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It’s similar to holocaust denial, it doesn’t make sense and the people who support the assassination also support the conspiracy

Which part? The fact that a part of the executive branch can’t kill the head of the executive branch and keep it a secret?

Or the fact that I assume Oswald was crazy and being a megalomaniac did actions that might have started a war?

That’s the key to the fact they were disseminated online. They still hired people that weren’t fit to keep these secrets and that’s not a new issue

Can’t say I believe there was another gunman.

There may be forensics technicalities that are hard to explain but it seems that in any event that is highly ‘investigated’ people find too many patterns in the noise (9/11 for example)

Like most of those Cold War events, these cover ups look more like protecting intelligence sources and blunders than some large overarching cabal

I never really understood the logic because it is deeply oxymoronic. People that generally wanted him dead (ultra right) think that he was killed by the secret service (presumably left) and Yigal Amir (ultra right) was framed.

But it is something about putting blank bullets in order to gather support with a fake assassination and then he was really killed by the Shabak on order of Shimon Peres (but can’t say that’s verbatim)

It always seemed even less internally consistent than most JFK theories

So despite countless of soviet spies in the FBI and CIA, the end of the cold war, defectors and open archives

The JFK assassination still remained a secret?

This is very close to my feeling on the matter, and if I remember correctly there was even a case of cover up related to the fact that he visited the embassies (which can also be interpreted as not wanting to divulge their intelligence sources).

However, it seems like the well known facts about Oswald (the communist background) weren't a major issue at the time (at least from what I gathered), so maybe there wasn't anything to cover up

Anyway, if the US government doesn't want to stir the cold war issues around the assassination, is it a conspiracy or just common sense statesmanship?

[edit]: I think I misread you, I do not think the soviets were involved, I think this is an extremely risky move no one would do. I do think there were probably fears it would be perceived as a foreign assassination which drove some actions in the US government.

So, just from the top of my head and rather recently:

1. the NSA lost all of its malwares/zero days to the Russians

2. The NSA lost a huge amount of documents detailing a large amount of their billion dollars sigint sources and tech catalog

3. China was able to steal US nuclear weapons design

4. The CIA itself lost its entire internal wiki

5. Top secret documents were on discord for over a month

Yet somehow these omnipotent organizations can keep the secret of how they killed the US president. Without a good answer as to what was their interest to do something so extreme in the first place

I look at it like the crazy general in Dr Strangelove that is trying to start a world war

I highly doubt that a secret in the caliber of “let’s kill the President” can be kept by so many people for such a long time. In my experience large organizations of people just don’t work that way

I completely agree with you that it was Oswald but the weird parts of this story are:

1. Oswald defection from the army and time in the Soviet Union

2. Oswald going to the Cuban and Soviet embassies before the murder (possibly starting a third world war)

3. The subsequent assassination of Oswald

This can be mostly explained by a mental disorder but it is still a messed up story

Rabin assassination has a pretty weird conspiracy theory though

A man in a prime position to write a book and make millions, writes a book

sounds interesting, can you elaborate a bit?

we’re talking an intrusion to the corp network not to the prod one (getting the keys from the crash dump)

I assume that’s a way smaller scale. However the document doesn’t go into detail which kind of logs exactly they were missing, so maybe these were network logs

It’s security logs though, presumably these carry less legal risk than chat messages or mails

Also when you don’t know how a Chinese threat group got into your network that’s a major issue which will cost more than theoretical legal risk

Weird they don’t have logs saved for something that happened two years ago due to ‘retention policies’.

That’s something I would fix

Do you know of any similar story at Google since 2010?

Sometimes it feels like having 2000 products with obscure names and overlapping responsibilities is the end goal

We also created a machine that knows how to create fluff pieces automatically

It depends on which one you refer to because both had some relation to Alsace-Lorraine.

However, the first one broke out after a complicated system of alliances together with a non compromising attitude towards nationalism (assasination ultimatum). I file that under ideology and honor.

The second one broke out due to a really insane ideology, that although talked about resources, time and time again took resources from the war itself for its death apparatus

All war is about resources except for all the times it isn’t: religion, culture, honor/shame or ideology.

Two world wars come to mind

The incentive should be to clear the way for tenure track

The junior faculty will clear the rotten apples at the top by finding flaws in their research and then will win the tenure that was lost in return

This will create a nice political atmosphere and improve science

this is the lecture about api design he referred to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5_u8Lgvyk

if anyone else was looking

> multimedia application development

haven't heard that word in a while

Masters and Phd requirements should include repeating another research and checking whether they can recreate the results

I agree about the somewhat unexpectedness of exceptions, although it is much structured than gotos (you just go up the stack)

virtual polymorphism for example is completely unexpected, as well as function pointers and other constructs that in my opinion are harder to track than exceptions

Yes, however I am not sure if Dijkstra meant goto in the sense of jump outside of a function. I don't know enough about Algol 60 and languages of the time, but if you allow usage of goto between different functions you will have a corrupt stack in no time, so I'll be surprised if it was implemented.

Going back to the original discussion, my point was that the only statements that are real gotos still in usage (except for C cleanup gotos) is break and continue, which even support labels

Aren't you talking about break and continue? throw and catch unwind the stack and goto doesn't

This can be used to create the world's largest rainbow table though.

If we're already into unlikely conspiracy uses of crypto, this could have been an NSA Sigint@Home endeavour