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Which also refer to unnamed sources and "U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency"(read CIA)

Why lie about this when the first paragraph is explicit about its source?

> As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME


The US paid for similar information from Iraq about WMDs just before it kicked off the invasion.

Meanwhile, the US is rearranging its forces in the middle east. What a coincidence.


>two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health

And their names are never called.


It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess

Time always was a propaganda leaflet.

Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"


Conduit is designed to help people in censored countries access unrestricted information by connecting to devices that serve as proxy nodes to the Psiphon Network. It empowers individuals worldwide to support users in regions that need secure, uncensored internet access.

Our small team uses the Fibonacci sequence to estimate, and it works well for us.

Yep. My last manager would just ask "Is it a day, a week, a month, or a year?"

I needed to keep the highlighted text as well. With ChatGPT I have created an extension [1] that lets me capture highlights from any webpage and send them directly to a Notion database along with the page URL, capture date, and a per-selected project tag.

[1]https://github.com/sea2ocean/keeper


Is this it? 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797485


“Your data is the most important part of your system”. I always liked this quote, and yet I am constantly battling people who think we can just truncate a database and rebuild it like the way they CI/CD their code base. Not to mention the legal ramifications of altering a “corporate record”.


I like to check Hacker News on a regular basis, but I wanted an extension to do so without having to open the website or a new tab. Simply click the extension icon to open a small popup window displaying the top or most recent news.


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