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Month: February 2017

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Just a quick note

  • Posted on February 28, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I don’t have time to post anything new on the blog right now, but in case you’re interested, I got some interesting pushback from Earthly Knight and Matt in the comments of my post about Nima Sanandaji’s book the other…

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Scandinavian Unexceptionalism by Nima Sanandaji

  • Posted on February 26, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

It’s very common for progressives, especially in the US, to extoll the alleged virtues of left-wing socio-economic policies by presenting Scandinavian social democracies as models to emulate. But the argument based on the success of these countries is flawed for…

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Some changes on the blog

  • Posted on February 25, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I have added a “top posts” page, which can be accessed through a link in the menu under the header, that contains a list of posts which I think are interesting, but that people might have missed if they only started reading…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The deep state against Trump and the threat on democracy (part 4)

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Meanwhile, the New York Times also published a long piece on the alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia, with the headline “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”. This makes it sound as if we are going to be treated with shocking…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The Buzzfeed dossier and the bankruptcy of journalism (part 3)

  • Posted on February 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The media was already sold on the allegations that Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump when, on January 10, CNN wrote that intelligence chiefs had briefed Trump about a dossier that was circulating according to which Russia had compromising…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The administration makes its case and it’s the red scare all over again (part 2)

  • Posted on February 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Despite the weakness of the evidence they provided, after private cybersecurity companies made those claims against Russia, the media almost unanimously accepted them as facts. This became even more true after the US intelligence community started to publicly make very…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The hacking of the Democratic party and private cybersecurity companies (part 1)

  • Posted on February 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

For several months, allegations that Russia interfered in the US presidential election to help Trump, as well as claims that Trump and some of his associates have ties with Russia, have been all over the media. They are repeated so…

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Pourquoi Macron va se planter

  • Posted on February 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

La France est, depuis bien longtemps, un pays de droite. On peut le regretter si l’on veut, mais c’est un fait que personne ne peut ignorer, aujourd’hui encore moins qu’hier. Hollande a remporté une victoire contracyclique en 2012, mais comme quasiment tout…

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The pattern on the stone by William Daniel Hillis

  • Posted on February 19, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

This is a very well-written little book that explains the basic concepts of computer science in layman’s terms. If you don’t know how computers work but want to learn, this book is exactly what you’re looking for. It’s very easy…

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Links – 02/18/2017

  • Posted on February 18, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Justin Reynolds tells the story of how the Soviet Union almost created the Internet but didn’t. He is getting his information from a book by Benjamin Peters, about a project under the Soviet Union to use a network of mainframes to…

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