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by maze-le 7y ago
Fidel Castro is probably the man who survived / foiled the most assassination attempts (with a lot of help of the KGB). /quote estimated the number of assassination schemes or actual attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency to
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by maze-le 7y ago
That is not true. There is no such law in Germany, and the public backlash against it would be enormous. In the east we had a government that would pressure citizens to spy on each other -- any hint of that would be political suicide on all
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by maze-le 7y ago
You are correct, but at this point in time, we have to ask: "What ideology?" -- Ideologically most systems are the same: Cleptocratic oligarchies. They might have local flavours here and there -- communist, authoritarian, market-l
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by maze-le 7y ago
If the history of the last 40 years of "climate debate" teaches us anything, then that it will not only be left unchecked, but it will become worse. There is absolutely no reason to be optimistic about CO2 emissions on a global sc
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by maze-le 7y ago
Been there, done that... It is a waste of time and effort if you can't convince other people to join your services. I have operated a jabber server for quite some time (2008ish - 2012). Mostly for me and some friends to organize lan pa
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by maze-le 7y ago
Consider this: Sleep deprivation is torture. Anyone being held in a condition like this and not getting serious medical attention -- psychological and physiological -- is also torture. The fact that after several months outside the confines
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by maze-le 7y ago
'Pacifist' does not imply no defense spending. Swiss neutrality is arguably a very pacifist foreign policy, while Switzerland has a very well funded military for a country of that size.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Oh well you know, stuff like this also happens: https://wahlen.sachsen.de/LW_19.php?wahlkreis=51&_cp=%7B%22t... ----- State elections in saxony this year. Look at the table underneath the map: Wahlberechtigte -- eligibl
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by maze-le 7y ago
Interview about the issue in german: https://netzpolitik.org/2019/interview-zur-finfisher-abmahnu...
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by maze-le 7y ago
Because the pi might be needed for more demanding workloads (networks, routing, sdr radio system). With this solution you can build low-tech control systems and programmable switches with a bit of logic where a raspi would be overkill. But
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by maze-le 7y ago
"Kids" at ages 25-35...
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by maze-le 7y ago
I love the zoomable UI, very neat and it gives a perspective on how "small" a position of 800 million pounds can be...
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by maze-le 7y ago
I tried it several times, but I am usually a slow typist and English is not my native language, so I sometimes think twice about how to formulate a sentence. Sometimes when I wrote a posting, I ended up hitting the timeout, just when I was
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by maze-le 7y ago
Well, we can at least have solace in the fact that these are the exact same outlets that are suffering financial losses since at least 10 years. They are dying a slow death and this is their final straw -- not that it will do them any good,
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by maze-le 7y ago
I think a better comparison would be antidepressants. A common class of antideps are called SSRI -- selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. They have a similar mechanism to MDMA -- block the re-absorption of serotonin by neurons, so more
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by maze-le 7y ago
* the horror
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by maze-le 7y ago
Do you really want to think and judge people/institutions in these terms (traitor/non-traitor etc.)? I doubt this is in any way helpful to find a political solution. I know that this is being done with Snowden -- but lets not reso
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by maze-le 7y ago
Anarchism has its very own sloth of contradictions. If a society without power is established, someone will take power by force and/or guile and establish a new system of power that will not be anarchist in nature. Anarchism as a syste
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> wow even a 16 year old can see that capitalism won't resolve it's own contradictions While this is basically true, I haven't heard of any other system of organizing a society that has.
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by maze-le 7y ago
I think the main reason behind the better economic situation in the 1871-1914 period was not a deflationary economy, but the steady increase in factory output -- the industrialization was on its height -- and medical knowledge -- proper san
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by maze-le 7y ago
Some bird species too (Albatross, Penguins). I sometimes think that meditation could be a state of mind like this: parts of the brain awoke, parts of it asleep. With the caveat that meditation isn't really very restful, but demanding o
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by maze-le 7y ago
Entangled particles share a state, they do not interact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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by maze-le 7y ago
That reads like it was written by a GPT-2 bot.
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Who the hell came out with such an idea. I'd guess this is a product of dwindling state finances and contempt for any form of real education. AI's are orders of magnitude cheaper than real teachers. They also don't f
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> How do you know who is a legitimate dev and who is a scammer posing as a legitimate dev If you cannot discern the two you shouldn't offer a service that claims it can... And if you do nevertheless, the operators of the service
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by maze-le 7y ago
I have plenty of (pretty much inactive) social media accounts that I don't even remember the user-handle or password to -- usually created to take look at the service, user-interface and goof around a bit -- I don't think I'l
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by maze-le 7y ago
I heard phone seizures were common when entering from the western continental route (Kazakhstan, Kyrgiztan).
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by maze-le 7y ago
Damn, thanks for sharing...
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> That's great but it's not like this is even a US-only thing, this is a quite common occurrence these days. I never heard of any of that except from the US and China.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Did you have to give you password or your device? I am just wondering how they got access to your skype account.

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