advael

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by advael 2y ago
I mean, the mere existence of said biometrics imply that they're inferrable and thus bad security, like basically all biometrics
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by advael 2y ago
Groceries? Maybe not. Houses? Absolutely. I mean I don't know about Bill Gates in particular, but the overwhelming majority of wealthy people have diverse portfolios, including in real estate, which means that large companies or funds
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by advael 2y ago
I agree that the author made an imperfect argument and probably should not make factual claims that aren't supported by data. I think people arguing in bad faith tend to pick up on this kind of error because, like the commenter I respo
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by advael 2y ago
But the vibe of the thing is about income inequality, and it's good that it is, because the value of money isn't fixed. Only rich people staring at a stock portfolio care about "number went up", what most people care abo
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by advael 2y ago
Dam, I didn't know the 80s started in 2001. Or is it just that that's the chart you can find with "two minutes' googling" and so that has to be good enough because that's the amount of effort it takes to find s
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by advael 2y ago
Bias is when people don't like a thing you like, right?
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by advael 2y ago
Do things like the internet connection and access to peripherals pass through? Could I use this to have better ssh access to some capabilities of an iphone, for example?
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by advael 2y ago
I mean lots of people manage to get around what they want to various degrees. Your use case is in spite of their efforts and wishes, and I guarantee that were you to run into problems, vs people would do everything they could to try to stee
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by advael 2y ago
In my experience the entire point of windows is to lock everyone involved, including developers, into an emaciated and dependent toolset that they can't even explain to others when something doesn't go as they expect, and on which
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by advael 2y ago
Nonsense. The people who should hold responsibility are the people who have decision-making power and derive financial benefit from these choices. A rank-and-file employee is a scapegoat given the incentives at play in the system, even if t
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by advael 2y ago
There has been no convincing argument by anyone that this will change in a way that will drive the value that the grifters in silicon valley are promising. It's tautological to say that people making bets are making expected value esti
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by advael 2y ago
Justice isn't served if the impact of the penalty doesn't force change. If a company can harm millions of people but the financial damages we can assign to that are lower than the cost savings of the decisions that caused the prob
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by advael 2y ago
It seems that we agree that regulatory enforcement is a great framework through which to make this happen. I think we should regulate both security and data retention far more aggressively, and be willing to destroy companies if they fail t
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by advael 2y ago
Needs to be at the level of enforcement by regulatory agencies, large scale lawsuits backed by state governments, and maybe even congressional action These companies have scale as their moat and that's called a monopoly. We need to be
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by advael 2y ago
At the scale of this kind of incompetent failure, no human being should be on board with the narrative that we should be blaming "criminals" for this If we don't hold companies accountable for keeping far more access and rete
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by advael 2y ago
It's disgusting that we still write headlines as "hackers steal" rather than "enormous company fumbles security for data they should never have retained"
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by advael 2y ago
I think you're right to point out that some "burden of knowledge" is essentially inevitable, especially within a particular field or targeting a particular metric (e.g. life expectancy, though of course that's one that&#
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by advael 2y ago
I think we do ourselves a disservice by making "conspiracy theory" the common parlance for what is quite often just being swayed by a popular kind of diversion propaganda (the fact-thin doppelgangers of real controversies or inves
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by advael 2y ago
I'm telling you that what you've asked is too obtuse to be comprehensible, even setting aside that I've already nominally answered your question based on the other criterion you've added, which is that the person specifi
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by advael 2y ago
> the Stasi used violence as a political tool This point is extremely silly. In the modern US, violence is an essentially omnipresent political tool, both at home on every level and abroad. In many cities across the country we just saw p
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by advael 2y ago
I feel obligated to say my usual "IP is at this point doing more harm than good" spiel here but don't have the time budget to argue it with people today
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by advael 2y ago
Yes. It matters how they are now. It matters what problems there are with that state and what we can do to change them. It matters what's worked before and why and in what context, because it's a source of information we can use t
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by advael 2y ago
Yes, and solving actual problems is a great way to frame a goal. People often equivocate between "optimization" and "improving things", so I don't blame you for it in particular. Optimization, by definition, requi
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by advael 2y ago
I mean I think as with many broad groups of people, different individuals likely want each of those things, as well as many wanting both or neither. My comment referred specifically to a subset that wants to assimilate, as they were more li
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by advael 2y ago
It's crazy how people just make shit up and say it so confidently. Most education prior to the industrial revolution was considered a luxury for the wealthy, and its value was not considered in terms of producing economic value directl
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by advael 2y ago
No it hasn't? That's some insane revisionist history, and this is what I blame Reagan for. The attitude that universities and even education broadly primarily or solely exist for producing vocational training The original and, to
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by advael 2y ago
There's a lot to fear from revolutionary uprising, and I think people are very risk-averse, so this becomes a coordination problem even when there's perhaps widespread discontent I agree with your conclusion that most rich countri
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by advael 2y ago
You make a really good point. Defining risk in terms of financial ROI and trying to assess it algorithmically and default-gating more and more endeavors behind such risk assessment is a surprisingly coherent model for a lot of widespread mo
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by advael 2y ago
The problem with making this case is that the threats are kind of stochastic. Usually what happens to an individual is that either a mistake occurs or some unpredictable factor changes to suddenly get them targeted. I had a relative who was
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by advael 2y ago
Also it's just so much easier to get the benefits of constraint without the downsides if one is in charge of the decisions. Like if you can do something with $10k and have $30k to work with, many adults manage to constrain themselves b

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