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by pimmen 7y ago
Covering something up is always more scandalous than the scandal itself, because that completely nullifies the defense that it was done naively.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think it’s a sign of the times that NYT is willing to hire authors specializing in covering tech with a skeptical perspective. Newspapers would first criticize the government, then during the Industrial revolution they branded the entrepr
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"Files released by the F.B.I. in 2011 under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the F.B.I. was permitted to include people on the watchlist even if they had been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped
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by pimmen 7y ago
Lots of things beside petitions. You can run for office. If you find no parties that share any of your values, form one. You can raise the issue in the media which would pressure the government. You would probably not get kidnapped while on
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by pimmen 7y ago
Can I join the party if I fundamentally do not agree with its values? Such as, I think the party should have absolutely no control over the army, the judicial process, the selection of ministers, influence over state controlled media and ma
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by pimmen 7y ago
Of course you don’t need parties to hold elections, that’s not what I said. I said they become meaningless rubber stamps since all the different factions are curated by the party establishment to the best of their abilities making any chall
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by pimmen 7y ago
If you cannot vote for a different party that doesn’t share the values of the CCP, and can’t form one yourself, elections are meaningless rubber stamps.
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by pimmen 7y ago
One of the regulations must be that hacking someone’s brain, as in deleting or inserting memories into someone without consent, is a crime akin to rape and torture. You are violating someone’s sense of self and identity in ways the person c
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think the 2008 Recession will be just as memorable as the Vietnam War or the fall of the Soviet Union. It has amplified a lot of problems that we will probably still struggle with in the future.
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by pimmen 7y ago
We don’t have any traditions associated with beer though in Sweden (where I grew up) but we have loads of traditions with schnapps. Schnapps is what we traditionally drink during Midsummer and Christmas, whether or not you drink beer or not
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by pimmen 7y ago
I don't really understand what point you're making here. These legislative bodies still are not even as remotely bad as the CCP at respecting human rights. You don't need to have a perfect government to be better than the CCP
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by pimmen 7y ago
This is how the world changes. Just because ICE is enforcing the law does not mean that what they do with Palantir’s software is ethical. Once upon a time the military was enforcing the law by outing and dismissing gay people and that chang
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by pimmen 7y ago
I’m willing to concede that it can be hard to speculate what the technology will be used for, but sometimes it’s very easy. Wernher von Braun knew about the Holocaust and that the missiles he built was going to be used by the same regime. T
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by pimmen 7y ago
Reminds me of the song about Wernher von Braun who built rockets for the Nazis and the US. ”Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical ’Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That'
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by pimmen 7y ago
But democracy would also open up new ides to run the country that would create an even stronger economy. After all, it was the CCP ceding control ocer much of the economy that laid the ground work for the Chinese economic boom, for most of
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would love to discuss these questions, starting with ”is consensus or effect what we’re really measuring?” or ”if the agents get to decide how they’re evaluates, what effect does that have?” but it really has very little to do with the fa
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by pimmen 7y ago
And when is a country ready for democracy? Why was Taiwan ready for democracy decades ago but Shanghai is not?
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, I was a bit generalizing in my comment and could've phrased it better. What I meant to say was that I don't understand how so many Chinese people reconcile the idea that the CCP enjoys nation wide support with the perspectiv
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by pimmen 7y ago
> "If seeing your extended families quality of life improve every year and experiencing first hand Chinese tier1 cities and infrastructure eclipsing development in the west is brainwashing, then I hope the West adopt it." This
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think this narrative is very misleading. They did complain a lot about how the CCP plunged the country into the largest famine in history because of their incompetence. It was this incompetence that led to the rise of Deng Xiaoping. Mao t
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by pimmen 7y ago
I've never understood then why the Chinese are against democracy. If everyone is happy and can't imagine a better government wouldn't they just elect the CCP every time?
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I live in Sweden and yes, absolutely, I can do that. I've seen people swear towards the police and absolutely nothing happened. Assaulting someone by hitting them however is not a freedom, you're violating someone else's free
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would also like to see more independent confirmation, maybe by interviewing Mr. Hogg himself. I don't think the mainland media would corroborate a story like this, it doesn't really paint the CCP in a good light. This would be a
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by pimmen 7y ago
I’m not going to argue against that the UN has been used by the permanent Security Council members to push their political agenda. But, you’re making the claim here that the convention on human rights was a tool to influence nations in a fa
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by pimmen 7y ago
> And whose to say? Some other country based on its own culture, and treating it as some some of universal laws of physics? The UN Convention of Human Rights. Which China recognizes, that's why it got Taiwan's seat at the Secur
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by pimmen 7y ago
This is basically spot on. But, these micro genres can be useful for the "true" fans too, if they know a fellow fan and feel like they want something within a genre, but with some specific features (like just a tad slower tempo, m
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Ask HN: Employers, do you use dark web databases in background checks?
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by pimmen 7y ago
> I do not refute the idea that polices are violent at the beginning, after all, that's what they are hired to do. I had extended family in law enforcement, and my brother is studying to become a police officer. They would be very o
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by pimmen 7y ago
I understand that, but it has nothing do with whether or not China be using force to break a legal treaty or not. Unless what you really want is to divert the discussion away from whether or not China would be breaking a treaty to cases o
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by pimmen 7y ago
What does my theories about International reactions on Brexit and the Irish border have to do with the legality of China using troops to forcefully break another treaty? Would China’s action become legal depending on what I answer?

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