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Can I use this to learn about a complex private repo or how it does things?

There is research that suggests that our brain composition determines our political ideology. More or less gray matter in different parts of brain determine where we land on spectrum of progressive, liberal, conservative, authoritarian.

https://www.psypost.org/authoritarian-attitudes-linked-to-al...

https://youtu.be/t-hwrIkTNFo?si=V3TKg-3dqc1htQBU

Can you offer any insights how this compares to building an AST or RAG over your codebase? Several projects do that and it autoupdates on changes too. The agent does a wide sweep using AST/RAG search followed by drill down using an LSP. This sped up my search phase by 50%. How Will this project help me?

Your comment made me realize what a bubble of privilege I live in.

I raised my eyebrow at "everyone takes" standard deduction. How is that possible with home prices and interest rates? Even a modest 300-400k house at 5-6% interest, property taxes, local sales tax deductions and minimum charity would exceed the standard deduction. Where I live good luck finding anything more than a condo for less than a million.

Turns out 90% take standard deduction. This is another way to track the extreme "wealth" gap emerging. Only the wealthy itemize.

Don't think you can single out China here.

Brexit, electing Trump a 2nd time, Iraq war, Israeli occupation of Palestine. Pick your own examples

Weve always been a world where propaganda wins and the strong ruling class do what they want, we should drop the pretense and hypocrisy that it was ever any other way.

If you want to see this idea explored even more, I highly recommend watching "For All Mankind" on Apple TV+. My description below hopeful does not contain spoilers.

A Fantastic show for tech optimists, imagining a world where Russians were the first to land on the moon. This spurred increased investment by the US, continuing the space race, avoided the cold war, adoption of EVs in the 80s, massive action on climate change, and many other fun things. I wishfully think of "what could have been", and a world that seems attainable.

One of the recurring plot points is Executive action taken by astronauts in space, wars avoided and caused by their decisions, brave rescues and other heroics. In one of the episodes a characters takes such an action.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and explanation. Makes sense. It is an emotional topic indeed and most threads devolve into flamewars without careful moderation. Really appreciate all you do for HN!

Its certainly telling that this post got "flagged". Exactly what the opening lines of the article describe: "we don’t have the right to show humanity towards Palestine".

> "Hamas is playing the land grab card against Israel".

What do you mean by that? Comparing Russia with Hamas seems like a massive distortion of reality, not sure you meant to do that.

Israel is occupying internationally recognized Palestinian lands of West Bank and a blockade on Gaza. Just yesterday the Israeli foreign minister suggested sending Israeli settlers into Gaza illegally and drive Palestinians out for good. Hamas is a terrorist organization, who kills civilians, but let's not pretend that the IDF is any better.

And the US is a colonial power of the 20th and 21st century. It just hasn't done it the same way as the Europeans of 17,18th,19th century, mostly because there are different tools available now: culture export, dependence on oil, dollar as reserve currency, global free trade, and the rise of corporations.

Noan Chomsky says the issue of Palestine is resistance against colonialism. [1] [2]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQ_0MubbcM&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

[2] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-02/israel-gaza...

On Android, I use Open Camera app with a custom save location that by default doesn't backup photos. It prevents going into DCIM / camera roll.

Go into more camera controls , enable Storage Access Framework, select custom directory.

Lets not pretend that there is only a single guilty party here. No doubt pakistan tried to control mujahideen to fight their proxy wars. Just like Indian intelligence has funded the Balochistan insurgency inside Pakistan. This of course all started with US asking Pakistan to setup these mujahideen to counter Russia in 1980.

This article [1] "Accounting for Computer Scientists" may help. Visualize money movement between Accounts / Nodes triggered by Transactions / Edges.

This model is used to construct a "Fund flow" representation of how money should be moved. One of the essential concepts we use to verify that money is moving through the system is "Clearing", where we add up all of the edges and the balance should equal 0 - that is money reached its intended destination.

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...

I think you missed the sarcasm/ humor in the post you are responding to.

Your comment made me do a double take. Surely an individual is not to blame for a countries injustices, imperialism, and war crimes? Otherwise large parts of the developed world would have to be abandoned immediately.

We need to consider borders, immigration, work authorization, regulations, wealth, health, friends, family responsibilities, kids, partners and their own constraints - before being able to pass judgement.

It's takes incredible privelege to propose that one can just pickup their bags and go wherever they want in the world.

What is ironic is that there is an annual Award given to an AWS employee called the Cliff Stoll Award: For those individuals who see something suspicious, not working as expected, show ownership and drive it to resolution. As Cliff did to find a KGB spy, and documented in "The Cuckoo's Egg".

I wonder what would happen if someone at Amazon pulled on this thread and not only solved Cliff's problem but also the root cause that enables this kind of product hijacking.