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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Discovering Psychology on PBS was a great series.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Lots of real estate between "might prefer to deny it" and "untraceable." On HN at least, you should assume the best possible interpretation instead of putting words into mouths. And yes, malfunction is the most likely ca
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
That's not the only kind of weapon.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
An accidental strike is unlikely. Either a massive malfunction, or maybe ASAT [1]. ASAT is always going to be a possibility from now on simply because the target might prefer to deny getting hit. [1] https://www.armscontrol.org&#
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Not to mention generating exodi from Venezuela and Syria just so that your puppet candidates in the US and the EU can rally against the "invasion" of refugees.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The obvious follow-up question would be: is there a correlation between specific nationalities and the fraction of "unknown cause" deaths?
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
I would take the 'Twitter isn't dying' posts with a grain of salt. Of course the same can be said about the 'Twitter is already dead' narrative. The latter isn't being pushed by a large PR operation, though.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> 7. Elon's PAC is setting up fake Harris campaign sites. Sites targeting Arabs and Israelis saying diametrically opposed things about Harris. He's also running a raffle if you sign his political pledge in Pennsylvania? And spr
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
I just meant that if they were to take a chance and travel, they could get picked up. It's not much of a deterrent against future interference, but at least it's less of a mockery of the laws to defend democracy.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Sanctioned and wanted people like to travel too. Prigozhin was flying his private jet all over Africa IIRC. Until a few years ago there were probably no repercussions at all for destroying democracy by trolling. I agree it's not much,
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Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar(theregister.com)
8 points by worstspotgain 2y ago|10 comments
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
It's primarily the lack of incentives, e.g. China in 1990 compared to 2010. Communism's "time in the sun" was not really about its ideological merits. It was just something fed to the intellectuals to get them to buy int
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Does the other party have an effective ad out there? No problem. Just find some theory under which it's not OK, and have your department of XYZ send a cease-and-desist letter to the media outfit. Works even better if the outfit in ques
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Judge slams Florida for censoring political ad(arstechnica.com)
15 points by worstspotgain 2y ago|1 comments
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Everything you wrote is correct. However, Mexico is actually an immigration success story. The net migration flow is around zero [1]. The big picture comes down to supply and demand. Today's supply is from specific countries: Venezuela
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The other people on the boat don't have a duty to cater to you. You can't just threaten to sink it if the primaries don't go your way. If you fail to find allies and fix the primaries, you still have a duty to keep the boat (
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Maduro is a 100% Russian product and service.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
They're fleeing Putin's strategically-created crises in Syria, Venezuela and elsewhere. He gives you the flu, blames the aspirin, and sells you the Ivermectin.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
You're basically saying "there must be a third button here somewhere." The third button is in the primaries. Right now you're just courting the self-destruction button. You're doing so on behalf of the self-destruct
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Let's hypothesize that a would-be administration in a Western country would like to accomplish full Russian-style autocracy relatively quickly. Let's say they have stated publicly that their plan is to go after immigrants first, o
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Like I said for the other message, this just reads like a cheap trick to suppress the vote that can help address climate change. If it was 2008 or 2012, maybe. It would have been stupid just the same, but McCain or Romney might not have bee
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Of course it doesn't. The point is whether it's enough to sway any voters anyway. To keep them from helping the planet by preventing the biggest preventable catastrophe this century, in a couple of weeks.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
OK tovarich, my regards to Vladimir.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
You continue to claim that not voting or that voting for Hannibal Lecter is OK in that it's really some sort of a moonshot. After all you agree with me, right? You do realize of course that if someone just wanted to get Hannibal Lecter
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
You do realize of course that this is exactly the claim that someone who wanted to get the worst candidate in the history of the presidency (by a few orders of magnitude) elected would make?
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> Trump isn't going to personally reverse the ongoing exit from fossil fuels. No, he actually would [1][2][3][4]. And that's without even counting Putin. When they tell you who they are, believe them. [1] https://www
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
That's a good one, vote for the guy who's against EVs and thinks climate change is a hoax. Why not just steer an asteroid onto Earth. The sooner it gets obliterated, the sooner life can reemerge. /s
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Not only that, we're approaching a massive tipping point in just a couple of weeks. Some of the "poser pontificators" claim to be concerned about the climate, yet they're not even sure they will vote. If you have relativ
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Interesting read. However, its ultimate conclusion is just the long way of saying that if you use ultra-optimized libraries, and you call them at a rate much lower than their inner loop rate, then it doesn't matter which language you

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