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by cristiancavalli 7y ago
Any sources? Any numbers? How about their completely fallacious gdp numbers built off a (literally) crumbling housing bubble? (Edit added another source) https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/02/china-vacant-apa
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by cristiancavalli 7y ago
This is completely untrue. A cursory glance through news topics will tell you it’s recently been the opposite (China attempting to prop up its currency). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
“That affects the behavior of all the population” seems a bit hyperbolic no? I can’t imagine everyone being equally affected by media operations since not everybody believes everything they are told by any number of news outlets. Accountabl
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
This document doesn’t really speak to the impact that the operations had in US elections outcomes, just what intelligence tools were used. Plus calling someone a troll or Vladimir just because they ask a legitimate question and don’t subscr
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
I think Brendan’s mod came out ~2015 and Sa-Matras came out around 2013 which, itself is an adaptation of another mod. Please correct me if I am wrong. Not to say any of this is really new or original. As I recall there is an Arma 2 wastela
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
It’s interesting becuase I saw PUBG as an adaptation of Sa-Matras excellent Arma 3 wasteland mod which included all of the elements seen in fortnite/pubg like: scavenging firearms, building and free-for-all/teamwork choice through
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
In my book anyone is allowed to have any number of perspectives on any number of things and I consider those perspectives valid as human perspectives. Where I consider these perspectives ‘misguided’ or ‘arrogant’ is when the purveyor of the
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
Entirely agreed. Shows the inherent bias in my thinking of culutres and customs as nationally-based when, in a place as diverse as America, there’s far more variation in perspective and manner. (Thank goodness for it)
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by cristiancavalli 8y ago
Just because one reads any number of American news outlets doesn’t mean they’re familiar with American race relations in the way the average American on the street would experience them. Most American ‘news’ is entertainment and is written
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by cristiancavalli 9y ago
Read the section -- it's an ongoing debate not a fact either way. Academics and historians debating as usual.
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by cristiancavalli 9y ago
Wow, that's a massive (and inaccurate) generalization. Not only have I worked with many CU grads that were passionate and intelligent but a couple of them did incredible work with NASA, Google and IBM in their undergrad/grad scho
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by cristiancavalli 10y ago
A JS implementation for fun [tests-not-yet-implemented]: https://github.com/cristiancavalli/quick-select
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by cristiancavalli 10y ago
Kudos to Matt Butcher - The man always had a fantastic ability to distill information down to its most essential and consumable form.