BLKNSLVR

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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Thank you for pointing this out. So often that point gets lost in the weeds of the discussion of trivialities. The absolute irony is that Snowden is more 'ideal American' than 99% of the rest of the population, and the people that
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
He couldn't take the trip to Ecuador because his passport was revoked. Ecuador's offer of asylum to Assange, and the fact that Snowden was traveling with a Wikileaks representative, is the likely reason for Ecuador being the origi
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Well said. I'm not entirely (ie. at all) comfortable with the fact that that the frontier AIs are completely under the umbrella of US tech-broligarchy. Diversity has become a divisive topic (probably always was), but some diversity in
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Yeah, Snowden was lucky he wasn't, by definition, stateless, otherwise Russia may not have offered him asylum. They got to piss off the US by doing so.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
My point is that the definition doesn't matter when faced with Snowden's situation. Not being stateless offered no respite, therefore it's materially no different - to Snowden, in his situation. No, it won't hold up in c
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Thought experiment: Is war of the scale of WWI and WWII a cleansing of, and temporary innoculation against, the natural tribalist fracturing of human psychology that occurs in times of peace? ("Peace is war" and all that goes alon
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
You are correct of course. Example being the gross irresponsibility of Wikileaks releasing unredacted documents that detailed source identities (although all I know about this is anecdata).
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
And yet he still gets straight up accused of being a Russian asset. It seems nuance is beyond the grasp of a surprisingly large percentage of the population. (although of late my surprise is decreasing).
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Eeesh, the propaganda must be strong in the US if you're getting downvoted for this. You're essentially summarising documented facts.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
His autobiography is worth reading. Yes, he wrote it, so it can be skewed all kinds of whichways to suit his agenda, but the picture it paints is of someone born into the US establishment (government / military / intelligence) and
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
> He just faced arrest if he returned You seem to continue to minimise the seriousness of the situation.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is almost the literal definition of stuck. Yes, I'm using analogies, but I know which of the two I would choose. The US has only gotten worse in it's introversion since, so his choice seems to be in
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Both. The first part because the second part.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
That just feels like a slightly different false equivalence - and having said that, I may be making yet another version of it by saying this: If a person has a 'state', but that state would immediately jail the person for treason
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
> I am still a citizen and so was he. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
> In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[56] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
There seems to be a lot of continued misunderstanding how Snowden managed to end up in Russia. > On June 22, 2013, 18 days after the publication of Snowden's NSA documents began, officials revoked his US passport.[205] On June 23,
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Therefore there should be no harm in releasing it.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
It feels to me as if the US is a useful example for the outcomes of a focus on capitalist ideals does for medical services in a country. Apologies if an AI summary is offensive to some, but here we go: > The US is a world leader in adva
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
The banality of the day after outrage.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
Given what he does in public, I'm not sure there's any limit to what they're all doing in private. Buy stocks in paper-shredder companies.
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by BLKNSLVR 5d ago
The term "responsible disclosure" may no longer have any meaning. "Irresponsible disclosure" for the short term may be equivalent to "responsible disclosure" for the long term. There must be some pretty dark st
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by BLKNSLVR 7d ago
It's the cutting edge and it's a bit wild west. There is a lot of room for innovative use cases that, whether actually practical or not, can be marketed and sold as practical.
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by BLKNSLVR 7d ago
> USAID, foodstamps, welfare Are you sure cuts to these are a good thing? Both right now and into the future? The extensive changes are, and will continue, making changes to a world order of which the US was already at the top (Trump see
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by BLKNSLVR 7d ago
I'm kind of surprised by the Trump-apologia commentary thus far but, ironically maybe, it makes the article all the more pertinent. Second-order effects seem particularly difficult to grasp.
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by BLKNSLVR 8d ago
Has World War III Already Started? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751371
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by BLKNSLVR 8d ago
War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751665
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by BLKNSLVR 9d ago
Love this stuff, I have my own little system setup doing something similar (which I'm in the process of re-jigging), plus there's also knock-knock.net which has some cool live visualisations. I will be adding the "this week&#
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by BLKNSLVR 9d ago
Piracy is funding terrorism again? What is this, 2004? It was a lie then.
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by BLKNSLVR 9d ago
The success of my startup is more important than the cleanliness of your mailbox. "Email deliverability specialist" Things that history wouldn't miss the nonexistence of.

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