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Who cares when it's the US. Laws only apply for the weak-handed. They controlled the Iraqi government anyway, and they were stealing all of its oil as they wished regardless. The reparations were only the icing on the cake.

By the way, that summary only says "It provides the basis on which.. war reparations may be demanded". If anything I bet it sets out 'restrictions' on when countries can do that.

You telling me a country initiating a war has the right to then ask for reparations for the damages and destruction they caused on the country they initiated the war against? That's so freaking absurd that it is actually funny!

I can only guess the wikipedia article is only a summary and the real convention could be around who is to blame for the war and other factors. Otherwise that's just so ridiculous that it actually encourages declaring wars on countries!

US is the same country that kills Iraqi civilians and requests money for the bullets from the Iraqi government that they control indirectly.

US is an evil empire.

Big Data hasn't been about storage, I thought it was always about processing. Guy obviously knows his stuff but I got the impression he stressed more about storage and how that's cheap and easy these days. When he does mention processing/computing, he mentions that most of the time people end up only querying recent data (ie small chunk of actual data they hold) but that bears the question: is querying only small chunk of data what businesses need, or are they doing it because querying the whole dataset is just not manageable? In other words, if processing all data at once was as easy as querying the most recent X percent, would most businesses still choose to only query the small chunk? I think there lies the answer whether Big Data (processing) is needed or not.

Yup, very irrational to label a state guilt-free for life because "democracy".

I wonder sometimes why more people don’t use Laravel (or similar frameworks in other languages)

They do. Most people do. If anyone is serious about putting a project up they use frameworks.

I think we are about to see a change in that. If a country like Niger can say f* off to US military presence in the country we're seeing a shift in world geopolitics.

Sure, but to be honest with my explanation I actually have a point with the distinction between fake and forged. Here is an excerpt:

A textbook definition of forgery is the making of a false document with the intent that it should be used or acted upon as if it's genuine.

Notice the "with the intent that it should be ACTED upon", and given no one would be using a historic fake ID to use it for access, I think I have a point. Anyway..

1) Fake 2) Forged 3) Forged 4) Lie 5) Fake

As you can probably tell, from my understanding (possibly wrong connection) I think of the word 'to forge' in the context of actually trying to get access to somewhere or something with fake documents. When the intention or the consequence of using such document is more for monetary or material gain, I tend to think of it as fake.

I suppose dictionary definition does allow for both usage, i.e. to forge is to make a fake resemblance of something.. etc. I didn't think not knowing accurate definition of a word warranted downvotes but oh well.

Maybe because my first language isn't English but "forged" to me implies card would've been used for access, or at least attempted, and therefore I feel like the title is click-bait. Had it said "fake" instead I would probably not think the same.

That aside, if he hasn't already he should've reported to eBay immediately so the buyer isn't conned.

Is ANYONE surprised at all?!

We cannot (competently) make computers work like we want them to, so let's change our lives to adapt to computers instead.

He mentions that even when we consider something intuitive it's because we have actually learned it in one way or another. Key word is 'learn'. And answer to this "unintuitive" problem is good instructions in your software, so taking users through a learning process. Not saying it's easy to do, but that's the solution.

I also agree with the comment that most people wanting to use a piece of software are very likely to have experience in the field and therefore things that aren't intuitive to a random person will be intuitive enough to them because of the domain. When we see a text box at top of a social media platform with placeholder text "what is in your mind.." we don't assume it's a note-taking app or a to-do list. We intuitively know what we put there will be published for the world to see, even though it might be the first time we are using that particular platform.

"If you’re willing to live your life for a short time the way most people won’t, you can live the rest of your life in a way most people can’t"

Only if this was always true. You could also live your life the way most people won't for a LONG time and never get to the point of living it the way others cannot.

Very few people admit that luck is a considerable factor in people's lives and their successes.

Not knowing that IF it would indeed show up! Although the benefit here is that after the 45 hours they would know if it's ever coming back, as opposed to having to keep waiting.

Oh yes I did mean hours but incorrectly typed minutes. Corrected

So they essentially repaired 'hardware' from 22 light hours away, that's just insane! I love engineering.

What you're describing is the Get Things Done (GTD) method. Have you read the book from David Allen?

With that note, I higly recommend the book to OP!

We need more influential people like Paul Graham to start speaking up against genocide.

Again, showing you don't know nothing!

As it happens quite often, you're mistaken about the apostasy part, don't know about the adultery one.

Apostasy itself isn't punishable; it's when someone "deflects" to the enemy side and colludes with them. At that point it's the 'treason' aspect that carries the punishment, not because someone says they don't believe in something anymore.

There we go again, a western "civilised" citizen calling a sentence barbaric because it was passed by a nation they don't like. It's called justice dude.

You seem to belittle 'corruption' but it's actually root of a lot of evil.

In Turkish there is the phrase "göz boyama" translating to something like "window dressing" or similar. The UK government gave contracts worth billions to a scam company for pandemic related 'Track & Trace' work, which all proved to be shenanigans, but when it came to actually rewarding the hard-working NHS heroes they got applauds and painted papers on people's windows. They had been asking for a fair pay rise even before the pandemic.

The UK government has brought one of the best free national health systems in the world to the point of being worse than useless in a span of about a decade.

Aerbil, are you from from Erbil by any chance?

How are these companies making any money considering the depreciation and repair costs for these cars?!

Leased cars would logically depreciate much faster too considering people won't look after them as if their own. A car worth 30k would most likely be about 15-20k after end of third year; but company would've made 36x200=$7,200 excluding any upkeep costs!

The only explanation must be what we are sold for 30k must cost something like 5k at the factory for these companies to be viable.

Wait, who are you?!

Yes, but what I'm describing is the problem of not even listening to the idea of a new attempt.

That is such a problem in today's world. Of course you don't want to re-invent the wheel and all that, but we must be open to the idea of having to do it. Innovation stagnates if people suggesting redoing something are immediately seen as "dangerous, unprofessional or downright uneducated"

That's called engineering; you had a problem, you came up with a solution THAT WORKS for your needs. Nicely done and thanks for sharing.