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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Los Angeles Times

      Damn there’s still bits and pieces of colonial detritus strewn about on the world map. “New Caledonia” sounds made up almost. Apologies to any New Caledonian reading this.https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1312985873047326725 …

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      New Caledonia voters choose to stay part of France https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-04/new-caledonia-voters-choose-to-stay-part-of-france …
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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      It’s pretty big 🧐pic.twitter.com/PiPyoajC2B

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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      271,000 people. No wonder it doesn’t want to be it’s own country. Way too much work. They’d be outsourcing everything anyway. Nobody should try to run a country under say 10 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia …

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          Though from the Wikipedia page it looks like a mix of natives and European expats so I imagine that’s the way the vote split.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          Yep “Sunday’s independence referendum was among the final steps of longstanding plans to settle tensions on the archipelago between native Kanaks seeking independence and residents willing to remain in France.”

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          Kanaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanak_people …

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          The world is too complicated. Nation states are officially too primitive for 2020. Here are a couple of tiny islands few could place on a map working out 200 years of baggage.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          So basically ~130k people somewhere on an island in the Pacific want to tell France to go away. That’s like just a bit larger than the U of M football stadium. Something either silly or genius about it. Maybe we *should* organize in 130k political units. Stadium-states.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 4
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          Stadium sized parliaments. Twitter hashtag as debate. Online votes. Strike belt-road deal with China to travel on Chinese passports and take loans from China to buy Chinese stuff. Sweet deal.

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        1. crankycatcoder‏ @crankycatcoder Oct 4
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          Singapore and Hong Kong disagree.

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          Singapore?

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