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by ardy42 6y ago
> Maybe I'm too skeptical, but this feels like a false flag thing to me. Why would you try to poison someone with no real threat to you and risk him becoming a martyr, using a method that immediately brings you to mind, with a nerve
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by ardy42 6y ago
The wiki article seems to give more context about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent : > Novichok has, however, been known to most western secret services since the 1990s,[16] and in 2016 Iranian chem
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For everyone who's a pornstar there's another dozen people who used the money to go to college (or whatever their exit is) and start a career. Source showing that happens with that frequency? While I'm sure there there
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by ardy42 6y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt_Melody Man, that's an awfully written Wikipedia article.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> actual unions are a far cry from how they are portrayed as helping the worker. But that's life. Real capitalism is also a far cry from the fairy tale capitalism presented by many popular economics books and articles (e.g. the bea
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Whenever unions are mentioned on HN there always seems to be a coordinated effort to attack them in the comments, very interesting. I doubt it's a coordinated effort, it's just resident libertarians getting agitated by a conc
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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> corpitized unions (anything union organisation bigger then 1 location of 1 employer) are goons. > Each location should have its own union You might as well go all the way, and condemn any union with more than one member. The
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Nah, the US only has qualms at all at repressing their domestic citizens. No issues repressing foreigners and some minorities since ever. No, that's false. An easy example is waterboarding. One administration used it (on foreign
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is a very interesting question and one would hope that non repressive societies are more creative and have a higher scientific output. Im not 100 % sure thats the case, however. Even if the repressive societies have lower overall
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by ardy42 6y ago
> In principal this is good for humanity so long as the research isn’t directed towards tools to improve efficiency of repression. I wouldn't say it's that clear cut. Even if the R&D is not directly for technology for repr
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Appeasement isn't a good option here either when the ban is irrational at face value to begin with. These apps might not have any good options.
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by ardy42 6y ago
It sounds like they're combing over historical manufacturing records: > The company “conducted a thorough review of the manufacturing data with respect to both shimming and skin surface profile. Based on that analysis we were able t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> No. You need to explicitly connect in most fediverse apps. They're like browsers It's pretty egregious to ban an app like that. Still, I wonder if an innocuous default server (or set of them) might smooth things over with Goo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The rationale they gave is that hate speech appears on these apps, because some of the microblogging sites that can be accessed via Fediverse have this kind of content. Do the apps connect by default to a server that allows hate speech
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media? First of all, I'm assuming by "DRP" you mean the PRC. Is DRP a non-English ac
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It’s an especially prevalent view in the USA that bad politics is a law of physics and the only solutions are madly technological. It’s not true as many other parts of the world prove. You can just have a not-insane ISP/telco regu
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think Stripe is there for models on the site who don't sell adult content. OnlyFans probably does a check to see if the page is adult-related and if it is, then routes it to the correct payment processor. How would the bank even
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There's paperwork that says you have to check in with local authorities wherever you go, tell them what hotel you're staying at, and all this other stuff, but nobody actually does it. That's wrong: if you're staying
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That means they cannot be considered free independent press since they won't be able to take a stance that goes against the US government. I don't think it means that. Sure, they're not going to run strongly anti-Americ
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But I have issue with you saying “that which is reported widely”, as if the other side is entirely honest and truthful. In reality, both sides are distributing propaganda. I fear that, although you are skeptical of Chinese propaganda,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> but they will just ignore you if you're not brown. It's not Xinjiang, but, as an obviously foreign Westerner, I was waved through the security checkpoints around Tiananmen Square. The setup was geared towards Chinese Nationa
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by ardy42 6y ago
> While we like to consider the mainstream press as completely free and unbiased, I think it's fair to remind everyone that in the early 2000s all publications were parroting the US lie that Iraq was hiding WMDs. Something similar h
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Does anyone know why his report is so different, and why the government would just let him go whereever, unsupervised? Do people here believe that his report is genuine, or do people here believe that it's fake? Honestly, I would
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's definitionally a propaganda arm of the government. If you think that we're the good guys, then they're the good guys, but they're still propaganda. If it's propaganda, it's propaganda for western-styl
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Radio Free Asia ... founded by the CIA and a today well oiled propaganda arm for whatever is on the US government's foreign policy agenda. Eh, not so much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia > R
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Those are incredibly minimal requirements, basically equivalent to labelling restrictions on food. They're nothing like specifying a detailed spec for application delivery, permissioning, resource access, background update orchest
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So now the US government and the EU will be making legislation that specifies phone APIs and designs user interfaces. Great! They already do. For instance Microsoft was forced to create BrowserChoice.eu because of an antitrust case.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The problem with this is that it would be putting an obligation on Apple to design and implement APIs it doesn't want to create or support, and implement features it disagrees with. That's not a problem, it's just life.
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by ardy42 6y ago
I disagree. A strongly inclusionist position would add articles to the point where there will be many pockets of articles edited according to the POV of single individuals (or interest groups), where there aren't other "parti es
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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> "immense damage he was doing" > What damage is he doing? As a Scot and someone who is rather fond of Scots (which I grew up speaking) I'm somewhat pleasantly surprised that anyone is sufficiently interested to

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