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by forapurpose 8y ago
I don't understand what you mean to imply ? (Also, Tienanmen Square was in 1989.)
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Chinese evacuations and power projection: a movie genre is born(aspistrategist.org.au)
5 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
How easy and efficient are other wiki functions, such as creating hyperlinks between documents, creating new documents, and a simple, structured style system? Last time I looked at it for these purposes, Google Docs failed in those areas.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Unfortunately (for our cognitive load and moral comfort) the situation is much more complex: * It's hindsight to say China' embrace of authoritarianism, nationalism, and expansionism was inevitable. Even around ten years ago it wa
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> the use of slack significantly lowers the transaction cost of adding the documentation. In a wiki, where there is a certain level of quality expected ... The wikis I've used also have slow editing interfaces because they have sepa
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Joseph Stalin was probably better at dealing with some issues than Winston Churchill, but that doesn't make them comparable. It's a false equivalency.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> the seeming disappearance of the anti-war demonstrations once Obama took office. What changed, other than the POTUS? "Other than the POTUS" seems to brazenly ignore the significance. For example, it would be absurd to ask, &#
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Bad Idea: Expecting the Private Sector to Drive Innovation in National Security(defense360.csis.org)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
It's supposed to work that way for oil futures, but I'm not sure 'justice futures' are a good thing. People have a right to be made whole; their need, and the justice system's unreliability and delay in delivering i
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Adding to your quote and to your point, the next sentence in the article also is important: The office has sold at least one property since Krasner took office ... My understanding is that the reporter could find only one property sold by
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Important context: A recent batch of city DA's in the U.S. (I know Krasner is one of them but I can't name others off the top of my head) are revolutionizing urban law enforcement. Krasner, for example, is a civil rights attorney
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Authoritarians Export Surveillance Tech, Along Their Vision for the Internet(cfr.org)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Many of these are not actually economically leftist or antiwar, and the ones that were have moved toward more of a centrist neoliberal position in recent years. Which ones?
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by forapurpose 8y ago
First I want to say, great graphic on the article, with the RSS sails. Related: A study by a leading U.S. defense think tank on intense, active warfare, on the part of China and Russia, in the political realm: https://csbaonline.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> foreign propaganda has some utility. I don't trust Chinese or Russian state media to report on internal Chinese/Russian affairs honestly, but they can provide a worthwhile counter narrative to the West on certain internationa
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Very well covered by Fox and endless far right blogs and other publications ... I can't imagine there's been a time in history when more content of that sort was available.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Outside of small scale independent journalists who are always at the risk of getting de-platformed, non-NATO/petrodollar-aligned foreign news are the only place I can find Americans talking about American stances like leftism (in
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by forapurpose 8y ago
For those wondering what this is about, it was published in 1992 at the direction of the U.S. Attorney General at the time, William Barr, who is now the presumed nominee to return to that position.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Via one ISP, "Firefox can't find the server at www.ncjrs.gov." Via another ISP, the link timed out, then worked 5 minutes later.
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DARPA head on AI risks: 'It’s not one of those things that keeps me up at night'(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> the residence halls vary pretty widely in price, and so the factor that really decides where you live is how much you can afford What affect does that have on the social environment? Are there status differences based on residence hall
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> it is just a different system Different in the same way that Windows 3.1 is "just a different system" than MacOS X 10.14. The U.S. pays 2-3 times as much, and does not provide healthcare to vast numbers of people. Many who do
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Microsoft would have to consider the long term: What will Chromium and Gecko/Firefox look like in 5 and 10 years? Which is more likely to provide the technology that Microsoft expects to need? Microsoft can't just switch engines e
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by forapurpose 8y ago
I think you make good points, but I wouldn't assume that the current U.S. political situation will persist. The right wing in the U.S. didn't assume that and acted to change the formerly more centrist situation to a more polarized
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Forget the Terminator: Military Robotics for Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd(breakingdefense.com)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> A lot of criticism from anonymous sources. ... if they don't like the direction their company is taking, they can quit and find another job. I don't understand what you mean. The sources that agree with your position are also
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> More likely just phones without access to facebook's internal corporate network ... Do you know that or is it just a guess?
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by forapurpose 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. We collectively built the roads, for example, and the guard rails and road signs; it's hardly impossible.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> A fully loaded truck moving at highway speed needs a lot of space to stop, at least 150 to 200 meters, and the long-range lidars now available can’t sense things in sufficient detail that far ahead. ... > Reliability is also limited
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How Facebook’s Local News Algorithm Change Led to France's Yellow Jacket Riots(buzzfeednews.com)
6 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments

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