Fazal Majid

I don't use Twitter - this is just to prevent impersonation

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@susie_dent I was looking for Chesterton’s Fence in an 18th ed. of Brewer’s, to no avail, only the much more obscure “Chesterbelloc”. It’s the argument you should not remove a fence obstructing a road before understanding why it was placed there in the first place. Next edition?

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@tabletmag @wrmead @WRMpod @JeremySternLA Walter, I wish you had mentioned the 350,000 Chinese civilians murdered by the Japanese in retaliation for helping the downed Doolittle Raid US airmen. They paid a horrendous toll for an operation of marginal military importance.

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@nurrowin @HSBC_UK Most sane companies have code freezes in place over Black Friday and Christmas to New Year. Mine does. I'm guessing another case of outsourcing IT to India. The exec got his bonus, customers have to pick up the pieces.

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@amconmag @MrMaitra A far more serious situation occurs when a democracy fails to stem lawlessness, populists like Duterete in the Philippines or Bukele in El Salvador are voted in, trampling any notion of due process and even organizing death squads

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@amconmag @MrMaitra There was the notorious case of US teenager Michael Fay who was caned in Singapore for vandalism, to thunderous applause in the US: https://t.co/i8rDIxCDtu
except of course this is state corporal punishment in a country that has effective administration of law and order

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@BretDevereaux the bizarre Prigozhin/Wagner attempted mutiny calls out for a refresher on Polybius’ Histories and the Mercenary War, as dramatized in Flaubert’s Salammbo.

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@tomowolade @NewStatesman Jews and Roma were not considered "White" for a long time. I don't think Roma are. Benjamin Franklin, in his misguided youth, penned a screed against German or Swedish immigrants he deemed "swarthy". Only the English and Saxons were truly white in his book.

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@tomowolade @NewStatesman This reminds me of the French Left's reactions to the Dreyfus Affair. Many, like Proudhon, considered that Dreyfus' conviction must have been just because the bourgeois justice system had no reason to discriminate against another bourgeois like Dreyfus.

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@molly0xFFF Companies House is not just a company, it is the agency of the UK government that handles incorporation of all UK companies, established by an Act of Parliament.

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@theintercept @schwarz And of course there is the 2012 documentary "The Act of Killing", that was nominated for an Oscar.

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@geoburke Apple has announced they will allow you to disable the phone-based recovery flow if you generate a "recovery key" https://t.co/mZ9OO2ncgt

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@Pinkhairbassist @KnightsofBlue @anothercohen Non-competes are illegal in California, where most key Twitter employees probably are.

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@theintercept @alicesperi Keep in mind Interpol is an organization that was led by fine upstanding paragons of morality like Reinhard Heydrich, or currently Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, a UAE General responsible for torture.

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@om @Verizon @Apple I tried getting a T-Mobile or Verizon eSIM for my last visit to the US this weekend. None of them would let me because my UK IMEI is not in their database. Physical SIMs never had that restriction.

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@om @Verizon @Apple Get a European iPhone. They still have the SIM, the loss of mmWave is hardly noticeable since those literally can't punch its way out of a paper bag, and with the dollar high as it is, you might even save money.

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@majorhayden @QuinnyPig Since side channels are CPU bugs, the solution is not to add more CPU features with their own bugs, but to provide controls to allow a client to reserve a whole physical system and slice it into VMs, guaranteeing there are no neighbors. AWS allows that.

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@majorhayden @QuinnyPig The most plausible threat model I can imaging is neighbor VMs on the same physical system using side-channels like Meltdown or Spectre to steal your secrets. There are mitigations, but they are extremely expensive in terms of performance.

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@delric99 @daringfireball They will eventually, but in the meantime the competitors are all much more expensive, that would mean paying about £10-15 extra for an unlimited data plan and £10/day for roaming in the EU. I have zero interest in the iPhone 14 because it did not go USB-C anyway.

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@ZOTAC_USA Sounds like a nice machine for a firewall or embedded server. Is the chassis all-metal? What are the controllers specs for the 2 LAN ports and the WiFi 6E?

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@daringfireball If I have to choose between the lack of SIM of the US iPhones and the lack of 5G mmWave bands on non-US phones, I'm clearly going to opt to keep the SIM tray.