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   by dundarious 6y ago

   On the same topic is this post from a bit over a month ago. "Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595897
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   I agree it's speculation, I said "may". Balance of speculation.
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   From his website, OP is in an area with yearly cold snowy winters. I live in an area with similar winters and walking unprepared is no fun at all. I nearly broke my tailbone in a fall once, and I'm healthy and generally careful, but ma
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   Quite funny in a way, but for balance, according to Wikipedia, the cause of death may well have been from complications from an old physical injury, or from an infection that's often lethal without medicine that was unavailable in his
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   Possibly true. However, while the IRS is not really analogous to the SEC, they do appear to audit EITC claimants (low income) at a very high rate relative to high income individuals. I have no evidence either way, but I wouldn't be sur
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   The lack of options to backup and restore from Android to iPhone was extremely frustrating. I convinced my mother to use Signal as her default SMS app on Android, and when I bought her an iPhone, all her SMSs were lost (except to open up th
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   I agree somewhat, the values are a bit wishy-washy, like Google's original "Don't be evil". But I think the dramatically different circumstances of our time are playing a huge role in the distinction you're drawing.
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   That is in the article also.
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   by dundarious 6y ago

   It’s a near certainty that Fred Hampton was assassinated as part of COINTELORO. I agree with you.
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    I agree with all your points and my post was meant to convey the same logic. I think you misunderstand me. In particular, I mention deflating press self-esteem specifically to say that is _not_ the point. Chomsky is not interested in “epic
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    There is a documentary about the burglars [0] who revealed COINTELPRO, called 1971 [1]. It's really an awful name for SEO! It was released in 2014 so searches for "1971 2014" might return useful results. Funnily enough, there
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    It is somewhat tautological that Watergate is more consequential. 50% of private power has more power than relatively powerless groups, and powerful people run the country and the economy, so their concerns have more consequence. Even in th
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Somewhat famously, in an interview with BBC's Andrew Marr, Noam Chomsky[0] used COINTELPRO as an example of press subordination to power, by comparing their self-adulation over uncovering Watergate (an attack on 50% of corporate/s
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    And now it is gone: https://decider.com/2020/03/31/avatar-loses-papyrus-font-dis...
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Twitter's character limit certainly begs for hot takes, but I find Twitter to be as filled with cat photos, Simpsons memes, movie rankings, and whatnot. Nevertheless, I do enjoy the political sparring there as well. My qualm with the &
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Political integration may have been the suggestion, though the 2008 and 2020 crises have not seen an increased push for such a political union, so I think it is extremely unlikely. Yanis Varoufakis wrote about this here in 2014, in particul
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    As mentioned in the article, she is from Romania and representing herself, so there is no legal team assisting her. I think non-idiomatic English does not make it "written so poorly" if that's what you are referring to.
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    > The 14 members are Australia, Canada, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Portugal, and the island nations of Fiji, Jamaica, and Palau. So at least Japan is on board.
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    I prefer to always use the `test` command instead (it’s the exact equivalent of `[`), and never use `[[` bashisms (well, almost never).
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Of course, maybe you are experiencing a different issue that also leaks memory, but Dan confirmed 1Password was not causing his problem, just 1Blocker. https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1329471604649205760?s=2..
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    I think GP wants to know why specifically Urbit and Yarvin's ideology are inseparable.
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Brexit surely played a huge role, given Corbyn's near victory in 2017. If there was a flaw to Labour's 2019 Brexit "agnosticism" policy, it was that it was not pro-Brexit enough -- Starmer's former Brexit-hostility
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Interest rate payments are lower now than they were pre-pandemic, even though total debt has spiraled. CoE is not signaling for a return to austerity, and hopefully nobody will in future. WW2 debt was paid off even while creating the NHS, e
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Recipe for disaster in Northern Ireland.
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    TL;DR I pointed at the wrong link for the "no safe level" claim. That quotation is from the first link, the meta-analysis "Moderate Alcohol Use and Reduced Mortality Risk: Systematic Error in Prospective Studies and New Hypot
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Edit: I really should have said sorry to hear about your health troubles. All the best! People have been told it’s healthy to drink “in moderation” so many times. I think it’s good to dispel that myth. People can still drink as an indulgenc
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    I think this might be a case of over-stating all the negatives, because the alcohol industry has done such a good job at promulgating the falsehood that “moderate” alcohol consumption is health _promoting_ — and of course drinking can be fu
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    Seems like a lamentation on US political economy and its misplaced priorities -- and how this hearing is just continued pageantry that does not meaningfully seek to discover or improve anything. It's a perspective that might be very in
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    A casual search shows that plenty of tax advice and preparation organizations think Cyprus is a tax haven. And The Cyprus Papers show that the local authorities likely intentionally failed to enforce rules regarding PEPs. A culture of inten
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    by dundarious 6y ago

    I'm not claiming he is _definitively_ doing so, even just in part for tax purposes. Nor am I claiming he is not already able to use many advantageous tax loopholes in the US. I only claim two things. One, that by most reasonable defini