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The Spiegel Scandal and the Seduction of Storytelling(medium.com)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
It was not pointed at you or at anyone; it was a comment about my general experience as an HN user. I didn't realize that your account existed before you replied. My motives and knowledge, including about Africa (a word I personally wo
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Thanks. I still think you're thinking of someone else; please see my edit. To be clear, I also think those remarks (accusing people of being shills) are a problem; I didn't think I made one, though I'll stay even further away
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> In the last few months this class of posts have all migrated from "You're a Russian spy" and "how much did Putin pay you to post that" to "You're a Chinese shill". You are confusing me with someo
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by forapurpose 8y ago
I did this search at Startpage.com: brazil attitudes toward china poll
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by forapurpose 8y ago
The amount of propaganda is damaging my experience here. Not unlike Facebook and other platforms, HN seems to resist discussing how its platform is being abused and how it damages user experience; users are forbidden from discussing it publ
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Here in Brazil people are starting to open up for the Chinese loans. I read the opposite. What is that based on? EDIT: In response to the reply below, a search shows plenty of research out there on this topic. (Sorry, I don't have
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Can you back up this claim? My understanding is that, speaking very generally about a large continent, most African countries did not implement the economic fundamentals preached by the World Bank and IMF, but failed to due to corruption an
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by forapurpose 8y ago
I think simplifying the issue distracts us from the real issues, which are complex. The U.S. uses its military for good purposes and for bad. Sometimes war is due to other country's actions, sometimes due to the U.S.'s (e.g., Iraq
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> No US military leader wants to fight a war; that notion is absurd. I think your general point is good, but there are people, including people in government, who see war as a low-cost, acceptable means of achieving ends, including rally
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Hasn't Austin always been the liberal bastion of Texas, an island in a red sea? It seems odd to blame newcomers.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Given that that could be used to describe quite a lot of pulp sci-fi from that era Now that is useful context that I didn't know. Could you provide other examples? > Writers, then as now, knew what their audience wanted. Wasn&
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> that’s not the Stranger I remember IIRC, it happened in the martian's commune. > you’d have a different conclusion if you read Job to the end Thanks for the tip. Someone else posted the spoiler. While it does change things, it
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by forapurpose 8y ago
It happened in the Martian's commune (sorry, it's been awhile and I'm having a hard time remembering names).
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Nor do any other relationships of any kind ...
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Note the developer, grugq.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
In the two Heinlein books I remember, Stranger in a Strange Land and Job , the protagonist is a middle-aged man who has beautiful young women throw themselves at him. The women have no needs or agendas of their own; their only motivation
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Could some of the situation be due to differences between German and American conceptions and assumptions about journalism? I mean on a nuanced level; obviously German journalists don't think they should publish falsehoods. Purely as e
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by forapurpose 8y ago
The original article, with the same title, researched and written by two residents of the town, is here: https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m... I think that's a better link than the one ab
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Mods: Would you fix the link? Currently it is the following (410 characters; you'll have to find a way to read it): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern... I'm not going to try to pars
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by forapurpose 8y ago
In case people want to read the original story and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
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The Absence of the U.S. At the U.N. Business and Human Rights Forum(justsecurity.org)
2 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
While content has always been assumed to be outside the purview of security, I think there are at least two ways to look at it: 1. Of recently developed Internet technologies, disinformation is seems undoubtedly the most world-changing. Dem
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)(darpa.mil)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media(nytimes.com)
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by forapurpose 8y ago
The article goes deep into the differing perspectives and cultures in Washington and SV, and talks about solutions too.
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Despite confirmation bias, teaching media literacy works(niemanlab.org)
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> I think the aggressive trade stance and hard line politics by China might have played a major role. It's a nice distraction to attack China when the source of such things, in this tale, is a U.S. that has taken those stances to ex
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Remember that this is not an accident or byproduct, but a goal of nationalists in the U.S. government (and probably in China too). They seek division and a breakdown of international relations and activities.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
The word "culture" is often used as a euphemism when stereotyping - unsupported generalizations. What exactly does it mean here, and how can you back it up? Based on my experience in the world, it couldn't be said for anyone.

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