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For some context the school shared walls with and used to be part of an active military base. [1]

That being said bombing children is always a tragedy and the US should be doing everything it can to learn from this and not make these kinds of mistakes.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack


Are these the same lessons they should have learned from bombing Afghan weddings or Iraqi funerals?


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Yes? Everyone knows you’re not supposed to ask questions you don’t already know the answer to when trying to make a point.

Obama was absolutely roasted for his drone strikes by all but the lamest and most feckless of centrists. Too bad that Trump far surpassed his records and took the top leaderboard spot.


Where is that leaderboard?


Got taken down because they stopped reporting

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207


> Were you complaining when Obama killed US citizens and kids with drone strikes?

Your attempt to try to spin the morality of bombing innocent civilians as a mere domestic partisan issue is disconcerting. I mean, this site has a diverse international readership, and a UN report on potential war crimes is hardly a domestic issue.


Yes.



Workers on an H1B are more abusable though - if they lose the job they have something like 30 days to find another one or they have to leave the country entirely.

So you talk a good game about work life balance and then after you hire an H1B worker and bring them to the country you can spring 60 hour weeks doing tedius things and many won't be in a position to say no.

The salary might also seem higher to somebody who doesn't understand the cost of living in the US (and how many things are not paid for via taxes like healthcare).


At all of my jobs everyone was treated the same.


Yep, and that is also an explicit requirement for interviewers at every company I worked at.

I had to do interview training myself at one of them, and the guidelines were fairly specific and clear about this. We neither knew about the immigration status of the candidate nor were we allowed to ask/note/talk about it at all. Same as with age/marital status/etc.


The trifold looks cool, and also solves the redundant screen problem - I hope we see more explorations of this form factor!

I think I'd prefer it over having a phone with screens on two sides (and the cost of having two screens over one that's partially used sometimes and fully used at others).


How are they "making bank" by giving out 0% loans?


My friend, the same way everyone else does. It goes from 0% to 28% interest when you miss a payment. Those are rates normal lenders fall asleep dreaming of.


So is it moral of me to destroy a copy of "Windows 95 for Dummies"?

What if a person with small children and an elderly, incontinent pet with a penchant for peeing on books wants to buy it - can I sell this book to such a dangerous purchaser who might destroy it?

I love book as much as the next person but the hyperbole about "rare books" is absurd. Nobody is buying the Gutenburg Bible and destroying it for AI. The books in question are certainly not rare enough to be in museums - without titles there's no proof these are anything of real value.


I'm not convinced safety is solved: given how often LLM's hallucinate and automated cars get confused, what happens when something unusual happens and the robot thinks a person's arm needs to be "folded" and breaks it? Or a person's clothing looks like the wall and a robot tries to move their arm through a person's chest?

Sure, for each individual situation one can imagine a safeguard but being in close proximity to unpredictable humans means there are unlimited edge cases... if a humanoid robot is strong enough to do something useful it is also strong enough to be dangerous.


Even simple dangers like pinch points on joints or not stepping on curious pets are an issue.

My son would adore a humanoid robot around the house, but could I leave him unsupervised around it?



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