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by portpecos 6y ago
Probably the Title: “ How the US Used Disinformation and the ‘Jakarta Method’ to Change the World “ >The Jakarta Method is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist and writer Vincent Bevins. It concerns American support for the Ind
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by portpecos 6y ago
Is there a way to find out from which state(s) that out-of-state money is coming from?
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by portpecos 6y ago
And to tack onto this question, what IS the amount being used in these studies and is it recommended we take it? I remember that Dr from earlier in the month posting a blog series about Vitamin D and even there is still no answer as to how
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by portpecos 6y ago
>The obvious performance and bloat overhead with RoR aside, I have yet to see a framework and ecosystem that lets you have a programmable web application up and running with typical features in comparable time. This answers your question
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by portpecos 6y ago
Yeah but Gina had unanimous support by Democrats, Republicans, and the entire CIA to become the Director of the CIA. Let’s not forget that Obama re-signed the Patriot Act even after campaigning in 2008 to end it. This kind of behavior is a
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by portpecos 6y ago
But Canola oil is higher in monounsaturated fats like Olive Oil: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000785.htm Why is Canola oil bad if it has the same quantity of monounsaturated fats as Olive Oil?
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by portpecos 6y ago
Can you give an example of a threat model that would warrant it?
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by portpecos 8y ago
This is exactly what happened with the Hambantota Port. Sri Lanka asked for billions in loans from China to build a second port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. After it was built, the naval port didn’t get any shipping/cargo traffic so Sri L
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by portpecos 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus Scroll down to Akbar and you'll find some interesting things. Also of interest is Allauddin Khilji.
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by portpecos 9y ago
And beans. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyo...
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by portpecos 9y ago
Someone submitted a Show HN where the site showed the top HN articles sorted by points for each day. Anybody remember the name? It was like an HN daily best of.
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by portpecos 10y ago
>And how is that different from the US intervening in "non-neighbouring" countries like Iraq Because the US is a hero for liberating the Iraqi people.
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by portpecos 10y ago
>It's a broken hole in our system that needs to change, but don't expect any change for at least 2-4 years. Why didn't Obama do anything about it?
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by portpecos 10y ago
>Only those who aren't paying attention can seriously claim nothing has gotten better wrt Wall Street regulation. And yet somehow these improved regulations did nothing when 95% of income gained fell right back into the hands of the
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by portpecos 10y ago
What's the Agenda? Embarrass Trump? Never Trump?
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by portpecos 10y ago
Wait, are you saying these Trump leaks are actually crafted to support agencies' agendas? >The leakiness of the Trump White House has been a boon to the press corps, who find themselves feasting on the juicy insider details that wer