vdupras

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by vdupras 9mo ago
The speech was surprisingly good. I think it's going to prove effective. This "taking the sign off" thing, good imagery. But I can't help notice the inconsistency in this imagery. First, he says it himself a few minutes
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Hey, it's nice that you came in signed up to HN to cheer for the USD. I think it's going to be needed to change the overall sentiment.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Good strategy. Don't blame the king, blame his counselors. It's always the sensible thing to do in an absolute monarchy.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
You're not wrong, but at the same time, any discussion around this subject that remotely resembles a truth bombshell promptly gets flagged, so the only way you're going to see anything about this subject is if it states the obviou
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by vdupras 9mo ago
I think the words are "you're absolutely right".
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by vdupras 9mo ago
I'm curious what gives you the impression that no one cares. Anyone non-white in the US, regardless of their immigration and citizenship status, can expect to be harassed in the near future, so I'm guessing they care. Maybe they&#
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by vdupras 9mo ago
I don't see where you're going. We trust europeans and I very much doubt that we had any tariff on their automobiles to begin with. We're talking about removing a "artificial" stopgap tariff specifically targeting C
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Why would this move imply anything about China's trustworthiness? Canada has forever been USA's lap dog. They say "jump" we say "how high?". Those tariffs we had were mostly to be in solidarity of the US. Yes,
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Yes, it's a modest step, but my guess is that those BYD cars will sell like hot cakes and demand will go through the roof. By popular demand, the government will have to lift that limit. That's all China needs to destroy american
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Up until a while ago, I'm pretty sure that the consensus was that China not trustworthy. And then, Trump plays his cards and the consensus is now that the US are even less trustworthy. So here you go.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Those soldiers don't need to die for the attack on them (that is, taking them as prisoners) to be an act of war, doesn't it?
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by vdupras 9mo ago
One explanation could be that, if Trump is a Russian asset, he'd be more effective at it if he wasn't obviously one. Seizing all tankers except russian ones might be too obvious. Therefore, it might be worth it for Russia to lose
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Let me join on this XFCE love fest. I also think it rocks, but it's more than that. It's also my go-to install for "friends and family" linux installs (Debian stable and XFCE). I've been doing a couple of these over
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by vdupras 9mo ago
It's weird, I feel like we're arguing over saying the same thing. Sure, I agree, but please don't say it's a meme. Sure, it didn't take power, sure, the bourgeois were stronger, but they still managed to overthrow t
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by vdupras 9mo ago
> meme that the French Revolution was a quasi-communist revolution It's not a meme. There's clearly a collectivist movement within the revolution, it's just that this force failed to take power. The "révolution de Fév
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by vdupras 9mo ago
You're being beside the point. All I'm saying is: don't conflate "nobility" and "bourgeois" in your statistics and analysis. In the context of the French revolution, they're not the same. Of course th
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by vdupras 9mo ago
The statistics cited in the article you cite talks about the Nobility/Clergy/Other classification. There is no wealth-related statistic. It's entirely possible that a good fraction of the "Others" category were weal
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by vdupras 9mo ago
And it's flagged, of course. Will somebody vouch for this? I know what you're thinking. This doesn't encourage curiosity! This is politics! Same old, same old. HN! Come on, how myopic must you be to not see that a working dem
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by vdupras 9mo ago
It's as if, like, the whole tech supply chain could crumble overnight.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
It's fair because privatization of public good is generally not made with proper compensation either.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
I don't know, I guess there's all kinds of tricks. It's not as if US presence made the territory magically impervious to everything. Last time, weather balloons fooled the US military good enough. I mean, the US can't ev
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by vdupras 9mo ago
That is why I specifically wrote the words "they won't go as far as direct US confrontation". I refer to China-sponsored guerilla warfare.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Thank you for articulating this outside of the regular "HN myopia" lenses. This event will also serve as a measure of how strong China actually is. Venezuela is very important strategically for them, they can't let it slide u
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Wizards invented guns, good for them, but now the order is tall: they need to figure out how to undo the effect of their bullets.
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by vdupras 9mo ago
Why did you put "propaganda" in quotes?
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Nevertheless, I also remember that in the 10.4 days, OS X had the reputation of being sluggish compared to Linux or even Windows (I guess it was Windows 7 at the time?). And it kinda was. Bouncing ball when launching an app. How high the ba
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Because it has landed on Netflix recently, I've rewatched Gangs of New York. The process where that corrupt cop is skimming off the top is eerily similar to what's happening now. Down to the part where the police officer claims th
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by vdupras 10mo ago
He could pardon Mangione as well and that would make his karma even. Even Steven, just about square.
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Who's seeking power, the poor schmuck who misused their PDF tools? It seems that my novel "razor" is misunderstood. The article attributes bad redacting to gross incompetence. But what if the person having done this bad redac
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by vdupras 10mo ago
Trump's razor: Why attribute something to incompetence when you can attribute it to patriotic sabotage?

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