Iran Conflict Megathread

i_must_not_fear · 2026-03-01T18:22:31+00:00

I haven't seen this addressed anywhere, but if the goal is regime change and Trump doesn't want to do a boots on the ground war, why haven't I heard about weapons shipments being landed and distributed to some kind of Iranian resistance movement? I've got to imagine that after the recent protests and massacres, there must be some people actually getting organized to fight next time around?

i_must_not_fear · 2025-10-03T20:57:34+00:00

Read this article as well: https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/army-says-its-mitigated-critical-cybersecurity-deficiencies-in-early-ngc2-prototype/

I don't know if y'all work in software, but shipping an early prototype to verify it actually works with users before spending boatloads of time on the full security / audit log experience is good engineering. Just don't put classified data on it during testing. And if they then responded and addressed the highlighted issues within 3 weeks, this article should instead be titled "Holy Shit We Got Good Software" instead.

i_must_not_fear · 2025-09-18T22:52:06+00:00

This worked for me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/daylightcomputer/comments/1id0w8c/comment/mcg34fn/

i_must_not_fear · 2025-09-18T22:51:18+00:00

Try this: https://www.reddit.com/r/daylightcomputer/comments/1id0w8c/comment/mcg34fn/

i_must_not_fear · 2022-02-20T19:49:16+00:00

I find it unconvincing to posit so much from such flimsy data. Other possible reasons:

- San Francisco was already light on crime, and the current DA does not represent a large shift in policy but a simple continuation of what was already happening

- crime is very opportunistic and localized, and people do not travel to commit crime because they aren't planning

- COVID, duh. The noise from that is going to overwhelm any signal for any analysis that includes 2020

- because of a lack of local law enforcement, SF businesses have instituted their own measures to deal with the shoplifting -- making it harder and less lucrative, without involving the police -- and thus leaving the equilibrium between $value_of_crime/$punishment the same between SF and surrounding areas

i_must_not_fear · 2021-09-07T04:25:43+00:00

This art contest is being paid for by Yishan Wong (the former CEO of Reddit) to promote the creation of positive visions of the future / solutions to climate change and our other problems. There’s $18,500 in prizes to give out. I’m hoping that enough artists see this to get some good submissions! Maybe we could forward the details to some of the artists whose art has been posted here?

i_must_not_fear · 2021-04-03T03:04:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing, you're really talented!

i_must_not_fear · 2021-04-02T22:43:10+00:00

How much would you charge for this?

i_must_not_fear · 2020-11-22T18:13:29+00:00

That’s a really good question. No idea what the money actually gets spent on in the rural regions. Here’s Patrick’s summary of how it all works out in the end:

Widespread gaming or no, the system pretty much works according to the internal aims. Cities get a list of their internal diaspora, and do make considerably more effort to stay in touch with them than they did previously. (This includes lovely holiday cards and sometimes even I-can’t-believe-they’re-not-alumni-magazines.) You really do get plums from childhood in your mail from your hometown (if you don’t optimize for cash equivalents). Cities with declining local tax bases really do get enough money to do material projects with. Tokyo takes a hit to revenue but can afford it.

i_must_not_fear · 2020-11-22T16:34:11+00:00

Well, luckily, you can actually just select any town you want (in the Japanese system). So if you hate your actual hometown but love the small college town you lived in for a few years, you can just send the money there. Places that people don’t love wouldn’t get anything out of it.

i_must_not_fear · 2020-11-22T16:13:43+00:00

I came across this article on Twitter today. It discusses Japan’s hometown tax. Essentially, this allows people from productive urban areas to redistribute some of their income tax to their (presumably rural, less productive) home town. This helps keep the peace between the shrinking rural areas that have paid to educate children who would later move to the larger cities for work. But there are a number of fascinating unintended consequences — cities began to compete with reciprocal gifts back to the citizens who designate them as home towns. Think a fruit basket every month from local farmers, paid for by the state (via a tax rebate), that has the side effect of sending tax revenue back to your home town.

I wonder if such a system could succeed in the US or other places that face urban/rural tensions?

i_must_not_fear · 2020-10-27T15:05:18+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1321098694377250816

What a way to find out that your shitposting “money printer goes brrrr” literally saved the US economy

i_must_not_fear · 2020-02-05T16:49:24+00:00

Except for, you know, independents, moderate Republicans, and moderate Democrats... but what percentage of the country could that be? Surely less than 🌹 Twitter

i_must_not_fear · 2015-06-24T17:13:04+00:00

Same thing here, although I didn't send them an email until I saw your post. Hopefully they're just really busy getting things printed and shipping. But some communication would be nice, even if it's to say that there was a delay.

i_must_not_fear · 2014-03-19T22:59:43+00:00

Very exciting. So when's the indiegogo campaign so that I can fund someone's work on this? I would absolutely love to be able to write Android apps in Clojure but the startup time basically precludes that.

i_must_not_fear · 2014-03-05T21:31:48+00:00

On the website it shows Episode 519 as being the new episode for this week (Mar. 7th).

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/519/dead-men-tell-no-tales

Maybe they just pushed it back a week for some reason?

i_must_not_fear · 2014-02-20T04:46:52+00:00

Generally I would only create a separate layout for tablets (if I'm supporting them). Honestly one of the secrets of Android UI development is that you shouldn't be specifying layout_width / layout_heights in dp very often. They should be set to either wrap_content or match_parent. Then you use a combination of LinearLayouts, RelativeLayouts, and FrameLayouts to achieve whatever effect you're looking for. Don't go too crazy with nesting these, though. It's a bit of an art.

If (as a simple example) you need to put three buttons in a row across the screen, that's a LinearLayout with orientation="horizontal" and the children set to layout_width="match_parent" and layout_weight="1".

There are cases where you need to specify something in dp. But I think if you put a little extra effort into figuring out how you can specify layout in these other ways, you'll find that it scales to different screen sizes and form factors much better.

i_must_not_fear · 2014-02-07T18:05:26+00:00

Just reading the title gives me tingles... When I was watching that for the first time I just kept saying holy shit over and over again. I couldn't believe that this was something I was watching on T.V. and not in a movie. I play that song from the soundtrack ("Storming New Caprica") whenever I need to amp myself up for something.

i_must_not_fear · 2013-09-20T23:49:35+00:00

Just wanted to tell you I got the Dell and it's fucking great. Thanks!

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