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by trasz 4y ago
That’s an unfortunate consequence of US using the same mechanism to target real criminals (Putin’s oligarchs) and people merely inconvenient to their politics (HK officials).
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by trasz 4y ago
I believe the fundamental problem here is that Gen Z got a much better understanding of the world around them, while the older folks tend to deeply believe in “common falsehoods” about economy and society.
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by trasz 4y ago
>under some kind of demonic possession You spelled “miracle” wrong.
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by trasz 4y ago
Luxuries such as shampoo, yeah.
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by trasz 4y ago
“Nearly two-thirds of all prisoners in the US, which imprisons more of its population than any other country in the world, have jobs in state and federal prisons. That figure amounts to roughly 800,000 people” https://www.theguar
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by trasz 4y ago
I’m not sure if it’s like this everywhere in USA, but usually prisoners need to pay for lots of necessities from their own money, like the rest of us - except they get higher prices, because economy.
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by trasz 4y ago
Adding the right minority groups will give you however high number you need, but even he admits it’s not just Uighurs. And the result is still better than US incarceration ratios. (Or course this about largest incarceration is bullshit too
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by trasz 4y ago
Even Zenz and associated media don’t claim there are millions. And yes, even if you add them it still looks much better than US.
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Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization(invisiblepeople.tv)
696 points by trasz 4y ago|601 comments
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by trasz 4y ago
Avoiding the legal problems seems doable, Sci-Hub and LibGen are managing. But the gateways thing sounds... unfortunate. The way BitTorrent fixed this was the ratio - if you weren't seeding enough, you'd eventually get kicked out
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by trasz 4y ago
People want reliability, and reliability of commercial solutions like Apple Music or YouTube is already crap. We’ve just learned not to notice.
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by trasz 4y ago
If you want something to be fast you need it stored locally. Storage used to be big and expensive, thus the cloud. And network used to be slow and expensive too, so the uplink direction wasn’t very effective unless there was a company be
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by trasz 4y ago
Let’s make a libgen for music. And run it all on IPFS.
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by trasz 4y ago
China is quietly following the sanctions, for example - more so than several EU countries. The “police stations” are a red herring from what I can tell.
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by trasz 4y ago
I believe the problem here is business-level, and this can’t really be fixed technically. The problem is, this kind of design requires organized commitment to run it to completion, and can’t work in a culture focused on dropping a half-wor
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by trasz 4y ago
Russia is world’s last colonial empire. The two reasons to allow it to keep its colonies (ie most of the territory east of Moscow) was to keep it as a force stabilizing the region and to prevent them from being claimed by China. Now it’s
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by trasz 4y ago
This reminds me when I was contracted by a certain huge US company to write a driver for their new hardware. They… wanted me to take a drug test. It took them three months of me silently ignoring their emails (they had a deadline to meet)
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by trasz 4y ago
It could be argued it’s a proxy war between NATO and some… unknown world power, with Russia as a proxy. Although I don’t think Chinese would be able to pull it off.
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by trasz 4y ago
>OpenVMS I suspect by “battle-tested” they didn’t mean World War 2. (/s of course, and trying out the x86 port is high on my TODO list.)
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by trasz 4y ago
It would be a fun way to discover that all those black programs which continued after the nuclear weapon development formally ended in the 80’s really did result in Kessler satellites, particle beams, and clean nukes.
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by trasz 4y ago
>they also have an interest in stability in Russia and in an end to military conflict. This might no longer be the case, given what looks like early signs of China pivoting away from Russia towards the West.
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Hafnium Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
21 points by trasz 4y ago|0 comments
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by trasz 4y ago
Which is pretty much what Russia has been doing for a while, adjusted for their actual capabilities to conduct such effort.
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by trasz 4y ago
What you describe is Ukraine losing. Ukraine winning is the quickest way to end this conflict, and the only humane one.
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by trasz 4y ago
But they lack the drones required to efficiently employ them - they are laser guided, not GPS. They are also, well, crap - India tested them and decided they won’t be purchasing due to abysmal performance.
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“We are announcing a stamp with the bridge”(twitter.com)
2 points by trasz 4y ago|0 comments
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State Secrets Privilege(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by trasz 4y ago|0 comments
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by trasz 4y ago
The machines that ran it are pretty well documented, and there's some interesting obscure Unix history behind them, like https://www.twcarchive.com/wiki/Weather_Star_XL , which I believe was one of the first huge s
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by trasz 4y ago
This is an interesting idea, but given how inexpensive the high resolution small SPI-connected LCD displays already are, this might not be a very useful solution.
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by trasz 4y ago
I wonder if - and if so, how much - its readability improves with readers' experience with it.

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