- Apple’s spinning mirror: exploiting children for dictatorships
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Apple has decided on “child porn” as the root password to disable privacy on their phones. But the system they’re using appears to be mostly worthless at detecting the exploitation of children, and very useful for detecting dissent from authoritarian governments. - Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in the Chinese
- K. Singer surveys alcohol use and the perception of use in China and Hong Kong during and after World War II. As the center of the illegal opium trade, narcotics were a bigger problem in Hong Kong than alcohol.
- Europe, the West, and the graphs of destruction
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The solution to the graphs of destruction is the graph of freedom. - The Hillary Clinton e-mail ‘scandal’ that isn’t
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There’s no there here, and it doesn’t affect her campaign. Nothing in the law says felons can’t be President. - What can we do about Hong Kong?
- Hong Kong has a bill of “rights” that depends on the kindness of strangers. There’s one right that can’t be taken away by a despot’s pen. But can the democratic country which now controls Hong Kong allow them to exercise that
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