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by heraclius 7y ago
> And probably I will get downvoted by mentioning this. The Tiananmen Square massacre, which originated due to the protesters fighting for more freedom/human rights, from I heard from my uncle, it was because of the influence from w
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by heraclius 7y ago
This idea that fundamental human rights are “western values” is profoundly unhelpful, because it implies that in some sense to fight injustice is to no longer be truly Chinese—a nonsense whose propagation is both supported by and helpful to
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by heraclius 7y ago
There is a strange man who shouts “no Brexit” very loudly outside parliament every day. None of the residents like him. He hasn’t been run over by a tank yet. For forty years mothers of disappeared people have assembled in the Plaza de Mayo
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by heraclius 7y ago
I’m not sure where your sample starts but to start from the beginning one has to take into account the Great Leap Forwards, Cultural Revolution, invasion of Tibet, and so on. The ineptitude and corruption of the Nationalists never approache
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by heraclius 7y ago
Your “few bad cities” also contain 24.5/40.0 million (Shanghai), 22.5 million (Beijing), 19.8/44.3 million (Guangzhou), 15.5/16 million (Tianjin), 15.4/25.2 million (Chongqing), 14.7 and 18 million (Chengdu), 12.4 millio
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by heraclius 7y ago
One of the pan-dems doubts it’s more than the aftermath of 6/4 which was ~a million, but the opening of all the roads etc. suggests more than the art. 23 protests, yes.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable. Edit: the SCM
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by heraclius 7y ago
It is worth noting that the ROC’s claims in Mongolia don’t reflect any ambition either from the Taiwanese or the Chinese to seize Mongolia; the ROC simply claims them because it used to a long time ago and for diplomatic reasons is not alte
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Diary of a D-Day Metereologist(lrb.co.uk)
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by heraclius 7y ago
> The book, published next week, describes how the Guardian took the decision to destroy its own Macbooks after the government explicitly threatened the paper with an injunction. They were “forced” but not in that sense. The Graun offere
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by heraclius 7y ago
There is not insubstantial evidence that authoritarian countries monitor coverage of their governments, so at least one part of the claim is correct. The other part is probably nonsense though—I see and post criticism of China very frequent
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by heraclius 7y ago
The PP aren’t even in power yet and when they are they won’t be able to implement it instantly. If you are in Spain at the moment this shouldn’t put you off.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Many people wearing burqas—and perhaps most—indeed are the victims of such an ideology. But many aren’t, and so it is sensible to be clear that the burqa can be but isn't necessarily such a symbol.
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Overcoming Gutenberg: the production of Samizdat(lrb.co.uk)
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by heraclius 7y ago
But as is pointed out, energy isn’t, because efficiency exists. I am not denying that the economy has changed in meaningful ways; I am merely denying that we can quantify the overall state of the economy over time such as to enable simple c
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by heraclius 7y ago
It’s not clear how meaningful these measurements are anyway. Consider two years: in the first, 1000 tonnes of wheat are produced, and in the second, 500 tonnes of wheat and 300 of steel. Which year, one asks, is more productive? We can meas
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by heraclius 7y ago
There are energetic constraints on the processing of information that eventually become relevant, though far beyond limits sans virtualisation.
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by heraclius 7y ago
I hope that the terms can be re-written to impose some sort of liability on anyone who tries this sort of thing. The only disincentive is the wrath of editors and the foundation, which, frankly, doesn’t amount to much.
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by heraclius 7y ago
I’m not sure how useful fallacy theory is when applied thus. We’re all quite happy to accept induction (well, software engineers probably should be), and so the use of formally incorrect heuristics is not necessarily a bad idea.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Ceteris paribus, a blocked service is better than no service, yes. But (1) VPNs exist, (2) decentralisation is surely not so infeasible as to rule out evasion of various blocks, and (3) the government might even decide to prioritise scienti
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by heraclius 7y ago
I hope that the outcome you describe occurs. However, it seems equally likely that a centralised alternative will appear in China, just as there are local Chinese variants of the services Google, FB, et al. provide. Indeed, this would be in
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by heraclius 7y ago
By normative beliefs I refer to your “motivations”, not intermediate ends.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Very few serious philosophers would disagree with Hume. However, I suspect that many non-philisophers are happy to appeal to reason as a source of normative beliefs, thus “facts don’t care about your feelings” (well quite—they are incapable
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by heraclius 7y ago
I think that the gap between trains and the number of trains per hour is different. I can believe that there are sometimes merely 30 seconds between trains, but train frequencies don't really exceed, let's say, 50 trains per hour
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by heraclius 7y ago
It’s not clear that the situation is “geopolitical”, but, more importantly, simply pointing to terrorism is not helpful either. (1) The area is not inherently Chinese. China does not need to occupy Xinjiang. It has belonged to other people
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by heraclius 7y ago
There are 11 million Uighurs, and about a million in the camps. There are over 30 million blacks in the US, and under a million blacks in jail. (2.2 million is the total number of prisoners.) The situation in Xinjiang is therefore much wors
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by heraclius 7y ago
> Isn't Singapore political system famously authoritarian capitalist Most of Southeast Asia is increasingly authoritarian. > its people ethnically Chinese? Mostly (this is a trivial Google), but importantly not entirely. Singapor
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by heraclius 7y ago
Inevitably I am unfamiliar with the vast majority of the historical literature. However, the historiography of late antiquity and the early middle ages features very much debate as to how much people travelled; the possibility of travel is
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by heraclius 7y ago
In British practice my understanding is that it would be A v. R.; the website of the Supreme Court has judgements the form R. v. A and A v. Her Majesty The Queen. Whence your usage?
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by heraclius 7y ago
> When modernization occurs, economic activity eventually requires degrees of consistent identification of individual people, to enable accounting and distribution. Without identity and credentials, volume of trade can’t scale. I see no

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