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mrex
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Comment #32610971
You really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once? What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledgi…
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Comment #32610948
>I'm criticizing the content. With all due respect, no you aren't. There isn't any criticism of the actual content in your post. It's all critiquing the tone - what style he used w…
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Comment #32606201
We taught the lesson on this, didn't we?
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Comment #32606188
I don't see why, given that looking through Google Maps seems to suggest that it's at least as common as not... Let me just step back and observe that this is possibly the worst wa…
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Comment #32605992
It seems extremely unfair. Rather than focusing on the content, you're criticizing tone. It comes off as a structured tactic, given that famous image of Mudge with unkempt hair in …
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Comment #32605825
It's interesting that in the countries where it seems to be less common, everyone assumes that displaying flags outside of schools is a US-only thing, when spot checks of Google Ma…
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Comment #32605773
This seems like a bad comparison. Hanging from cranes isn't a form of criminal assault that some people experience, as "being assaulted in the USA" is. It's a form of standardized …
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Comment #32605759
Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at…
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Comment #32605733
>Its very much a US thing Are you sure? I've done a little bit of spot checking on Google Maps, and I find that national flags are clearly visible outside public schools in: Canada…
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Comment #32605555
I can remember seeing flags in front of schools in every country I've visited, several in the Americas, several in Asia, and several in MENA.
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Comment #32605503
>It's certainly not normal in my country for schools to display the country's motto or flag Wow, really? Can I ask what country? In my state it's illegal for the leader of a school…
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Comment #32605391
Why is it odd that regulations would require public schools to display the motto of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or any of that? These things seem like exac…
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Comment #32570676
The only honest answer I can give there is, "I don't know". So far as I'm aware, Twitter hasn't alleged that, no evidence has been presented supporting such an allegation, and gene…
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Comment #32570385
Mudge is to cybersecurity as Orson Welles is to film. That's not hyperbole.
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Comment #32570230
I don't think you understand how poorly attacking Mudge's character or insinuating that he's driven by some unethical ulterior motive is going to work out. Mudge is... he's Mudge. …
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Comment #32566697
Mudge alleges that their disclosures were a less than good faith attempt to gauge the figure. Mudge also raises a number of allegations not pertaining to bots, including that Twitt…
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Comment #32566509
There seems to be the impression that "waiving due diligence" in an acquisition is some license for the seller to defraud the potential buyer without recourse. If Mudge's allegatio…
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Comment #32566300
"All multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get an advantage over another by false suggestions or suppression of the tr…
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Comment #32565659
"Zatko was fired by Twitter in January and claims that this was retaliation for his refusal to stay quiet about the company’s vulnerabilities."
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Comment #32565641
The fraud that Mudge alleges in this article, for instance?
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Comment #32565223
>waiving due diligence rights Pop legal quiz - does "waving due diligence rights" during an acquisition remove the other party's liability for fraud they've committed against the p…
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Comment #32565190
Some options that shareholders would have in the situation where investors were knowingly deceived by false disclosures of a publicly traded company are missing from this response.…
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Comment #32565149
Just to clarify for those who don't catch it in the article: Mudge's whistleblower complaint predates the Musk/Twitter feud entirely.