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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. That is the sign of a great comment.
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by resters 8y ago
Nicely put comment. If the goal is oil prices, the options include full annexation of Saudi, supporting a favored group of Saudi elites/royals, and many other options. Each has its humanitarian ups and downs. It may be the case that na
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by resters 8y ago
Please define a flame war
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by resters 8y ago
I appreciate the thoughtfulness and logic of your comment. I think it addresses only the evidence, not the motive for the campaign to spread the news about the intercepted data.
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by resters 8y ago
Is this true? Instacart actually just raised prices a week or two ago.
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by resters 8y ago
While I would characterize the word “stability” in this context as newspeak meaning “destabilize in our favor” the gist is true. Yet everything the US does must be framed as some kind of sacrifice for some group’s freedoms, its women, child
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by resters 8y ago
This is how marketing works. They could have used music taste or religious affiliation or nearly any of the data add-ons Experian sells. This isn’t sinister in any way, merely clever as it seems marketers had been behind the times. There ar
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by resters 8y ago
> Are you saying supporting SA is in our national interest? Not at all. But rather than focusing on something concrete (and falsifiable) like national interest, our leaders and officials moralize and stoke righteous indignation.
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by resters 8y ago
Many of the programs are shared across agencies so the revelations told s lot about the sigint capabilities of all of the agencies.
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by resters 8y ago
Not at all. To qualify I would need to be defending MBS. On balance the US causes substantially more human suffering in the world than all other terror groups and despots combined. It’s strange that character attacks on MBS work so well to
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by resters 8y ago
Excellent points. I agree. I think one thing that is very clear is that the CIA should not under any circumstances be acting to promote domestic PR about political events. That is out of scope and was until a few years ago illegal.
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by resters 8y ago
This is absurd. Who is selling SA the weapons it will use in Yemen.
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by resters 8y ago
Uh, the US has prosecuted its own journalists recently, demanding life in prison. This has nothing to do with press freedom whatsoever.
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by resters 8y ago
Public opinion about MBS was quite favorable a few short months ago, and it is this story alone that threatens it. So those who claim MBS was responsible may be right or wrong. Without a clear definition of how his potential responsibility
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by resters 8y ago
The gathering methods are encompassing and technically adept, but that does not mean that the announcement reflects data that actually exists. Nor does it answer the question of why the agency chose to selectively promote the claim, which i
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by resters 8y ago
Without hard data released to the public we should not take the claim at face value. The intelligence agencies have a lot of credibility to earn back after the Snowden revelations. No claims should be trusted without conclusive source mater
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by resters 8y ago
Check out 1.8 to 1.9 MHz this weekend actually starting right now.
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by resters 8y ago
As a newb to PCB design this is dead on. I had to resort to using Circuitmaker (free Altium with a 2 private project limit) to feel confident doing my first few boards. Circuitmaker uses octopart libraries and maintains its own footprint l
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by resters 8y ago
This has probably been a long term trend as email usage is on the decline and texting is dominant. The handwriting was on the wall when Google redesigned hangouts to make it look more teen friendly a few years ago, but unfortunately they re
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by resters 8y ago
For Airbnb this is a very smart move. Airbnb knows demand and supply extremely well and is poised to be able to offer some very highly leveraged financial products to fund the buildout. This is in my opinion the most significant initiative
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by resters 8y ago
See here: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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by resters 8y ago
> I thought ed tablet demand was shifting to Chrome OS laptops. This is due to a massive sales/discounting effort and naive people doing the purchasing. > Further, I don't think I've ever heard of Amazon (Fire?) being a
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by resters 8y ago
Apple’s lead is largely due to key decisions that competitors failed to emulate — leveraging bsd open source tooling, removing legacy io ports, largely perpetual OS licensing model. But now that Microsoft is emulating those decisions it wil
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by resters 8y ago
I would assume that one of the value propositions of having many ground stations to choose from is that one could simply rent one that was closest to the next flyover. So I'm curious what factors you are thinking of that would not ma
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by resters 8y ago
What kind of restrictions? Isn't a VITA data stream broadband SDR data? The entire radio implementation would seemingly be under the control of the client.
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by resters 8y ago
> Anyone that cares about the data quality they are getting from their satellites is not going to trust a 3rd party solution. Please explain this, I don't understand why it would be the case.
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by resters 8y ago
Let’s recall that nobody at Google tried to stop Schmidt from adopting a right wing stance on Wikileaks. When it’s American authoritarianism it seems googlers are much more tolerant, saving the righteous indignation for the country chosen b
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by resters 8y ago
But when the state was the US and the data it was trying to censor was from Wikileaks, Google (Schmidt) adopted a right wing stance and offered no help, and openly criticized Wikileaks like one would expect a defense contractor to do. This
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by resters 8y ago
It’s shameful that google employees supported google’s attacks on Wikileaks but now find so much righteous indignation when the state that doesn’t want secrets out is China. Wow.
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by resters 8y ago
Uh, isn’t a censored google the best way to do an A/B comparison to find the information China doesn’t want its citizens to know?

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