Scheherazade

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by Scheherazade 5y ago
Something smells off. Especially these sentences: “ I never ceased to be awed by the courage of ordinary citizens risking dangerous rescues that immediately followed the massacre. Press reports had claimed hundreds or thousands of people ha
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by Scheherazade 5y ago
Yes, seeing an otherwise healthy, and free-thinking human being turn through their behaviour into almost a sub-sentient machine running pre-programmed scripts, would errode a bit of the soul in almost everyone. As some of their childhood na
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by Scheherazade 5y ago
Yes, the obviousness of the limited capacity of multicultural integration should have been easily deducible to anyone in a position of real power back in the 70s and 80s when the decison was made. Yet, for several decades major countries, h
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Of course, even if average productivity per capita in China is half that of America, the total output will be twice as much. No one serious in Washington (or Moscow or Brussels or Beijing, etc.) believes America could win a war on China&#x2
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Although your question has merit for this case specifically as ASML is a Dutch company there is very little hand wringing about outsourcing. For the forseeable future the Dutch are going to toe Washington’s line. In fact in some ways it’s d
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The laser-toting Soviet satellite that almost sparked a space arms race (2013)(wired.co.uk)
5 points by Scheherazade 6y ago|0 comments
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
You’ve hit on the unspeakable. No public figure can give a credible answer to your question while remaining logically consistent and in power. “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
That’s what they admitted to. Harvard could have done worse and kept it under wraps, we won’t definitely know until someone does an Ito there too. In fact there are credible reasons to believe something even more dubious was going on there.
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
It’s almost become an anti signal at this point, whenever someone says Mao was responsible for xx millions of deaths you can safely assume that they are easily fooled. There is no serious historian of Chinese history would actually claim a
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”- G. Michael Hopf
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Indeed, if there is not a credible explanation from first principles it should be assumed that the article was written primarily for reasons other than illuminating knowledge.
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
The key difference is that MIT had someone with decision making authority admit it to it on the record, i.e. Joi Ito, whereas Harvard did not. This is precisely what gave the whole Epstein debacle some fresh oxygen. In fact it may have been
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Depending on how far up the ladder the people behind Epstein are, all education institutions in the US maybe are vulnerable as long as Washington has any control over them. Which would really mean every current and potential institution in
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
There are credible reports of ‘serious high up Chinese elites’ families seeking advice at the Swiss embassy in Beijing during the 1989 upheaval. If that dynamic still exists, they don’t necessarily need to be compromised by insiders to have
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
So the upper echelons of MIT are all-in on playing the shadowy political game. Is there any hope for alumni + some combination of other interests to alter the dim future of a once proud organization?
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
It’s quite frightening that you’ve never heard of sourdough bread given your baking experience. And as the other replies allude to, it’s quite common historically and in other places. Are baking books edited to exclude that knowledge in Ame
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Fume events are the dark belly of the aviation industry. The stuff used to lubricate turbofan engines is incredibly toxic when breathed in, literally orders of magnitude more potent than simple kerosene fumes.
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
“for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
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Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?(rollingstone.com)
9 points by Scheherazade 6y ago|0 comments
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by Scheherazade 6y ago
Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles certainly didn't play nice. The list of things that they messed up, and too big to hide from being on the record, is quite illuminating (Vietname, Cuba, China/Taiwan/Tibet, Korea, Indonesia
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Female Cosmetic Coalitions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Scheherazade 6y ago|0 comments