yunyun333
10mo ago
yunyun333
1yr ago
Fifth: the Arab governments' invitation to the people of Palestine to flee from it and seek refuge in adjacent Arab countries, after terror had spread among their ranks in the wake of the Deir Yassin event. This mass flight has benefited the Jews and the situation stabilized in their favor without effort.... Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homeland, while it is we who constrained them to leave it. Between the invitation extended to the refugees and the request to the United Nations to decide upon their return, there elapsed only a few months.
so it was about deir yassin. people panicked and left of their own volition... because they believed they would be massacred
yunyun333
1yr ago
i don't know what postmodernism has to do with this. it seems entirely possible to determine what in fact happened in 1948, whether arabs left because arab leadership told them to leave, or because they were afraid of being massacred, or because they were forcefully expelled by jewish soldiers, or for any other reason. motivations are more nebulous but you can look into official idf documents (plan D) and what leaders such as ben gurion wrote.
yunyun333
3mo ago
I just used the free public facing ones (Gemini 2.0 flash, GPT 4-o). You can try asking it for the decay time for the 3p-1s transition in hydrogen. It can do the 2p-1s transition since this question is answered in lots of places but struggles to extrapolate.
yunyun333
2yr ago
i don't think the article claims that girls do better because they're just 'naturally superior'. yes, boys neurologically develop differently than girls, but that doesn't mean they're 'worse'.
yunyun333
2mo ago
I skimmed it but I'm a dilettante. It really is quite a fascinating field.
I agree that if you're willing to approach it with faith, then a lot of it is unclear enough for faith to hold up.
yunyun333
3mo ago
Isn't that only supposed to work if your home country refuses to accept you or you refuse to say where you come from?
yunyun333
3mo ago
The correct answer is about 5.98 ns when applying the spontaneous emission formula, so Gemini pro 2.5 got it correct, although it had to reference NIST when its original formula didn't work. It looks like it copies the correct formula so I'm not sure where the erroneous factor of 4 comes from.
yunyun333
8mo ago
How can news sites call it so early if it's such a small margin at the end?
yunyun333
8mo ago
They could pretty easily have stopped october 7th by just paying attention to the border. Hamas pretended to be beaten by not responding to some Israeli provocations and Netanyahu thought they were done.
yunyun333
1yr ago
benny morris changed his political views and said "transfer/expulsion is good actually", but he is still willing to call it such.
yunyun333
2yr ago
there's obviously a difference between good and bad wine, and sommeliers aren't charlatans, but our senses are easily tricked. you can make ice cream taste better by improving the packaging, same with wine.
yunyun333
2yr ago
It boiled down to arts students in departments where graduate outnumbered undergrad
is this really a thing? what could they possibly need so many grad students for?
yunyun333
2mo ago
So Trump and Vance whine for the past year about how sending over weapons is too expensive and we need to stop, but 4 'slightly bigger' mineral deposits of questionable economic value will serve as a casus belli for dropping in American soldiers?
Hell, he's apparently gotten Ukraine actually paying for U.S. weapons now
Isn't Ukraine mega bankrupt? They'll be effectively paying America with America's own aid.
yunyun333
2mo ago
You'll be forgiven if I take a Reddit source (which itself sources to scholarly works from between 15 and 20 years ago to represent the modern academic consensus) with a grain of salt. I'm not sure that it's wrong, necessarily, but 2009 was a long time ago.
Biblical scholarship has been a thing for hundreds of years, and the Bible isn't getting many updates. This is not a particularly dynamic field, so I think sources from 2004 are fine in this regard. You can pick up just about any introductory new testament textbook or scholarly commentary and find the same view. It's not controversial like, say, the authorship of the pastoral epistles. Here's what, for example. RT France has to say about it in his commentary:
Jesus’ condemnation of ‘this generation’ is a prominent theme in Matthew; see, apart from this passage, 11:16-19; 16:4; 17:17; 24:34, and especially 23:29-36, which shows that it refers to his contemporaries, not just Jews or men in general, as those in whom Israel's age-long rebellion has culminated, and on whom judgment must therefore fall.
yunyun333
2mo ago
The best way to close Malacca is with anti-ship mines – they are small and terribly cheap (it would probably be affordable for Malaysia or Indonesia to buy tens or even hundreds of thousands of mines) and it could require hours to clear each one.
These countries also need the strait, don't they? Why would they want to blockade it for everyone?
yunyun333
3mo ago
For the first calculation dump at least, it comes up with a value 6.63 × 10⁸ s^-1, then compares it to the expected value from the NIST Atomic Spectra Database 1.6725 × 10⁸ s⁻¹, then spends half the page trying to reconcile the difference, before giving up and proceeding with the ASD value.
yunyun333
6mo ago
There are increasing calls to try IDF soldiers who travel to other countries for war crimes. It could never happen in the US of course.
yunyun333
7mo ago
Ports require lots of heavy machinery to do their job, you can't 10x their capacity in a few days. LNG terminals (Taiwan imports 98% of energy) also cannot be easily migrated.
The routes between west and east are highly mountainous. One was closed for 13 years due to typhoon damage. They could all be shut down with well placed missiles, crippling resupply.
This is all ignoring submarine warfare/anti ship ballistic missiles.
yunyun333
8mo ago
Nate silver wins the bet if trump doesn't win by 8 points, is what I read.
yunyun333
10mo ago
what does this really have to do with culture war? ospreys have been killing soldiers for decades, shitty gear in general for centuries. "Every Marine is a cynic, and every cynic knows our equipment is made by the lowest bidder." -lieutenant from generation kill
yunyun333
1yr ago
Did Vietnam result in meaningful improvement? Judging by Iraq our counterinsurgency skills were still lacking.
yunyun333
1yr ago
i don't think the jews were worse than arabs, at least in their intentions. certainly, if the arabs had won, the end result for jews would have been worse than expulsion. but expulsion was still a Bad Thing, although there's nothing to be done about it now.
yunyun333
1yr ago
For one making it back to the moon is what Musk was contracted to do. He's literally giving away tickets to the moon to youtubers, surely, if nothing else, giving away tickets for what is, charitably, a fake-it-till-you-make-it venture can be described as fraudulent?
what makes it 'fraud'? lots of space companies have sold launches for rockets that have never gone up yet.
I have to once again ask what is the marvel of engineering he created that has you so impressed? If his companies end up successful, I'll agree he's a brilliant executive, but from a tech point of view nothing he did seems all that impressive?
reusable rockets aren't impressive? even if you think the cost savings are all faked, the sheer volume of launches that they enable is an incredible achievement in their own right.
king von being a serial killer (no, seriously) makes his bragging about killing people 'a serious artform that deals with all aspects of human life, including the negative ones', while jason aldean being a poser who most certainly didn't come from a small town dealing out vigilante justice means his music isn't just crappy country music, it's advocating for white nationalism. he should try collabing with kyle rittenhouse for authenticity next time.
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