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by pimmen 7y ago
Yes, one example would be the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. The Greeks had no chance until they got help from the French, Russian and British empires though. I hope it doesn’t turn violent, and even if it doesn’t I t
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by pimmen 7y ago
But since the CCP will not respect their autonomy, they need to fight for it. Plenty of examples of European nations who had to fight violently for their autonomy in the recent two centuries.
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by pimmen 7y ago
If it contributes nothing to the discussion of actually making Perl a language useful to the problems developers face today, the site deserves the criticism.
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by pimmen 7y ago
You're not going to see your bank accounts empty. You're not even necessarily going to see anyone or anything you care about get hurt by the one percent. However, when you want something done, when you believe in a cause, you&#x27
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by pimmen 7y ago
What if you have twins in that case? Or triplets? ”Baby 1 Surname”, ”Baby 2 Surname”, ”Baby 3 Surname”...
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by pimmen 7y ago
I work in data engineering, and we have multiple systems built by other people talking to our pipeline. Just one of them being off by a little might send the KPIs, the machine learning models and much more into a spiral where they end up co
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by pimmen 7y ago
If you want to read a more thorough and vivid version of all the history mentioned, and so much more, I recommend The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin. One of the most enjoyable non-fiction books I’ve ever
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by pimmen 7y ago
One of the things that's keeping liberal democracy safe is the inefficiencies of governments and businesses, with "not invented here" being one of the biggest ones. What makes Palantir scary is not necessarily that they work
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by pimmen 7y ago
Same in Sweden, and I'd imagine the rest of the Nordic countries. If not all of Western Europe.
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by pimmen 7y ago
If we ever are in doubt of the system and ask to verify it, those voting machines are essentially just really expensive pencils.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I don’t understand the American obsession with designing new systems yourselves when there’s already plenty of alternatives out there that have been tried and true for generations. Health care that’s affordable, offers longer life expectanc
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by pimmen 7y ago
Only for people who know what they’re doing. If a hacker faces hardware they’ve never seen before it will take some time to read up on it, especially if datasheets and such is not available online. I fully concede it’s security by obscurity
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by pimmen 7y ago
I honestly cannot see how one can support the electoral college and not support that the Cherokee get their special representation in Congress as well. At least, if the argument for the electoral college used is the oft repeated ”people fro
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by pimmen 7y ago
I agree with casiotone; why pretend you have an important, guiding set of enshrined morals and ethics at all when there’s a clause that nullifies everything by saying ”some people might be fundamentally against our values but if they’re loa
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by pimmen 7y ago
The analogy avoids the difference that food is a consumable that everyone, from minimum-wage workers and billionaires, uses and getting better quality food doesn’t make you orders of magnitude more powerful than everyone else. Computer tech
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by pimmen 7y ago
You don’t gave a low cost, accessible national ID. In Europe, we do. Democracy is for everyone, not just those who can drive or with a passport, but everyone so unless the US gets a national ID for everyone any restriction on identificati
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, I don't know. I think the dozen or so other people he recruited from us to follow him might know, however.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I just don't think they care, and they're under the assumption nobody else cares too. I work for a news publisher in Sweden, and when we got acquired by a larger one the CTO of that company held a huge speech about why working for
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think he produces ceramic plates for body armor, but he could very well be making weapons too. Either way, he profits off of war. So, yes, he sees the sugar industry as worse and as something without any sort of utility. Militaries bring
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by pimmen 7y ago
I had the pleasure of holding a talk at the same event as Saeid Esmaeilzadeh, a rockstar entrepreneur and chemist in Sweden, and one of the questions he got during his talk was how he could reconcile his drive to be an ethical businessman a
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by pimmen 7y ago
Something that I think would do more is for the e-sports community to keep criticizing the CCP on live streams. Ping your favorite players on the issue and ask what they think. A lot of them will probably try to distance themselves from pol
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by pimmen 7y ago
My grandfather ran a company that designed sawmills. During the 70s and 80s, he did a lot of business in the USSR and he has told many stories from that crazy time. I don't know if he ever was involved in bribery (he has alzheimer&#x27
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by pimmen 7y ago
If the Western governments could maybe grow a pair and call out how this is very unfair maybe something would happen. I work for one of the largest news publishers in the Nordics, and we were criticized for letting the CCP take out a full p
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by pimmen 7y ago
Does anyone know if Trey and Matt own the IP? What's preventing them from walking away from Comedy Central if the channel kowtows to China and just distribute it online?
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by pimmen 7y ago
I have a completely blind friend. The main reason he uses a Mac and an iPhone is because of their awesome accessibility. He's got a Linux and Windows computer too, Windows because some software he uses is only available on Windows and
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by pimmen 7y ago
> That narrative is never supported by the facts, and the extradition treaty has been withdrawn. You keep saying it does not make it true. It’s still not withdrawn, Ms. Lam has only promised she will. But the bill is still in second read
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by pimmen 7y ago
Because the control is still being implemented. To implement it, you need influence.
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by pimmen 7y ago
> Any broadening of rights after the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is suspect. These are ploys to alienate the Hong Kong people from China (離間計). If you by that mean that giving a place more civil rights and protections a
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by pimmen 7y ago
After months of protests. That alone does not convince me. However, the fact that such a self destructive bill is even proposed by the pro-Beijing government in the first place alone convinces me that ”one country, two systems” is being
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by pimmen 7y ago
He is still on the mainland. I’m Swedish by the way and follow his daughter, Angela Gui. His daughter has been given very limited access to her own father, and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has difficulty reaching him. For so

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