any of the intifadas. In fact, in response to the first intifada (which resulted in hundreds of Israeli civilian deaths) they censured Israel yet again.

So I wouldn’t hold your breath for it to start happening now.

They also have demanded death to Israel and Jews though. They’re a cat’s paw for Iran, who don’t really care about Gazans except as they can be used to delegitimize and destroy Israel.

I have a husband and family. Same-sex marriage and adoption is illegal in China, but not anywhere in the US. I can’t speak to public attitudes, but I would assume that they are correspondingly worse in China.

I’m gay, so I feel like my quality of life in any of those places would be quite a bit worse than in the US.

Basically one of these three things:

1. Extreme anti-Westernism, 2. Extreme anti-Americanism, 3. Extreme contrarianism.

The usual result is you believe that all the sources that agree about how awful life in Russia, China, North Korea and so on are lying because the uniformity of their reporting is so consistent. (The obvious answer, that maybe it really does suck there for a lot of people, is dismissed as propaganda.)

Surprisingly smart people can be paranoid enough to believe everyone is lying to them or there’s some hidden secret to the world or politics only they can parse out; it’s easy for such people to fall down this rabbit hole.

That’s how most wind up being a tankie or Putin apologist or whatever.

So just a bunch of marketing fluff? I can use GPT4 literally right now and it’s apparently within a few percentage points of what Gemini Ultra can do… which has no release date as far as I can tell.

Would’ve loved something more substantive than a bunch of videos promising how revolutionary it is.

Do you have, like, prior evidence for this statement, or is it just LLM cult stuff?

Since the civil war in 2007, it's just Hamas; the PA governs the West Bank.

Do Americans have some amount of individual culpability for the actions our government takes on our behalf? Even when that government is unpopular or not supported by those individual citizens?

What is the government of the Palestinians in Gaza?

Most people (and models) still use 1.5 because of hardware and performance issues with SDXL.

They’ve really lost the thread over there. Very happy with my move to Lemmy.

Golang is responsible for some of the biggest open-source projects out there and has a huge share of developers working in it. Lost… what exactly?

I've been using Golang professionally for about a decade. In that time the only place I've ever needed to use a tree map was an interview that specifically called for it.

Whose usage are you trying to optimize the language for? Golang is not a good academic language. But it is extremely good for actually solving problems with code.

I entirely disagree; defects are created by complexity, not repetition.

Not advanced or high-level enough for Kubernetes, eh?

Most senior programmers I know love Golang. It is easy to teach, easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to be productive in. And it is difficult to make unclear, complicated, or extremely bad code. A trade-off is that it is more verbose than other languages (if err != nil is a meme for a reason), but I think most people wind up prefer the clarity and correctness rather than hiding error handling.

Right? So many complaints about "well but it's hard to make N-leaf tries in golang so we need generics!" It's like people believe the success of a programming language is correlated to its ability to express obscure computer science concepts unrelated to most peoples' jobs.

Golang works extremely well in practice, which is what I really care about.

I would say that a BulkInsert(Any) is a significant premature optimization over just inserting an object as would apply specifically to that object. Because it sounds like you'd have to do weird reflection stuff on the object to determine how and what to insert where.

If you are inserting an object, you should insert it, rather than create complicated generic insert methods that morph themselves based on the object being inserted. That is idiomatic Go.

This is a pretty arbitrary benchmark. I would guess, again, that 95% of programmers have never and will never need to create a tree map. Repeat for numerous collections and APIs that are totally irrelevant to most programmers' actual experience of programming.

Go is optimized for use, not computer science edge cases. And as a result it is widely used, and some of the most complicated and widely-used open-source projects out there are built in it, even before it had generics. For example, Kubernetes.

This is because of Go's simplicity, not in spite of it.