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by free_rms 6y ago
Fair enough, but just as I don't buy the narrow technicalities from my own country..
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by free_rms 6y ago
But, you see, there are very narrow technical explanations for all of those things. We're actually the good guys. We would never drone-strike a general who we're not at war with, while on his way to a peace conference to help fix
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by free_rms 6y ago
There's also South Ossetia, which is even smaller than Crimea. Two tiny chunks of land representing very important military positions. The USA is outraged, as Saudi Arabia bombs women and children in Yemen and nobody cares.
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by free_rms 6y ago
> Is the fault of the university that they became corporatized? Yes, and specifically the kind of bureaucratic organization-man corporatized that the article discusses. Tuition keeps skyrocketing at multiples of inflation, yet post docs
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by free_rms 6y ago
Sooo since it's not easy to change policing, let's hang a few people that we CAN get as a substitute? That doesn't sound like a moral movement to me, it sounds like bloodthirst.
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by free_rms 6y ago
But we're not talking about the opposition. We're talking about people who are ON YOUR SIDE but committed some trivial heresy, and getting burned at the stake for it. Does that sound like a winning movement formula to you?
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by free_rms 6y ago
I can get on board with most of what you're saying here but I get the impression that a lot of people want to change history as part of a present-day political battle, rather than pursuing a better understanding of history. Those same
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by free_rms 6y ago
I was mostly picking on your example -- the Renaissance happened in Europe, and it was specifically a time when there was relatively little trade between Europe and the east -- a big part of the reason Columbus's journey was funded was
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by free_rms 6y ago
The Renaissance happened in Europe. What non-white voices are you adding to that? The Turks? There definitely was history happening in other places at that time, some of it very noteworthy, but it wasn't the Renaissance.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Because they're people too, and it winds up being profitable for everyone. It took New Deal politicians dragging the electric companies kicking and screaming to get rural eras electrified, because the companies didn't think there&
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by free_rms 6y ago
Yeah, that's the symmetric key in this scheme, I should have said session key.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Written in 2008, though. Hu Jintao was in charge, China was hosting the Olympics, the posture was generally more open to the West. Seems a lot more like a cranky guy than political-favor-currying.
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's exactly it, it's very possible, but all the eggs would be in one basket. Scheme: multiple copies of symmetric key followed by symmetrically encrypted body (pgp-style). One copy of the symmetric key is secured by user&#x27
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by free_rms 6y ago
(since this whole story is flagged) As an older person, this is another iteration of the same shit and unfortunately nothing will change. Part of the reason it won't change is that a bunch of upper-class white people try to make it all
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by free_rms 6y ago
There's been about a thread a day about BLM. There's been one thread, one day about Scott Alexander.
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by free_rms 6y ago
> And as the saying goes, it takes 10x more time to refute bullshit than to produce it. Have you actually read anything from SSC? His posts obviously had a lot of effort put into them. Reading them is much easier. My recommendation
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's making a big assumption that everyone has equal access to surveillance data and that most if not all players are fair-mindedly searching for the truth. If you assume the other way, pervasive surveillance makes a frame-up easier
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by free_rms 6y ago
Mastercard has a billion dollar ad budget. This guy's startup has to be more innovative to get press.
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by free_rms 6y ago
The Lucene ecosystem has been around since the early 2000s.. it's old enough to vote if not drink. Maybe eventually RDBMS systems will have full-text search out of the box that makes it unnecessary, but until they do, any predictions
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by free_rms 6y ago
By that definition, we engage in conflicts with Canada over softwood lumber. It's.. not interesting. There are interesting things about our relationship with China, but the lowest-possible-definition for 'conflict' is not i
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by free_rms 6y ago
How were those bases established, pray tell? You can draw up as many technicalities as you'd like, but those technicalities are tools to serve power. They're tossed the second they aren't useful, by whichever country that ca
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by free_rms 6y ago
We have a Monroe doctrine in our whole hemisphere. AND we have bases surrounding like 80% of China's coast (Korea, Japan, phillipines). Them, as a great power, wanting to have an open sea route that they control isn't really that
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by free_rms 6y ago
The last time China "engaged" the US in a conflict was Vietnam, I think? What do you mean by "engage"?
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by free_rms 6y ago
I was just saying that there are reasonable ideas under the "defund" umbrella. When several city depts don't seem to feel like they have to take orders from elected government, drastic measures start looking more reasonable.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Camden NJ rebuilt their police department overnight a few years back. Cancelled the union contract, fired everyone and started over. Rehired some of the same cops I believe as part of the new structure. Murders are down 50% from then, it&
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by free_rms 6y ago
HR isn't a disinterested party here. The more built-up the theology is, the more role for the Pharisees in interpreting and enforcing it.
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by free_rms 6y ago
In the context of Harvard's ~1,000 admissions a year, it's definitionally a zero-sum game.
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by free_rms 6y ago
.. it's a political situation involving the executive branch? I'm not sure what you mean by mis-direction.
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's probably even dumber than that. 1) Trump or someone else in the WH becomes convinced that the NIH is full of Chinese spies 2) Some poor flak winds up with the job of producing some spies to fire, or else 3) We wind up with this we
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by free_rms 6y ago
That sounds like uncritical support for manufacturing consent, to me. I mean it's not like taibbi is speaking up for child molesters. He turned out to be factually right about a lot of this stuff, but it was completely unacceptable to

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