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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Yeah... we need decentralization, but I can't tell Ethereum apart from any of the other many proponents who have claimed to have invented that system and technology. If we were to apply a tech adaptation of Aaronson's red flags fo
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Thank you - this is what I was asking for. :) (Can you provide the links?)
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Can you say some more about the arguments linked here and the evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) that supports the thesis that they were right? I say this having briefly browsed the links contained and the summaries provided by the front pag
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
The challenges to NATO are mostly that the threat (as you so well document and argue) it was originally conceived for is no longer something strong enough to sustain it - it is being perpetuated beyond the context that birthed it. Today&#x2
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Yes. So greatfire, VOA, etc make a lot of sense - but what of Github? I don't believe they are a CSO on their face. I can imagine CSOs using github to host code or information that challenges the country (let's say software to org
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
This is quite precisely what Brussels would like to see - federated power over a loose union of nations with the ultimate goal of emerging as a sort of United States of Europe. As NATO is being challenged and Pax Americana not working out t
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
There's tons of evidence that NK attacked SONY and the reason they did it was revealed when the Guardians of Peace leaked the Lynton emails.
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
There is no rule of law of customs of the internet, however. That's been the big push for the last decade within the US: to develop an international norms framework for the internet. The problem is that many of the activities being per
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
I remain convinced that there was some other reason other than cyberforce posturing for the DDOS. Past examples of highly visible international attacks (I'm thinking of SONY here) have been to punish and embarrass companies for being c
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
The old world order is being seriously challenged and the old elite countries can't keep their ideals and their place at the same time. The citizens of course, demand both of their leaders. The leaders are trying to sacrifice liberties
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Is the argument now that the US does this, but that it isn't effective? I made no claims of particular effectiveness (god knows such efforts have failed - check the Arab Spring), but I'd paint your comment with the bullshit bluste
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Yes. Thanks for asking. There's plenty of evidence - CSOs/NGOs/USAID/UNITER aside - let's start with CANVAS. Here's wikileaks documents: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
History. It gives you context, which is half of everything.
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
> that telling the truth is the best antidote to Russian propaganda The truth sometimes is extremely damaging and narrative is a national security concern. The US works because of a couple of key national advantages - one being that it
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Couldn't the same be said about manipulating a child or someone with a mental disorder? That you are tailoring the message to the recipient, that it's a smart strategy to get what you want? I not really sure I like that analogy bu
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
The Washington Consensus cast a long shadow. With regard to high finance, international politics and military activity the parties are effectively the same (though the GOP may have closer ties to OPEC). Most American voters feel very strong
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
For those with the time and interest to browse I had previously compiled an incomplete list of domestic propaganda activities by the United States. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856218 There is also some compilation
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
This is the correct answer. Given that this website is part of the 'civil society' sphere, it likely already gets taxpayer money from the State Department. They should go to their funders - be they public or private - and ask for
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
I'm happy to see frank and intelligent conversation about rent. There seems to be a general understanding that the wages earned and the capital inherited by the very tip of our society does not speak to high levels of merit but instead
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Surprised not to see comments in here about the use of international standards to fix markets in the favor of one country's exports (versus another's) and for the associated backdooring of technology and standards. "The agenc
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
I had originally meant to include an argument about voters' pamphlets - I am glad that I did not as you covered it well. The pamphlet summaries, which issues are used for the face of a campaign and how these issues are carefully writte
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
I completely disagree with Aaron, who here seems to jump rather quickly to the (merely asserted) conclusion that the news (i.e. the world) doesn't affect him. (Without this same news we would not have heard of Snowden OR, in an ironic
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Did you read the article? NetBSD's implementation, specifically with regard to how it handles deallocation, diverges from OpenBSDs - though its documentation is wrong. LibreSSL (for example) will compile just fine on NetBSD, but as the
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
The changes introduced are potentially extremely damaging. Take for example: https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/search?utf8=%E2...
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Are not the representatives we get to choose from filtered before we can select them? Aren't the representatives beholden to those who can get them the money to run before we even get to hear that they are running? Aren't the (onl
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Look at the grassroots, bipartisan, loud and successful cry from the public not to enter Syria. How many months did that work? It is true that the system must represent the people. If and when it does not - whose fault is it? It can not be
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
I've posted this before and there are a large number of other examples, but the United States also engages in this activity against its targets [1][2]. (The US has been known to target democracies as well.) In addition there has been a
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Social Media unfortunately is a new favorite propaganda playground for nation states, both to cause instability and revolution in enemy nations (e.g. the USAID attempt in Cuba [1]), to push their narrative in another country (e.g. US use of
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Oh that's really interesting. Am I alone in the impression there were an unusual number of Asian (specifically) airliners that disappeared or crashed under unusual circumstances? I've recieved some other numbers (12; aviation-safe
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Lack of debris and communication aside, the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual. The Ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia has resisted implications that the pla

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