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bonbonsofa··on [dead]
Of course not. HN is getting hammered from all the recent excitement. I believe it's a single threaded app that is easily accidentally DoS'd.
bonbonsofa··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
Yeah, I think that's a fair assessment. And if it was completely deliberate, with no mitigating circumstances, I'd be in favor of the responsible person being imprisoned for a very long time.
bonbonsofa··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
Seems pretty obvious that the theme among those killings is self-defense. And if a scientist is working on Iran's nuclear weapons program, that counts as self-defense in my book. If someone is a "politician" of an active terrorist organization, that's also fair game to my mind. Bin Laden could be deemed a "politician" by some, but he would be more honestly categorized as a terrorist leader.

If Israel's goal was to kill civilians, they could kill millions of civilians any time they want. They go through effort not to kill civilians.

But I'm in total agreement with people arguing that the IDF should go much further in preventing civilian deaths, even if it results in more IDF deaths, which it likely would.

bonbonsofa··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
What about them? Almost all of those are examples of the IDF targeting enemy militants who are actively involved in military operations against Israel, many of which have murders innocent civilians.
bonbonsofa··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
That's actually very much what I'm saying. It may have been accidental in the sense that it was not the deliberate plan of anyone, but happened during combat, due to a soldier's bad/unethical judgement call.
bonbonsofa··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
There's a pretty big difference between a soldier during the heat of a firefight shooting someone that (at a distance) they might genuinely perceive as a threat vs a targeted assassination of a political enemy while they eat dinner.

The Mossad is certainly capable of killing people in more low profile ways. There's no reason to believe this was ordered at a high level. Most likely, it was an individual soldier's fault.

And the fact that she had press gear on is really not the kind of guarantee one might hope.

Here's a video of a "medic" grabbing a downed Hamas fighter's AK47 to give it to another fighter so they can use it to try to kill IDF soldiers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/17rff07/west...

bonbonsofa··on To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees
The dirt in this screed is kind of besides the point.

Startups die by self-deception.

The lie that OpenAI has still been pursuing its original mission was extremely transparent to every informed person inside and outside the company. Their attempts to distort reality were weak and useless. The chickens have come to roost. The company has been blown up as a result. It was only a matter of time.

bonbonsofa··on To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees
There's zero corroboration on that account and it sounds like a real peanut gallery bullshitter to me. I would bet it's fake.