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Right now we are benefitting both from the stability of the US Dollar, as well as from the benefits of pumping more and more of it into the system (rising asset prices etc), if they lose the ability to maintain this balancing act it won't be pretty.

"…there is a moderate to high correlation between the effectiveness and the coverage of a test suite when the influence of suite size is ignored."

It's just a bit weird that media couldnt bother to test more than 67 phones before coming out with this breaking international story.

The media thus far has presented very little evidence that this list is actually from NSO Group.

They have provided no information on how this list was obtained and 67 phones (out of 50k) seems like a very small amount of phones (with a 55 percent success rate) to use as a basis for an international story across many major media outlets. These stories only consist of that this or this person is on the "list" (no evidence at all of spyware on their phone).

The Nazis invaded countries and then systematically got to the task of murdering their entire totally harmless Jewish population, simply because of their ethnicity.

There was no possible military or tribal gain or anything, it was just pure racial hatred.

What's especially horrifying is that Germany was a very advanced civilization using sophisticated and systematic means to accomplish this.

But they're explicitly dedicated for times of need and not for leisure purposes.

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, a very prominent orthodox Jewish halachist held that closing/opening an electrical circuit does not constitute the biblical prohibition of building and destroying.

Instead, he held that that electricity was prohibited "Rabbinically" for an unrelated reason (which is of a lower degree of severity, which has practical implications).

Notwithstanding this, if one say, turns on an incondescent lightbulb I believe that is biblically prohibited according to all because of the heat it generates.

I find this to be a very useful feature that you only get with "smart" messaging apps like WhatsApp.

Furthermore it is simply not true that Parler refused to work with Amazon. Parler's policy forbids hate speech and incitement.

What actually happened was, when the mob decided that Parler must go, Amazon gave them little no notice or recourse before shutting them down.

This is not about fiduciary duty, nor is it about legal liability, this is a Silicon Valley hivemind moving in unison, arguably as a result of unhealthy discourse on their own social medias.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Society needs an authority to turn to to resolve disputes or injustice and to maintain order, the alternative is chaos.

That authority may not be perfect, it may have certain biases that need to be worked on, but without it, disputes will be won by the superior marksman.

Facebook taking responsibility for such activity will inevitably to other very difficult decisions down the road.

One mans terrorist is another's freedom fighter. There are many such conflicts all over the world, and at a certain point no objective criteria can be used to censure.