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a 3 person committee's investigation is not a United Nation's ruling.

This is what you said:

It's objectively, legally speaking, a genocide.

This is in direct disagreement when your comment above how, legally speaking, the investigation is ongoing.

Pros and Cons. I currently have an upstairs neighbor that plays piano at 4am.

As a high density resident, I would like to capture all of the pros of having a smaller foot print, since there is nothing insulating me from the negatives.

My neighbor in Seattle only needed 5 homes to convince the gas company to dig up our road and install a gas line down our street. There is no way the gas company had the money for that purely on the revenue they may collect from those 5 homes...

In the UK, a leaseholders get screwed if they forget to renew their lease before the 80 year mark.

The cost to develop the land needs to justify the development. If I spent $500k to build a house on the land, I would like to be able to use that house for as long as the house exists (or I sell it to re-coop the investment).

Many people are really bad at saving properly, but they will pay their mortgage. Landownership enables at least some old people to have a cushion in retirement.

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but who pays for the roads to houses in the suburbs and why is it the people living in apartments that don't use many roads?

I really don't feel great how people in high density housing subsidize home ownership costs for the people in the burbs.

I was just in Hungary and they attempted to return land seized by the communist government by basically asking around.

People would get their buddy to agree the land was theirs so not a perfect system, but some families were made more whole.

I've traveled to China ~5x [0], visited a range of cities Tier 1-3 over a collective 5 months, and grew up in the USA. I also currently live in Vietnam (~3.5 years) and spent 5.5 years working for a Singaporean company and a team stationed in Beijing.

I don't really know how else to express my experiences living in, working with, and interacting with people in both of these countries.

Perhaps you can share how life was like for you in China? Which cities were you in? What made you feel that way about China?

[0] - not including HK (~7 trips?) or TW (3 trips)

My understanding is a commission's findings are not a UN ruling.

The UN ruling is discussing in the South Africa vs Israel case [0], which has not been ruled on yet.

[0] https://www.icj-cij.org/node/206406

I have a couple questions.

1/ I don't see in the responses where the model says it is or isn't a genocide. Can you share the snippet from each, I included the logs above?

2/ I can't find a source on the UN ruling that you mentioned. I am not interested in the findings of an investigative body, just the official UN ruling. Can you share? ChatGPT (and myself) can only find this [0], which is a second round of written submissions.

[0] https://www.icj-cij.org/node/206406?utm_source=chatgpt.com

What am I trying to understand about the western models on the term "Gaza genocide"?

I asked Grok "Tell me about the gaza genocide" and it write a IMHO balanced answer comparing why genocide is and isn't the right term. [0]

ChatGPT 5.6 Sol only explained why people call it a genocide and did not go in as in depth as Grok did for why people don't agree with the term. [1]

The only unsaid response (to me) here is the model should have declared that it was not a genocide, and because these models explain why it was a genocide, they are bad?

[0] https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_c078bc15-ef5e-42bc-b... [1] - https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5ef005-0148-83ec-828d-65ae7a7f42...

In the USA, multiple political parties balance each out other.

In China, there is 1 party. 1 view. 1 definition of the Truth.

I remember my parents needing to buy very expensive map DVD disks in order to update the car’s navigation system to update their car’s navigation computer.

The disks were very expensive and if you didn’t update them it wouldn’t know about new roads (slower trip, missed turns, etc).

Does Apple use this model with the default keyboard? Or if the keyboard still uses the old API?

Imagine using the same argument for installing government visible in your own home to protect domestic abuse victims.

I don't want a camera watching me. I don't want to pay for repairs or my car being out of commission b/c the camera isn't working.

“Rules for thee but not for me”

That is kinda the point of the article, countries create these arbitrary rules to prevent people that create value in their society from permanently participating.

Whats slightly ironic is you don't have to speak Vietnamese, even raised in a Vietnamese home, or have Vietnamese parents to have Vietnamese citizenship. Many racially Vietnamese students attending international school only know English, because English is spoken exclusively at home and their school.

Or if you're Hmong, you might not know Vietnamese, but can hold a Vietnamese passport.

Same situation in the USA where many Americans couldn't pass our citizenship test.

Washington State is grappling with this issue now: we have very wealthy people that created a lot of wealth for themselves while residing in the state, and now are taking it to Florida, due to the Washingtonians voting to increase taxes on wealthy people.

What do you say to people that literally can’t?

I still can’t pronounce about a third of the Vietnamese sounds. I’ve had three private in person tutors, no luck.

Should I just like pack up my bags and leave?

The US has a huge population of Spanish only speakers and they find success.

I live in Vietnam for over three years, and while I continue to practice the language, I literally cannot pronounce the tones for about a third of the letters, but I still have a very happy and comfortable life here

Unfortunately some business are critical where is not an option or very expensive for someone to not use it.

For example, Uber, a Visa immigration website, low cost air carrier booking site, etc.

has that ever worked, ever?

I've heard people talk about this "solution" for over a decade, especially with crypto trying to justify itself, but I've never seen it successful.

true, but he doesn't say if it will meet the threshold of 'useful'

What does the author think about the concept of debouncing (common in real world hardware, because electronically signals are not binary).

Still working on it...

I'm waiting on Apple to approve the MacOS version. After I will either focus on removing SynthID (currently not supported) or releasing android.

A watermark is not just “transparency.” It can reveal what tool someone used, how they work, or that an image came from a stigmatized platform. In sensitive contexts—politics, sexuality, medical issues, protest material, or private expression—that can become surveillance.

I am working on Saigon Watermarks: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/saigon-watermark/id6777061197 for detecting and removing provenence markers in AI.

The tool also removes c2pa markers, which google is now linking the device that took the photo with the photo.

scary stuff.

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/pixel-android-truste...

when i was in hongkong, chatgpt and gemini were disabled. Maybe this has changed though. When I was in China, the corporate vpn (zscaler) routed traffic through hk

What company will promote you for rebooting your machine?

Maybe you’re not gonna get fired, but I can’t imagine someone hitting staff level because they spent a third of their week recovering from a weekly reboot

There are two critical conversations during this meetings:

Do we promote this guy? Do we fire this guy?

It doesn’t matter what the excuse is or the size of the company, if you don’t have impact for the next level you’re not promoted. Put simply, you’re not getting promoted rebooting your machine.

Maybe your boss can defend you from a conversation, especially if the problem is systematic (impacting the whole team).

It is their resposibility to figure this out.

You're responsible for your own career.

During the next calibration call, your manager can't be like, "well he spent 8 hours each week resetting up his machine after a reboot, so we need to give him credit for that too."

Your job is to deliver impact, not fight system configurations.

*book spoilers*

In the book, the Czech police characters frequently complained about the various ways the US ambassador in Prague had too much influence over their investigations, especially of American citizens.

This influence was served as multiple plot devices.

reminds me of Dan Brown's latest book: The Secret of Secrets.