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by barbacoa 4y ago
I wouldn't go so far as saying it's blackmail, but when you read in the paper "official familiar with the matter say", it really should read "CIA/NSA asked us to tell you". It's hard to bite the hand
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by barbacoa 4y ago
>>Russia is opposed to Western elites, and is therefore a positive force Ukraine is corrupt and the USA doesn't care about civilians and is acting to turn Ukraine into Russia's next Afghanistan. It is a jump to go from there
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by barbacoa 4y ago
Correct. Without American oil imports, Japan was forced to seize Dutch oil production in Indonesia to keep their economy running. That would drag the USA into the war, therefore it was a logical conclusion to strike the USA first. It's
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by barbacoa 4y ago
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was spurred by America oil embargo on Japan, and 9/11 was spurred by American meddling in the middle east. None of those statements should be necessarily seen as minimizing or justifying those subsequen
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by barbacoa 4y ago
>>far right or far left media, which tends to be much more pro-Russia than mainstream media I wouldn't say pro Russian but anti-war. This kind of framing reminds me of GW Bush's "you're either with us or with the t
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>Could you just rip out the disk device (nvme/etc) and shove a blank one in there? When I last owned a Chromebook the storage was soldered on the motherboard.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
I've been trying brave as of recent. It feels like browsing the internet of the 90s; back when you search engines returned small no-name websites and blogs. Google gives me the same list of 50 or so "preferred" websites full
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How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom(bariweiss.substack.com)
29 points by barbacoa 5y ago|10 comments
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Best solution I have seen is to buy a Chromebook and install galliumOS. Still has most of the same issues as any desktop Linux but at least has all the power saving features of chromeos are included. That way you don't have to buy a de
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>When will we hit a wall and where will gains in performance come from then? nm notation used to mean the width of the smallest feature that could be made. Even today there are processes such as atomic layer deposition (ALD) that allows
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YouTube to Remove Videos ‘Denying, Minimizing or Trivializing’ Ukraine Invasion(twitter.com)
5 points by barbacoa 5y ago|5 comments
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by barbacoa 5y ago
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by barbacoa 5y ago
It's going to be really awkward when this is all over and big tech has to pivot back to when nationalism, strong borders, private firearm ownership, and armed neo-nazi militias[0] were all bad things. [0] https://theintercep
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by barbacoa 5y ago
It's balanced because both sides have agendas.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>I'm not sure "former Chief Scientist for the BP petroleum company" is the person I would go to for "a balanced take" on climate change. The IPCC is funded and promoted by the UN because their conclusions align w
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Same here in USA. They appear to be under a DOS attack.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>If Russia blocks access to twitter then shall RT be allowed to continue posting for their Western audience? Unquestionably yes. Why is HN becoming more and more in favor of China style restrictions on information?
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>>The US and NATO could trivially cripple Russia's army in the field. The USA has not fought an symmetric war since WW2. Russian has some of the most advanced surface to air missile technology in the world, capable of denying NAT
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>>[T]he content creates strong objection in a larger group, then companies don’t want to be seen there. Why would you need advertising or even make money in the traditional sense for that matter? We have seen how social media companie
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by barbacoa 5y ago
You could have done this commercial very differently in a way that would have made it feel much less unsettling: Garage band breaks up as members move away to start jobs/families. Band gets back together and plays in VR to large audien
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Smallest android smart phone I found, 83x40mm. https://www.amazon.com/Sudroid-Unlocked-Smartphone-Smallest-...
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Even there many of the stories have been about tech company involvement; GoFundMe, data leaks, social media bans, etc.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
As people turn to Wikipedia for information the same momentum that ruined Google is sure to follow. It's already happened to Wikipedia pages that even tangentially touch anything political. If you go on the talk pages you see a slow mo
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Another YT channel that records videos of street view of public protests or events. They don't have any narrative to push, they instead license the content to the media. https://youtube.com/user/DCNews2Share What
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Not everyone can work from home on their MacBook while wearing PJs. Let's be honest, the people who are part of this protest do not represent the socio-economic interests of those who make up HN. It really boils down to elitism. HN is
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by barbacoa 5y ago
I know because I read that single sentence on page 6 of a NYT article. This must have been 2010, back when people bought printed newspapers. I followed civil liberties pretty close back then and it was the first I heard it discussed. That&#
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>This is the first time I’ve ever heard him speak. Is he always this awkward? Elon Musk did a Joe Rogan podcast where they smoked a blunt and drank whiskey. Elon went on random mumbling stoner pontifications. It was cringe. It was so bad
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by barbacoa 5y ago
From a government standpoint it's better to control the release of this kind of information rather than a Snowden type disclosure. Reminds me of how the Obama administration CIA disclosed they had secret assassination kill-lists which
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by barbacoa 5y ago
I think GP was referring to Kevin Clinesmith who pleaded guilty to deliberately falsifying documents presented to FISA courts.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Before MMT was the even more obscurely known Bretton Woods System. There feels to be a very deliberate reason this topic are not covered in schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

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