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by brbsix 10y ago
What sort of laws do you forsee addressing this? At what abstraction (i.e. local, state...)? We already have a Bill of Rights that AFAIK was intended to protect us against these sorts of ingresses by the state into our daily lives. They jus
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I've always wondered about the people engineering devices like this, the people at Harris Corp. creating Stingrays and other surveillance platforms, how they feel about their work. Listing individual employees might be a bit much, but
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> a shell ... requiring a signed command Assuming you aren't referring to a SSH-2 implementation like OpenSSH, do you have any examples of something like this?
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I guess that's not very surprising. If you're used to thinking 10k years out, you recognize the inevitability of catastrophe in a way that others wouldn't.
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I assume Waze is monitoring the entire duration of your travel (while you have it on at least). It should be fairly easy to identify users who stay within the 0.25mi radius of one neighborhood and/or never exceed 20mph. There is an &#x
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I really wish Google Maps wouldn't be pushing these reroutes by default. A friend was pulled over a few days ago in a small town off the Interstate (the sort of place with bored LE) and got embroiled in all sorts of legal nonsense than
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Unless they're doing the wrong things (e.g. warrantless surveillance, civil asset forfeiture) in which case that efficiency starts to look quite terrifying.
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There's no need for copy and paste. Quite a few password managers have browser plugins that will autofill or auto login. If you have multiple accounts, it's as simple as selecting the desired username from a dropdown list.
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Show HN: Craigslist-rental-market – Show rental prices in U.S. housing markets(github.com)
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Show HN: Vagrant-bash-completion – Bash completion for Vagrant(github.com)
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I was going to suggest the same thing. ZeroTier has been an absolute dream in eliminating the necessity for traditional gatekeeper services like TeamViewer or Hamachi.
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Less compassionate to those undeserving of it, sure. Isn't that a good thing? I'm not a fan of UBI but this aspect might turn out to be really beneficial in reversing the perverse incentives and dysgenic effects of current social
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This question is out of scope. UBI is meant to be unconditional income (to be allocated as each individual sees fit), not unconditional food, shelter, or other necessities.
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You're just having a laugh at the OP, right? In case you're not, here are some "Bashisms" that really suck to be without: * built-in regex support (e.g. `[[ $var =~ ^1\.2\.[34]$ ]]`) * process substitution (e.g. `diff &l
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If `set -u` is enabled, the aforementioned test will fail on unset variables. To avoid this, you can "declare" `var` at the beginning of the script, e.g. `var=''`. Also instead of `[ ! -z "$var" ]` I prefer `[
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> have lower empathy than the their non-member IQ peers, which certainly correlates with a libertarian outlook I frequently hear this sentiment from the left, and it's terribly disheartening. It's something akin to "You do
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I'm not exactly sure. Perhaps because they're simple, rational, and can be universalized.
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I vote in accordance with my principles, even if it is against my immediate self-interest. Perhaps they are doing the same.
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> is there an ADDITIONAL safety net if a person burns through their cash and can't pay rent and eat? ... And if not, then it's even crueler cuz some people won't eat. People can still be irresponsible (or whatever you&#x27
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Chill out bro... What's the worst that can happen? It's not like any of the subjects are going to retreat to the fringes of society, write Basic Income manifestos, and dedicate their lives to the violent overthowal of Capitalism.
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Eric Garner
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> states are morally required to provide citizens with access to affordable health care There may be other indications (I haven't checked), but that statement doesn't sound even remotely libertarian. The moral requirement to pr
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It's the threat of violence. Like I said, you either comply or die. Just try resisting your eventual imprisonment and find out. Of course people are well aware of what the threat ultimately entails and as such choose to comply, but thi
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See the economic calculation problem as outlined by Mises. There's no way to efficiently allocate resources absent a price mechanism. Also, how are you supposed to acquire all these resources in the first place? It's kind of an im
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Only startups actually have to raise their capital in an entirely voluntary manner, with all the due diligence and stipulations that entails. Government just takes it. It's the difference between your wife shopping for groceries with y
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That's like saying: Lack of sex and romance is immoral: why should anyone have to find a consenting partner? The obvious answer is that rape is an initiation of force. It's immoral. Your needs or desires don't change that. La
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I have a hard time understanding how BI is going to afford everyone the ability to live in a nicer part of town. "Nicer parts of town" are a scarce resource. As such, they're costly. If you increase the BI to a level that wou
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> Instead of being a leech, you are just another person. There are still "leeches", they may just be harder to discern. For example, imagine a small community of 5 people. Each receives $30k/yr in UBI. 2 of them are home
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As the saying goes, human desires are infinite whereas the resources necessary to fulfil them are finite. In a market economy, desires are constrained by the value an individual is able to provide. Under a UBI, I guess they'll just be
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Agreed. Right-leaning libertarians strongly value the non-aggression principle. If the BI is to be funded via coercive means (e.g. income tax) it is morally impermissible and utterly incompatible. However I don't doubt that some will

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