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Okay so Iran is responsible for the insurgency in Iraq, the Arab Spring, AQAP in Yemen, Islamic State, the ongoing situation in Syria, proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and the UAE and much more…

I think it’s extremely clear that the major contributor to instability in the Middle East over the past two decades has been the United States.

Ad copy is (a form of) creative writing.

Sure, but does that mean if a reputable researcher at a reputable university (which do exist outside the US and Western Europe) provides strong evidence, should we discount all that simply because Chinese academia has a fraud and plagiarism problem?

Speaking of, I'd guess that the likes of Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Tokyo and National University of Singapore (amongst others) would magically count as "American or Western European" for this test.

How they're implemented depends from site to site. But for many sites, they would need to be changed manually if Twitter changes its name and/or logo.

What's the best way to apply? Just email info@hotpot.ai?

I think you're right. Italian is not an ethnicity. Italy hasn't been a unified political entity for very long. There are Italians from all sorts of different ethnicities and races. Would it be okay for a Black person to play this role if they were Italian? If not, why is it okay for non-Italian white actors to play other roles?

Is a Corsican person Italian? Is an Italian-American? Is Mario Balotelli (for example)? Why does any of this matter?

for example, if they are using twitter via a script-controlled headless (or even non-headless) browser

I don't believe that's it. Plenty of men in relationships with a "willing partner" use heaps of porn, and in many circumstances prefer using porn to sex.

And yes, having _sex_ is only a swipe away for women. But having decent sex that you enjoy and is another matter altogether. And that's before thinking about safety.

If I was looking for reasons why fewer women seem to be into porn, I'd say it's because the vast majority of porn is explicitly made to cater to male desires.

I love the visual style you achieved - really awesome work. I hope one day you or someone else can pick up the code and make something from it.

This seems dubious to me. Dershowitz appears to be deeply personally implicated in Epstein’s crimes.

Brown has been investigating Epstein since early 2017. I can’t see any evidence of Cernovich being involved that early. Do you have any?

In fact, Cernovich and Dershowitz working together and “suing to unseal documents” looks like it’s that started in 2019, and while Dershowitz clearly has personal reasons for his involvement it looks like Cernovich’s involvement is in fact directly in response to Brown’s reporting.

That happens. In fact, that exact genre of op-ed is so common it’s been made into a meme. Millennials and avocado toast etc.

Nothing meaningful to say except this looks fantastic and I can't wait to give it a try. Well done!

Human written headlines are already being optimized in roughly the same way that machines would go about it, and using roughly the same data, too. Marketers have just been training ourselves to think like a statistical model.

Your art is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

I agree. I’ve actually been working on something along these lines[0], albeit with a focus on marketing analytics. In my experience everyone in marketing cares about dashboards and metrics a lot but outside of larger shops almost no-one is doing any real analysis and even simple tools like linear regression could have a big impact.

Early days but we’re looking to onboard a few more customers to help guide our roadmap.

[0] https://ripbase.com

For what it's worth, my partner also generally prefers writing in English. They also really like kanji, but generally seem to find that English more easily enables precise expression of meaning. For instance, they find English better for navigating bureaucracy, or communicating specific requirements to a contractor.

Thank you!

Sorry, I meant the link you saw here about someone doing something similar. I tried to find it on HN Search but only found stuff about board games.

Any chance you can link the first one (video chat over gameplay)? I'm working on something similar. I've tried searching and didn't turn up all that much.

This is definitely a known problem, and one which lots of people have spent lots of time thinking about.

As you say, social change movements face many of the same struggles as companies, including maintaining brand alignment and quality control across a network of distributed actors. For this reason, social change movements often adopt (and adapt) the same management tools and techniques that large companies have developed for their operations.

But there is a bunch of literature about managing these challenges specifically for social change movements. One reasonably concise and approachable example is: https://www.citizenshandbook.org/network-campaigns.pdf

It seems as organizations and movements become less coordinated, less structured in how to resolve internal conflicts and align, that they would be more suited to attacking things or ideas, rather than building them.

I'm not sure this is true. Leaderless movements can be well coordinated and structured (it's just hard). And poorly coordinated and structured movements aren't really suited to doing anything well, even just attacking things and ideas.