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by user982 9y ago
Hitchens was inexhaustibly eloquent and grandiloquent; his skill at using expletives for emphasis in service to his message reflected his mastery of the language. Gawker (and all of its puerile clickbait spawn) is no Chris Hitchens.
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by user982 9y ago
> Would you also attribute American success to the spoils of war, colonialism, Manifest Destiny and African slavery, etc.? ...yes?
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by user982 9y ago
You stated that the claim of a Japanese narrative of their own superiority was fiction. I linked to an article that directly demonstrated the existence of, and examined the effects of, that exact narrative. Given that you consider that &quo
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by user982 9y ago
The same section you quoted from discusses the cyclical nature of popular acceptance of continual claims of Japanese superiority, ebbing with the immediate post-war hardship and flowing with the actual economic takeoff of the following deca
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Nihonjinron(en.wikipedia.org)
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by user982 9y ago
> "Constantly exhorted ... that they were superior to all other Asians" is almost certainly pure fiction. It's not. The Japanese race is a unique isolate, having no known affinities with any other race. In some ex
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Louisiana prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk(thelensnola.org)
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"[A]n effort to implement mercantilist economic strategies of technology transfer." This is an amazing euphemism.
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by user982 9y ago
The South Koreans that were intentionally massacred by the US?[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre
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The Seductive Appeal of the “Nazi Exception”(popehat.com)
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by user982 10y ago
SpaceX's launches weren't under constant US cyberattack and sabotage through the "free markets".[1] [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
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by user982 10y ago
A more common example: the avocado.
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by user982 10y ago
Your HN account is singularly focused on demonizing China along every axis.
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Judges quash UK marine Alexander Blackman's murder conviction(theguardian.com)
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Bread and Circuses(elaineou.com)
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by user982 10y ago
One of the very first changes of any new version of the Constitution arising from any major quarter would be the deletion of the First Amendment, with the Fourth following closely. I have no faith that a document reflecting contemporary Ame
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by user982 10y ago
"Coming"?
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If only Q would follow them.
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You should ask him.
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Altabax is a skin cream for bacterial infections.
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by user982 10y ago
Could have almost been relevant if it were Larks' Tongues in Aspic.
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"Otherwise," apparently.
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> President Obama received sage counsel from his council but wanted to run it by his counsel first. ...before expending some of his capital political capital at the Capitol in the capital.
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Well of course it did, it was more than four centuries off.
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> Or are you saying that customs officers could torture citizens as long as they are outside the US without any consequences for them? The US government and its courts have ruled that yes, that is exactly the case.[1][2] Eight years
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by user982 10y ago
The border search exception considers the "border" to stretch 100 miles inland, corralling two-thirds of the American population within this zone of "virtually no rights."[1] [1]: https://www.aclu.org/oth
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‘We must continue to dream big’: an open letter from Serena Williams(theguardian.com)
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by user982 10y ago
You are not unaware of ProtonMail [1]. Why are you putting its name in sneer quotes to imply unfamiliarity and insignificance? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305228
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by user982 10y ago
Lenovo put a rootkit in its laptops' firmware that reinstalled across system wipes, so no.
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by user982 10y ago
Can you hack in tactile feedback so I don't have to look down at my hands like a toddler to use it?

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