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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:04AM (#49167498)
Location: Panama

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Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Typescript, C, PostgreSQL, Linux, Pandas

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About me: I'm currently working on a certified programming project based on category theory.

Since you are so concerned by October 7. Do you know how many of those killed were soldiers? Do you know how many were killed by the IDF?
It's called R2P.
Please provide sources. Genocide is not a matter of cherry-picking or of opinion. People who take this debate seriously look into context and evidence with a level of detail that goes beyond what can be covered here. Anyone interested in arguments and counterarguments will inevitable have to refer to authorities in the matter who have the background, time and resources.
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon on Thursday September 19, 2024 @03:54PM (#41595741)
"Israeli fighter planes have also attempted to kill children by dropping thousands of booby-trapped toys on Lebanese villages and towns. The Israeli occupying forces have used this method through the years and continue to do so, the most recent example being when booby-trapped toys were dropped on the town of Nabatiyah, killing and injuring children and permanently disfiguring others." https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-180386/
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon on Thursday September 19, 2024 @03:52PM (#41595718)
Yes. Except there are credible reports of Israel also doing this in the past. "Israeli fighter planes have also attempted to kill children by dropping thousands of booby-trapped toys on Lebanese villages and towns. The Israeli occupying forces have used this method through the years and continue to do so, the most recent example being when booby-trapped toys were dropped on the town of Nabatiyah, killing and injuring children and permanently disfiguring others." https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-180386/ https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/227779/Mariam%252C_res...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47444297 "Villagers have been whipped with belts, attacked with machetes, beaten unconscious with bamboo sticks, sexually assaulted, shot, and murdered by WWF-supported anti-poaching units, according to reports and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News."
I agree, but let's not forget that the more (semantically) obvious reason why people get locked out of wealth has more to do with not being able to take it than with not being able to produce it.
I believe replacing "weapons" for "systems" makes the statement more in line with concrete reality.
I upvoted when I had read up to where you wrote "doesn't help with." I felt I was reading my own thoughts when I read the last two sentences. I think it is not just software design that will become shortsighted we may even see less interest in improving programming languages. I've always hoped for people to come up with some mathematical insights (beyond functional programming) that will describe code organizing structures in a more sensible way, so that experience no longer appears as the main argument for software patterns being tools to manage complexity. Now a programming language is just another language to be modeled, and its texts generated and proofread by a fallible human.
Re:Bing Chat now has Ads on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:10PM (#35360155)
At least it's not social media disinformation. \s

Ask HN: A WhatsApp account was “hacked.” Is this the most likely explanation?

For some time I've been a member of a Whatsapp group (Language Exchange group with very little activity) I joined through a URL. Last night, the group was "hacked" along with other groups sharing the same administrator. It seems the Whatsapp account of said administrator was compromised. I think the most likely explanation is that the administrator ran a script on his browser console to...

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Re:Ask HN: Why don’t governments target zero inflation? on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:35AM (#33817634)
I agree with the sentiment that there is significant absurdity hiding beneath all the economic abstraction around employment and investment, which obscures the origin of money as a requirement. The way I see it (and this is a rather centuries old observation) is that the economic system is set up so that most of the population requires earning money for their survival. Earning money is a social requirement not a biological one. But if the resources are cheaper now that money is more valuable, what is the problem with earning less money for one's work? The problem is that some people would rather keep charging the same for what they sell. If one doesn't own much, then one can't afford waiting for a better deal. In this situation having power means owning money, houses, land, machinery and little debt. This makes workers require the same salary in order to survive and perform their jobs, this contributes to the (abstract pseudo-)problems of less employment, less consumption, less debt obligations being fulfilled. The real problems is on the one hand the resources required for survival being out of reach, and on the other resources, machinery and skills going to waste. For many, directly tackling the real problems may come dangerously close to disregarding social requirements. Hence, we keep talking about this problems in abstract terms, so that important members of society can live off the rent, by convincing the rest, by whatever means necessary, of the survival-money exchange rate. Money is a peaceful mean to make them follow orders.
Re:Z-library founders arrested in Argentina on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:19AM (#33641103)
"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all." - Adam Smith
All the more desperate considering that 1/10th of the work may be regarded by many as "not good for the economy".
Perhaps relevant:

"Consistent with our results, it has been shown that FADS genetic variants have a stronger effect on PUFA metabolism in African Americans than in Americans of European descent as a result of differences in genotype frequencies." - Genetic Adaptation of Fatty-Acid Metabolism: A Human-Specific Haplotype Increasing the Biosynthesis of Long-Chain Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376635/

Let's not forget adjuvants.

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