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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by throwaway5752 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:36AM (#17566111)
Sure. But but those other topics get flagged immediately, and I could make a case they are equally connected. Migrant family separation could be solved by quick genetic testing/facial recognition. The Russian 2016 election story is a tech story. And the current research on the nature of extremism is an addiction story, and the nature of the coordination of those groups (cryptocurrency, tor) and some work against them (NLP, AI driven social campaigns) is just as related.

edit: I'm 100% opposed to migrant family separation and think it's vile. I'm talking about how to reunite those families.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by fenwick67 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:11AM (#17566416)
> Migrant family separation could be solved by quick genetic testing/facial recognition

If your definition of "solving" this is "figuring out where we put these people's kids", simple pen and paper bookkeeping would have fixed that.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by pjc50 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:56AM (#17566271)
> Migrant family separation could be solved by quick genetic testing/facial recognition

The separation of families is an intentionally punitive tactic and could be "solved" by not doing it in the first place.

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