How is long term ethnic cleansing different from genocide?

Ethnic cleansing is the attempt to remove a people from the area. It can be accomplished by methods other than killing.

Genocide is an attempt to kill them all.

The Venn diagram has a lot of overlap for sure but they are not the same.

Im questioning whether the Israelis are the good guys. Frankly I don’t know how you can look at their history of provocation and unbalanced retaliation and not begin to wonder if maybe they aren’t the good guys

Or you could use the previous version to generate the dictionary for the current version?

I would assume chunks that didn’t benefit from the dictionary would receive the standard compression, so you can’t get worse than gzip.

Maybe? That gets sort of awkward for frequently updated things like Reddit where there might be 10 dictionary versions between what you have and the current version. You’d need something that decides whether to get an incremental update or a new dictionary, and the hoster has to store those old dictionaries. Feels like more trouble than it’s worth.

You could compress things with gzip if the dictionary doesn’t work well, but to my understanding gzip compresses repetition. There’s less repetition in smaller chunks, so worse compression ratios. Eg compressing each comment individually has a worse net ratio than compressing all the comments at once.

It would also be annoying to merge a bunch of individually compressed blocks back together, but certainly an option

I’m pretty sure the dictionary just gets put on the front of the compression algorithm’s “context” so that it can be referenced just like any other part of the document. You wouldn’t need individual blocks with different compression schemes, it would all get compressed together.

How are you dealing with the Pope saying priests shouldn’t use your product?

I agree with the Pope’s point. Priests should not hand pastoral judgment to a model. BibleGuided has church management tools plus optional AI help for drafting and organizing, with the priest making the final call.

For community context, we avoid confessional and private pastoral data. It is opt-in from congregants, then aggregated and anonymized into themes and trends.

We think AI can be a helpful tool across many areas, including faith, and over time many church leaders (of many denominations) will get comfortable using it in bounded, and responsible ways. If a church does not want AI used for homilies, those features can be toggled off and the rest of our tools still work.

The pope, ostensibly the person you believe to be the representative of god on earth, has said that your product is garbage and here you are rationalizing it.

Are you sure you have faith?

Based on OPs location and some of the marketing comments on their site, they probably think the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

If they're Protestant, that might be a point in its favor :)

Not the parent, but products like it are strongly Protestant Evangelical-coded, so that could actually be a selling point for the intended audience

To be fair ignoring and occasionally kidnapping the pope is a time honoured Catholic tradition.

I don’t find that to be less inspiring

Another interesting note, the trapezoidal TFR is still in place

Drone are noisy and invasive. I know I’d be upset if the neighbor boy was flying his camera drone around my property. Amazon doesn’t get a pass just because they’re a corporation. There is all kinds of passive data gathering that a these could be doing

if your fellow countrymen decide that in exchange for the benefits they will accept the noise and passive data gathering, and establish some ceiling restrictions, I don't really care what ill tempered reason is motivating you to start shooting at things

And when they’re actually good at their job, they’re invaluable in my opinion

Yeah, the best way to learn the value of project management is to work somewhere without it.

I don’t know how this can be true when almost everyone I know is struggling right now

Two tier economy