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Do you have a source showing that he was imprisoned in Iraq? Wikipedia suggests he was there freely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_...


He was imprisoned in Iran, then went to Turkey and from there to Iraq iirc, but it is long ago, so I suspect the GP meant after he was arrested by the Shah.

OP very specifically said that he was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein and that the US pulled strings to get him freed.

Seconded. I don't recall hearing anyone talk about "the rules based order" until a couple of years ago.

When Trump talks about rules, laws, and order it’s in the “L'État, c'est moi” (the state is me) sense. I.e. following the law means following his whims.

I've begun to call it (in my own head) "pessimissivism", a fatal combination of being pessimistic and dismissive. It can't be unique to HN, but I find it particularly jarring that it has taken root here, given the optimistic and open-minded origins of this forum.

We are talking about about billionaires gambling with company issued casino chips while messing up the actual brick and mortar economy. Being open-minded and optimistic about this activity brought us such wonderful events as 2008.

Value investing a la Buffett and Munger is certainly not how we got 2008. Quite the opposite. In fact they were some of the most prominent individuals before 2008 outspoken about the risks of the derivatives that led to 2008, calling them "financial weapons of mass destruction".

It's the same casino. I don't have any leeway for people who partake in this "responsibly".

Right, and that's what I see as dismissive.

Correct. Berkshire only buys well-functioning businesses. '“Turnarounds” seldom turn'.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1979.html


> Elon and Peter Thiel don't allow their shares to be shorted

Do you have more information about that? That sounds impossible for a publicly traded company.



Oh I see, you meant Elon and Thiel prevent the shares they control from being shorted? I originally thought you meant they prevent any TSLA shares from being shorted.

Not sure if you're making a joke about this, but Ed Witten tried a number of fields before settling on theoretical physics.


This is hilarious and I'm looking forward to seeing what it says about itself.


> > Not quite, static typing is used at runtime, python type annotations are not

> No, static typing is usually used AOT (most frequently at compile time), not usually at runtime (types may or may not exist at runtime; they don't in Haskell, for instance.)

In fact, Haskell then allows you to add back in runtime types using Typeable!

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Data-...


> I don't believe any of the above makes me antisemite. It is very typical of agents of a certain agency to frame like that though.

An astonishing pair of sentences.


So astonishing there's a Wikipedia article about the phenomenon [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponization_of_antisemitism


As someone with no dog in this race, I’m genuinely struggling to distinguish folks calling for a global intifada and railing against Zionists from anti-Semites. Particularly when they blame—to the point of dismissal—rising anti-Semitism (like, block or shoot up a synagogue anti-Semitism) on Israel.


I see. So who are these "agents of a certain agency" you're referring to? Can you be specific?


If you liked this, you're going to love

    git commit --verbose --patch


Yeah, I don't always use -p, but I always use -v


I'll have to try it :)


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