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by akytt 10y ago
That subsidy goes towards Chevy volt as well. And it is turning electic cars from an awkward piece of geek gatery to something a wide public is actually considering. Money well spent, I'd say.
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by akytt 10y ago
Snow Crash combined with Selfish Gene and infection theory provides a neat mental model of what's happening. Basically you get a constant bacground of competing memes all the time. But since the competition is fierce, none of them beco
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by akytt 10y ago
Exactly. Which means the resistance to building a functional population registry does not prevent any wrongdoing but stops the society from getting any of the gains. Like having a meaningful way to prevent non-citizens from voting, avoid id
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by akytt 10y ago
Government vs. private. A media outlet has a full choice in terms of what they send out. They can self-censor and always have. But the government has no business in telling _all_ media what they can or cannot publish. Fake news at its core
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by akytt 10y ago
The e-mails don't have to be altered. Russians just have to make sure they get the data, filter out stuff they don't like leaving neutral and desired content and the publish the data in the right time accompanied by a specific med
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by akytt 10y ago
Fb makes all if its money by separating people into neat little echo chambers and making them feel warm and cozy and in possession of the Truth. Basically driving a number of wedges into the society. A _little_ blame would be in order, I&#x
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by akytt 10y ago
Yay, large attack surface!
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by akytt 10y ago
As a bystander I think you lost because of political correctness. Declaring racism and biggotry and all those other things wrong does two things. Firstly, it makes it easy to ignore anyone expressing these thoughts. Because they are simply
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by akytt 10y ago
You make an assumption that globalisation is a man-made thing. That we could say "no" and it would stop. But this is not so. Globalisation stems from very primal human and commercial needs that have been enabled by the internet.
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by akytt 10y ago
Must be system dynamics for me. When I first learned of the math and the idea of modelling the world like that, it explained _a lot_.
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by akytt 10y ago
Nope. Think Russia. The question is about the development stage of the society when the resources are discovered.
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by akytt 10y ago
Communication. You get a shared language between people in hopes that when you draw a box it could mean the same thing to people in different orgs and cultures. Can't really design anything large without communication.
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by akytt 10y ago
There's a view that Trump is but a big "f k you" towards the liberal elite that has drifted too far from the blue-collar folks they have failed to support in dire times. The UK situation would seem to be similar. Thus the ke
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by akytt 10y ago
The view of military running the us is probably rather simplistic. Also, remember Russia had been pulling increasingly agressive stunts since 2009 - it's a hard background for a reset
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by akytt 10y ago
Ok, a revolution. But, praytell, who would finance that new fresh government? There's little capital in the country, people don't evidently like the idea to start paying taxes all of a sudden and you just screwed over a large grou
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by akytt 10y ago
Why is it that these people are nice and kind when they finance your government spending for decades but turn into facist greedy bastards when they come asking for their money back? That's what it boils down to. Why is that that everyb
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by akytt 10y ago
You sell the house. You have invested your money well, your property has increased in value. Congratulations! Now pay a bit of taxes to support the people who have not been as fortunate and stop complaining. Your property taxes are actually
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by akytt 10y ago
That statement is based on research or your own cynical mind? I know a lot of people who are doing rather well for themselves and are apparently enjoying themselves. See, experiences differ.
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by akytt 10y ago
There are cool things happening around compiling markdown to LaTex. Especially funky things happen when you mix in R as well. Taking the strong sides of all three would be lovely.
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by akytt 10y ago
It's not that bad. I've been using LaTex for everything for the past five years and never really bump into things I can't do any more. I've learnt that when people really want to do stuff, they fix the packages. Thus, wh
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by akytt 10y ago
Because of a power struggle between os vendors, hardware makers and telcos. The SIM provides a neutral way for them to coexist. Also, this decouples a lot if certification. A SIM and a phone are easier to work with than a phonesim
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by akytt 10y ago
So basically like buying votes on paper? You force someone either not to vote or vote in a specific way by restricting access to their id. See, as the paper ballot trumps the electronic voting, all the attack vectors end up being about cont
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by akytt 10y ago
Yup, exactly what we do.
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by akytt 10y ago
The Estonian system pretty much fully prevents that by allowing to vote whowever many times you want. You can sleep on it, re-cast the vote and sleep on it again. And then, if still not happy, go vote on paper. The last vote cast counts.
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by akytt 10y ago
Or we could give everybody an id card as a basic public service?
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by akytt 10y ago
So basically this movement is saying that it is OK to have a massive identity theft problem, insecure banking and inefficient government services if that means no national id card? Even though most big public and private organisations have
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by akytt 10y ago
Wikileaks has become a weapon of information warfare. What part of the cache was doctored? What was left out? The big publications know that and won't be provoked. This is an admirable move by Russians: they steer the campaign as well