> Sure, never mind the millions of jews in concentration camps. Or what about the jews being terrorized by the likes of hamas, al-queda, taliban, al-shebab, IS, or any other islamic terror organization worldwide? Over the past 80 years, the number of children involved may dwarf the figure you got from hamas.
the levels of shamelessness here on display here is breathtaking...
Just forgot that the Gaza oppression is ongoing, with the perpetrating govt still making claims on escalating it further, and the ww2 concentration camp oppression was stopped ~80 years ago.
Both are bad. But thinking that there is a connection between the two is indeed olympic-level mental gymnastics.
At least in ww2 perpetrating govt tried to hide it because they knew the ordinary citizens would not take it lightly. In the current case ordinary citizens climb hills to watch and rejoice.
hmm inquisition, conquistadores in south america, and british expansion into india, the genocide of the kumir ruge and congo under leopold and the holocaust had nothign to do with islam.
atheist here, from my perspective, all the religions seem to lean in teh direction of violence when paired with a greedy elite.
also have you read the old testament? large sections of it come down to "god told us to kill them so we did down to the last sheep"
I found the new deepseek flash is so good I rarely have to pull out gpt sol anymore. if anything for coding tasks, gpt sol ends to go out of scope and I have to reign it in. Trying to keep my tasks managably small for human review is a endless battle with the frontier models.
its a bit like how big companies will pullin a CEO who;s job is to do all the unpopular stuff and then summarily dismiss him after (while keeping the policies he created in tact).
ideally we should be throwing our support behind democratic socialists like zorhan mamdani but old school moderate democrats are just as bad as trump. they are juts happy letting trump do the dirty work. At the end of the day they are both working for a certain foreign government and not the interests of the american people.
Prefix technically doesn’t need, either, if you avoid functions taking variable number of arguments and have a grammar that can reliably detect function calls (could be hard if you’re allowing higher-order functions)
Even with functions taking a variable number of arguments, you could do it the C way and use the argc, argv trick, giving you
* 2 + 3 5 6 7 3 ⇒ (* (+ 5 6 7) 3) ⇒ 54
I think you’d have to be a bit of a masochist to do that, though.
That also is why I think varargs functions tend to be rare in bare bones forths. You’d have to write
5 6 7 3 + 3 2 *
Using custom names for the varargs functions would help for the 2-argument version.
He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS.
If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed.
The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.
If he found fucked up stuff regarding crimes way worse than his on university networks don't you think he could have gotten out of the sentencing entirely by cooperating against them
Epstein was relatively restrained even in his personal email, I doubt he was using MIT administrated systems to facilitate a pedo ring
It's not that simple. If he did find dark stuff, and he got caught - he will have both the state murderers and the filth on his case. That's the best case scenario assuming the state isn't on the side of the filth by which case he was cooked no matter what he did. Filth does not even have come after you. They can just send you a family portrait and you'd know the hole is deep and only one way out.
Your theory is that he found "very dark stuff" that is accessible to any MIT student? Schwartz didn't "hack" anything, he connected to their student network and downloaded articles that they had access to but the public didn't.
I'm not from the USA so my views are obviously biased by this. I very much doubt Epstein committed suicide, and it's been wild to watch you guys deal with it, not releasing the files, holding nobody accountable and so on. That being said, I also don't think there needs to be a big dark secret to explain why someone caught in the USA justice system would commit suicide.
It's crazy that you could face 35 years in jail for trying to free knowledge in a harmless manner. The longest anyone has been imprisoned for in my country in modern times is 26 years, 11 months and 6 days. We have a few people posed to break that record. Peter Lundin has been in prison for 25ish years, and him and Peter Madsen (the discount elon musk turned murderer who killed some poor journalist in is selfmade submarine) are contenders to people who will probably go beyond 35 years.
Not that our system is perfect. I think we're far too lenient on some crimes, but risking 35 years in jail for downloading and sharing academic knowledge... That's objectively evil.
western elites are currently at odds with the chinese elites and every impressionable idiot is being inundates with antichinese propaganda.
Lets be frank, every single issue we have with the CCP is either also being done by the west or in the works.
chinese oppression of the uighurs is nothing compared to whats going on in Gaza.
china forces prisoners to peel garlic while american prisoners are paid pennies a day to fight wildfires while being prohibited from being paid for those very same skills as firefighters when rehabilitated.
america is quickly workin on legislation to to make criticism of certain foreign governments illegal with very real reprucussons (revoking passports).
At least china has a working power grid and high speed train network.
It's possible to intelligently discuss the merits of Chinese society and also acknowledge that it's a brutal autocracy.
Making some kind of equivalence of the two in terms of the rights of the individual is so ridiculous that nobody is going to take anything you say after that seriously, you do your arguments a disservice by doing it.
"Yet" is the keyword. it won't be long before we arent' any different from china at the rate we are going at and I think a lot of us would be better off preventing the west from turning into an oppressive autocracy instead of judging china.
You can talk about it, but the hidden social credit system operated by the 3-letter agencies in conjunction with techno-feudalism oligarchs designed explicitly to bypass constitutional rights is very real and has very real long term consequences for your privacy and freedom.
the levels of shamelessness here on display here is breathtaking...