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I am against the existence of apartheid South Africa, just as I'm against the existence of apartheid Israel.

No state should discriminate against people based on their religion. (And absolutely no state has a right to exist. People have rights, not governments.)

Saying that the existence of a state is a racist endeavor is not inherently hateful, and doesn't just apply to Israel.

For example, apartheid South Africa was a racist endeavor.

Do you not consider calling Israel's existence racist or comparing its actions to the Nazis to be criticism?

If you go to the IGRA's website [1] and scroll down, you'll find the part of the definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism:

> Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

[1] https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitio...

Those apartments are already under rent control, and they'd be just as rent controlled if he allowed a rent increase. So, if "rent control limits supply", the supply will be limited no matter what he does.

My mistake, I thought you meant financial capital. I disagree. It seems like grocery prices are a real problem in New York, and the existing subsidy program isn't working. Ensuring people can afford food seems like an excellent use use of political capital, and if it works it can be scaled up.

I think you're exaggerating his policies. He's not proposing "rent control", he's saying he won't raise the rent on existing rent-stabilized apartments. To conclude that limits supply assumes that all the extra money would be invested into new construction.

Likewise, he's only proposing a pilot program with five grocery stores, which isn't a huge capital expenditure for a large city.

Shareholders do not provide value, workers do. After he retired, Steve Ballmer did not provide $110B of value to Microsoft customers, but he received that wealth anyway.

The perverse incentives of insurance companies and an equal if not greater factor than regulator burden.

Insurance companies are not incentivized to lower costs, because it allows them to charge more. Pharmacy Benefit Managers eliminate the price bargaining power of even the largest pharmacy chains. Healthcare is complex, expensive, and required for life, which make it inherently susceptible to market distortions.

That's the number of passenger deaths, not total deaths. It's pretty close to the sum of passenger deaths in the wikipedia article on the Titanic [1], 818. According to that article, the total death count is unclear, so the discrepancy seems acceptable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims

The cheapest STM32H7 costs about 4x more than RP2040 and runs at 5x the clock, so the fact that it would be 5x faster doesn’t imply a defect in this library.

“Just as much”? Certainly not. Even if there was total censorship of studies critical of trans healthcare, that would be a tiny fraction of what the trump administration has already cut.

What in the world makes you think that suppressing science is a “both sides” issue?

Because they aren’t very hazardous. They’re slightly flammable due to their stored energy, and may contain toxic fire retardants like other electronics. But they’re completely benign compared with nuclear waste.

Yes it does. The HJ-131 module has an onboard antenna that’s used by connecting pins 12 and 13.

The Hongjia HJ-131 is much smaller at 4x4x1.3mm https://www.renesas.com/en/document/dst/da14531-honjia-hj-13...

Sometimes there actually is a wolf, though.

MAGA is a right-wing political movement that:

-seeks to return the nation to a mythical superior past, by

-empowering an extraordinary leader who represents the will of the people, in order to

-expel inferior/unworthy ethnicities, and

-expunge left/“Marxist” influences from art and culture.

These are all characteristics of Fascism specifically, not the authoritarian actions that people casually call fascist.

Regular government employees only have access to the systems they need to do their job, so they are, in fact, different.

Twitter’s interest payments are quite large though, something like $1.2bn/year.

I think that’s incorrect. The article and the Wikipedia page on the antenna effect say antenna effects are caused by plasma etching, which uses RF to create the plasma.

Because it would reveal the lack of emulation in the open-source driver, demonstrating that there are specialized hardware blocks performing those functions.

Although being in the DDoS prevention business, Cloudflare has some financial incentives to tolerate them as well.

This is just racism.

https://youtube.com/@mikeselectricstuff/videos Teardowns of biomedical/x-ray/optical machines, as well as deep dives into reverse engineering and clever electrical design.

This should link to the original thread [1]. The important part is the attached images, which threadreaderapp doesn’t include.

[1] https://x.com/jason_kint/status/1821554841786683554

This parody of those outtakes is fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P1ifGjvEE

Software isn’t the sole focus, but you may enjoy “Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience”, a 406-page history of manned, unmanned, and ground computers from the beginning through the shuttle era. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19880069935