Readit Newsfinid commented on Nokia former engineers now their software runs on 1B mobile nordic.businessinsider.co... · Posted by u/zmir
You write about an application yet not a link to the project's website in the article.
finid commented on Micronutrients for Health [pdf] lpi.oregonstate.edu/sites... · Posted by u/jmstfv
I find this very useful.
To add more value, add another column that gives how much of a given food source an average-sized adult needs to eat to get the recommended daily intake.
finid commented on Struggling to cover terrorism in the media age buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekc... · Posted by u/ColinWright
> And in virtually all those cases, there's a link to the target's actions against something the terrorists hold dear.
If by 'something the terrorists hold dear' you mean power and prevalence of islam, I absolutely agree! When Chechnya de-facto separated from Russia in 1990s, they run multiple ethnic cleansings: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87... (no translation to English unfortunately).
It looks like something similar is happening right now in the Philippines.
Power? Doubtful. Prevalence of Islam? Maybe.
However, just watching another person destroy your homeland can tick most people off.
finid commented on Struggling to cover terrorism in the media age buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekc... · Posted by u/ColinWright
> Missing in media reports about these things is the connection between action (our foreign military mis-adventures) and reaction (terrorist attacks).
Ha! That is probably because there's comparatively less correlation between terrorist attacks and foreign politics, than there's between terrorist attacks and attacker's religion. In case you are not aware, various islamic groups perform terrorist attacks in Philippines (look up recent news), India and Russia, the former two being 100% internal affairs.
And in virtually all those cases, there's a link to the target's actions against something the terrorists hold dear.
Terrorist activity in India? Look to Kashmir.
In Russia? The Russians fought their own war on terrorism before we went into Afghanistan. In some ways going into Afghanistan diverted fighters streaming into Chechnya to fight the Russian army to Afghanistan. We gave them a target they hated more than they hated the Russians. From reports, many of the best fighters on the side of ISIS are Chechens.
The Russians, by the way, are still fighting terrorists.
And whether these wars are "internal affairs" or not is immaterial.
finid commented on Struggling to cover terrorism in the media age buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekc... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Missing in media reports about these things is the connection between action (our foreign military mis-adventures) and reaction (terrorist attacks).
About a month ago we celebrated the mother of all bombs that flattened what amounted to a small village in Afghanistan. We were told that it killed ONLY 90 terrorists, assuming the vast area it affected was inhabited only by the killed terrorists. Not a single civilian was killed, we were told.
The pilot and his crew are our heroes.
Somewhere there's an Afghan from that flattened area. Even if he doesn't subscribe to ISIS/Taliban ideology, he can't be too happy.
Most people in his position would feel that they have a score to settle. And when he has the opportunity, we don't make the connection.
He's a terrorist, but we have our heroes.
Sometimes I feel like crying, not for the dead (that won't help them), but for the rest of us still alive.
Very effective though, as the video shows. My visits were post-2011, and each DC had a record of the building's movement during the big earthquake; max amplitude on the seismic-protected part was a couple of centimeters, vs 50 cms or more for the rest of the building.
More impressive are the guys walking around during all that swaying as if they were on coffee brake.