irreticent

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by irreticent 3y ago
I think they were saying the opposite of that.
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by irreticent 3y ago
Can you provide a reputable source of that data?
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by irreticent 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591759
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by irreticent 3y ago
A lot of the comments here remind me of the debate about student loan forgiveness. Some say, "Why should they have their loan forgiven when I had to pay mine?!" I know, these are two completely different topics that can't be
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by irreticent 3y ago
Exactly. Their personal anecdote about something that happened years ago doesn't reflect the reality that many Walmart and McDonalds employees rely on government assistance to survive. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11&
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by irreticent 3y ago
It also might be more accurate to not refer to AIDS as a virus. It is a syndrome caused by HIV. HIV is the virus.
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by irreticent 3y ago
If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.
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by irreticent 3y ago
Because zero day vulnerabilities are usually patched when discovered by the vendor. They're completely different than an intentional backdoor.
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by irreticent 3y ago
The NSA has been caught lying before (see: the Snowden leaks) so I wouldn't trust them to be forthcoming about their industrial espionage, if they are engaging in it. Of course they'd deny it.
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by irreticent 3y ago
I wouldn't say they are doing a bad job spying on people for that reason; I think it's more likely that the reason they are spying is not to help children/people but rather to strengthen their control over the people. Knowled
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by irreticent 3y ago
> falafel you find in every salad bar in the US Off-topic, but I have never seen falafel in a salad bar in the US. Where are you finding these buffet falafel?