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After 10/7 almost every Israeli knows that the Palestinians are not interested in their own state.
Of the 32,000 Hamas stated deaths, 13,000 are terrorists, thus resulting in a far lower civilian-to-combatant death ratio than in other urban conflicts such as Mosul.
The lesson learned with Japan in Germany in WW II is that total military defeat is necessary. The AI technology enables the targeting of all terrorists, not only senior-level terrorists as before, resulting in a quicker end to the conflict than otherwise and thus resulting in fewer civilian deaths.
As we know these terrorists hide among civilians including in and under hospitals, making these legitimate targets. The high number of civilian deaths occur from the terrorists hiding among civilians.
I work with safety, I study it. The Airbus was poorly designed. You want to have forcing functions in the hardware, not depend of operator training, the "software" in safety terminology. Airbus should have had the proper design philosophy so that the forcing function was in the "hardware", eg, the yoke of Boeing. The poor choice of having independent joysticks brought the plane down. Not certain why the FAA, which does know better, approved of the Airbus design. That alone is worthy of a study. Was it politics?
In summary, safety guidelines mandate putting safety in the "hardware" of real forcing functions and not "software" -- training. That is the reality. 447 crash occurred because of poor Airbus design and the FAA for approving this design that goes against safety principles.
A principle in safety is that you want things encoded in the "hardware", eg, you can't put your car in reverse without putting your foot on the brake, even though you are taught this in driver's ed. The Airbus designers forgot this major principle by using independent joysticks, a lesson not forgotten by the Boeing fly-by-wire craft.
Changing zoning laws so that there is more density would shift demand to mass transit.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...
"The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles."
If The Intercept was willing to censor Greenwald, exactly how much can we rely on the Intercept to give us a complete message? How can we say that they're a trustworthy source?
We live in a world where Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, filmed their killing and raping of women on bodycams/helmet cams, killed 360 at an overnight festival, and kidnapped over 200, including children and elderly women.
Not only was their brutality surprising, but most surprising is that people across the world supported Hamas and their deeds, they tore down posters of people who had been kidnapped. This happened in my country, the USA, of all places. It is hard to understand Americans saying, "From the river to the sea...." the protests blocking traffic, on college campuses.
None of these people addressed the attempt to commit genocide against Jews in 1948 against the resurrected Jewish nation by some Palestinians and 5 Arab armies. In the process of the attempt at Jewish genocide, this time not by Germans but by Arabs, the Palestinian state was destroyed. Had there been no attempt at genocide by the Arabs, The Palestinian state would have existed since 1948.
I have the 15 Pro Max. I yearly upgrade because the modems and RF electronics are substantial annual upgrades. I live in NYC with skyscrapers, subways, underground parking garages, cell tower congestion during certain parts of the day. Also, I attend busy conferences, drive on highways, and take trains. In each of these cases one can encounter weak signals. The X70 Qualcomm modem and RF electronics are a substantial upgrade over the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The iPhone 15 Pro (Max) does better in weak signal conditions than the new 2023 Samsung s23.
"The iPhone 15 Pro Max also performed better in low-signal regions, measuring speeds of 21Mbps down and 14Mbps up compared with the S23 Ultra's 17Mbps down and 9.3Mbps up in the same spot."
"The phone did well when tested at the Wi-Fi network's edge, where it peaked at 8.1Mbps down against the S23's 6.35Mbps."
"...as well as the integrated circuits that were developed in Israel, and the jewel in the crown: the Israeli team played a central role in developing the premium version of the company's flagship M1 processor, including the M1Pro and M1Max chips designed to support premium Mac computers such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Studio. These chips were built here in Israel while working with other teams worldwide, including at the headquarters in Cupertino. The integration with the verification applications and processes was also carried out here."
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-apple-to-open-jerusalem-d...
AppleCare+ is $70/year for M1 MacBook Air and covers damages. It also covers accidents such as coffee spills or drops.
I have 3 year AppleCare+ for 16" MacBook Pro.
Learn about the CDC 6600 and the architecture compared with top IBM 360 computers. Learn about Cray I.
Cray was the builder of the fastest computers in the world for a long time. Always sold early machines of each model to scientific govt labs and NSA. The first 6600s were delivered to Livermore and Los Alamos (Wikipedia CDC 6600).
With less than 30 people Cray built a computer (the 6600) about 2 times faster than anything IBM with its massive budget could build. There is a famous letter by IBM's Chief Watson Jr. about this fact at The Computer History Museum website.
When IBM used ICs for the 360's, Cray still used transistors for the CDC 6600. His reasoning is great.
These M1 Max machines are already very impressive at a reasonable price. M1Max + 64GB + 2TB is about $4K.
Reverse the zoning density restrictions and this will be a return to eliminating the market failure in real-estate.
I can't tell you how important it is to keep people who are unvaccinated away from those of us who are vaccinated.
For those that don't know, NYC has very crowded indoors situations because of the cost of real estate. We are all close together.
No sympathy whatsoever for those who refuse to get a vaccine and even offered $100 to get the vaccine.
People never have the right to infect another human being. That is just the way it is.
No "rights" supersede the right to not be infected by non-vaccinated people. None.
Intel has 2 design centers there. Apple has a design center there. Broadcom, Qualcomm and many others.
It is not only software....
100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they finally were able to get over the quotas was when universities started accepting the SAT for admission, thus making admissions merit-based.
This is easy history to look up on the web, so the reality is that merit-based exams help to overcome quotas.
I wonder if now the universities will re-instate the quotas for Jews, since Jews are overrepresented in universities compared with the proportion of those that appear in US population.
Any opinions about this?
Would you like to be a plane that was hijacked?
If you were on a plane that was hijacked, would you praise the rescuers as heroes?
This is not difficult, so why are people downvoting mentioning that terrorists belong in prison?
Seriously. Do HN readers support terrorism and giving a voice to terrorists?
We should never give terrorists a voice on Zoom. Can you imagine if someone wanted Al-Qaeda terrorists to speak on Zoom?
Terrorists belong in one place: prison.
BTW, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is a hero that was part of a 16 member special forces team that stopped the 1972 hijacking of Sabena Flight 571. He was injured during the rescue. There is even a movie about this called,
"Sabena Hijacking: My Version" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4998338/
Netanyahu as well as former Israeli PMs Barak and Peres are in the movie.
H1-B Visa, by law, is only for those jobs where there are no Americans to fill the role, eg. theoretical physicist PhD with masters in data science.
But firms and hospitals use this to get foreigners at cheaper wages to supplant Americans from their jobs from programmers to doctors (MDs).
Biden, Schumer, Harris, all wish to make the job market and wages worse for American STEM workers/doctors (MDs).
During the 2016 primaries, when Disney CEO Bob Iger replaced about 200 American STEM workers with H1-B Visa abuse replacements, it was Trump and Sanders who complained vociferously about the illegal use of H1-B, which the Obama DOJ did nothing about, perhaps because Clinton received a $100,000 donation from the same Bob Iger for the Hilary Victory Fund.
Trump recently fired the CEO of the federal TVA for attempting to replace 200 American STEM workers H1-B Visa abuse foreigners and then made an exec order to prohibit any federal agency from doing so.
Biden, Schumer want to increase the number of H1-B Visas (Schumer wants to triple them). VP (and former Sen Harris) was Democratic sponsor of senate bill S.386 which seeks to double the number of Indians who get green cards.
The moves of Trump helps Americans. The moves of Biden, Schumer, Harris harms Americans.
Those are the facts, irrefutable, as have been presented above. So, ask yourself, do I want an American President that give in to donors like Bob Iger and brings more foreigners into the country or do I want someone like Trump, who cannot be bribed and does what is best for Americans and not foreigners.
In Japan for 20 years there have been federal laws overriding local law that restricts zoning density. The result: in Tokyo they have been building 140,000 housing units per year compared with 20,000 in NYC and 90,000 for all of California. The cost of housing as not increased at all in the past 20 years because these market failures (in this case also called "rent-seeking") in real estate are not allowed to occur in Japan.
We need similar laws in the US as Japan.
In 1973, OPEC created an artificial scarcity, "economic rents", in oil transferring and over the past five decades "robbed consumers" of trillions of dollars of wealth transferred to oil rich nations such as those in the Middle East.
These "economic rents" not only harmed consumers but they helped certain oil rich nations such as Russia and Iran to invade other nations.
The hope is that with US fracking and oil export, the days of more than $50 per barrel oil is over.
It is estimated that the Arabs spent $1 trillion of wealth to combat Israel. Imagine, if instead of attempting to destroy Israel they had partnered with it investing in the "Startup Nation?" Had that happened, the Middle East may have been a very wealthy region for all of it's citizens.
Historian Paul Johnson wrote an article in Commentary in 2005 called "The Anti-Semitic Disease" along these lines. [1]
[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Anti-Semitic-Disea...
Both Stephens and Weiss are not only Jewish, but pro-Israel. Weiss had even written an entire recent book about anti-Semitism [1]. Many in the far left support the anti-Semitic Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement against the only Jewish country in the world. China invaded Tibet, puts 3 million Muslims in camps, taking their DNA and facial recognition but no China BDS.
Bennet had also been Jerusalem Bureau Chief for NYT for 3 years and thus would be knowledgeable about the situation there. He may have stopped inaccuracies printed about Israel in his role.
Bennet was the likely candidate to be elevated to Exec Editor when the current one retired in a couple of years. I believe a lot of the staff didn't like Bennet because of Jewish/Israel stance and the idea of him being the Exec Editor frightened/angered them.
I believe that an external inspector general type figure should evaluate the entire situation. Weiss's complaints are consistent with a toxic work environment that nobody should have to deal with. She said the source of some of the harassment she experienced was on an internal slack channel and thus easy to investigate.
Readers of HN are analytical enough to realize that when something obvious isn't mentioned it may well be the underlying cause.
[1] Weiss: How to Fight Anti-Semitism https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P51KC9Z/
14th St has removed all parking and auto traffic and the crosstown buses are very frequent even on a weekend and convenient.
A lot of traffic can be blocked by delivery trucks that are double parked on streets which have parking on both sides.
One reason is that the trucks are too wide for the city streets. There should be a mandated by law maximum width on delivery trucks for NYC that are no wider than an SUV or other wide car. Instead of making the trucks wide, make them long and narrow.
That way, even if the delivery trucks like Fedex, UPS, Freshdirect, etc are double parked, they don't block the entire street.
But, if you are taking lots of pictures or about 15 mins of video, the battery seems to drain quickly, by about 45% as I was doing today.
The fast charge with the 18 W adapter is also very helpful.
Without the limited time monopoly created by patents, investment cannot be recuperated and there will be no funds available for creating and productizing innovation.
I wonder why they didn't "dump the fuel" just before the crash to have avoided the fire. I thought this was standard operating procedure to dump fuel before crash landings.
I had read about the crash awhile ago and as I recall many people that died died of smoke inhalation from the fire and not the impact itself.
This afternoon I met someone in lunch line that had just graduated in CS who said they tried to do EE but couldn't do it. I've seen others when I was in school drop out of EE to do CS.
The article also discuses healthcare systems hacked by other exploits. This again was not caused by the computer virus, but by the fact that Microsoft vendor issued security updates were not applied to the systems.
Often there are security upgrades in hardware as well as software which means that the computer hardware needs to be upgraded as well.
As is the case with most of these security hacks, it is the failure of the agency to budget appropriately for equipment maintenance and having competent leadership that actually understands the importance of budgeting for and implementing security upgrades including upgrading to the latest version of the OS, in this case, Windows 10.