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by resfirestar 10y ago
That last bit isn't true at all for South Korea. Park Chung-hee, the general who ruled for nearly 20 years, was president under 3 constitutions, each further consolidating his power, importantly with the appearance of a democratic mand
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>Slack is a free messaging and collaboration tool that operates much like IRC, but allows users to have public and private channels as well as direct messages. So…exactly like IRC?
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>Though it may be possible to create technically feasible products for any aspect of our lives, those only succeed if they improve—rather than seek to replace—the human, highly tactile, and pleasurable world we want to live in. Most huma
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IMO, the problems with scientific research in China have little or nothing to do with state repression and more to do with an overcommodified educational system: too much competition at every step from primary school exams to tenure track p
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China's volume of research output is respectable in many fields. But the humanities work is often dismissed as political by Western and Chinese academics alike, and science has a quality/quantity problem[0] made worse by the rapid
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Interesting. There might be (of course will be) disagreement about whether, as Pao argues, unpopular views about race and gender and stuff are as relevant to tech as support for SOPA. But Trump's new habit of not just implying, but say
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Ideally you would be able to build it yourself and compare the checksums, but often that requires some extra effort to prevent particulars of the compile environment from affecting the binary. Debian is working with moderate success to make
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>Won't the others just replace 4chan in user share? Due to its position as the nexus of "internet culture" for at least a few years in the late 2000s, 4chan is very special. It is one of two major general purpose chans (th