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Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc.
--- title: Miscellaneous description: Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc. created: 2009-08-05 modified: 2024-12-28 status: in progress confidence: possible importance: 5 css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs ... # Quickies {.collapse} A game theory curiosity: what is the role of infrastructure? It's interesting that though Assad, ISIS, China, Russia etc. all know that computers & networks are heavily pwned by their enemies like the USA, they still can't bring themselves to take it down or stop using them. ISIS, while losing, continued to heavily use smartphones and the internet despit
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