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> Iran has never attacked Israel unless attacked first

Iran was involved in attacks against Israel and Israeli towns in the 1980s and 1990s by their mercenaries in Hezbollah and direct IRGC presence in Lebanon. This happened even when Israel supported Iran during the Iraq-Iran war, so this is strictly not true

Other incidents were the Iranian bombings of the Israeli embassy in Argentine or the Jewish center there, and attempts on the London and Bangkok embassies

Furthermore financing of Hamas during the 1990s suicide campaign with the direct goal of derailing the peace process.

This is part of a long line of Iranian aggressive actions that have led them to being isolated and in a string of wars that greatly destroyed their already diminished economic power

Apart from the Socialist roots of the Nazi party (hence the name) and Fascism (Mussolini) , they have practiced a state planned economy which was far closer to Stalin's Soviet Union than to the United States

This doesn't mean the Nazis were not very much anti-communist, but subscribing Nazism to Capitalism is an extremely flat ideology-driven version of history

That's doubtful, I don't think Israel has the resources to spend huge sums of money to invest in manipulating French municipal elections.. That's absurd

Iran is not strictly "an obstacle" to Israeli hegemony. Its ideology since the 1970s clearly states the destruction of Israel as its goal. It clashed with Israel over Iran's desire to set up a Shia vassal state in Lebanon and it killed Jews and Israelis all over the world through terror (e.g. AMIA bombing in Argentina)

The Palestinians are merely a tool for Iran to gain influence, Hezbollah and Shias in Iraq were far more important for them historically

I believe you are referring to Jewish citizens of the USA that are free to support whatever political candidate they see fit?

I am an Israeli and though I dislike this certain brand of companies and would never work in one, I am not sure this is strictly bad.

I assume these were hired by a local candidate (unless someone can think who has a deep interest in French municipal elections)

Currently the only actors who use fake social accounts for election manipulation are the Russians, Chinese, Iran and Qatar.

The west is completely powerless in either fighting back, regulating social networks or coming up with a technological solution.

As democracies are being undermined by foreign influence, from Brexit, to the US elections, I'd rather local parties would have access to these tools than the alternative, and that would be only done using private companies.

Of course the better alternative is getting rid of fake accounts and making social media into a unicorn and bunnies hate-free zone, don't think we are headed there though

There's certainly assembly that maps directly to the machine language bytes, I assume you are talking about the version of assembly with the high level loop macros

I initially read the articles without images (they don't load for an unrelated reason) and actually felt it gave a good summary of JPEGXL underlying technologies and history, I also learned some new stuff.

I think the images might give a slop framing which is undue

I think the logic follows: If we are already staging a scene just for PR purposes as was usually done then why not generate it using AI?

What about the millions killed in China and Cambodia? When do you look at the system you are proposing and understand it has been a disaster during its slow and inevitable economic implosion?

did they also work for 8 hours a day in the gulag?

Not the original poster, but moving classifieds online lost newspapers a whole lot of money, money that previously financed quality journalism, not to mention the people in charge of maintaining the classifieds ads business.

If you are working for the newspaper, your job is a reaction to the death of the original business, and you are the automation that came in their stead

The combination of an overly unstable dramatic researcher, a tech news community which will undermine truth in a desperate plead for some clicks and people that are readily willing to believe everyone is constantly just casually in contact with the NSA, gives us these third rate stories

In the last war the US troops were targeted at bases located in friendly countries, not exactly in combat. The upside here is that this is a really good way to get this industry regulated

I wouldn't put any kids through some of the stuff I've seen on IRC

> For example, d4vd is a famous musician, and search stats may indicate his potential popularity and future record sales.

I wasn't really aware of that as I guess I am not the target demography. However, I can think of multiple ways of making money off this information, I still don't see why people are so sure it is worthless

> you need the info before it becomes public.

and that's exactly how the Google engineer made money, right? He knew it beforehand, and once it was made public other people did too

Realtime access to internal Google search data may help you predict a lot of things that might be worth money, for example there's an existing market where companies buy usage estimation for competitors products (not though Google). I don't see why so many people are completely sure this information is worthless

If you run a records company I assume this might be worth some money

I think the issue is that Intel skipped avx-512 for a few generations, meaning that you can't rely on it being available on your compile targets

I think the greater issue in this discussion is that the TechCrunch author, like most blogger/journalists are facing a complete erasure of their business model and have a vested interest at opposing this

isn't avx-512 one of the more poorly supported set?

I think a good example of how this plays out is the way Gulf countries are buying European soccer clubs and Museums.

Countries that are economically conscious of a future time where they will be left producing nothing (oil replacement) are seeing the european model as inspiration

Your examples such as telecom and banking are supposed to support and grow out of a real economy, not replace it

thanks for being the voice of reason, however futile it is in a social media scoring system

At least everyone gets an RSU

While there are outliers, most of the European economy is Spain rather than Sweden

The European economy is still largely the same as pre-WW2, heavy machineries, cars, chemicals and these are becoming less relevant with Chinese competition. However, the move to tech never materialized like in the US, so no surprise when soccer becomes more important than anything else, it's the only long term viable export in bleak places like Spain

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You are always so progressive up to the point you meet a progressive tax

If most people you meet will pay a wealth tax how can you remember those who don't

Yes, the context however is not cultural continuity but national continuity. When someone claims Iran is bound to win because of 2500 years of empire, that seems like a joke considering the amount of foreign rule it endured.

Some hermetic cultural continuity except for language is also doubtful, Iran culture is grounded in Arabian culture no less than it is grounded in Persian culture. Hence the entire national unifying concept of Islamic Republic and heir to the Khalifates.

Regarding Susa, as far as I understand they haven't spoken an Indo-European language and Elamite is not related to Persian at all, so why do you think it shows cultural continuity?

For choosing Google Cloud? When was it ever conventional to choose Google Cloud?