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The point is preventing another North Korea style nuclear blackmail state.

Iran has negotiated like no one will ever attack it, and that was a correct assumption for decades

However, due to Iran's overly aggressive use of questionably rational proxies, Hamas has dragged it into a regional conflict where it lost most of its proxies power.

After the last war, it also is no longer a threshold state, so the only leverage they had left was ballistic missiles, which were also handled quite reasonably by Israeli air defense.

In this situation it is a fair request by the US to sign a nuclear deal that heavily restricts Iran's ability to enrich as well as ICBM, trigger with existing uranium stockpiles removed.

As Iran due to ideological reasons refused, and IMO had miscalculated this will be a win-win, as losing will quell the protests, the only thing really left is the metaphorical stick

as iran is a major player in crypto money laundering then it could price its fall

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602279443

am i missing something, or is the statistic that is used to pinpoint someone as poor, is the same statistic that is gamed here? Namely the amount of income that a person declares to the IRS?

Generally the IRGC has everything to do with the current state of Gaza, as it was involved in planning and training for the October 7th attack.

This was a masterstroke of Iranian strategy, while it initially looked they have yet again encouraged the Palestinians to commit national suicide on their behalf, in two years it looks like this is going to end with a national suicide of the Islamic Republic

Why? a non-religious Iran would have difficulty maintaining alliances with islamist organizations such as PMF and Hezbollah that were used to slaughter Iranian protestors. Also, like Syria it would probably pivot to a US-led alliance

I think intelligence like historiography is extremely bad at detecting processes as they are happening, as it cannot understand behaviors of humans that are not part of large bureaucracies it usually researches. Therefore, intelligence in general usually fails in anticipating revolutions

recent examples

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/manssor-arbabsiar-se...

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/member-irans-islamic...

there is quite a beef going on between America and Iran if you haven't noticed, such as taking an entire embassy as hostages or killing a whole lot of US troops in Iraq and Lebanon among other things

Amazing, however when I changed the number I expected an audio recording of some guy answering in the middle of the night over a modem negotiation sound

Statistically more probable this kind of blunder will happen in a small disaster before a large disaster and then regulated

e.g. 50 people die due to water poisoning issue rather than 10 billion die in a claude code powered nuclear apocalypse

Waiting for the subsequent self-victimizing post after the reply

I imagine the receiving party is an Iranian intelligence agency, due to the interest in sigint adjacent technology (Mobile cryptography).

That probably makes it espionage, not of the corporate kind

Unless your employer is Google and all those photos are uploaded to its servers

Creating mediocre alternatives sometimes pave the way for real alternatives as you create a talent pool.

China is an example, countries that had become technology independent through sanctions is another

It took a minute to load the map points here, and I was sitting thinking this is an attempt at a clever joke

> One obvious answer is we can make a lot more custom stuff. Like, why buy Windows and Office when I can just ask claude to write me my own versions instead? Why run a commodity operating system on kiosks? We can make so many more one-off pieces of software

yes, it will enable a lot of custom one-off software but I think people are forgetting the advantages of multiple copied instances, which is what enabled software to be so successful in the first place.

Mass production of the same piece of software creates standards, every word processor uses the same format and displays it the same way.

Every date library you import will calculate two months from now the same way, therefore this is code you don't have to constantly double check in your debug sessions.

according to the snowden documents it is quite obvious that if the US government had a backdoor then the UK government would have one through five eyes

> Plus for many years Word was one of the main cash cows for MS, so they didn't want to make an editor that would take away from Word.

Wordpad was the bundled rich text editor and was also a mess

I don't think an improved notepad could have cannibalized Word

I know about the vulnerabilities in notepad++, however I was referring to the feature set.

Regarding large, I am referring to log files for example. I think the issue was lack of use of memory mapped files, which meant the entire file was loaded to RAM always, often giving the frozen window experience

> Except no, we don't. notepad.exe was DONE SOFTWARE

While 8.8 score is embarrassing, by no measure notepad was done software. It couldn't load a large text file for one, its search was barely functional, had funky issues with encoding, etc.

Notepad++ is closer to what should be expected from an OS basic text editor

> How did we end up in a world with Windows 11 and Liquid Glass? So sad.

Nostalgic memories of daily BSODs ensue

I don't think that was the case, the executions I saw was for rape and murder of four and eight year olds

I agree, without even talking about gay rights, I think both the UAE and Qatar have a legal system and an immigration system I wouldn't want to be subjected to.

Generally true for most of the world outside of the West

Any source for the 2015 case? All I found was executions of pedophile rapists

All gulf states have abysmal gay rights, but are you sure they are executing gay men?

Presumably being prepared for an incident will reduce the chance that due to surprise that incident will be handled incorrectly

If you ask me, all US law enforcement are very trigger happy, but I always assumed it is a two-way street as in, more people in US are armed and try to shoot law enforcements than in other countries

A bit of an alarmist title. They would be negligent if they didn't.

Hopefully they are able to anticipate protests and handle these without getting anyone shot. A good part of this is intelligence, and reading reddit is not a very invasive type of intelligence.

just made me flashback to a url bar and typing that too long of a url

I am only guessing that they had to remove the document from a classified network in a way where data won't possibly leak

The context of the quote was criticism of the Economist pacifism, while Lenin was trying to use the war to instigate a revolution that will end with the deaths of millions