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giving the prize to Obama was not political at all.

/s

It was similar with GPUs and people got over it. It's all about art and creativity whatever you are using shaders or AI prompts

It's all psychological inertia. For example even if they knew that Communism would cause tens of millions of deaths they would not nuke USSR.

I saw a couple of interesting new tech books from Manning and Packt and they were AI slop that just appeared out of the blue. So I held off buying them. There is no guarantee that the authors invested the time in creating the tutorial,book or the course so why would I waste money on that?

the deadheading crew was Russian and British(or Argentinian?). Russian pilot was in a state of shock and run to the back of the plane and the British one eventually was calmed down and flew the airplane.

here are better ones, with clear complete devastation of large parts of the city:

NYT - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/15/world/middlee...

and AP drone imagry https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2017/7/14/mosul-drone-footage-...

There were weeks of airstrikes by the coalition and then artillery barage("Down Barage"). Basically Mosul was leveled before a single soldier entered it.

Not only tunnels. Almost every house was rigged with explosives, like what happened in Gaza city, entire neighborhoods would explode once the troops arrive. If not rigged then it would be a stash of weapons somewhere in the house or under, you are not going to spend days on each house that is potentially rigged looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately the worst for Gaza will come after the Israeli elections. Israel has 2 years of politically favorable US president to clear out Gaza City once and for all to correct the mistake of 2005 withdrawal.

Battle of Mosul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%93...

I'm trying to figure out which one has more messages

From https://www.opensecrets.org/

Totals since 2016 Country Total Spending China $562,676,323 Japan $504,111,211 Liberia $432,968,270 Saudi Arabia $421,890,448 Marshall Islands $382,012,024 South Korea $363,237,700 Bahamas $293,205,139 United Arab Emirates $269,529,107 Qatar $269,260,794 Israel $215,168,616

So for small countries UAE and Qatar(no surprise here, they just gifted 1 billion airplane to Trump)

Canadian tech was thriving 10-20 years ago, there is a reason it was called Silicon Valley North. RIM, Nortel, Celestica, QNX... I can't explain what exactly happened. A simple explanation would be Liberals prioritized real estate growth, unlimited immigration to artificially boost GDP but I suspect the problem is more complex.

Yeah, there is a famous book on that called "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by David Graeber

That's not recent knowledge worker problem. It started with industrial revolution and working 16 hours work days on a dark factory floor. What about Bedouins and other desert dwelling people? They had been trying to reduce sun exposure with complete body skin cover for millenias, it must have been some benefit for that. And what about skin cancer rates, it is probably reduced due to low sun exposure.

[*] All parts of the Israeli population have high birth rates, even the secular Jews. I find it misleading to single out Orthodox Jews as the main contributor. You don't do that to Evangelical Christians or Mormons, or some other groups in US.

I don't think the religion is the driver here.

That's a pretty normal reaction to market forces. One of the few level-headed, down-to-earth CEOs.

LLMs are just pushed by everyone at us, people just can't stand hearing about it anymore even if they use it and find it helpful. It's like at PyCon2026 the keynote was about LLM, and people were just leaving in the middle, including GvR.

I think that's temporarily. The trend is to reduce the population, see Europe and China.

Why is the bot traffic in Iran is so high -75%? I checked Argentina - 16%, Netherlands - 65%.

China is even worse than Russia on that matter. Before the invasion to Ukraine, Russia was heavily involved in Syria, Chechnia and other conflicts and with that experience it failed miserably. China, with all its posturing, military wise is even worse than Russia. That's why all it can do is propaganda war on social media to weaken American society.

Spain is often given as an example of a failed economy ruined by socialists. GDP per capita is basically flat over the last 2 decades, $30K. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/esp/spa... vs Poland that tripled or let's say Israel that had the same GDP as Spain and now has double.

Israel doesn't stamp your passport if you ask.

The military exercises too, just pure nonsense. Sinai peninsula has complicated security issues that they are trying to control. Egypt depends on Israel for cheap gas and really there is no indication whatsoever for any attempts to undermine. They do exercise soft power and play regional games. Egypt had and has very good leadership (with Sadat being the greatest modern leader in the middle east).

By the way that's just Qatari propaganda meant to put a wedge between Israel and Egypt. Qatar(Muslim Brotherhood) hates Egypt (that cracked down on MB) and hates Israel. They paid Netanyahu's advisors to push those lies about Egypt's double game and the cross border tunnels. Netanyahu the clown he is, "leaked" those lies to journalists. Qatar also paid Haaretz journalist to push those lies. The current situation with Egypt is good. They need to pretend to be somewhat cold to satisfy the hostile to Israel population, but there is cooperation and good relationship.

This person appeared out of nowhere 6 months ago and started posting on linkedin. With 6k followers and so much experience I would expect a couple of recommendations. Also gitlab and Github account appeared around the same time... Maybe it's just my paranoia in the AI slop age.

The author is quite prolific. Basically a blog post per day for the last couple of months!

Johny Srouji, Apple's new head of hardware, is Israeli.

don't tell anyone I told you, but Google bought Wiz and Waze, two large 8200 ops

Palantir must be working on something amazing if they are constantly assaulted by Iranian/Chinese bots,Left fascists,"but GenOcide in HAZA" and others. Curiously not Boieng, not drone companies, but Palantir.

Time to load up on Palantir stocks?

What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.