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cropcirclbureau commented on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized   cnn.com/2025/10/02/middle... · Posted by u/nashashmi
danielbenzvi · 2 months ago
Calling the old PA-led status quo “far better” ignores how dysfunctional and destructive it was. The PA was given territory, money, and international legitimacy after Oslo, yet instead of building a transparent, functioning state, it became notorious for corruption, power struggles, and failing to deliver basic services. Worse, during that same period, suicide bombings and the Second Intifada erupted under its watch, so for ordinary Israelis, that “status quo” meant buses, cafes, and markets being blown up.

Even for Palestinians, the PA’s rule was hardly a path to peace or progress. Billions in foreign aid were stolen by elites, elections were canceled, dissent was crushed, and everyday life was marked by both authoritarianism and insecurity. So while today’s Hamas reality is undeniably worse, pretending the old PA era was some kind of lost golden path to peace overlooks that it was already a dead end for both peoples.

cropcirclbureau · 2 months ago
How come you have an account from 2014 and this is the first time you're commenting?
cropcirclbureau commented on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized   cnn.com/2025/10/02/middle... · Posted by u/nashashmi
just-the-wrk · 2 months ago
I think the most amazing part of the comments is how much the sentiment has changed over the last 2 years. Is anybody else noticing this?
cropcirclbureau · 2 months ago
what are you talking about? The sheer number of 10+ year old hn accounts tirading to defend, downplay and whitewash the actions of Israel in the comments in this exact thread is simply horrifying. .
cropcirclbureau commented on Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/zeristor
contrarian1234 · 3 months ago
This is why there is a global crisis of confidence in science. B/c science is constantly portrayed as a tool to push agendas and policies (that are maybe even necessary) and not an exploration of facts. It's done so blatantly and transparently that anyone with a skeptical mind is just turned off by the whole thing

This isn't an indictment of science or scientists, but of science reporting. If the story is climate-change related then it's reported. If it's not, then they find some climate change related angle. If they can't then the story is usually dropped.

cropcirclbureau · 3 months ago
Science journalism has a lot of issues but I think those problems are across journalism and not especially unique to science. Over referencing familiar narratives, click bait headlines, piss poor editing...you'll find this in all types of news out there.

Should science journalist hold themselves to a better, special standard? True. Especially with the age old war that's waged on it by those who hold power through selling incredibly unscientific world views. But I think the overt actions these forces are more to blame than poor science journalism. People don't like inconvenient facts, people will forever be victims to a voice making a problem go away by denying the problem even exists.

cropcirclbureau commented on Open Social   overreacted.io/open-socia... · Posted by u/knowtheory
doctorpangloss · 3 months ago
This is not meant as a criticism at all, I like Bevy. Are you familiar with the Mr. Beast PowerPoint that said:

> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos.. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible.

When I glance at the Bevy discussion link you shared, my reaction is:

> Your goal here is to make the best GITHUB OPEN SOURCE game engine possible. It's not to make the most performant game engine. Not to make the game engine that powers the best games. Not to make the best looking graphics in a game engine. Not the highest quality game engine or game editing experience. It's to make the best GITHUB OPEN SOURCE game engine.

cropcirclbureau · 3 months ago
Community drama has always been the achilles heel of large, open-source projects which are volunteer driven. Focus on community is critical to delivering this, especially when your product relies on mind share.
cropcirclbureau commented on Helium Browser   helium.computer/... · Posted by u/spacebuffer
JoshTriplett · 3 months ago
> So what, our choices are Firefox (Gecko),

Don't forget Servo. People are actively working on it, and it could use more help.

cropcirclbureau · 3 months ago
It's not just anyone, it's the folks at Igalia. I think people disregard Servo since it's no longer under Mozilla but Igalia aren't just random contributors picking up the slack, they're browser experts that also work on Chromium.
cropcirclbureau commented on Nostr   nostr.com/... · Posted by u/dtj1123
nunobrito · 3 months ago
https://yakihonne.com/ tends to be a good experience for browser and has apps, after that https://primal.net is also quite good as introduction since their UI is similar to what you are used in other platforms.

Then there is https://www.amethyst.social/ which is excellent because it brings out more of the potential of the platform.

cropcirclbureau · 3 months ago
Word of warning: was blasted with NSFW on the first page of that link.
cropcirclbureau commented on Source code for the X recommendation algorithm   github.com/twitter/the-al... · Posted by u/mxstbr
swaptr · 3 months ago
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but why does Bluesky feel so much faster to load and interact with compared to X? On the surface, both have similar interfaces and equally rich content, yet Bluesky consistently feels snappier and more responsive, even though it’s the newer platform.
cropcirclbureau · 3 months ago
Iiirc, Twitter uses some mongrel version of React Native on the web. That's why you get the 3 seconds long loading thingie whenever you open a new tab.
cropcirclbureau commented on Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated   fastly.com/blog/senior-de... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
another_twist · 4 months ago
I know but the RFC doesnt mandate it. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-6

Not sure why Google doesnt do this but Atlassian does.

cropcirclbureau · 4 months ago
Google OAuth2 refresh tokens are definitely singe use.
cropcirclbureau commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
itsalotoffun · 4 months ago
> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system). Markets don’t want to accept that. [Emphasis added]

What a silly premise. Markets don't care. All markets do is express the collective opinion; in the short term as a voting machine, in the long term as a weighing machine.

Seeing a real uptick of socio-policital prognostication from extremely smart, soaked-in-AI, tech people (like you Salvatore!), casting heavy doom-laden gestures towards the future. You're not even wrong! But this "I see something you all clearly don't" narrative, wafer thin on real analysis, packed with "the feels", coated with what-ifs.. it's sloppy thinking and I hold you to a higher standard antirez.

cropcirclbureau · 4 months ago
Yes but can the market not be wrong? Wrong in the sense that, failing to meet our expectations as a useful engine of society? As I understood, what was meant with this this article is that AI completely changes the equations across the board that current market direction appears dangerously irrational to OP. I'm not sure what was meant with your comment though besides haggling over semantics and attacking some in-expertise of the authors socio-politic philosophizing that you perceive.

u/cropcirclbureau

KarmaCake day295January 3, 2021View Original