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by jimclegg 7y ago
The main problem with this hypothesis is western assumptions of the route China would take to arrive wherever its people/govt want to arrive. The Chinese government has a tremendous obligation to protect its citizens from external mani
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Observation: I find the uptick in stock buying articles just when the market is at it's frothiest quite interesting. Stay vigilant out there traders, don't eat the 30% haircut that will be visiting global financial markets shortly
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Shocking that Israel barely gets a mention in this article (you know, the actual supplier of the surveillance tech used). So we just ignore that Israeli companies sell spy tech to every corrupt government on the planet and instead focus on
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by jimclegg 7y ago
I expect intelligence agencies hates removable batteries.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
When a bank robber has no more banks to rob, his standard of living tends to go down. Most economic surpluses in Europe over the last 2 centuries have been thanks to importing stolen goods/criminality, only change is, some of the bigge
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Seems possible with a powerful enough eruption. The UK is periodically affected by mild Icelandic volcanic activity and this reads like an extraordinary event. "The system erupted violently over an eight-month period between June 1783
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by jimclegg 7y ago
We should be careful before we unnecessarily increase the number of interactions between police and the general public. For example, roadside drug test accuracy rate is abysmal but innocent people are being put in jail because uninformed LE
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Remeber the black guy with no record in Florida that was stopped 20-30 times a week, making his life unlivsble (hard to keep a job). His life is going to get a lot more interesting with technology like this, since we know the false positive
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by jimclegg 7y ago
What percentage of police interactions result in an unarmed innocent person being shot? I guess we subject the crowd of innocent false-positives to that statistic unecessarily.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Intellectualizing racism for the sake of obfuscation is very common in Western history, I hope we aren't falling into the same habits again.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>Nobody cares if you get killed in China. They need to pay less of you die then if your wounded. So they run you over again to be sure that you are dead. People protesting police/army violence in USA share the same view of our state
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by jimclegg 7y ago
In many ways its worse, PRC doesn't arrest or extrajudicially murder people that have never visited China from what I understand. Julian Assange would be surfing in Australia with his family right now if he exposed Chinese war crimes.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Seems like a difference without distinction if the outcomes desired by the government are achieved through retired agents and a variety of pressure points. The illusion of "average citizen control" is more common in USA population
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by jimclegg 7y ago
I think its a bit premature, but do you really think China under a democratic system would be better for the world? What would Chinese populism look like when it eventually emerges given more democratic features? Are you sure we are ready f
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by jimclegg 7y ago
The FISA court system, Patriot Act & Freedom Act punch enough holes in the 4th amendment to make it useless. Pretty clear that less liberty is the outcome for all.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>By no measure is China a freer society today than it was 10 years ago. That's debatable but we know for a fact the USA was freer 10 years ago.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
They are called "western values" thanks to a very eurocentric (and somewhat ignorant) view of the world that was exported thanks to colonialism. Many of the inventions and values attributed to "Western values/culture&quo
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Facebook's board of directors doesn't include goverment agents (even if retired)?
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Kind of like the US government using Facebook data/communications to arrest people? Sounds very equal.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>In the west, instead, its a little bit more back and forth between tech and government. Hand over data or shut down your company is the ultimatum.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>China isn’t really a rule of law country I don't know about that, slightly unrelated but I'm 4 times less likely to get murdered in China than in the USA. The population seems to adhere to laws against harming fellow humans be
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by jimclegg 7y ago
A citizen can sue using classified material as evidence in the US? A lot of money should've changed hands in 2013 after the Snowden revelations if thats the case.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Entities in the US/Europe have been trying to take down China for a long time, the excuses to do it will be manufactured if required.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
>The sins of the fathers ought not be visited upon the sons. This idea only works if all parties believe in it. I don't think the majority of people on this planet believe groups should be able to go on economic crime sprees that a
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Telling China to get over colonialism is like telling black people to get over racism. These inhumane policies have been in place for centuries so after 3-4 decades of half-heartedly treating people as equals, "get over it" isn&#x
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Almost 3 billion people will be online in India and China alone, and they aren't strongly interested in sharing domestic private data with foreign entities (Facebook, Google, Apple). Creating another OS seems like an inevitability.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Right but when US technology cannot be depended on long term, the default foreign position many will take is to avoid or route around it.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Apple knows where their future is...
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Good luck isolating China from its Asian neighbors, I expect that plan will backfire spectacularly.
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by jimclegg 7y ago
Its major competitors spent 2 centuries actively attacking & sabotaging it (a fact that the US population doesn't seem aware of), seems fair.

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