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They also disappear when the government of Pakistan tells Google to erase them: https://lee-phillips.org/youtube/

This may be overly pedantic (even more so than your correct comments about numbering harmonics and overtones), but in this case the overtones are not harmonics, which, as you say, are by definition multiples of the fundamental frequency (“harmonic series” is a mathematical term). That’s why gongs are “inharmonic”: they have an overtone series that is not a series of harmonics.

The NYT seems to have an interest in making Mamdani and his administration more palatable to their readers:

http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA


If you go to the IGRA's website [1] and scroll down, you'll find the part of the definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism:

> Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

[1] https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitio...


The parts you quote do not equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Do you not consider calling Israel's existence racist or comparing its actions to the Nazis to be criticism?

Legitimate criticism is about specific actions or behaviors. You could even say that you are opposed to certain laws, like the right of return.

Saying that a nation should just not exist, regardless of how they behave or what laws they have betrays a deeper irrational hatred. Especially if there’s only one state that must not exist, while there are many countries with laws you would disagree with.


Saying that the existence of a state is a racist endeavor is not inherently hateful, and doesn't just apply to Israel.

For example, apartheid South Africa was a racist endeavor.


Are you against the existence of South Africa? Or were you against the existence of some laws in South Africa?

It also isn’t racist to be against the existence of states in general and believe in a world without borders. But to say that Ukraine has a right to exist, Ireland has a right to exist, Palestine has a right to exist, Greenland has a right to exist - only Israel does not have a right to exist is antisemitic.


I am against the existence of apartheid South Africa, just as I'm against the existence of apartheid Israel.

No state should discriminate against people based on their religion. (And absolutely no state has a right to exist. People have rights, not governments.)


NYC is a special case, because it’s at or near the center of the universe: the US financial hub, the center of theater, dominant in all entertainment media, the UN headquarters, the most important historical entry point for all immigrant groups, the most important city for book publishing, advertising, etc. It’s one of the five most important, powerful cities in the world. It has its own foreign policy and diplomatic relationships. Its mayors have frequently, and for many decades, been interviewed for their opinions on world affairs that would seem, at first glance, to have nothing to do with city government.

From the article:

‘“The people who designed it understood that in a 7-million-person city like Bogotá, a very small percentage would actually see the mime artists,” says Felipe Cala Buendía, the author of Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America. However, Mockus believed in the power of word of mouth.’


> mimes … word of mouth

Nice.


Amazing.

I used them at the (US) Naval Research Laboratory, programming in a dialect of C called C*. This automatically distributed arrays among the many processors, similar to how modern Fortran can work with coarrays.

If the problem was very data-parallel, one could get nearly perfect linear speedups.


I use it to run Julia on my phone: https://lee-phillips.org/juliaOnPhone.jpg


Do you have instructions somewhere for getting this to work? I've tried installing julia on termux a few times with no success.


I just downloaded the archive (from the usual Julia downloads page) for ARM on the phone and put a link to the binary in /usr/local/bin — same as on Linux desktop. But I did this in the proot Debian environment.


Ah I see. Even after installing proot Debian I couldn't get juliaup to work, but I'll have to give it a shot manually installing the binary and linking to /usr/local/bin


Nice. I put this in my .zshrc.


I got this so often in every part of the United States that some decades ago I just stopped asking anyone for directions.


Strange. Never had it happen regularly in the US.


I've never once experienced this nor literally ever heard anyone say someone gave them made-up directions in the US.

The only time I've ever experienced made-up directions were trying to get out of the souk in Marrakech.


> I've never once experienced this nor literally ever heard anyone say someone gave them made-up directions in the US.

Wouldn’t know. After the first two instructions I can never remember what came next.


I was unclear. I’m pretty sure the wrong directions I routinely got in the US (I was born and raised in NYC) were not made up, just wrong.


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