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by free_rms 6y ago
And the Comintern was merely meant to promote workers rights? It's definitionally a propaganda arm of the government. If you think that we're the good guys, then they're the good guys, but they're still propaganda.
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by free_rms 6y ago
There are tons and tons of Chinese immigrants in our industry. It's not a stretch at all to assume that some read hacker news and are nationalistic. Assume good faith.
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by free_rms 6y ago
This was a thread about tiktok. Why did xinjiang come up in the first place? People are obsessed with hating on China, and it's clearly based on national rivalry and a feeling of threat to america's position moreso than human rig
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by free_rms 6y ago
"It's impossible to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it." - Mencken
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's specifically a sign of weakness that we'd feel the need to engage in protectionism for social media. The only worse idea would be finance. If we were talking about repatriating manufacturing and electronics, you could get me
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's an awfully dark take. Why is it in India's interest to be a piece on the board for the US, Russia or China? Non-Aligned seems to match their actual interests. They're big enough that they don't have to be anyone
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by free_rms 6y ago
Compared to 1917 Russia? Huge success. From 1917 until the 60s or so they vastly improved the lives of average Russians. From the 70s until 1989, not so much, and then after 89 you can't really put it on the USSR since it didn't
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by free_rms 6y ago
This argument has been made against every single expansion of worker rights in American history. When the dust settles, business carries on just fine while we get to enjoy things like a 40-hour week with overtime pay if the employer needs m
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's super false. They went from a backwards agricultural society with actual serfs to an industrialized world power in 3-4 decades despite a nazi invasion killing 20 million russians. That sounds like decades of economic success to
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by free_rms 6y ago
Also true in the US. Different in structure and rhetoric, but still basically true. If Boeing hires a German, it doesn't get framed as "US poaches from Germany", with a subheading of "a US-backed aerospace project"
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by free_rms 6y ago
The US military budget for 2020 is 720 billion dollars. That doesn't even include DHS. Most of it's going to bullshit, like Abrams tanks that the army doesn't even want. Our problem isn't that we're too free and l
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by free_rms 6y ago
Those were campaign voter sheets, not the voter rolls your elections use. I'd bet a large sum of money that Ohio secretaries of state have been very, very on top of purging the official ones whenever they can.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Seems like they should have stopped ULA from forming in the first place then, right? The press release quotes I've seen on the topic were high on "eliminating redundant work" (aka competition).
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by free_rms 6y ago
China did manage such a turnaround, though. Of course, they had the contemporaneous USSR collapse to point to as well as maoism in living memory, so that probably made it more politically possible.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I thought the memory cost of threads was more of a JVM thing (default 1mb stack) than an OS thing (pages that aren't mapped/resident don't cost much). What's the cost to the kernel besides a few structs?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Sure, but the fruit was pretty rotten at that point after 18 years of Brezhnev. Maybe if Gorbachev had followed Kruschev, it could've been done without a chaotic mass selloff to gangsters.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I see this pattern of comparisons to the USSR again and again. The USSR collapsed a long time ago, and China saw it happen. Why would they go the same way? I'd say it's Americans, moreso than anyone else, who took the wrong less
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by free_rms 6y ago
Counterpoint (I'm not Indian): there are people on either side of that table. Being born and raised in the culture and economic conditions, referencing shared experiences, probably helps communication, a lot.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I'm not claiming that OP or I are experts, but there's actually a pretty big body of knowledge for capsule re-entry. It's more 'known problems' than 'unknown unknowns'.
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by free_rms 6y ago
And the ancient characters are different still, they're all wavy and it's a lot of guesswork for people who haven't specifically studied them. But it's clearly a continuous culture. We don't use a bunch of wacky f&
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by free_rms 6y ago
If I recall correctly, Basques also have a history of reacting poorly when people try to deny their culture exists or eradicate it.
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's... literally true, you can look up photos of turtle shells with characters etched into them on Wikipedia. That doesn't mean they're perfect or blessed but they've definitely been there the whole time.
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by free_rms 6y ago
This is incredibly inaccurate. You work in tech, right? Ever run this take by your Chinese coworkers? Ask them about their families' connection to Chinese tradition?
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by free_rms 6y ago
This isn't cracking enigma, this is shit-posting on social media. I'm fine with the fun and games and industrial espionage, let the best man win. It's not a threat to our democracy unless our democracy is critically weak. W
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by free_rms 6y ago
Pardon my phrasing, but that's some bullshit buck-passing. If 100 russians or whomever can subvert our democracy, we never really had it together to begin with, did we? Maybe, and this sounds crazy, but maybe it's domestic people
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by free_rms 6y ago
I was under the impression that most subscriptions to OnlyFans were made in a.. less rational state of mind.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I hate to defend someone who unironically wrote "read the room", but breaking up the big tech firms is also hugely popular: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20870938/b...
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by free_rms 6y ago
There's a continuum between direct central administration and tributary/vassal status. The Roman Empire, for example, often had big chunks of land that were entirely run by local people, but were 'part of the Roman Empire&#x
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by free_rms 6y ago
Undisputed hegemon over large portions of the world. I think you're hung up on the PR fictions -- it used to be, empires would indulge in the fiction of an absolute authority vested in the emperor when of course it was more complicated
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by free_rms 6y ago
Yes, I lose my job, and for what? Some dysfunctional people get a dopamine hit that lasts 5 seconds before they need to go get someone else? I've got a family.

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