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It´s like saying that the Japanse diet is mostly about rice and ramen.

I find a lot of sophistication in Italian cooking, especially accompanied by a good wine. The problem is that in the US Italian food is mostly some fastfood abomination that is not really what is eaten in Italy.

Reality is more complex then that. Qatar has been sending millions to Gaza (and transitively to Hamas) for years. Important point is that Israel was aware of it and even approved of it - more details here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-fu...

The parent really should be attacking the US (of which Qatar is "a major non-NATO ally") and Israel ("Netanyahu continued the cash flow to Hamas, despite concerns raised from within his own government"). I don't see any reason to be so aggressive towards Ireland of all the stakeholders.

Conservatives are champions of free speech unless it concerns Palestine and Israel. In this case any vague rule is good to supress it and impose full censorship.

"The White House announced that the US and Qatar had inked deals worth at least $1.2 trillion, including a major transaction which would see Qatar Airways buy 210 aircraft from the US company Boeing."

So US president also shook hand of this diabolical emir of Qatar :)

Trump visited Qatar this year in May (Irish president 2 months ago). He also discussed cooperation and investment. Your arguments is flawed. Most likely you're mistaking Qatar for some other country.

Other precedent was South Africa, where cultural boycott contributed to dismantling of the apartheid regime. This could also work for Israel.

It adds to drama. This year Israel had a rather weak song and got very few votes from the jury. But then it almost won thanks to the majority of votes from text messages. Pure magic.

> penis wss fused inside her, and he had to watch while a bear ate her face

Sounds very convincing, but it's just an urban legend:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bear-naked/

This is flagged by anti-Semites, obviously. Yes, Palestinians are Semites by all definitions.

I found this video from 3Blue1Brown more informative in terms of mathematics involved:

https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY?feature=shared

Edit: In fact it was already mentioned in the comments, but I haven't noticed

Comparing US war against Nazi Germany with war crimes Israel is now committing in Gaza is kind of dumb. You don't really know what you're talking about -- genocide is by definition mass slaughter of people based on their ethnic origin and this is exactly what is happening in Gaza now.

> Genocide generally means to try and eliminate a group. It’s not about the total quantity of people killed.

To be exact, it's an effort to destroy a group as a whole, or a _part_ of it:

"The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five 'acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group'".

https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024940/https://www.un.or... (Legal definition of genocide by United Nations)

You can commit genocide even if you don't intend to eliminate the whole group as it was the case with Nazi Germany 'final solution' or 'Vernichtung' policies towards the Jews. Nanjing Massacre by Japanese is a textbook example of genocide, but the Japanese didn't intend to eliminate the Chinese population as a whole - they targeted a part of it and it is still genocide.

Out of 2 million population of Gaza Strip 62,000 were already killed, of these 80% civilians and 30% children (18,500 children!). Add to this intentional starving of Gaza, banning and murdering journalists. If this doesn't conform to the definition of genocide then I don't know what does.

Edit: typos

I don't think it's really about applying a definition A to a definition B incorrectly, but rather about expanding or restricting the meaning of a given definition.

Is the Gaza genocide on the same level as what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto, certainly not. However, it is already surpassing Kosovo/Bosnian War genocide by a huge margin.

> Literature from before 1800, Davis notes, is ‘mostly unread, even by writers’

I strongly disagree. There are many counterexamples, some authors are still widely read. Besides Shakespeare, it's Defoe, his Robinson Crusoe is one of defining books for me, later I also enjoyed Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders. Swift's Gulliver's Travels is in top ten list all of the books I ever read.

This might have its roots in Nazi era when even children happened to denounce their parents to the Gestapo.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20756166

"Several historians have claimed that ordinary citizens who volunteered information on suspected infringements of the letter or spirit of the laws played a crucial role in everyday terror under Hitler's dictatorship"

I don't deny that his output is highly valued among AI researchers.

Provocative as my question may be, the point I wanted to make is that his most highly cited paper that I already mentioned is suspiciously very in line with the OpenAI narrative. I doubt if any of his GPT research is really independent. With great salary comes great responsibility.

Yes, he published a paper claiming GPT-4 has "sparks" of AGI. What else is he known for in the field of computer science?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

I moved to Spain 3 years ago and still think it's kind of nonsense in Central and Eastern Europe.

Today it was 19/10 degrees Celsius (68/50 F) in Warsaw. With these temperatures you could only use AC to warm your home.

I understand there are more hot days in Poland now, but it makes no economic sense to spend $1-2k on AC and only turn it on 15 times a year.

Obviously 1000 rats is a wrong solution, you could remove one and still get the answer. But we could get better than that when you think about a thousand as three dimensional cube (10^3). Treating a rat with just one layer of the cube we could optimize to 30 rats. At this point I looked the answer they suggested and it was 10 (binary representation). Obviously one can construct a mulitdimensional cube with just two as a base - 2^10 and then its 20 rats. But know I realized I forgot the very first optimization I mentioned here that you could just use 1000-1 rat in the first place. So it will be fine with just (2-1)x10 rats (and 30-3=27 rats in the case of plain 3-dimensional cube).

I wasn't familiar with 'Poison and Rat' puzzle that the post mentions as an inspiration of the title riddle.

Without looking at the answer I came up with a geometric interpretation of it (explained below as this is a spoiler to the Poison and Rat puzzle).

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is by far my favourite of all Chiang's stories. It is always great intellectual pleasure to read them, however sometimes I find his writing style a bit dry and I don't get so involved emotionally as with Philip K. Dick's stories for instance.

In the table there is also 'Skulachev quinone (SKQ)', so it doesn't look like he ran out of space for writing out the whole name.

It kind of gross to call ascorbic acid like that, as someone who studied chemistry I'm revolted.

Ascorbic is not a correct name of a compound. Should be 'ascorbic acid' or Vitamin C. Such sloppiness cast doubt on accuracy of the whole review.

Anyone interested in getting a great overview of the late republic should read the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris

Success in itself is not a sufficient condition of happiness. How many unhappy billionairs are out there?

I don't know if this was bad faith or not, but honestly, you need to be a bigoted retard to ban Slaughterhouse-Five of all the things.

The side effect of this is that some literary classics will enjoy a brief surge in popularity among young people.

It could also be indicative of the issues bigots have with their own sexuality. A good example of this, was a Hungarian MEP who as a married man and an author of ultra-conservative Hungarian constitution defining marriage as being between man and woman only was caught fleeing a gay sex-party in the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Sz%C3%A1jer

Like Wagner and lots of other artists around that time. Agatha Christie's most famous novel? - Ten Little Niggers. Jean Genet was a convicted criminal. I try to separate the work from the artist, even if it's difficult.

Just feigning stupidity

Maybe its training set included this repo?