<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: megous</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=megous</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:25:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=megous" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megous in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually, wars are not supposed to be driven by "Dahiya doctrine" or "Rafah model" either, if we're talking about what wars are supposed to be. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine</a><p>And yeah, if you look at 1:1000 civilian or 1:500 child kill ratio and you respond with "wars are not supposed to be even", well... what to even say. Actually there's a proportionality and distinction rule to follow, which is supposed to prevent this. When Israel kills 1 child or more per every active combatant... then that was apparently violated.<p>Maybe explain how does killing 20 000+ children and counting help Israel? Or how burning/blowing up entire villages and cities in Lebanon and Gaza help them? They did this to hundreds of villages in 1947-48 and that created the whole problem they have now. Continuing the same strategy is supposed to solve it? Seems like Israel got inspired by the whole Nazi style "preventive security" thing.<p>Heinrich Himmler: "The best political weapon is the weapon of terror... we do not ask for their love; only for their fear." (looks like Himmler could have coauthored Dahiya doctrine and would be fond of it, if still alive by then)<p>You're also not supposed to initiate aggressive wars against your neighbors either, like Israel did against Syria, Iran, and many others in the past with its "pre-emptive" strikes.<p>If Israel wants to be better, maybe they should not intentionally murder 10s of thousands of children as a policy (20-300 allowed killed civilians per strike in a population where half of it is children).</p>
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<p>Not sure why you get downvoted. EU censors quite a bit. I can't read about 10 Telegram channels that I could access just 3 years ago, and the list is growing.
All due to "vioalted laws of [my country]". (said near-east related channels have nothing to do with my country, government just doesn't want me to read them)<p>Some people deemed "russian assets" are not just censored, but stripped of ability to leave EU and prevented from being able to live in EU at the same time by financial sanctions, etc. Of course this doesn't happen to actual politicians in power, for whatever reason those never get sanctioned by EC, despite doing more "damage" than random blabberheads on twitter.<p>It's a mess.</p>
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<p>Ok, compare:<p>Hezbollah attacks against Israel since Israel started a war against Iran: 2 dead civilians
Israel attacks against Lebanon: 2000 dead civilians<p>Similar ratio of children killed in Gaza where it's 1:500.<p>There's nothing comparable about what one side does to the other in this conflict.</p>
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<p>West bank and Gaza were never under full Palestinian control since 1967 both were under brutal occupation or blockade + contant Israeli meddling into internal affairs.</p>
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<p>I'm sure tankers are huge and show up easily on naval radars.</p>
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<p>Last year (March 18) Israel killed 174 children and 412 people in total in a day when violating a Jan 19 ceasefire to restart the genocide. Then proceeded to starve hundreds to death and severely compromise health of tens of thousands during the following months, while killing 1000s of aid seekers, that they forced into killing fields under starvation, like this:<p><a href="https://t.me/hamza20300/375017" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/hamza20300/375017</a><p>After this, they'll certainly not stop at bombing a few cities, or leveling villages today, that they can get away with because of western support.</p>
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<p>No I'm just telling you people are not as stupid as everyone assumes.</p>
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<p>Only signal is that whoever is in the subject DN (highly) probably signed the code. There's 0 signal about trustworthiness of the code in the signature. Thrustworthiness signal is in the behavior/reputation of the signer.<p>Pretty sure there were historically a lot of apps that stole peoples contact lists and were signed properly. Certainly in the Android world.</p>
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<p>Not used does not mean not usable. Primary school aged children used MS-DOS without any documentation in 1990's. Pretty sure randomly selected people would be able to use modern Linux distro, when pre-installed just like windows are.</p>
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<p>US president, holding nukes and saying things like "whole civilization will die tonight" is just state terrorism of the worst kind, ... so far, yes. It may become a war crime of genocide. Not sure why should I or anyone wait and see, before issuing sweeping comments about all of america, which made this possible, by working hard to building up the military capable of doing it and giving power to nutjob issuing the threats.<p>Be sure that this US threat is not just against Iran, it's a US threat aginst the entire world, and it will be taken as such by many, you war crime justifying tool.<p>Also pretty telling, that you're using intl. law to justify US attacks, instead of using it for what their purpose was,... which is to limit the ways in which states execute war. The same thing Israel was doing to justify murdering 20 000 children in Gaza, just constantly finding "loopholes" and using it retroactively to justify every single thing they did that someone contensted.</p>
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<p>At least the Iran leaders are not out of control nutjobs, compared to US president, and electorat/cronnies who put him to power and gave him nukes:<p>CNN: Trump threatens Iran ahead of deadline: "A whole civilization will die tonight" (speaking about 92 million people)</p>
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<p>It doesn't matter. Killing 34 something children like Hamas did vs 20 000 something children like Israel did in the same conflict.<p>Or threatening some water facility in a country with functioning air defense vs threatening entire population of 92 million with complete anihilation ("A whole civilization will die tonight" like Trump just said on behalf of all americans - credible threat from a nuclear superpower with enough nukes to spare), in a country where they can't really defend against this other than spreading the costs on enemy-allied countries.<p>There's bad, and there's 100x worse. And yeah, people should focus on stopping the 100x worse first, is my belief.</p>
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<p>You seem informed. Why did they do so? And what motivated them?<p>Sounds like a thing a state would not want to do to their neighbor out of the blue.</p>
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<p>Just claiming something doesn't make it true. And also there's the whole scale thing.</p>
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<p>preparation for the initial strike has to have been going on for months</p>
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<p>It can be any number of things. From spending hour or two just writing requirements, to giving an example of existing curated code from another project you wrote and would like to emulate, or rewriting existing apps in a different language/architecture (sort of like translating), to serving as a QA agent or reviewer for the LLM agent, or vice versa.<p>I kinda like how you can just use it for anything you like. I have bazillion personal projects, I can now get help with, polish up, simplify, or build UI for, and it's nice. Anything from reverse engineering, to data extraction, to playing with FPGAs, is just so much less tedious and I can focus on the fun parts.</p>
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<p>Czechia has a very dense public transport network and if you want to walk a very nice network of marked tourist tracks. Not that different form 1989, except for marking an explicit cycling network since then.</p>
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<p>I'll rephrase my previous post for you, to make it clearer:<p>Lack of prosecution of high-level war criminals makes your country a state supporter of terrorism. (the claim in the post)<p>Because that's what US war criminal leaders do. They terrorize entire nation by threatening population's survival via destruction of all their power plants, which I assume includes nuclear fallout from their nuclear power plant.</p>
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<p>Thankfully, not in the technology area. Eg. we in the post-soviet EU block are well beyond using fax, and stuff like that, ... :)</p>
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<p>NY Times doesn't even know what NATO is, while writing a full-page article about it, so yeah this kind of ignorance about where USA has it hands and guns is not surprising, from some random on the internet. ;)</p>
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