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by argentier 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by argentier 3y ago
That's a bit like the solar warning station at L1. Saw a documentary where it was described as a key part of our planetary security infrastructure. All it can do is issue a warning: 'you have 8 minutes to say your prayers'.
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by argentier 3y ago
> A shameful display for mostly US engineers Who do you think built the US military?
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by argentier 3y ago
The Cicero-Giuliani comparison is hilarious, and not bad at all now that I think about it. Re SCU and the Conspiracy: that the SCU was first used against the Gracchi tells you something about its political motivations. The Senate was alwa
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by argentier 3y ago
I think you mentally inserted 'only' into that sentence. Yes, certainly populists can be dangerous to all of those groups, as can elites. Political violence is certainly not limited to populists: indeed their contribution is smal
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by argentier 3y ago
> GraphQL is as much of a query language as REST is This doesn't make any sense, unless it's to point out that GraphQL is not a query language at all.
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by argentier 3y ago
Instead of turning the people against the elites, you might more accurately describe it as mobilizing popular anger as a political force. Obviously this is dangerous to those in power, and is therefore demonized by them. Your last paragraph
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by argentier 3y ago
Cicero invented the conspiracy of Catiline, had Roman citizens put to death without trial, and was a warrior on the side of the oligarchy (the Optimates) all his life, despite the fact that they despised him. Sulla was a reactionary mass mu
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by argentier 3y ago
It is poorly defined: that is why it isn't maths, yet. What is the purpose of philosophy? In its most basic sense to teach one how to live a good life. Abstract concepts like justice, fairness, ideal social structures, social values
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by argentier 3y ago
Princes are not necessary the sons of monarchs: independent principalities can and do exist (see for example Monaco). Prince comes from princeps (the first), a title used by the Emperor Augustus.
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by argentier 4y ago
Most of those are residual duals though.
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by argentier 4y ago
What is your definition of 'recent times'? It's the US that took out international law and beat it to death in sight of the entire world.
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by argentier 4y ago
Technology sanctions on China (for example, ASML in the Netherlands). Sanctions on Russian energy. Basically Germany's entire foreign policy is economic suicide and very much driven by a US stooge (Baerbock). The total penetration of
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by argentier 4y ago
Better garbage? More convincing bullshit? Are we winning?
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by argentier 4y ago
Worthless fact the second: even though cul-de-sac is French, the French do not use cul-de-sac for their cul-de-sacs.
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by argentier 4y ago
Ironically this is a Marxist argument, more or less. But it lacks the historical dimension. Capitalism is a historical and technological phenomenon. One of the replies talks about it emerging in the Late Middle Ages. Of course it existed
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by argentier 4y ago
That's code rather than software. Just because you copied the cookbook doesn't mean you now own a restaurant. Especially in compute-intensive activities such as neural nets/ML, capital is very much a factor.
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by argentier 4y ago
Given the disaster of the Arab Spring, which the Clinton state department supported, he's not far wrong. The destruction of Libya alone, and the sociopathic gloating on daytime television, should disqualify Clinton from holding high po
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by argentier 4y ago
Seymour Hersch came to similar conclusions, and was pilloried for it. By Bellingcat, the Western intelligence services' pet wikileaks. Assange did 'citizen journalism' wrong, and he has been deprived of normal human freedoms
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by argentier 4y ago
Ulster didn't exist as a polity at the time.
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by argentier 4y ago
That's an interesting debate to have, definitely.
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by argentier 4y ago
For the Olympics you are incorrect but it varies. Rugby - one team for the island Soccer - one federation for each polity on the island, but Derry City plays in the League of Ireland (Republic of Ireland). Two international teams. Cricket
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by argentier 4y ago
I don't think anyone is telling them that: in fact their concerns are absurdly well catered for, though you wouldn't know it listening to the constant complaints. We can split hairs about what is and is not democratic until the en
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by argentier 4y ago
There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election The IRA derived their 'legitimacy' from it.
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by argentier 4y ago
The levels of support for the small groups that fought primarily against small groups on the other side were never really gauged. However the political successors to the only one of those groups that really counted is currently the largest
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by argentier 4y ago
Indians use lakh (100 000 -> 5) and crore (10 000 000 -> 7). They also group the digits differently.
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by argentier 4y ago
anon, I...
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by argentier 4y ago
1) Sure, the Security Council provided the figleaf for the rape of Libya and its descent into a failed state. That doesn't excuse the activity, rather it undermines the legitimacy of the Security Council. 2) Please, don't embarra
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by argentier 4y ago
And which 'adults' are going to do the dismantling? I'll wait. This kind of aggressive know-nothing 'naivety on the warpath' is all too common at the moment. It might get us all killed.
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by argentier 4y ago
It's still censorship, whether or not you agree with it.

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