marshmallow_12

Discussion from last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871043

Iran is in a bad predicament. Largely self inflicted but that in no way diminishes from the horror of a looming humanitarian disaster.

In the words of Gimli the dwarf; 'You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.'

will it merely be a generic initial 'i agree to terms and conditions' or a fully transparent, ongoing process of transferring data, with the user having ultimate control. If the latter is true, i salute you and wish you luck.

just out of interest, how many active users are on hn?

Have they accomplished anything else? Does that justify BLM as a political organisation? How transparent are they, and who runs it? Assumptions aren't always good. BLM is not new, and i've been disturbed by the attitudes of some supporters going back a few years.

i don't get too many here in uk. And most of them are the 'guys themselves' phoning.

I wouldn't be such a prophet of doom; there is still plenty of happiness in humanity, and i'm not certain its declining as badly as you are making out.

agreed, but that's the inevitable conclusion of any inquiry into solving climate change. Should we therefore do nothing? Probably not. But again, i won't elaborate.

Probably the worst possible damage a person can do to the enviroment is to have children. Everything else is basically just a drop (of pollution) in the ocean. I have my own opinions here, which i won't say, but i'm just addressing the elephant in the news.

it would become an echo chamber.

I think a clever mod will realize that they are not the Supreme Court. They are certainly not the best judge out there. Just clicking accounts and comments out of existence wont solve misinformation - it will just make the mod a tyrant. I know for a fact if i were moderating, there would be few safe users.

I was wondering who would bring it up first! I really enjoy watching it, the videos are stunning and generally high quality content. And the ants are just really interesting to watch. (i like the fire ants the best)

Justified or not, I personally take a dim view of cancellation fees in general. Evidently i'm not alone either.

I once saw something (probably a space capsule) in the Science Museum, London.

Give me a choice and i know what i'll choose (hint; space is big, inhospitable and quite boring).

I always felt bad for Yuri. The Americans made a huge deal about John Glenn, yet his record is basically worthless. Yuri had done it all before, but it seems some people refused to acknowledge it. This was one of the first things that opened my eyes that propaganda still exists.

www.store-dot.com perhaps.

>8000 km away from USA, how is Iran a thread to the United States exactly?

I'm confused. He is quantifiably one of the most evil people on the planet, with a long list of human right abuses. Yet, what business is it of the United States to kill him?

He's responsible for the death of thousands but you want America to turn the other way. And then America kills one person, suddenly you are calling them out?

(yes, i am making a moral argument. No it's not the strongest answer. But it's a) the most compelling b) i'm not a general, but i'm sure there are plenty of strategic reasons too).

I don't. He is not a General. He was the head of the IRGC, which is a proscribed terrorist organization. The IRGC is the biggest terrorist organization in the world, which arguably makes Solameini the biggest terrorist in the world.

So, on the one side we have Iran killing it's own civilians, Iraqi civilians, Syrian civilians, Yemeni civilians etc on a large scale. The annihilation of the entire Israeli state is also on their wish list. Men, women and children. Driven into the sea.

On the other side, we have the United States, taking out a terrorist chief, and a handful of terrorist bodyguards with an airstrike.

It is hard for me to draw any sort of meaningful comparison between Iran's terrorism in the Middle East and the response of the United States to their threats. Somewhat similarly for Israel.

i've lost faith that bellingact is neutral. Just read the headlines on their website. It's obvious to me they have agendas (in the plural). Also, it's shadowbanned on HN.

Despite this, i still enjoy some of their articles, so it's a mixed bag.

what the policy makers actually say behind closed doors may be very different from their public statements. And i imagine the State Department, being a human agency, don't have a single, moonlithic, agenda.

There are more then a million Israeli Arabs who enjoy full citizenship rights. I fact, they enjoy more rights then the average Israeli, being able to enter West Bank freely.

As an Iranian, what do you think about the current political regime. Would a return of the Shah be a positive thing, in your opinion? Do you have any fears of Israeli aggression, or would you support a peace deal? I would honestly like to hear what you think about it.

one of the rare occasions that Israel has taken independent action. From what i've read, some of Carters cabinet were furious but he refused to issue sanctions against Israel.

The chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau describes the liberation in his book. He was just 8 at the end of the war. I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting a better picture of the Holocaust and it's survivors.

Someone has to pay, i guess. The challenge will be of course, to maintain a civil discourse. It will be important for both sides to not be seen as acting petulantly. As is so often the case when huge amounts of money is involved. But i'm afraid that the discourse will completely melt down before long.

nothing makes me angrier then slightly-shorter products. I.e sandwiches packets etc. It's cheating and wrong.

I think what you are saying is privacy concerns are a straw man. But just to accuse HN doesn't really help me. Can you share with us a bit about what is going on in Chrome. I would be genuinely interested to hear more about how it was made/runs etc.

it's excellent; it works and doesn't get in my way. I care about privacy a little, but i'm not even interested in looking for an alternative at the moment.

eh?

What's wrong with being a former spook? I do personally think that bellingcat's agenda is much too biased and liberal for a 'neutral' organisation (as does the mod here on HN- it's shadowbanned). But i think OPs argument is a straw man.