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by XorNot 9mo ago
That's not the point: the point is America did this twice . The world is not going to deal with America radically flip flopping every policy position every 4 years, and escalating that every time. The US has just finished (maybe?) thr
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by XorNot 9mo ago
You wouldn't like the latency on the internet connection. And this isn't even theoretical: it's why LEO constellations were a big deal.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
That's not necessarily exploitation: a worker in another country paid a far lower rate in absolute terms may in local terms be earning good money. If that job is "monitor the remote robots from a desk" then that's likely
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by XorNot 9mo ago
The main thing is that if you're a big enough entity, in favorable enough conditions, it's possible to make stupid decisions continuously and survive them for a very long time. It's the "market can remain irrational...&q
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by XorNot 9mo ago
This is a bizarre analogy. For one thing: if your car is overheating, don't open the radiator cap since the primary outcome will be serious burns. And I've owned my car for 20 years: the only time I had to refill coolant was whe
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by XorNot 9mo ago
The thing is systemd really doesn't: the things people claim "shouldn't be in an init system" aren't - but there are systemd branded versions of a lot of basic facilities because you generally need something like th
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Again: which experts were saying what was impossible, which was then revealed to be possible by the Snowden documents? Is the claim that there was adequate court oversight of operations under those codenames which then turned out not to b
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Because saying "experts said things were impossible and then Snowden" could mean literally anything. Which experts, what things? Like I said: I've read a ton of stuff, and apparently what people are sure they read is very dif
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Which is just a redux of what I find myself saying constantly: privacy usually isn't even the problem. The problem is the people kicking in your door. If you're willing to kick in doors to suppress legal rights, then having accura
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Which claims? HN around that time was taking anything and everything and declaring it conclusively proved everything else. I honestly have no god damn clue what was actually revealed by the Snowden documents - people just say "they rev
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by XorNot 9mo ago
BMI underestimates in most cases and your body fat is higher then the chart would predict. When people say "oh BMI isn't accurate" it means you are more overweight then it suggests unless you are literally an extreme body bui
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by XorNot 9mo ago
It might be worth considering that if those are intro classes, then it's not like they can't be easily replaced: it's not like the audience is wedded to any of those at an introductory level.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
This post right here is why the rest of the free world will never trust the US again.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
It's also pervasive. The weirdest thing in the world is watching someone I know who works for a big tech company and moved to the States suddenly wanting to get a New Zealand citizenship "just in case".
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Teams won by being good enough and bundled into O365. There's probably some value in making a product so available that people can use it where normally they wouldn't have the opportunity.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Which are quippy and dismissed because they fundamentally misunderstand privacy. There is such a concept as "privacy in a crowd" - you expect, and experience it, every day. You generally expect to be able to have a conversation in
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by XorNot 9mo ago
> The UK arrests 12,000 people per year for social media posts ( https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/ ... ), for a broad range of vague reasons including causing offense. That's
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by XorNot 9mo ago
The data isn't the problem, the jack-booted thugs kicking in doors is . Which is now literally happening and people are still acting like their privacy is going to somehow prevent it.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Consider that if a cyberattack could destroy a major power grid transformer, for a marginal cost approaching zero , versus the low-end US$10 million a Kinzal ballistic missile would cost to do the same thing (presuming you only need 1 whic
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Cyber-defensive measures aren't very useful though. Once malware is known to exist, you don't "reveal a capability" by detecting it - it all boils down to basically signature analysis, or just good standard practice (air
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I don't know, it feels odd to declare people wrote "because they enjoy it" and then get irritated when someone finds a way to monetize it retrospectively. Like you're either doing this for the money or you're not, a
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by XorNot 9mo ago
That doesn't say anything about the human form: it says something about the human body. But it's also not very accurate on that count: we are actually very strong compared to mechanical systems of a similar size, weight and ener
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by XorNot 9mo ago
People worry about tooling because they don't want to create a future mess they have to unpick: or the process might be hard enough they just won't do it. For my private blog for example, how to easily - as in drag and drop - inse
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I'm confused why I would use this when Sqlite exists? Being written in Rust it's not even a good libc-less drop in choice for a language like Go?
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Universality matters though. It's less interesting that a hyper specific machine exists for a task than that the same machine might be able to do a wide range of tasks, provided the price point is right.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
This is on full display with the US's Venezuela problem: no one believes the US will hold it, so oil companies don't want to invest because last time exactly this happened - they had everything seized. Imagine if you'd invest
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Computer hardware actually does things - it is an economic value producer. Bitcoin is an economic value consumer just to hold it. It does nothing if you have it.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Oh wow the changes to new() are an enormous ergonomics unlock. ErrAsType will also replace a similar package for me (too bad value errors will still be a thing though, and beginning new type errors still so wordy).
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by XorNot 9mo ago
The OP is presenting a stupidly simplistic model of the problem, as though their regular middle class life ably answers the question of the role or threat of violence when demanding political change. In a world they note of police, military
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by XorNot 9mo ago
> I don't threaten people on the sidewalk and take their money when I notice there aren't any police around at the moment. What do you think happens to people who do that though? You keep telling me what you don't do and h

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