nimrod0

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by nimrod0 7y ago
You are being way too charitable. The five demands materialized out of one demand ("don't rush the bill") after Carrie Lam made a concession to suspend the bill. Middle-of-the-road concessions are not what the protestors are
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by nimrod0 7y ago
Two possibilities present themselves. Either the protestors don't know any history, or have learned such a skewed version of history that they internalize the perspective of the 19th century British victors in an ultimately self-defeat
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by nimrod0 8y ago
It's a sign that the Chrome team is too large and should be assigned more meaningful work.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
A much saner behavior is to hide the URL entirely until focused, not to show a secretly mangled version.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
Yes, why not drop URL's altogether then? Why display such "technical" things for the plebes?
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by nimrod0 8y ago
I wouldn't take the parent's statement as one of moral equivalency. I see it as a reminder to notice similar trends within and not rely so much on exceptionalism or the existing milieu to carry you through without effort, forever.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
I understand the impulse to distinguish the two but there simply isn't as much distinction as you perhaps would like to believe. An apartment or a job aren't strictly financial, and while credit bureaus construct your scores out o
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by nimrod0 8y ago
Everybody is somebody's terrorist. The US doesn't have a great track record on this. I mean MLK was tracked by the FBI.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
If you have a "bad" US credit score you can't get an apartment, a job, a post-paid mobile plan, or any number of things nowadays that ask for your SSN. That's why identity theft can trash a person's life. Same with
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by nimrod0 8y ago
The Big Three credit bureaus started exactly as a social credit system. They'd send snoops to keep tabs on you and collect gossip from your friends.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
Correct. In the US, subway stations and buses, elevators, convenience stores etc. have video cameras. Electronic tolling gantries have been used to track vehicles. Red light cameras are everywhere. I haven't seen a backlash. It's
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by nimrod0 8y ago
It should be pointed out that, with or without AI, the cultural impulses are the same. This is an issue of authoritarianism, not of AI. If it should be feared more universally then the fear should be the authoritarian streak within all of u
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by nimrod0 8y ago
But the political winds are blowing toward drug liberalization on the basis of libertarianism. That's what I am referring to.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
There were horrible problems that derailed progress, it's pointless to deny them. On the other hand, some of the suffering came externally, like sanctions and embargoes designed to make life miserable and induce the country to fail&#x2
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by nimrod0 8y ago
The Western media doesn't know how to portray China, or any foreign country. Everything is a caricature and taken as a mere curiosity or monstrosity. It remains at the stage of minstrelsy and Indian dress-up. If you read serious news
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by nimrod0 8y ago
You're giving the wrong impression. Let's parse this a bit. China is "crazier" in that it's different in a way that's hard to explain in Western discourse. In order to analogize for the reader, quite inadequate
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by nimrod0 8y ago
No they are not. First of all, are we talking about manufacturing or trafficking? Because fentanyl is legal medicine, used by hospitals. It isn't illegal to manufacture, use, or export when complying with controlled substance laws. Wha
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by nimrod0 8y ago
What Americans never learned (or have forgotten) is that drugs affect a whole society, not just the individual.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
The Opium Wars began when the Chinese confiscated the British drug contraband (but property to the British) and lit a bonfire with them, as the opium trade was illegal. There is no comparison.
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by nimrod0 8y ago
No, it's not. You're doing random pattern matching. Chemical engineering has been outsourced to China and factories there are making/exporting whatever people want to import, including industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals
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by nimrod0 8y ago
Way before Napoleon, during the Zhou Dynasty of China, Confucius was already teaching his minister-aspiring students about the role of music in governing, owing to it being a device to actualize harmonious behavior among the vassals and the
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by nimrod0 9y ago
Paper describing the Agora network: https://agora.vote/Agora_Whitepaper_v0.1.pdf
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by nimrod0 9y ago
Before anyone claims they know wtf they are talking about, answer the following real technical questions -- I haven't seen a single one who has (including the so-called "Trail of Bits"): 1. Can Ryzenfall and Fallout be exploi
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by nimrod0 9y ago
No one person is making the choice, that's the problem. The decision is distributed over many people and each step is only a tiny bit "rapacious" on average (meaning some steps may even be conserving), but over all, the colle
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by nimrod0 9y ago
"A few languages have their own way of talking about tea. These languages are generally in places where tea grows naturally, which led locals to develop their own way to refer to it. In Burmese, for example, tea leaves are lakphak.&qu
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by nimrod0 9y ago
In modern usage you're right, 茶 is used as 'beverage'. When the character was created (appears in Erya under 'plants', so a very early character), it referred to one of a number of 'bitter herbs,' and ling
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by nimrod0 11y ago
They got the brains and patents (if applicable).