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by aprentic 9mo ago
I'm not giving a house cleaner the combination to my safe. If they offered to hold on to it for safe keeping, I'd decline.
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by aprentic 9mo ago
I think foreigners tend to be better informed than the locals wherever you go. As a baseline, they have experience living in about twice as many countries as the locals. They picked up their lives, often learned a second language, and estab
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by aprentic 9mo ago
I doubt it. As near as I can tell, there are essentially 2 kinds of laws; laws that people agree with and laws that they don't. For the second type, governments often have trouble enforcing them consistently so they often try to compen
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by aprentic 9mo ago
Given that they're regularly labeled as "pro democracy protests", I'd venture to say that most people outside the Great Firewall don't know much about it either.
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by aprentic 9mo ago
Can you share the supporting data? Gordon Chang has been making this prediction for almost a quarter century. Will it happen before or after the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world??
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by aprentic 9mo ago
How so? My experience in China was that the police were a bit on the bureaucratic side but otherwise far less obtrusive than in the US. They divide their police forces into civil police and armed police. The civil police tend to be bored lo
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by aprentic 9mo ago
A bunch of people around the world used 小红书 for months when they were worried about a twitter ban. They got the same version of the app that people in China got. I haven't seen any formal studies but my impression, at the time, was tha
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by aprentic 9mo ago
We have Trump's word on that. mark_l_watson has the more believable take.
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by aprentic 9mo ago
You realize that all of these links just make people trust Proton more, right? They argue that Proton is so secure that even governments can't break it when they're trying to go after terrorists. That's exactly the level of p
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by aprentic 9mo ago
Maybe, maybe not. The MSFT marketing folks seem to have opted for the less transparent one, just in case.
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by aprentic 9mo ago
That's exactly what I mean. If you tell people, "I'll take care of safeguarding your key for you," it sounds like you're just doing them a favor. It would be more honest to say, "I can hold on to a copy of your
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by aprentic 9mo ago
I think you're missing the point. People are distrustful of governments and want to lock ANY governments out of ALL email. They're not defending terrorism. They just don't believe that fighting terrorism is a good enough excu
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by aprentic 9mo ago
If we're comparing quotes, I think Ben Franklin carries more weight the Sam Atkinson.
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by aprentic 9mo ago
Yes and they had to lie to sell that option. If they honestly informed customers about the tradeoff between security and convenience they'd certainly have far fewer customers. Instead they lead people to believe that they can get that
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by aprentic 9mo ago
I really hope the Proton PMs are watching this. Their main business offerings are privacy and security. The fact that they were able to pull customers away from Google shows that switching costs are low. Your reputation is your moat. If you
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by aprentic 10mo ago
Israeli technology doesn't know the motivations of the people holding it when they blow up.
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by aprentic 10mo ago
Calling on other nations to harm your country is generally considered treason in any country. If you own a newspaper and use that platform to make such a request, you're likely to attract a law enforcement response wherever you are.
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by aprentic 10mo ago
Do you have some test for fairness or justice? The best measure I can think of is per capita prison population. It's not great because it doesn't directly address fairness but it's likely related. Two countries, with roughly
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by aprentic 10mo ago
> there is zero path to the goals Hong Kong residents espouse and are used to From talking to friends and relatives from HK I've seen huge diversity in how people think about HK, China, their relationship with each other, Mandarin,
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by aprentic 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure China considers that as "signing under duress" and therefor invalid. The relevant points on the timeline, from China's perspective, are: China: Stop selling opium in our country. UK: How about no? Chi
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by aprentic 10mo ago
Legal or not it makes me afraid of Israeli technology. I don't want to be part of their collateral damage.
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by aprentic 11mo ago
I'm listening to ATC for education. I'm not confident in my ability to understand it correctly. That's why I qualified my level of certainty. FWIW, the KBOS incident I saw didn't seem to be ATC either, if it was actually
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by aprentic 11mo ago
I was watching KBOS https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KBOS on Thursday morning and saw a couple of Cape Air flights that looked like they were within 500 feet of each other. I suspect we'll be hearing
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by aprentic 11mo ago
https://www.liveatc.net/ If you want to listen in yourself.
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by aprentic 2y ago
I'm not sure we actually want to bring back Jon Draper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper#Allegations_of_sex...
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by aprentic 2y ago
Presumably both of these AIs have additional information beyond what was in their initial training. The hotel agent probably has a RAG that points at their various customer and inventory databases. The user agent has individualized informat
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by aprentic 2y ago
It's clearly not just about the chips. China didn't attack Taiwan before 1987, when TSMC was founded. There are many disincentives. The biggest one is that China is confident that they'll get full control of Taiwan without vi
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by aprentic 2y ago
Exactly. The US has unrivaled force projection capabilities; half the worlds carrier fleets, the largest navy by tonnage, and the technology to execute unprecedented combined arms maneuvers. China has insane defense-in-depth; more missiles
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by aprentic 2y ago
They're extremely careful not to state that as their plan. In general, they make a huge effort not to talk about their plans vis-a-vis Taiwan at all. They just keep repeating that Taiwan is part of China. The closest they come to stati
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by aprentic 2y ago
This feels like somebody telling Bob Vila, "This house needs a kitchen renovation." It might actually need a kitchen renovation but you can't actually do it until you repair the foundation under the kitchen. The bathrooms mig

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