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cmilton commented on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem   blog.cloudflare.com/18-no... · Posted by u/eastdakota
cmilton · a month ago
How many changes to production systems does Cloudflare make throughout a day? Are they a part of any change management process? That would be the first place I would check after a random outage, recent changes.
cmilton commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content   businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon
mk89 · 3 months ago
Well, conspiracy theories made by Germany and US I guess? [0]

I doubt it.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq31z7o

cmilton · 3 months ago
>It assessed the lab theory as "likely", although it did not have definitive proof.
cmilton commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content   businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon
pton_xd · 3 months ago
> Because that is a bold claim to make. There is no proof of a lab leak and evidence leads to the wet market as the source.

A novel coronavirus outbreak happens at the exact location as a lab performing gain of function research on coronaviruses... but yeah, suggesting a lab leak is outlandish, offensive even, and you should be censored for even mentioning that as a possibility. Got it.

This line of thinking didn't make sense then and still doesn't make sense now.

cmilton · 3 months ago
Correlation does not equal causation my friend.

Plenty of people were able to talk about lab leak conspiracies. That is why we are still debating it today.

cmilton commented on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content   businessinsider.com/youtu... · Posted by u/delichon
kevin_thibedeau · 3 months ago
Don't forget that they ban-hammered anyone who advanced the lab leak theory because a global entity was pulling the strings at the WHO. I first heard about Wuhan in January of 2020 from multiple Chinese nationals who were talking about the leak story they were seeing in uncensored Chinese media and adamant that the state media story was BS. As soon as it blew up by March, Western media was manipulated into playing the bigotry angle to suppress any discussion of what may have happened.
cmilton · 3 months ago
Because that is a bold claim to make. There is no proof of a lab leak and evidence leads to the wet market as the source. There is a debate out there for 100k to prove this. Check it out.
cmilton commented on GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search   simonwillison.net/2025/Se... · Posted by u/simonw
simonw · 3 months ago
Playing with tools like this is how I learn to use them.
cmilton · 3 months ago
I can definitely understand that. I just have a hard time justifying the value of learning this way at scale. Just the energy costs alone are out of hand.
cmilton commented on GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search   simonwillison.net/2025/Se... · Posted by u/simonw
KaoruAoiShiho · 3 months ago
Uh, people have wasted entire lifetimes chasing wild goose. Newton and Einstein both spent the latter halves of their lives :( despite being geniuses.
cmilton · 3 months ago
I think the primary difference would be they didn't waste billions of dollars in their research.
cmilton commented on GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search   simonwillison.net/2025/Se... · Posted by u/simonw
cmilton · 3 months ago
I just can't get over how gleeful the author sounds in wasting compute on "an often unreasonable amount of work to search the internet and figure out an answer."

Is that the goal? Send this thing off on a wild goose chase, and hope it comes back with the right answer no matter the cost?

cmilton commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]   bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz
pseudocomposer · 5 months ago
Are you a troll? Why do you keep willfully misrepresenting or twisting what others are saying into something slightly different?

My point, that from the 1950s through the 2010s, no one in the US or Western Europe has been presented facts from both sides, and seeking out facts from the "wrong" side would result in social, financial, and possible criminal penalties, was incredibly clearly stated.

Because of the way you keep twisting others' words, it seems pretty safe to assume you would side with the fascist religious ethnostate that's been committing a genocide for decades with the financing and approval of the US and EU state, military, financial, media, and educational apparatuses.

People who oppose fascism don't communicate the way you have communicated in this thread.

cmilton · 5 months ago
Its interesting that you did not quote any of my reply while accusing me of "willfully misrepresenting or twisting what others are saying into something slightly different". The goal was for me to make sure I understood what you are communicating.

It seems we agree. The internet was much more available 15 years again in 2010 than it was prior. Since then, unlimited opportunity has opened to research each perspective, and even share those with people across the world.

At no point in this thread have a resorted to name calling, I hope your day is better.

cmilton commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]   bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz
pseudocomposer · 5 months ago
How can you have a good faith argument if you create strawman arguments instead of acknowledging the point the person was making?

Everyone in the US and Europe has been indoctrinated to support Israel for most of their lives. That’s those who support Israel and those who don’t.

If you went to literally any school, or watched any television, in the US or Europe any time in the last 7 decades, every lesson taught, every broadcast made, that could have involved Israel was pro-Israel and pro-Zionism.

Not a single program or teacher has been able to share the viewpoint that religious ethnostates should not exist, or that the native Palestinian people didn’t deserve to be genocided to make room for one. If you expressed such a view, you’d be prevented from teaching or broadcasting. For decades.

cmilton · 5 months ago
Are you suggesting that if you are from the US, you are unable to form an opinion of the facts that are presented from both sides?

I did have to go to school some time ago, but I also gained access to the internet during that time that allows anyone to research both sides of a topic. There are tons of books available that provide descriptions from both sides.

Why do I have to be on one side or the other? Is it because of my push back against a specific side, you assumed I aligned with the other?

cmilton commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]   bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz
netsharc · 5 months ago
An acceptable number for me is 15027 civilian deaths.

A farcical answer for a farcical question (which is also deflecting from the actual issue).

You seem to want to have an argument about the borders of discussion, and are moaning that blah A, blah B, blah C, that some bored people on the Internet who are on "the other side" of the argument is doing is preventing you to have a discussion. You're having a "fight" but it's not even about the genocide ("Wait, what's a genocide!?! Define that!"), but about the terms of discussion.

cmilton · 5 months ago
If we can't agree on terms, how do we make sure we understand each other?

I want to understand what your expectations of Israel were after October 7th. I believe my questions have been very specific, but I realize you have no desire to have an actual discussion. Good day.

u/cmilton

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