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by mhneu 9y ago
Allowing lies is a non story? Inflaming division and ultimately putting an autocrat in the white house is a non story? A reckoning over the use of social media is coming to the US. At minimum we're going to need to have full ad disclo
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by mhneu 9y ago
Thank you - exactly the point. Both inflaming division and lying are bad.
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Lies are ok? (No Sharia law in France) Inflaming divisions is ok? Throwaway is appropriate for this post.
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by mhneu 9y ago
Cause the Pentium chip doesn't send info back to Russian intelligence services? The US has a lot to lose by linking tech firms to intelligence services, but in this case - when an agent of one gov't is hacking another gov't,
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by mhneu 9y ago
Sorry, should have said "Eugene Kaspersky was trained by the KGB."
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by mhneu 9y ago
Slight issue: Far more than past administrations, a huge number of things that come out of Pence's mouth are straight-up lies. He and the rest of the administration have demonstrated they will lie with abandon to serve their own ends.
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by mhneu 9y ago
It's partially George Bush's doing - he put a rule into place saying the government had to hire more contractors. Fits with the GOP plans to weaken the govt to enable tax cuts for the wealthy, but the increasing use of contractor
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by mhneu 9y ago
By fake news you mean the stuff that Russia created in the US, and Sputnik and RT and Breitbart and Fox, right? That's the true fake news. For the reason why people are trying to redefine the term "fake news" into being stuf
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by mhneu 9y ago
Eugene Kaspersky was trained by the FSB (formerly KGB). Here's a good article (by a Democratic senator) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/opinion/kapersky-russia-c... "That threat is posed by
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by mhneu 9y ago
Yup. Here's an article on issues with contractors and the way the US gov't hires: https://20committee.com/2014/11/24/how-many-snowdens-are-the...
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by mhneu 9y ago
Yes, the NSA and other Five Eyes agencies go after foreign ISPs. There are strong legal protections keeping the NSA from spying on Americans without very strong evidence. Lawfare has covered this extensively. Here's an example from W
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by mhneu 9y ago
Kaspersky was trained by the FSB (former KGB). (Putin has been quoted as saying "there's no such thing as a /former/ KGB officer"). So as a defacto agent of the Russian government, Kaspersky certainly considers the
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by mhneu 9y ago
>Cuba has this tech? Yeah, right. Cuba's got a fairly solid secret service. They're not the completely backward nation you envision.
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by mhneu 9y ago
Update: from the justsecurity article: >The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and electronic pulses at the Embassy in an
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by mhneu 9y ago
> What type of sonic weapon could engender that kind of harm? > Although low-frequency infrasound systems can “silently” cause a wide range of symptoms in human targets – including fairly severe inner ear and even hair cell damage – t
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by mhneu 9y ago
This is a tech news article about hacking. This is a core topic of Hacker News. It must be unflagged. @dang
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by mhneu 9y ago
Russian influence has come in too -- the right laid the groundwork by polarizing people to make money (Limbaugh, Bannon). But Russia now influences them. Example: Cernovich works with Fairbanks who is employed by Russian propaganda site Sp
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by mhneu 9y ago
US Senate has said those groups are being targeted by Russian disinformation. Certainly US polarized environment laid the groundwork, but the alt right is now being manipulated by foreign entities. Same with Farage in the UK - he's wo
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by mhneu 9y ago
US FBI said they know the DNC email hack was run by Russians. See DOJ press releases from October. US Senate Intel committee and FBI head has said US knows Russia is right now targeting the French election. These are facts.
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by mhneu 9y ago
US senators have said Russia has targeted the French election via disinformation and hacking. I linked some articles above. Or Google "Senator Warner Russian hacking France election" Warner is the ranking member of the Senate Int
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by mhneu 9y ago
One mechanism explained by Piketty. Rate of return on capital is higher than wage growth. So the wealthy get richer at a faster rate than the average worker. This amplifies inequality. http://www.newyorker.com/news/john
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by mhneu 9y ago
Twitter is the easier one - the data is mostly open. Facebook is much harder and a much bigger influence. More Americans get their news from Facebook than Twitter, and all the Facebook data is inside a walled garden. We're soon as a s
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by mhneu 9y ago
Also those online communities are targeted by manipulation by foreign groups that want to polarize and weaken our society. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/russia-s-in...
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by mhneu 9y ago
Confusion yup. Also a goal is to crowd social media with nonsensical views to "make social media unusable.". This New Yorker article had a good discussion. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-real
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by mhneu 9y ago
Sen Warner said that 1000 Russian trolls were on social media during the US election spouting disinformation. Then he said they were doing the same thing for the French election. It's just too bad that white racists in the US are too d
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by mhneu 9y ago
Le Pen wants to damage France's relationship with the EU. That accords with Putin's goals. That's why the Russians hacked Macron's campaign and released emails today.
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by mhneu 10y ago
For example on surgery advertising in a non-rich area of the US: http://www.scrantonhipandknee.com Landing page is all about how great hip and knee replacements are.
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by mhneu 10y ago
Things I have learned about orthopedists: - they have only one tool and it is surgery. If you don't need surgery, you need to see a physical therapist. PTs know far more about soft tissue injuries and rehab than orthopedists. - ortho
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by mhneu 10y ago
Lack of price transparency is a huge, huge problem. Without price transparency you can't have a market system -- America already has a socialist health care system because no one can price shop.
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by mhneu 10y ago
If you need cancer surgery and you want the best you do the opposite-- fly to the US. E.g. MD Anderson has many patients come from all over the world for surgery.

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