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sschueller on July 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip

"There are a lot more limitations and checks on what the US can do."

Written into laws that obviously can be ignore with no repercussions.

slashdev on July 25, 2019 [–]

Hardly.

fnord123 on July 25, 2019 | [–]

How many US officials were tried, let alone convicted, for their role in torturing people from 2001 to 2014?

Hint: zero.

(The 11 soldiers who were torturing detainees in Abu Ghraib were not tried for torture. Only watered down charges like dereliction of duty, assault, and battery.)

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