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Well, my point is more that the damage cannot be considered "collateral," but yes, it will yield more of it, not less.

Israeli politicians and military officials are quite open about their desire to remove as many people from Gaza and the West Bank as possible. Better targeting is about more efficiently eliminating the resistance to these efforts.

Heh I was being sarcastic, but yeah, you can't really expect to discuss the MIC's worst crimes openly on a forum that represents an industry tied so closely to it.

A not insignificant number of HN readers are actively working on these systems, we wouldn't want them getting cold feet.

Only this time the mass mind control has been so well perfected, they can just conduct the indiscriminate killing in broad daylight.

Java does have exhaustiveness checking on switch expressions over sealed types in the release JDK, but not switch statements (due to the requirement for backwards compatibility). I'll often find myself writing var _ = <some switch>; to get around this, a very Java idiom if ever there was one, heh

The "old money" was all made by psychopaths too, many of whom practiced all the same pedocratic techniques that Epstein has made broadly known.

Quite surreal to watch Thiel and his little puppets try to market this faux awakening to the skeptical public out there, when so many of them are up to their necks in their own ties to Epstein and spook cut-outs like In-Q-Tel.

"How the Deep Right is Coopting Conspiracy Consciousness" https://open.substack.com/pub/childrenofjob/p/peter-thiels-g...

> I swear it was like something took a stick blender to people’s head and spun it around a bit.

This is exactly what happened. Case counter chyrons on TV news, the Google tools where you could look it up for your own region, the videos of people collapsing in the street that were broadcast on social media platforms by government accounts -- it was all calculated to inculcate hysterical fear of the virus in order to jumpstart agendas that it enabled.

What was the upshot/benefit of this "reduced transmission" which was purchased at enormous cost? Everyone eventually got COVID anyway. How many deaths were actually prevented rather than delayed?

At times it was as though people believed no one had ever died before COVID, and never would die if only they could indefinitely avoid catching it.

I ran my personal risk profile through qcovid.org and it spat out a 1 in 80,000 chance of death and 1 in 3,000 chance of hospitalization. Any notion of taking a rush-to-market vaccine went out the window at that point. And before someone says "well what about your obligations to others?", my obligation was to my kids, to stay healthy and able to earn a living.

There's not really even any solid evidence that Trump was hit with shrapnel.

Public opinion polls consistently showed widespread overestimation of personal COVID risk across the political spectrum, and the policy response of reaching for poorly studied therapies and NPIs reflected this.

Not going to go and try to unearth it right now but everything he is saying about the figures coming out of England & Scotland is absolutely true, I saw it laid out on Twitter with links to the primary sources in real time.

I think my favorite trick here was categorizing people less than four weeks out from their second dose, or anyone who didn't get a second dose (likely as a result of a nasty reaction to the first shot, itself a good indicator of high susceptibility to COVID spike pathology), or anyone whose vaccine status was "unknown," as "unvaccinated."

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A good parallel is the U.S. campus protests in opposition to military aid for Israel's Gaza campaign, which were violently dispersed. You can find lots of instances of mostly right wingers saying they should never be able to get a job again and such.

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Yeah I actually did not necessarily mean to dispute Matz's perspective there. I actually think it will benefit programming as a whole if at least one widely used language takes the path of trying to eschew explicit type annotations.

I think they direct people to tapioca by default at this point, but that was key to making it a smooth process for us.

Is that really something that's been slated to be added to the language proper? I attended RubyConf and in his keynote Matz seemed pretty opposed to adding types to Ruby source, and argued in favor of automatic typing instead.

I wish I could reach for Kotlin as a kind of "Ruby with typing out of the box" but the lack of a good REPL is a real dealbreaker.

At my day job we use Ruby with Sorbet to stitch together a large number of data engineering pipelines. It's a good choice since we also often stand up small Rails apps to expose the results from those pipelines, so we can keep everything in one language. The fluent functional approach it enables is pretty nice for that business logic (but I would not want to do it without the gradual typing on top). We do find ourselves glancing over at the Python ecosystem with envy from time to time but overall it has worked pretty well. As I've gotten better with it I find myself reaching for irb for more and more one-off tasks in the shell too.

Unfortunately one can't go to war with percentages of GDP.

I have to assume this isn't whom the parent had in mind, it's just too funny otherwise.

A single prisoner dying in a remaining camp now being used as a prison in 2024 is a far cry from making the argument that "gulags were essential to the Soviet system."

The United States was always ahead of the Soviet Union in military spending and escalating the arms race. We even have documented statements from Western architects who said the purpose was to bankrupt the Soviets.

I haven't made any argument that no gulags ever existed, or that no one was ever mistreated in them. I imagine it was especially rough to be in one when resources were being poured into ending Nazi Germany's salt-the-earth campaign during Barbarossa.

It would be nice if we had an example of a communist state which came into existence and was not immediately beset by foreign intelligence agencies, influence campaigns, and actual military invasions attempting to depose it. We've seen how capitalist regimes behave under such conditions and it's no better.