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> 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…

> 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…

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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": …

Very ironic mentioning semiconductors, when it was the protectionist US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement pushed by Reagan that propped up the American semiconductor industry, wh…

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 Br…

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 go…

> 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, accordi…

> 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…

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

Assassinating Soleimani was definitely not explicitly listed on any treaty.

I expect you to be cheering when Iran assassinates Trump for reneging on the nuclear deal and killing a high level general (among a laundry list of aggressive actions) and installs…

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 …

> 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".

Buying Facebook ads and making fake accounts is not "hacking".

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?

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'…

> 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. …

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 a…

Presumably that Google data center does a lot of compute intensive, non search related stuff - like GCP for one.

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 hun…

Doesn't the NSA have a bunch of massive datacenters? Regardless of that, the datacenter can be appropriated by the government too.

How are my personal decisions relevant? I'm calling for a government appropriation of the search division of Google.

> 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 s…

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/…