wz1000

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by wz1000 6y ago
> Thank you UN for not being able to do your job! The UN is simply a forum for countries to meet and discuss international affairs. It is not a global governing body, and wields no power not authorized by its constituent member nations.
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by wz1000 6y ago
> I don't disagree with the concept of a "bug bounty for information" but I'm struggling to come up with an idea of what that would look like in a way that is either more effective or different than patents. https:&#
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by wz1000 6y ago
Zathura supports epubs using zathura-pdf-mupdf
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by wz1000 6y ago
Interesting you pick on any mention of Foucault as giving away ideological leanings, since, incidentally, Graeber was not a big fan. From "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology": > Academics love Michel Foucault’s argument tha
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by wz1000 6y ago
Very ironic mentioning semiconductors, when it was the protectionist US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement pushed by Reagan that propped up the American semiconductor industry, while leading to the decline of the Japanese industry
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by wz1000 6y ago
Fortunately, the specific violations have been compiled by the world bank, as pointed out in a sibling comment. I just have one part I found incredibly funny > The idea that the British were somehow exploitative by resisting renegotiatio
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by wz1000 6y ago
You are conflating not investing in a country with overthrowing a democratically elected government . Are you really arguing that it was OK for the US and UK to overthrow Iran's government because otherwise foreigners might not have i
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by wz1000 6y ago
> Are we talking about the D'Arcy Concession? I ask because none of what you are describing is found in the text of that agreement. The agreement was re-negotiated in 1933, according to terms that the grandparent pointed out. At th
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by wz1000 6y ago
> If you disagree with the substance then please do so without accusing me of being inhumane. I'm not accusing you of being inhumane. I'm wondering if you would apply similar moral standards when the shoe is on the other foot,
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by wz1000 6y ago
Here is what Iranians see from major American presidential candidates considered to be "highly respected on both sides of the aisle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
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by wz1000 6y ago
Assassinating Soleimani was definitely not explicitly listed on any treaty.
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by wz1000 6y ago
Why should a concession made by a monarch pre-constitutional revolution be expected to be upheld by a democratically elected leader operating after significant changes in the form and nature of government? I have noticed all such principled
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by wz1000 6y ago
> But what do you expect to happen when you forcibly take all of the British resources? Very strange how oil underneath the Iranian soil can be considered a "British resource".
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by wz1000 6y ago
Buying Facebook ads and making fake accounts is not "hacking".
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by wz1000 6y ago
Truly an absurd comment. The US government is the largest employer in the country, with something in the order of 10 million employees. Are they all slaves chained to their desks?
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by wz1000 6y ago
Even if all you say is true and it is truly impossible for the government to replicate any of what Google does, the point is moot. If the government is going to appropriate Google's index, might as well appropriate the datacenters too.
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by wz1000 6y ago
> aren't using a government run one right now kind of undermines the sincerity of your arguments. First I never said I'm not. Either way it is pretty irrelevant to the discussion. If, in fact, I am not using a government run on
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by wz1000 6y ago
The NSA also monitors most of the worlds communications in near real time. A building full of hard drives is also completely useless without some sort of reasonably decent search and indexing capability, so I'm pretty sure the NSA buil
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by wz1000 6y ago
Presumably that Google data center does a lot of compute intensive, non search related stuff - like GCP for one.
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by wz1000 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center > designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger While google says: > The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages an
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by wz1000 6y ago
Doesn't the NSA have a bunch of massive datacenters? Regardless of that, the datacenter can be appropriated by the government too.
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by wz1000 6y ago
How are my personal decisions relevant? I'm calling for a government appropriation of the search division of Google.
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by wz1000 6y ago
> The way that people underestimate the scale and complexity of Google's indexing always makes me chuckle. The same approach that works for Google can also work for a public body supported by public funds. It can also use much of t
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by wz1000 6y ago
Here's one idea: Make the index open and public, set up a public body to update it, and allow anyone to build a frontend. Access can be charged per query. Other companies/entities/governments will be allowed to mirror the ind
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by wz1000 6y ago
The Mongolian Empire was very different in operation from the British or other colonial empires. It was not set up with the aim of wealth extraction and economic dominance of subjugated territories back to the parent country. You could not
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by wz1000 6y ago
There is certainly a huge difference between setting up extractive institutions designed for the benefit of people living half a world away, compared to extractive institutions set up for the benefit of people living a few hundred kilometer
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by wz1000 6y ago
European colonialism was certainly novel in its sheer scale, and its effects are felt to this day in pretty much every non European country barring a small handful.
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by wz1000 6y ago
Two things: 1. It isn't clear that the (real) cost of essentials like food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education is actually going down significantly. 2. Even if what you say is 100% correct, this "extraction of wealth due to
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by wz1000 6y ago
> Talking about a revolution > Many economists want precisely this state intervention, but it presents clear risks. Governments which already carry heavy debts could decide that worrying about deficits is for wimps and that central-ba
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by wz1000 6y ago
First flight: 1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

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