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by neetdeth 8y ago
What I intended there was not to accuse you of anything. I still think the question is relevant, because it may be that the political objectives were never realistic, and thus the effort is Doomed with a capital D, and dogged persistence
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We should go back to doing things my way. R2P is horse shit. I’ll let the strawmanning pass without further comment.
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The election of Trump was definitely point scored for populism. It also triggered a full scale immune response that we're still in the throes of. Generally, it seems to be working. His orders are blocked by the courts, his executive br
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by neetdeth 8y ago
I'll admit I just plucked a year at random there and it was a poor example. You've aptly demonstrated your grasp of history but think it's a case of refusing to see the forest for the trees. The question in my mind is whether
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by neetdeth 8y ago
We could quite literally reparent your comment under a discussion about Iraq circa 2007 and it would not look out of place coming from a neoconservative. And no wonder -- those are the same people who now form the "remotely sane parts
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by neetdeth 8y ago
The things you listed don't have a great deal of endogenous support among the populace, either. I'm most interested in cases where there is shear between popular opinion and The Establishment, and who wins in those cases. It seems
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by neetdeth 8y ago
The specific mechanism of withdrawing US forces from the area? I seem to recall a lot of hand-wringing from neocons about specific withdrawal strategies from Iraq, but the bottom line was that Americans would remain in Iraq. You can't
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by neetdeth 8y ago
That's what it looks like to a "far-right" isolationist, too. If you hadn't noticed, Trump has been trying to extricate the US from conflict in Syria, with the media nearly unanimous in opposing this goal. US news media
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Cue a thousand commenters descending to tell you that no party in the US is sufficiently socialist to be considered “left”. But of course, Fox is not authentically right, either. CNN is inner party (Dem) media, Fox is outer party (Rep).
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Your frustration is noted, but I'm afraid there is nothing of substance in this comment to respond to, except to agree that prejudice is bad. My point - in case it was unclear - was that it is entirely reasonable to be defensive when y
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Many people whom we would all consider racists only ever state things that are statistically true about groups of people.
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Nobody seems to have posited the real reason, in my opinion: High screen time turns users into dedicated evangelists for Netflix content who in turn promote the service to their friends and family. Growth is fueled by assimilating otherwise
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by neetdeth 8y ago
I have no doubt that fielding ignorant questions every day inculcates a certain attitude of presumptuous arrogance. How could it not? However, as the sibling comment says, I'm most commonly annoyed by this when I arrive at an answer vi
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by neetdeth 8y ago
On the other hand, it’s highly annoying to have to anticipate and ward off a whole range of uncharitable and/or unimaginative assumptions about why one would want to do such a thing before there is even an attempt made at a straight an
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by neetdeth 8y ago
From Wikipedia: > Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on-site observation, especially the Earth. I've encountered the
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Are there actually rules and due process? I was under the impression that it's just a convention that the registrar won't seize your domain unless they really, really dislike you. edit: I shouldn't be oblique in my comments.
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by neetdeth 8y ago
To quote some guy, "You go to war with the army you have." With the exception of the atomic bomb, it's hard to think of a technological innovation developed during wartime, diverting resources from traditional combat tech, th
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Absent from this list: Laser guided bombs, thermal imaging systems, the F-15 Eagle, the Tomahawk cruise missile, the M1A1 Abrams tank, etc. etc. Examples of high tech solutions to military problems that produced extremely favorable lopsided
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by neetdeth 8y ago
According to the Corruption Perceptions Index, at least, GP is exactly correct. Maybe it’s not unconscious bias so much as a general awareness of world affairs? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Ind
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by neetdeth 8y ago
I personally don’t give a damn about the financial viability of the New York Times, but the paper still wields so much cultural and political influence that I feel compelled to read some amount of what they publish just to keep current. If
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by neetdeth 8y ago
The rotors will bring a lot of energy into the equation on their own. It may be sufficient just to put some steel or lead in their path. I'd be more concerned about the crashing drone than the shot. People are hit with falling shot fai
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Less waste than an electric kettle? Only pour what you use. Once you factor in the hassle of loading and cleaning the reusable cup, I can't see what convenience advantage the Keurig brings over something like an Aeropress. It's ju
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Amir doesn't say whether or not he's an Iranian citizen. If so, there would seem to be a deliberate conflation being made here between Iranian ethnicity and nationality. He only says he's a PhD student in Canada. I don't
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by neetdeth 8y ago
Regarding that last point: It carries the assumption that people in STEMMFT (science technology engineering math medicine finance and the trades) do not have strengths and talents in other areas that they set aside to pursue their careers.
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Not much about the reporting has actually changed, but the nu-journalism style of headline writing has thrown it into stark relief.
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by neetdeth 8y ago
How can they be finance and prestige driven when their Twitters are full of snarky comments about how capitalism is to blame for everything? Are you implying that ironic humor is somehow used as a salve for cognitive dissonance?
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by neetdeth 8y ago
You're trying to contort a mate selection process that has an inherently sexual-reproductive basis (for most people) into an exercise in platonic pair bonding. It doesn't make sense as such, and it isn't supposed to. People a
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by neetdeth 8y ago
I don't want to represent myself as one of the inventors! I just saw this on HN, skimmed the technical report, and found a bunch of comments on HN that could be answered with my cursory knowledge thus gained. What I can offer is that i
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by neetdeth 8y ago
We're thankfully not cursed with a multitude of competing standards for bilevel monochrome 2D codes (they do exist, but 90+ percent of everything out in the wild is QR). I don't think an end user is going to be competent to unders
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by neetdeth 8y ago
This is an interesting point, but it assumes perfect optics. If the image is slightly out of focus, I think three lower resolution images in different spectral regions is a big win.

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