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by disown 6y ago
I've played around with blackbox, fluxbox and all kinds of lightweight WMs but settled on xfce as well. Never liked Gnome and KDE because they were resource hogs and trying to be like "Windows".
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by disown 6y ago
> Here's what's on nytimes.come right now: What's your point? You could make the same argument on every propaganda outlet. Do the same thing for fox news, xinhua, al jazeera, rt, etc. It's naive to think that propaga
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by disown 6y ago
I know what an unreliable narrator is. There are hints/clues within the story to show why the narrator may be unreliable. You can't say a narrator is unreliable because the fictional world does not align with the real world. That&
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by disown 6y ago
> Is retracting enough? That's the modern propaganda M.O. Lie and then retract and demand praise for retracting. Go look up Nayirah's testimony where a kuwaiti diplomat's daughter lied about iraqi soldiers killing "i
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by disown 6y ago
> We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for alling out their own errors Hilarious. I predicted "we should be praising them for 'admitting' their mistakes" was going to be the top comment
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by disown 6y ago
> Personally I disagree with the whole idea of wealth taxes, you should be taxed when you do things, not taxed just because you own something worth money. I used to as well, but now I flipped. I don't think you should be taxed for d
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by disown 6y ago
What's with the ridiculous amount of "Smith is an unreliable narrator" narrative all of a sudden? Seems like every time 1984 is mentioned, you get a comment about "Smith and unreliable narrator"? > Real regimes d
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by disown 6y ago
or you could just add "-pinterest" to your search query and save yourself $5.
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by disown 6y ago
> Nothing lasts forever, but Oxford and Bologna have been around a while. Neither Oxford nor Bologna would be recognizable as universities when they started out. They became universities many years after the initial founding/charter
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by disown 6y ago
> It's also possible that the person you're replying to never believed in the "genocide" story Of course not. Propagandists know the propaganda they are spreading is false. Especially something as absurd as uigher gen
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by disown 6y ago
> Huge aside but... if you like Tolstoy and Shakespeare reading Tolstoy's take down of Shakespeare is super interesting: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tolstoy_on_Shakespeare Holy shit. "... nevertheless I
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by disown 6y ago
Nothing like the comment section to snap you back to reality.
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by disown 6y ago
There are government/NGO/intelligence/etc funded anti-china propaganda groups spamming anti-china propaganda all over social media. Shouldn't be much of a surprise.
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by disown 6y ago
How about chess? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459731
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by disown 6y ago
This article reads like an ad for those online "schools". But ignoring that, it seems like the courses were mostly exams rather than projects as he didn't delve much into what projects he had to do. I have a hard time believi
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by disown 6y ago
> When it comes to China, everyone is impotent taking actions, because they rely on China too much Because they are a major world power. What has anyone done to stop our invasions of iraq, afghanistan, etc? What has anyone done about Bri
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by disown 6y ago
> but I can't imagine the primary motivation for anyone building it was "I hope this can make a lot money". What do you think the motivation was? Do you think the founders created the company and sold the company to google
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by disown 6y ago
> Its a declining regional power It's a declining global power, but a rising regional power. It's nowhere what it was in the soviet days, but it certainly has been growing since the post 90s collapse. > with a GDP the size o
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by disown 6y ago
> This kind of posts are usually full of apologists of the big companies arguing about how the private companies are free to ban and delete the posts of whoever they want. It's usually by ideologically driven journalists/propa
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by disown 6y ago
> They are mutually exclusive. No they aren't. It's actually the opposite. Everything we accept as science started off as "kooky". Germ theory was started by a "kooks" who thought there were small invisible
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by disown 6y ago
> the costs of being perceived to attack a friend would be relatively higher. Don't think israel is really concerned about attacking "friends". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident They
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by disown 6y ago
"Ramstein Air Base in Germany Experiences Potential Incoming Missile Scare" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409459 Seems some are interested in keeping the populace scared. Wonder what scare tomorrow will b
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by disown 6y ago
> All of which are democracies, and were dominant and stable with strong institutions. They were authoritarian when they developed their economy though. You could still argue that singapore is still somewhat authoritarian. Democracy had
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by disown 6y ago
And today's discussion via WSJ article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408188
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by disown 6y ago
> Wow what a cherry picked example Cherrypicked? How is electricity, indoor plumbing and abject poverty cherrypicking? Those are the basic necessities of modern life. It's almost 2021. > I guess being a "democracy" shou
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by disown 6y ago
> Yes, that is what a democratic country is supposed to be like. If india is what a democratic country is supposed to be then it really doesn't say much for democracy does it? Hundreds of millions of indians living without electric
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by disown 6y ago
> I rarely stumble upon such well-written articles, it was a joy to read. What? It's your run of the mill article you find in any publication. What about it struck you as being so special that you just had to sing its praises? >
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by disown 6y ago
> Youtube stops them from talking to each other?? Yes. Youtube is used by people to communicate with each other. > You aren't worth my reply. You obviously aren't worth much either.
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by disown 6y ago
> True, but he said he said that simply because Bernie did, and it played well against Hillary in the primaries. To be fair, Trump has been saying that since the 80s... Of course that didn't stop him from manufacturing in china him
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by disown 6y ago
> Change takes time. English remains the dominant language for commerce and science, even after the fall of the British Empire. English became lingua franca after ww2, when the US became the cultural, economic and military center of the

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