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by kingofhdds 8y ago
From communist viewpoint socialism is an intermediate stage before achieving communism. And in Soviet Union propaganda both terms were used interchangeably to describe their side in the Cold War. And many self-described socialists in the We
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
You are refuting the statement I never made. There's no such thing as general threat. So who's data? If you are Julian Assange you should be afraid of US spying agencies, but if you are an Uzbekistani dissident it's your gov&
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
There are many countries where ISPs are obliged by law to spy on users, and retain logs for many years. DNS manipulation also used as a cheap censorship mechanism. So Cloudflare easily can be a better option for hundreds of millions if not
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
We all know that even a composition of words used (or avoided) to report a fact may be very loaded. And it just how it happens in all media, big and small, because apparently journalists are humans, and editors are humans. There are worse,
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>Germans also used to be stereotyped as dishonest, thieving, dull and overly emotional before their country industrialized. Any links on this?
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I don't think we are talking about libellous content: as you noted yourself it is already covered by existing laws, and there's no need to invent additional regulations for that. As for thing you call "self-censorship" t
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
The logical consequence of the belief in people being unable to defend their minds against elaborate ads is that we should abolish democracy. How can you trust those stupid voters to make any choice if this choice is predetermined by ads? P
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
What I see in your comment: people are too stupid to understand what's right for them, so we "as a society" should make commercial entities to censor their platforms to pre-filter information available to general public. Few
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
You can buy a cheap prepaid sim, and save yourself from data roaming tariffs. And it is the moment when smartphones shine - you'll have the same IDs/handles/usernames in messengers. With a feature phone your identity (your nu
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>Humans have evolved to produce social structures that mitigate the need for violence in all circumstances. It doesn't contradict the notion "humans are violent". Social structures are often used to prevail collectively in
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Do you believe that humans in general should not be trusted to read/hear certain things? If yes (I guess), do you believe the censorship cannot be exploited politically by those in power?
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Incentives -> someone will.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523329
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
"Someone uncovering things" appears because in an environment where free speech is not suppressed political, economical, and ideological competitions create incentives to do it. Is it a newspaper, a TV channel, a blog, social net
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
"Press" is just a technical method of information dissemination which certainly can become outdated. Democracy needs freedom of speech and expression.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Of course it does.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
If taxi drivers were in the same way connected to social studies people as journos are, we would be reading laments about oldschool taxi services as a cornerstone of society now.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
This argument implies the public controls gov. organizations/departments which is in most cases not true (unless there's some scandal to attract attention).
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I understand why you feel bad about them, and certainly I would feel the same in the same situation, but it's hard not to admit that revealing bugs to the public is very often the only way to make coders pay attention. So even if their
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
>narrow case of making >transfers that are illegal Exactly, except I don't see why do you think it's a narrow case? Legal ways are burdensome, expensive for those who can live a week for $10, and sometimes don't work a
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
You are making sweeping statements like "most people", or "not real" as if those are some sorts of axioms. To me it seems obvious you never really had to send money to let's call it a less-internationally-respected
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Well, using word 'stupid' to describe things one doesn't understand is a sort of popular fallacy. For both countries it's a real conflict which involves not only emotions (the way news websites make you see it), but econ
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
The attack can only succeed when victim's gpg is run with 'verbose' option turned on. Which is rather unusual situation.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
I am on this side of pond, and it still sounds ridiculous to me. I don't think that someone who really wants to pay more for an imaginary taste of authenticity will not be able to read a place of production. Other consumers apparently
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Nothing new with this marketing approach! Many taxi drivers in Delhi charmingly (though a bit too stubbornly) offer to visit a shop of their brother, uncle, or good friend, always "nearby", and surely "very cheap!" Also,
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Hi Martin! I respect your effort, and welcome it, because I'm a lover, and collector of maps, actually. You certainly made a lot of work. However (and please don't take it personally) if it's not just a decoration, and you cl
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
Thank you! It could be true, but frankly I wouldn't trust ru.wikipedia too blindly, especially when it comes to small towns history, because there are lots of local lore gatherers with original researches, and nobody cares to verify
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My sources tell the story this way: unknown village of Finnish-Ugric population -> Kholmogory (Novgorod outpost) -> Novokholmogory -> Arkhangelsk. I would be grateful if you share your source of information about alternative name.
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by kingofhdds 8y ago
"Some settlement" had it's proper name - Kholmogory, but it was anyway founded after Mongol invasion.
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I question the knowledge behind this map. The text states it depicts the state of affairs before "the rise of Mongols", but one can find on it Sarai city which was established by Mongols, and, for example, Arkhangelsk which didn&#

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