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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
The Houthi are Iran's "Little Green Men," in the same way as you say the Donbasses in Eastern Ukraine were Russia's. Heck, Iran and Russia are allies, and each other's "little green men" in this conflict,
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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
It's a very compelling religion of the modern age. That doesn't mean it can't be wrong.
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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
Except that all communist countries as implemented not only started with revolution but follow a doctrine of the permanent revolution. Which is how they can be sixty or seventy years on and talking about the danger of counter-revolutionarie
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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
As Churchill once said, mankind occasionally stumbles over the truth, but picks itself up and carries on. I'd like to suggest that y'all are almost tripping over the connection that Epstein was possibly trying to get compromising
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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
I hope y'all realize I can remember a discussion just like this happening 25 years ago on the cypherpunks mailing list. I just wanted to note that before I closed the tab.
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by cheaprentalyeti 7y ago
The US and China are a lot alike and a lot different. The US debases its currency, to pay for welfare and social services and to pay Pakistan for the privilege of fighting its clients in Afghanistan. China debases its currency but then uses
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by cheaprentalyeti 8y ago
This reminds me, out of curiosity, does anyone know of any "Turn your phone into a bluetooth touchpad" apps that actually work and don't need you to be running special software on your laptop? I want to be able to use my phon
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
Project Archivist had an interview with possible John Titor author Joseph Matheny, and reposted a slightly annotated version when they moved servers: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/project-archivist-project-a... The
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
So we're basically paying the Russians to obtain copies of materials they stole with us that's also salted with whatever propagandic materials and disinformation they believe will be useful for them?
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
TKL? Is that something new?
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
The title wasn't filched from Eliot, but from Yeats. Anyway, I'd like to thank y'all here at Hacker News for posting this link. The paragraph on cooking is one of the most awesome bits of Bad Hemingway I've read in the p
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
I dislike this line of thought because it seems to imply that oil producers in the United States need to be taxed to pay for the military defense of all the overseas producers trying to put them out of business.
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
I started loading this link in a background tab, and after a minute switched over to see some sort of animated gif, some writing in what looked like arabic, and nothing else. I work with a bunch of native arabic speakers when I have a job,
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
I stopped using Facebook when they made it too hard to control what-you-want-to-see-and-interact-with, myself.
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by cheaprentalyeti 9y ago
I thought _On Lisp_ was available as a free pdf, which should have caused the price to drop. (I think he joked about the people who were planning to retire on the proceeds at the time). I just checked Amazon, and it turns out the lowest pri