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by xster 5y ago
I guess the implicit question is why such obsession on fighting and weapons on the coins. Anthropologist David Graeber has a fascinating perspective ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs ). He posits that our present
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https://www.opentech.fund/results/supported-projects/open-wh... Funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund Which is funded by Radio Free Asia (RFA
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by xster 5y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying. I'm not sure your statement is in disagreement with mine either? I don't think he's saying less OSS is better or anything dogmatic? All he's saying is that using Tor&#x
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This seems like a good place to say that I strongly recommend Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley book ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34220713-surveillance-va... ) where he suggests that all of this is wo
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by xster 5y ago
This is true in the city. Unfortunately there aren't any options in the peninsula. When WFH started, I had 1000ms+ pings for over a month and had to have 2 alternate SIM tethering plans to keep working. Comcast acknowledged that they w
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When making blanket statements, some citations could help
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well the GP thread is removed now so it's hard to see my point now. The position I described is facetious because people who voice that position don't accept that position and instead really advocate for the mass indiscriminate ki
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by xster 5y ago
"I don't hate the Chinese people, I just hate the Chinese government"
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by xster 5y ago
The NSA has been hacking Huawei for years. If it had anything concrete, it would have shared it years ago rather than forcing its NATO allies to dump Huawei based on vagueries like "I know we wiretapped your chancellor, but trust us, H
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A often forgotten group are indigenous Austronesian Taiwanese people who were continuously displaced since the Qing dynasty but were subject to major cleanse and upheaval during the KMT retreat to Taiwan, leaving them to ~3% of the Taiwanes
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by xster 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia Han: 79%. It's just one Google away. > against the Russians This seems to be rewriting the history of Russia creating an independent country of outer Mongolia out of
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by xster 5y ago
Considering how stereotypical Liu Cixin's on-the-ground social views (rather than the human-condition social views) were, I think it's just his reflection of mainstream cultural directions China is going through. And I'd say
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by xster 5y ago
I'd also be careful with the labels based just around the flavor of authoritarianism you're used to for all your life. FWIW, drinking age is generally customary rather than codified in practice in China, as is public drinking.
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by xster 5y ago
A bit of a tangent, but how would you change the gaokao system? It's certainly a huge strain on the child, but I'm not sure how to design a different system that allows a similar level of class mobility and fairness either.
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Just as the SWIFT system are 'choke-points' of sovereignty.
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Are you referring to something specific?
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I think the argument was that they could send Sophons faster than we can build particle accelerators.
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by xster 5y ago
It's generally true for the first 30 min. Unless you show signs of interest at the videos you find uninteresting, it'll do a decent job of stabilizing over time.
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by xster 5y ago
Also, how do you amortize the alternatives? e.g. the airports, getting to the airports (which are further from city centers than train stations), etc?
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This article doesn't actually say anything besides the conclusion of the author (who wrote "The Snowden Operation", where he "demolishes Snowden's claim to be a whistleblower"). He wrote a conclusion, that Twit
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by xster 5y ago
Also interesting (secret TPP) bit: "The deal also reportedly includes a framework to eliminate digital services taxes, which targeted the biggest American tech companies." In other words, if you sell to us, we'll call it dump
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by xster 5y ago
It's hard to figure out what you're trying to point out specifically. There's a lot of words and emotions and editorials but the article doesn't actually say anything. Can you point to some primary source for the point y
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by xster 5y ago
On the flip side, I don't always take my wallet with me. It seems a lot easier to go phone only (especially in China) than wallet only.
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by xster 5y ago
Sounds like a good approach. Why not put it to practice by letting China own Florida for 150 years, then see who Floridians want to join at the end of it.
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Before this fan fiction gets too elaborate, it's probably easier for anyone in China to just look at CNN http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=cnn.com than spending the time to become a hacker.
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by xster 5y ago
How did you systematically come to the conclusion that those "debates" shouldn't be had? Which straw broke the camel's back? Is it because Carlos on the internet , who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post,
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> To be clear, I hope Chinese users feel welcome here. I don't doubt you believe that too. But as far as I can tell, it's what people in western forums believe too as long as those Chinese people don't opine in a way that&
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by xster 5y ago
I'm not sure they're meant to "defend" themselves against US psyops https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/julianborger : CNN [and NPR] let army staff into newsroom
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by xster 5y ago
On the flip side, is Twitter itself not "fake"? Specifically, Twitter is selective in the types of content it chooses to censor. And they're pretty open in stating that accounts "undermining faith in the NATO alliance an
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So it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842733 but with one more layer of indirection and rephrased to be stated with more confidence without any changes in primary source?

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