LLWM

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by LLWM 11y ago
What part is the flaw?
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by LLWM 11y ago
Insurers adjusting policies to accurately reflect risk is fantastic. They already do it now with haphazard accuracy - I get a partial rebate on any farm share or gym membership, and smoking cessation programs are on their dime completely.
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by LLWM 11y ago
I don't believe it is acceptable for there to be information asymmetry in the first place. Arguing about what to do when it's there is about as fruitful as arguing about how hard you should be allowed to beat your slaves.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Whether it's detrimental is unclear. Although there are exceptions, of course, it seems fair to say that, as a general rule, people with a lot of money tend to be better educated, more intelligent, and more hardworking than those with
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by LLWM 11y ago
Your example only makes sense to you because you assume that the child could sell the diamond for enough money to buy the pie from you (or from someone else who has just as good of a pie) and have some left over. In the actual situation und
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by LLWM 11y ago
As opposed to the entirety of legal history before 2010, when rich newspaper owners had just as much power to exercise free speech as scruffy-looking homeless people? If documentation doesn't match behavior, and you're not going t
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by LLWM 11y ago
Because the DEA is so obviously wrong that anyone who takes their side must be an astroturfer. How could a real person agree with them? I mean, other than the real people who work at the DEA. Or work with them. And the policymakers they
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by LLWM 11y ago
And that is only a problem because the enforcement capacity does not exist to pull over every person who makes an illegal lane change. The solution is, as always, more surveillance.
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by LLWM 11y ago
It's much simpler than that. Their marketing team gets their material from the R&D team, and neither group knows about the NSLs, because why would they? Only compliance and a few people on legal know, and everyone hates them alread
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by LLWM 11y ago
Most people give their data willingly because they get something worthwhile in exchange. The store cards exist because people trade tracking of their purchase data for discounted prices. Nobody is to blame because there is nothing to blame
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by LLWM 11y ago
Those rights will be taken about as seriously as the EU's "right to be forgotten".
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by LLWM 11y ago
Inequality is only a temporary phenomenon because information collection, storage, and processing is too expensive to be costless to the average person. That will not always be the case.
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by LLWM 11y ago
More competition is good for consumers.
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by LLWM 11y ago
So you are blaming the fund managers for your government's problems?
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by LLWM 11y ago
The supreme court also once ruled that black people could not be citizens and had no standing to sue in court. That's the problem of depending on interpretation. If a right to privacy is important, it should be explicit.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Real 9/11 with airplanes happened. Were airplane manufacturers sanctioned?
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by LLWM 11y ago
As long as you recognize it's still evil.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Ah, the good old two-wrongs-make-a-right school of morality.
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by LLWM 12y ago
The NSA is very explicit that their goal is to perform legal surveillance to safeguard the security of the US. Since the truth is secret, to believe either party's goals are as they say is purely a matter of trust.
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by LLWM 12y ago
And why do you think he did that?
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by LLWM 12y ago
Anything could be argued. Doesn't mean there's any actual basis for the argument.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Just imagine a high-pitched British voice calling everything "fucking horrifying" while tossing in random internet references every 5 minutes.
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by LLWM 12y ago
That's not an argument against mass surveillance. Collecting evidence you are a child molestor, aka lying and saying you did, only requires targeted surveillance.
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by LLWM 12y ago
I don't think anyone is surprised at this point that they interpret their mission as broadly as they can possibly justify. The NSA are singlehandedly tearing down the stereotypes of lazy government workers.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Sex. You know what you have to do.
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by LLWM 12y ago
To the contrary. It was nearly a miracle that it was maintained as long as it was, considering how underappreciated the developers were.
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by LLWM 12y ago
The Security Now show from the week after the event had a pretty thorough recounting of what happened. I'd recommend starting there.
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by LLWM 12y ago
The developers themselves have clarified. Software that is not actively maintained should be assumed to be insecure.
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by LLWM 12y ago
It is resolved. Just not in the way you want.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Why do hn users refuse to pay for content they want?

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