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by _iyig 7y ago
Perhaps my initial word choice evoked the wrong assumptions. Allow me me rephrase. I’ve related a dismaying image because the reality is dismaying. One group of (mostly awful and hateful) Internet users “wards off” another by copy-pasting w
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by _iyig 7y ago
For the curious, here is a Reddit post with the copy-paste text and more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/b3im9t/whats_...
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by _iyig 7y ago
I don’t know what the comment to which you’ve replied said originally, but it’s true that China pays thousands of people to astroturf comments on the Internet. This fact has been established by the international press and also by the Chines
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by _iyig 7y ago
There is a large copy-paste block with English and Chinese spellings of “Tibet, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989” that also frequently gets posted on sites like 4chan and YouTube to ward off Chinese commenters. I i
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by _iyig 7y ago
You don’t need to pay neighbors to report one another. They’ll turn each other in over petty grievances, or the expectation of favored treatment by authorities. China’s social credit points seem like a potentially powerful incentive. Exampl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_... "In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Vi
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by _iyig 7y ago
>And why did you edit out "China's human rights may be even worse" from your comment? That's certainly something that is up for debate. That comment didn’t seem relevant in hindsight. The article is only about Russia.
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by _iyig 7y ago
Well, Russia recently invaded a European country, assassinated several people in the U.K., got caught using spies to infiltrate U.S. political parties, hacked the emails of a U.S. presidential candidate while meeting secretly with her oppon
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by _iyig 7y ago
Incorrect. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Indians “Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In 1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in S
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by _iyig 7y ago
“Stapleton, a 12-year veteran of Google who most recently worked in YouTube’s marketing department, says she was told she would lose half of her reports and that a previously approved project was being killed.” The cancellation of a previou
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by _iyig 7y ago
Do you work for free? Should newspaper reporters? I pay for access to the Wall Street Journal. If you are able to do so, and if you value the type of content they produce on a regular basis, I would highly recommend subscribing.
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by _iyig 8y ago
I'm sure there are lots of fascinating details, unexpected side-effects, and counterintuitive observations to be found in a moral accounting of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. I've watched (and read) "Generation Kill," whic
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by _iyig 8y ago
In the Afghan War Documents leak, Julian Assange refused to redact the names of Afghans who informed on the Taliban. He referred to them as “spies and traitors” in comments to the media. A reporter for the Guardian claims he said, “Well, th
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by _iyig 8y ago
Perhaps the answer is not a return to colonialism, but to ask what the colonial governments got right. They certainly got a lot wrong, about which much discussion has already been had. Maybe it’s also worth remembering the positive lessons
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by _iyig 8y ago
So what about black nationalism? The Dallas mass-shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, was reportedly radicalized in part by various black power Facebook groups: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dallas-police-shooting-...
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Taiwan has prospered just fine without pervasive digital surveillance.
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Wouldn’t it be easier to send an artificial womb and the necessary freeze-dried ingredients on a thousand-year journey to the stars, instead of grown humans who you’d need to keep fed, watered, and happy? The real trick then becomes raising
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by _iyig 8y ago
I was too young for the MUD heyday, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the community-led rebirth of EverQuest, an early 3D MMO that was heavily MUD-inspired. There’s a free server run by an independent team which seeks to replicate the experience
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by _iyig 8y ago
If the NSA spies on your text messages as opposed to the CCP, you (and your family) are much less likely to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed on the basis of your religious or political beliefs.
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by _iyig 8y ago
>Of course the commenters on this site would rather everyone in China whether they be Han, Uigher, Manchu, or Mongol, be "liberated" Iraq style. I understand why people outside the U.S. (assuming you refer mainly to American co
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by _iyig 8y ago
Ian McCollum of “Forgotten Weapons,” who I hold to be an authority on the subject, commented on this in a recent video. IIRC, in his view, this problem is not nearly as big of a deal as it’s been made out to be.
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by _iyig 8y ago
Agreed. The general population argument also has troubling implications. For example, why don't we talk about the lack of representation in tech by whites? After all, they're 3/4 of the U.S. population. At Google, this means
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by _iyig 8y ago
Yes, as does China. https://qz.com/africa/1192493/china-spied-on-african-union-h... I suppose what it boils down to is, which “silent partner” would you prefer?
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by _iyig 8y ago
In the summer of 1812, when Francis Cabot Lowell stole the plans for textile weaving machines as described in the article, the U.S. and Great Britain were two nations at war (or on the cusp, depending on the month). I notice this detail oft
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by _iyig 8y ago
O’Neill cylinders were the template for space colonies in the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, going all the way back to the series premiere in 1979. One of many details which lent the show an air of gritty realism, despite its colorful giant robo
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by _iyig 8y ago
In the article, it's said that he kept in close touch with family members, regularly told them about his feelings, and received professional help. Please don't shoehorn in a narrative that doesn't match the facts of the artic
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by _iyig 8y ago
>it is only through collective bargaining that you can force wage rises. Or when demand for labor outstrips supply, as in tech (for the moment).
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The Berlin Wall mainly kept people in, not out.
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China seems to be doing fine. Having survived the Culutural Revolution, the Party seems quite wary of the failure mode you describe.
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by _iyig 8y ago
What is DPI equipment? I’m not familiar with the acronym.

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