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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Of course. There is no ill will toward or deemphasis of Nash Equilibria. :) Merely, it's a shame that MORE of Nash's contributions haven't been as popularly traded. This popular science emphasis at the opportunity cost of oth
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This was in 1955! There are comments here trying to contrast Nash's work to modern cryptography, as though that's somehow fair. Nash never had access to anything remotely like a personal computer and this is just after the age - a
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
I have performed aquaponics experiments in my own apartment, parts of which were automated. The first thing I would say here is that anything like the setup you see in this video is a mammoth amount of work and is impressive from the sheer
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
I don't think so. The bid for constant-time implementations is fairly new whereas the key size issue has a long history. What I hear all the time in the practice is speed and backwards compatibility.
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"Welcome to The Next Wave, a quarterly publication of the National Security Agency's Research Directorate to disseminate technical advancements and research activities in telecommunications and information technologies. Mentions o
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The thing is we aren't talking about morals and ethics. We haven't been. We are doing a deductive (and therefore flawed) analysis of benefits and costs. Case in point: societies also (feel they) benefit from genocide. This doesn&#
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
I don't think I believe that repugnant actions must benefit the American public - just that broadly, when rounding, it does in practice. I do not believe that it has or deserves American consent. Regarding getting the intelligence yo
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Okay, good to know it's just normal market dynamics. Thanks.
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Does anyone have an inside scoop as to whether there are political causes, given the rising tension between China and South Korea?
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Americans do benefit from torture and murder - in addition to rendition, colonialization, mass propaganda, and all the other things I mentioned. They benefit in monetary and security terms. I am not claiming that this is justification. I do
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
What I think that the OP meant was that for the purposes of his role, he is an advocate for the types of civil initiatives supported by most of the HN crowd. In some sense every American that has benefited from torture, assassination, coup,
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
I posted a link to a Glenn Greenwald piece, which in turn references documents and links to further journalism. So let's take just one of the cases. NSA hacked Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras to win bids on offshore oil drilling locati
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Thank you, I was aware of these. Chomsky is a must, but he's so anarchist its easy to fall into an intellectual trap. Great resources. I would add, to understand propaganda's current direction, the work of Cass Sunstein (whose Wik
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Now propaganda makes it onto mass social media campaigns. Techniques include propagandizing "nudging" 'social influencers' who are hubs of social bonding and information. The US is known to use celebrities in their Twitt
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Well, he's not absurd. The US does have those interests but they are (invariably) curbed toward the benefit of American citizens and allies. The US order and global trade has done a lot of good. It's also committed and supported a
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Not taking a side here, but wanted to add details to your list. America does not have a firewall, but they do have means to stop certain things from circulation. A great example is ISIL video. It is expunged from Youtube and Facebook and ot
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
100% agreed on impulses of all sorts by citizens who don't understand what the TPP is about. But this is because there is no discussion about it on frank terms - the US can't even take a real stance on it and have to work in vagua
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The US with the EU has kept both the Ottoman Empire and its conquered native cultures divided for a long time (even coup'ed a democratically elected government), has neocolonialized South America, has couped and/or occupied many o
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The stability and victories of peace are also due to the US. It is the US world order. It has problems, but it's also very difficult to determine what alternate histories would look like. Neither the US nor China are evil or good. They
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Both of you are right. China is a bully and so too is the United States. Superpowers bully. So the question is about how to handle this situation between conflicting interests. We need to figure out how to keep as much peace as we can with
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The TPP is not merely a free trade deal. It is a trade deal made exclusively to isolate China, and then allow it to participate in a few years only if it (China) follows certain rules (i.e. Western Intellectual Property law).
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
This is TTIP, not TTP. Can you clarify what you mean?
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To have a good understanding of why the USG wants the TPP, yes, it's about China. As citizens we feel that inequality of wealth opportunity is the high, urgent priority - and that tools inside the TPP will exacerbate these issues. As
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This is true except that the US would not be getting involved unless it aided US security or other interests. In this case the US would like to contain China from becoming too large a global player (the US Grand Strategy for defense for the
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The Snowden docs. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
I've been an advocate of transparent discussion for some time. The TPP represents a huge constellation of laws and it is absurd that the negotiations are done so secretively. But discussion about the TPP, too, is done in an opaque way.
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This is what Washington Thinktanks and Defense Officials are saying about the TPP. I'm not really advocating the TPP as much as I am trying to bring awareness about what the TPP is for.
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
First, thank you for taking the time to write a thoughtful reply. China is definitely not a boogeyman. I hope my comment did not imply it is/was. :) It's better to understand the comment by the idea that the US does not want a mul
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How can I come to these comments and not see a single thing written about China? Secretary of Defense Carter stated that he would rather have the TPP succeed than have another aircraft carrier. The TPP, from a national defense perspective,
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
The policy maker mentioned in the article claims that credit is now more liquid than cash. This could be taken quite a number of ways. One way is to think that the conveniences of credit has made cash less relatively liquid (there are fewer

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