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by xfs 7y ago
Look, I'm no Greek, and you're entitled to your opinion. The problem is this is exactly the same kind of finger pointing and the Greeks (the Spaniards, the Italians, etc) are the spoiled brats rhetorics that are creating toxic pol
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by xfs 7y ago
He could. He was committed to a Grexit, which he calculated to be substantially better for Greece than what it has now. Then he got immense political pressure and death threats to his family.
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by xfs 7y ago
It quadrupled after joining because it borrowed money from Germany and other countries to buy German cars and other goods, not unlike the early stage of Bretton Woods. It had the lowest debt level before joining, like a fat cat to be squeez
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by xfs 7y ago
I'm not talking about the meetings either. The meetings were even simpler: he went there for debt negotiation with an election mandate to not capitulate and with the most open mind for compromise, and was immediately handed an ultima
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by xfs 7y ago
> He wanted to replace Euros with a crypto-currency as IoU I don't know where you get this piece of information, but in all his books he argues against Bitcoin and crypto-currency as a reserve currency, making a point of the impossi
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by xfs 7y ago
> he didn't pay attention to the reality of the situation Or he paid too much attention to the reality of the situation. According to him, as a professional economist, the Euro is structurally unsustainable and is going to implode i
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by xfs 7y ago
Reaped the benefits? Greece's GDP dropped 30% since 2008 it and was forced into austerity by the Troika to move debts from the left pockets of Deutsche Bank to the right pockets, with the interests paid for by Greek tax payers.
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by xfs 7y ago
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. -John Von Neumann
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by xfs 7y ago
First I thought reading /etc/machine-id would be expected if Chrome uses D-bus or pulseaudio libraries which depend on D-bus, and /etc/machine-id is part of D-bus. But no, they really use it for tracking purposes. And in
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by xfs 7y ago
Based on news reports in other countries it's a pretty consistent stance for Chinese diplomats to make the claim that if Huawei is allowed to compete in a free market manner it will be beneficial to trade relationship or if Huawei is b
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by xfs 7y ago
It's rare to see introspective questions around here. The fear is not all fictional, but the fictional part, the fear of the totalitarian Other, is definitely helpful in justifying the establishment status quo and maintaining consensus
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by xfs 7y ago
You have a good analogy in that China has different systems of political correctness. But it's not just fear of the consequences as to why criticizing the government offends China. First, criticism, or rather, speech welds actual power
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by xfs 7y ago
At the risk of being labeled one myself... there are no examples. I've seen dang respond to complaints like this many times and every time it was real people with real profiles being accused of shills, trolls etc. Also, if you look it
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by xfs 7y ago
Varoufakis' comment on China isn't about China per se but rather an extension of his economic criticism of financial capitalism. He views China as patient investors looking for long term returns from infrastructure projects instea
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by xfs 7y ago
Actual news: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3022479/chin...
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by xfs 7y ago
The crux of the difficulty at understanding Huawei's ownership system is because Ren Zhengfei modeled it as a Maoist collective ownership mechanism, an alien concept prone to misreading from a private ownership premise, and at the same
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by xfs 7y ago
This is wrong. BBR still does retransmission if packets do not arrive on time, and any retransmission in the inner TCP stack automatically becomes badput that wastes the outer TCP stack which is likely at the same time also doing retransmis
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by xfs 7y ago
I used to not use ad blockers as I'm not bothered by ads. But it's getting increasingly difficult not to because the ads are making thousands of requests downloading hundreds of mbs of who knows what quite often simply crashing th
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by xfs 7y ago
What is unbelievable in aiming "to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states"? I think the State Department has funded plenty of other censorship circumvention projects like Tor. But you have to admit the funding for Tor was
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by xfs 7y ago
Well, you have to master the language of critique before being able to critique the language itself.
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by xfs 7y ago
Its meaning is surprisingly well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng . Huawei has filed plenty of other trademarks using names from ancient Chinese texts.
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by xfs 7y ago
The employees do own permanent 'shares' and enjoy proportional dividends but they cannot liquidate the shares at market price when they quit the company. This is socialist collective ownership for you. Like I said, the employees p
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by xfs 7y ago
I did some research. Huawei's ownership system is so radical that probably no one in the West and few in China realized what it is. It is collective ownership in the socialist sense, or a commune. The paradox of this kind of ownership
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by xfs 7y ago
> I don’t see how it benefits Huawei for their founder to take this combative stance unless they think that the US is doing this solely to kneecap Huawei and there is no chance they will allow them to compete even if the allegations are
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by xfs 8y ago
The 100-step rule is a connectionist theory constraint from below in cognitive science and neuroscience that states that no primary brain operation (e.g., face recognition) can take more than 100 neuron firing “steps.” This imposes a tempor
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by xfs 8y ago
Allow me to clarify: facts are meaningless in the literal sense that facts are devoid of meaning without interpretation. When you say facts be confirmed by experiments, the very confirmation already presupposes the existence of criteria by
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by xfs 8y ago
Mainline Linux will run but all the fancy stuff won't work. They ship 4.9 kernel which is two years old (though it's LTS). After all it's just a standard ARM board with a fancy GPU and peripherals.
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by xfs 8y ago
Raw facts are meaningless without models, theories, or even, ideologies. Without meaning you can't do anything useful with it, or anything "that works." You always have to have a theory in order to predict the future based on
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by xfs 8y ago
lampreys
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by xfs 8y ago
A radical implication is then to locate free will in the unconscious. The true acts of freedom are choices made unaware. The consciousness merely registers the choices that are already made.

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