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WEI sounds awful. And it seems like yet another aspect of the ongoing war on general-purpose computing. > Wisner insists that [...] it won’t block browsers tha

WEI sounds awful. And it seems like yet another aspect of the ongoing war on general-purpose computing. > Wisner insists that [...] it won’t block browsers that spoof their identity. What exactly is holding anyone to this pinky promise? Even if you assume angels are running everything right now, why should anyone trust that that will remain the case perpetually?

martin8412 3y ago
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- blooalien 3y ago
  Guns don't kill people. Guns are a tool for killing at a distance, yes; however it's people who sometimes misuse the tool to kill other people. Other people use guns to kill food to feed their family, or to kill or deter bad people who mean them great physical harm. Most all tools can be misused in bad ways, or used in positive ways. That responsibility all falls back upon the user, as the tool itself will usually just sit there inert without a human involved.
  - chownie 3y ago
    Recent history has taught us that the upside to popular gun ownerships are vanishingly thin compared to the thick wedge of accidental deaths and mass shootings. The ability to ruin someone's life should be restricted behind more than a point and click interface.
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  - wildrhythms 3y ago
    How much 'killing distance' do you think is involved when gun ownership is associated with 8x higher chance of suicide for men, and 35x higher chance of suicide for women? https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...
    - Pannoniae 3y ago
      Because in other places, there are way fewer effective methods of suicide, so people are scared into staying alive and suffering. Guns provide an almost sure way of ending your life, which is I think a way humane thing to do than forcing people to stay alive and suffer.
    - rolph 3y ago
      does owning the gun do this? always flip the coin. tryout elevated suicidal ideation partialy presents as possesion/purchase of a handgun. kick that about in thought, if it seems stable that can be considered a perihypothesis
  - jgtrosh 3y ago
    Guns are designed to kill people, and WEI is designed to block unauthorized browsers.
    - rolph 3y ago
      in the long term higher order of things WEI will cause disparity, death, and physical global insecurity, division and ignorance of each other
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martin8412 3y ago

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blooalien 3y ago
Guns don't kill people. Guns are a tool for killing at a distance, yes; however it's people who sometimes misuse the tool to kill other people. Other people use guns to kill food to feed their family, or to kill or deter bad people who mean them great physical harm. Most all tools can be misused in bad ways, or used in positive ways. That responsibility all falls back upon the user, as the tool itself will usually just sit there inert without a human involved.
- chownie 3y ago
  Recent history has taught us that the upside to popular gun ownerships are vanishingly thin compared to the thick wedge of accidental deaths and mass shootings. The ability to ruin someone's life should be restricted behind more than a point and click interface.
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- wildrhythms 3y ago
  How much 'killing distance' do you think is involved when gun ownership is associated with 8x higher chance of suicide for men, and 35x higher chance of suicide for women? https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...
  - Pannoniae 3y ago
    Because in other places, there are way fewer effective methods of suicide, so people are scared into staying alive and suffering. Guns provide an almost sure way of ending your life, which is I think a way humane thing to do than forcing people to stay alive and suffer.
  - rolph 3y ago
    does owning the gun do this? always flip the coin. tryout elevated suicidal ideation partialy presents as possesion/purchase of a handgun. kick that about in thought, if it seems stable that can be considered a perihypothesis
- jgtrosh 3y ago
  Guns are designed to kill people, and WEI is designed to block unauthorized browsers.
  - rolph 3y ago
    in the long term higher order of things WEI will cause disparity, death, and physical global insecurity, division and ignorance of each other
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