Lionsion

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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Today yes, but with FB's technical capabilities, I can't see why they couldn't knock off a respectable (if not superior in most respects ... clone of YouTube in way under a year. Facebook's challenge, IMHO, isn&#x27
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> A Giant, Purposeless, Unfocused Machine Learning System. Timely, so very timely.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Youtube seems to offer a better user experience than facebook for users who don't have an account or aren't signed into an account. I think it's something a bit more general: Facebook is all about getting people to do, r
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> What sort of bizarre hedging is saying that people are just acting "perhaps like" paid Chinese trolls? You need to re-read my comment, especially the sentence after the one you partially quoted. What I was getting at was tha
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Also I find it quite telling that Lionsion still refuses to respond to any of my points. Ok, I'll bite. Here's my response: You need to go outside and take a walk , because your "points" have been off topic, liter
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Would you like to respond to my points No. Please take your points to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105121 . > in order to push your own agenda? My agenda is to stay at least vaguely on-topic. > Why is it
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Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies(cnn.com)
3 points by Lionsion 8y ago|0 comments
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by Lionsion 8y ago
You're literally trying to carry the same derail into a new thread where it's even less on-topic? Here, I made a new post for you for your derail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105121 . Please take it t
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> accusing the government of sending groups of real (let's define real as regular HN contributors with at least 10 karma pts) people to deflect/defend on a HN post is a technically a conspiracy theory. I never claimed that in m
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> pointing out the random articles dealing with China ever is also unrelated. (A freaking article about the Moon lander for pete's sake) Which was observed to have had anomalous commenting behavior. I think it's an important qu
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I think this one will stay, but mainly because the content is an inoculation against the kind of trolling that usually leads to China threads getting buried. I do have an irrational hope that the inoculation will last for more than a single
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The thing is there's this strange, "uncanny" feeling I get whenever these things are shared too I posted this because I got super frustrated with all the derails and distractions that utterly destroyed the Xinjiang ind
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The rating was sustained by constant comments by Chinese studying in the US and burnishing their reps with the Party. I can believe it. The Chinese government apparently paying students to wave flags when their officials come visit [1
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> All governments do propaganda, this is a well known fact....Even companies astroturf. This paper isn't about that kind of propaganda, where a particular narrative gets pushed. It's about an insidious kind of propaganda where
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by Lionsion 8y ago
It might be a fact (I don't know), but certainly it detracts from your point. I think you should edit out the stuff about her.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I agree as well. Maybe she's uneducated and unintelligent, I don't know anything about her, but there are more polite ways of saying that and it distracts from the overall point.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Whenver there is any negative story about china, the downvotes happen immediately and "defends of the honor of china" pop up magically throwing dirt everywhere. Maybe a little, but the main thing I see in stories like that
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I doubt it, since that's not at all what the paper describes. Here's a quote from the abstract: > In contrast to prior claims, we show that the Chinese regime's strategy is to avoid arguing with skeptics of the party and
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by Lionsion 8y ago
You should actually read the paper. An IP user making edits to a controversial Wikipedia page is nothing like what this paper is talking about. To summarize: 1. The Chinese government has a massive, coordinated effort to post on socia
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I agree. Distraction can be really disruptive to having meaningful, productive discussions. I think many people even do it reflexively even if they're not getting paid or instructed to. There was a recent HN post about terrible reed
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by Lionsion 8y ago
This link doesn't work for you? https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/how_the_chinese_... It's the "article" link on the page, and it works for me right now.
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Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction(gking.harvard.edu)
293 points by Lionsion 8y ago|153 comments
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> My point was simple. Despite the systems of trade, a catastrophic shock in trade or production systems could literally kill millions in a way that is more brutal and horrific than instant obliteration. Systems have trade have made the
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Authoritarians Distract Rather Than Debate(marginalrevolution.com)
5 points by Lionsion 8y ago|1 comments
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> What we just saw was a public alpha. There will be a beta and a final version of this system. The rewards are too great for every state-level actor to ignore and fail to develop election manipulation tools using any new technology they
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> On complexity vs sophistication: During the cold war, a US company noticed the USSR had stolen the plans for a natural gas pipeline system, but not the software. I think this account might be a bit wrong. The one I read said that the
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The most sophisticated software in history was written by a team of people whose names we do not know. Isn't this hyperbole? I'd grant that Stuxnet is probably the most sophisticated malware ever written, but calling it th
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> It's mission was to destroy some expensive industrial centrifuges and set back Iran's nuclear program. And it destroyed some centrifuges precisely as it was designed to. At that point discovery is inevitable, but whatevs beca
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Yesterday and today look identical to me? Yesterday's had the carrier logos prominently displayed. Today's has not carrier logos that I can see.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future? Do you thi

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