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by vmh1928 6y ago
it was in response to the comment about decentralized apps built by idealistic silicon valley types being used by MAGA types. The point being that it might be funny to him but authoritarians do have a track record of exploiting technology.
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In Germany the government used census data tabulated on IBM punchcard equipment to find who to round up. Later, during the liquidation phase of the effort each camp had punch card equipment to help with maintaining the inventory of slave
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Another variant is by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the most intolerant win. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Another way to say this is the "well-kept gardens die by pacifism." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintai
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The Dick and Jane books were set in the 'burbs. The suburbs are primarily white, cisgender and bastions of Patriarchy. Children's books that portray a white, cisgender, patriarchal world are not favored by the publishing or educa
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Yes, watch any of the Azerbaijan drone videos on Youtube. They decimated the conventional (tanks, vehicles, bunkers, artillery,) Armenian forces with "relatively" inexpensive Turkish and Israeli drones. A real object lesson about
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Too bad the author didn't discuss how to make a raft from deck chairs. Always bring 50' of para cord and a compliant knife. Perhaps a discussion of what sort of non-obvious cutting instrument would be good to bring. Nail clipper
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Like when people in the WTC were told to stay put. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/16/september11.us...
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by vmh1928 6y ago
All those cars are headed for Craigslist. "great condition, 2020 pickup, only 30 miles on the odo. salvage title."
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The problem is that a significant portion of the South Korean civilian population lives within range of NK artillery in place along the DMZ including parts of the capitol, Seoul. According to this article that's about 45 miles. https
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Great for sub-orbital ICBMs. Now we just need something for the hypersonic cruise missiles Russia and China are fielding.
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Sound familiar? Nothing new under the sun. "The only propaganda line open to the Nazis and Fascists was to represent themselves as Christian patriots saving Spain from a Russian dictatorship. This involved pretending that life in Gover
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Jewish culture has always had a deep respect for and encouragement of intellectual development. The Islamic world may have had that in the past but it's been heavily suppressed by the spread and rise to power and influence of more ext
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Old men yelling? For a second I thought you were commenting on the presidential debate.
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by vmh1928 6y ago
In studying history I find some of the most useful documents are older histories. For instance, reading about World War 1, finding the account written in the 20's or 30's can be very informative. Of course those histories have b
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Some Youtube accounts post recordings of video games, some of which are set in a historical context. Nobody takes those for a view of reality. By the same argument art restoration should not be attempted because cleaning paintings discolore
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Perhaps the Academic Historians are critical because enhanced and colorized documents make the past more understandable to lay people and reduce the need for the Academic Historian to define the historical context compared to looking at the
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by vmh1928 6y ago
"This is called the Sacred Cenote because the Maya performed rituals in which they burned and hacked apart offerings before tossing them into the pool." "offerings"? "According to post-Conquest sources (Maya and Spa
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The US viewed the initial years of WW1 as an European war and there was little appetite to become involved in spite of the cultural connections between the US and France and the UK (and Italy and Russia to a lesser extent.) For the reaso
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Focusing on skin and eye color seems imprecise and really, why even bring it up? DNA mutations or markers spread in a population. Then some members of that population travel to distant lands and intermarry (or not, maybe just die,) a
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by vmh1928 6y ago
This one? quote: NASA investigators then arranged the sting, where Conley met with Davis and her current husband at the Denny's restaurant at Lake Elsinore in Riverside County. Soon after settling into a booth, Davis said, she pulled o
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Many of the SKS sold were military surplus from the various source countries and were usually covered in heavy preservative grease. The grease got into ever nook and cranny (as it was supposed to,) and could prevent the firing pin from mov
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Pretty sure the education system exists to serve the education system. Big Ed is an industry unto itself, you don't need the nefarious corporate America behind it to make it a money-extracting cabal. $120k in student loans and a libe
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by vmh1928 6y ago
In the old days most of the corporate research was in the physical sciences because the products, large "mainframe" computers and their peripherals, were very mechanical and cast in hardware. The advances of the next generation of
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by vmh1928 6y ago
This article covers a broader time frame of the history of the region. I think it's a bit much to say, as the article says, that the Greeks were "gobsmacked" by the rise of the Kingdom of Pontus. The area has a very long hi
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by vmh1928 6y ago
This article mentions the wifi reason. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/accusations-emerg...
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Apple has plenty of funding to fight a lawsuit. They can divert some of the share-buyback funds. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/apple-launches-unprecedent...
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The book "Marching Orders" by Bruce Lee tells the story of Magic intercepts of the Japanese military and diplomatic code and reviews the daily summaries read by Marshall and other US leaders in the context of what was happening in
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by vmh1928 6y ago
I noticed that too, no doubt posed, as the story said, due to the slow exposure required. Probably in a rear training area or perhaps 2nd or 3rd line trench. The trench with the men aiming rifles didn't look like it had ever been shell

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