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		rdouble on June 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with... WWI history doesn't seem as much like the plot of a William Gibson novel as the international incident under discussion does.

gwern on June 13, 2013 [–]

Given the assassination plots, spies, mobilization orders, frantic telegraph communications and other things, it does, actually.

rdouble on June 15, 2013 | [–]

WWI is more like a Neal Stephenson novel. I'll admit I never read the Difference Engine, though.

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