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by 794CD01 8y ago
That attitude sounds like a myopic focus on the software at the expense of everything else. Say that in the year 2160 you have perfect, unbreakable encryption on your pocket computer. How will you use it? With a touchscreen or keyboard, al
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by 794CD01 8y ago
That's what happens when you are on someone else's web. So far, China is the only one deciding they are unhappy enough with the arrangement to build their own web, but the option exists for any country, or even non-geographically-
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by 794CD01 8y ago
So you simultaneously think the other side is so powerful that you cannot even compromise with them without being pushed back further, but they are also so weak that you believe you can achieve a total victory without conceding any points?
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Anyone can find a quote that says anything. >"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." - George Orwell: 1984, 1949. Welp, guess that's it for freedom. A person from the past
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by 794CD01 8y ago
It's a corollary of Clarke's law. When technology is described by someone too stupid to understand it (like nearly all journalists), the explanation makes it sound like magic, because that's how the writer sees it.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
What do you expect the non-competes to accomplish, exactly? Thanks, California.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
That's a pretty outrageous claim. Do you have any evidence this is possible?
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Yep, just shoulder surf the passcode the user enters on the train, or read their fingerprints/retinal patterns off their body and print it out onto your key material.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
>Mass surveillance is not going to go away without huge cultural reform of the security services. They don't take concessions. FakeComments was mostly talking about targeted surveillance, but I agree with him/her in spirit, sin
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by 794CD01 8y ago
And any business whose users are too stupid to be meaningfully informed. AKA just about everyone.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Democracy means accepting that the voting public has no idea what makes good policy, but that they should determine policy anyway.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
It's easy to make nice-sounding speeches when you're not accountable for delivering any results.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
If only god had created runoff voting.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
It's very difficult to keep your digital record clean your entire life. Anyone who manages it is either very able and motivated or Amish.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
If everyone were working together, it wouldn't be stealing. I don't steal someone's software when I fork a project on github, and they don't steal mine when they accept my pull request.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
That narrative is only applicable retrospectively. It doesn't say anything about the future. Whichever way the arc of the universe bends, we call justice.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
As natural as it might be, it's wrong. If you are, for example, a US resident, the US government is in a great position to use any information they have about you. The Chinese government, not so much, especially if you have no desire o
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Buying and installing your own permanent elevators is too difficult and expensive. Think of what happens in 25 years when they need to be replaced. You'd be a fool not to pay a monthly fee for elevators-as-a-service.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Canada doesn't have anything to do with this. Amir's account was closed because of his Iranian ties, not his Canadian ones.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
What is so clearly wrong about trade sanctions between two countries? Do you think foreign trade is always a moral good?
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Other way around. The EU is the one who bears the burden of forcing American companies like slack to comply with their laws. Though jumping straight to a shooting war feels like an overreaction. Maybe start with a fine and ban the company i
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Not a great analogy since you normally can't shop at an American grocery store from Cuba, but you can use an American web site from there.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Others sufficiently cover the actual killing. I would only add that wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad. Waste 30 seconds for each of 100 million people and that's an above average human lifetime. BTW,
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by 794CD01 8y ago
I would hope for 100. We deserve it. Though of course others deserve it more.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Execution. Facebook is big enough that it would serve as a useful warning.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Absolutely. Fine everyone into the ground. Doesn't look like there is any other way to make people take security seriously. I'm not a fan of the overregulation of industries like aviation, but consumer software has gone too far in
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Even more good could be done if the money were spent well, but the fact that the tax must be paid at all serves as the incentive that pushes behavior in a more environmentally friendly direction.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Not agreeing isn't the same as not understanding.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
If I legitimately didn't understand it, it would be right to teach me. That's why we have mandatory schools for children.
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by 794CD01 8y ago
Yes. Obviously you'd narrow things down and compare like to like. Anti-vaxers being the hot example of the day. Sometimes it's so obvious that we act on it, like with secondhand smoking, but I bet there's a lot more to dig in

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