The accuracy of most translations over millenia is frankly unbelievable when compared against other sources and ancient manuscripts such as the Dead Sea scrolls, Josephus, etc. Even comparing LXX/Septuagint and Vulgate are more remarkable for the very few ways in which they diverge, but even those can be harmonized with careful study.
And, just like that, you turned the rest of this thread into a meta discussion about HN rather than about the topic. It's ironic, because that really hurt the SNR more than a duplicated, but on-topic, comment.
And with the Estate Tax (the 'death tax'), if you don't have significant savings (most farmers do not), when you die, your kids will have to pay the tax on their inheritance.
And since it's really hard to sell just part of an estate (and especially a farm), that usually means selling the whole thing, just to pay the taxes on the thing you left behind for them.
The estate tax should be repealed, not just at the federal level, but in the twelve states that also have an estate tax of their own, or we'll lose the family farm, and the family farmers, forever.. killed by taxes.
Where do you live that it's hard to sell a few acre parcel? That is not my experience at all in multiple states I have knowledge of.
Also, most people have little sympathy for someone who just inherited assets worth more than $13M (and likely double that if married) before you owe a penny in taxes. If it's a legitimate business, get a loan to pay them and continue getting even wealthier. If not, sell it all and never work a day in your life again. In fact, option two sounds pretty good to me either way :)
not sure why you're being downvoted. It's what Metafilter and Whatsapp did (but delayed until the following year, IIRC). Maybe Metafilter isn't the best example :)
It might make sense for a product that is hard to patch due to a more complex manufacture to drain supplies before updating. For a security product that is known to be vulnerable it is not forgivable to keep shipping.
Looks like they’ve been doing it since the start of the war, unless we have better source that it’s new than a tweet? I think it’s just coming up now because of twitch con related controversy.
Either way it appears to be an attempt to keep themselves out of the spotlight, controversy wise. Definitely not a political statement, if for no other reason than they haven’t issued any statements. Also, the title is understandable given the relative internet access rates, but the slightly more accurate one would be “Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli and Palestinian IPs”.
Seems like a way, way worse way to avoid controversy than simply banning war streamers, but who am I to say. Also, the obvious hypocrisy of not banning accounts from Sudan, Ukraine, Russia, etc. doesn’t help their image.
> Also, the obvious hypocrisy of not banning accounts from Sudan, Ukraine, Russia, etc. doesn’t help their image.
There's a very large difference here. They know what decision about those will get them into trouble and what decisions won't.
Or rather, it's also obvious what decisions will get a large US company into trouble on the context of the Israel wars. Every single one of them, whatever direction they are biased into.
Russian streamers are still on Twitch including pro-war Russian streamers who did some rather tasteless streams on the first days of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The block was hardcoded into the source code on October 13, 2023. I think it would have been done by one of the ops teams if it was required by management.
Amazon itself has worked just fine Israeli IPs and I assume Palestinians also.
The fact the block was both for Israeli and Palestinians combined makes me think this actually wasn't an anti Israeli / anti Palestinian decision. It was something else (official explanation by Twitch was that after the October 7th massacres they wanted to prevent new sign ups from the region uploading graphic massacre content which is believable to me).
Maybe to stop idf or hamas soldiers posting videos of violence. There’s plenty of cases of that being posted to X. twitch being realtime would have a much harder time blocking or removing it
I have no sources backing this, but I think it could be related to the ban of a big streamer recently who made a "controversial" stance about what's happening in Gaza [0] and that could have lead to some people mass creating accounts on Twitch (that would not be unheard of when that kind of events happen, but again, I haven't seen any report of that happening).
The accuracy of most translations over millenia is frankly unbelievable when compared against other sources and ancient manuscripts such as the Dead Sea scrolls, Josephus, etc. Even comparing LXX/Septuagint and Vulgate are more remarkable for the very few ways in which they diverge, but even those can be harmonized with careful study.