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minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

I certainly didn't intend it turn it into a flamewar. Posting the link was poor judgement on my part. My intent was to outline a particular branch of ideology, not a whole religion.

minkleson Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

The unix way is re-parsing text 5000 times in separate programmes with no consistency or contract between them really.

That's not great.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

I don't disagree but if America distances itself now it will lose credibility, something which is somewhat low on the international stage at the moment. It has however done wonders for the defence industry here in Europe now we can't trust a traditional political ally. (This is not a criticism of the US, but a criticism of the UK and EU who should have military and political independence)

I think you miss that people tend to become less idealistic and further right as they get older. The "boomer" generation is just replaced by more of the same people. It's never going to change.

minkleson Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

> Or programs writing to and others reading from a Unix pipe.

write(message), read() -> message

> Or programs talking to each other using HTTP.

request() -> response

> Or Erlang processes communicating concurrently on one machine or across a network.

sendMess(message), waitMess() -> message

> Or different programs sharing one database.

execute(query) -> response

...

I'm a mathematician at heart so I'm staying away from category theory as long as possible.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

I am criticising the ideology of Islamic extremism, which notably does not include non-extremists. That includes my white caucasian ex-Muslim friend and my Kyrgyz friend who is still a Muslim.

What you are doing is muddying the waters of the argument by making that association. Are you not the racist then by suggesting the attribution?

If you can't criticise extremism without being called a racist, we are truly and utterly fucked as as species.

minkleson Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

Interfaces are just collections of function prototypes.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

I think they are better funded than Russia :)

minkleson Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

Those are called functions.

minkleson LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

Humanity is pushing it. There are some serious lunatics on there.

minkleson IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says

And the fact that it’s under NDA makes IBM look even more shitty.

minkleson IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says

IBM and execs are full of shit and say that because they want other company execs to buy their AI products. They will lay people off because they cost money. No other reason.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

You’re making an exclusionary argument to discredit mine and use the rewrite history point. Come on. My point stands as do your secondary points. But that was a principal contributing factor.

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minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

No, it wouldn't. An interpretation of an ideology is not a race and conflating the two is disingenuous.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

It might be but no one is checking the rules before they do stuff.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

I agree there to some extent, but believe me it's not going to be all roses if you change the leadership. It will just be different actors. And in the transition time, things will get worse. I think you are chasing the wrong solution.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

Thanks for clarification - have retracted my original comment. Much appreciated.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

The Geneva "Recommendations" are pointless until someone wins decisively and has the ability to enforce them.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

https://english.alarabiya.net/2016/03/11/Arab-League-declare...

I suspect it's somewhat inconsistent but they are a big problem for many states who are looking at political and economical stability.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

So what's your solution then?

Incidentally it does work. It's just horrible. Nagasaki / Hiroshima are a fine example of forced capitulation. Now I'm not suggesting nuking anyone but the best way this ends, with the lowest future body count is someone wins decisively at this point.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

> It killed and injured more than 3 thousand people, including children.

Well the number of killed versus injured is significant and not mentioned. The mention of children is bundled with the large figure. It could be interpreted that 3000 people were killed, 2900 of which are children, which is exactly how it will be quoted and portrayed.

This is pretty irresponsible use of language.

Check headlines and how this is portrayed and compare the statistical figures mentioned. Also who is being quoted and if they are in quotes or how they are quoted. There's a lot of ambiguity.

In times of war, which this unfortunately is, irresponsible reporting is dangerous and leads to further problems.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

What about The Arab League? They're designating them as terrorists, US or not...

Edit: Above is retracted - cjbprime found later information.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

It's how you tell them

> It killed and injured more than 3 thousand people, including children.

That can be rewritten with some academic honesty added if you try.

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minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

They are dealing with it...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-police-cla...

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

Ok I'll give you that. My 818 is horrid.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

This is a straw man argument. I designate you as a banana! There, the word banana is now meaningless.

It is quite well defined.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

But it stops a third wrong.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

Well that solves the eternal rivalry between ICOM and Yaesu.

minkleson Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

Considering Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organisation in many countries, this probably should be considered an anti-terrorist operation. The targets are enemy combatants.

Also notably, it clearly did not intentionally target civilians, although there may be civilian casualties which is uncharacteristic of a terrorist attack.