car_analogy

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by car_analogy 4y ago
> And we'll be monitoring the Politicians and Police with this too right? And what will you do when you find corruption among them? Even when symmetric, surveillance benefits those with power.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
But ultimately the government decides who is in charge of the BBC, with only minor indirection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Board
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> I see that dangers of the CCP taking over high tech industries Then you see more than our wise economists, whose theory predicts, by way of simplified models and comparative advantage, that our instincts are wrong and everything will w
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Closely related, it seems the knee-on-neck restraint is taught to US police (including specifically Minnesotan police) and practiced by Israel [1,2]. Or rather, it is documented that it is used by Israeli forces against Palestinians, and th
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Don't confuse downplaying significance , with downplaying novelty . As if big tech has been our friend up until now.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I'm getting tired of this charade that this is the first time the big tech dragnet is being used to harm those caught in it. They've been handing data over to foreign and domestic law enforcement for a long time [1], including for
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> I think ~90% of ivy league schools have a Jewish Dean You think ? Who the deans are is public information - why not test your hypothesis and check? Edit: Instead of sarcastically apologizing, please find sources to either prove or r
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by car_analogy 4y ago
7 years old, citing an even older study, but this bears repeating, as this is not a new phenomenon, only more visible now (and therefore, I would argue, much less insidious): The authors also submitted different test studies to different
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> If it detects that the driver is speeding it can perform one of four actions: send out a visual or acoustic warning (like a warning message in the instrument cluster or a chime), emit a series of vibrations (likely through the steering
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Is the "content" described as "Movie Title" or "License to view Movie Title for a limited time arbitrarily determined by us"?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
That's too bad for Ticketmaster because the large print calls them a "purchase". How are consumers supposed to know which parts of their business communications are lies and which are truth? Or rather, why should Ticketmaster
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Facebook has hidden much of Instagram's content behind logins, so that makes most of it "not public". 1) It was public when the content was posted by its authors. Facebook locked it down retroactively, regardless of the
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Fun fact: The movie industry was established in Hollywood to evade patent fees, thanks to the distance from the east coast, and the local court's aversion to enforcing patents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Ehr, yes? Shouldn’t we decide to avoid bad companies? What I clearly meant was if that should be the only defense we have against such companies. Or should we also have things like food and work safety regulations, and anti-child-lab
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> my sly critics avoided any direct response to what I’d written. They wouldn’t even quote what I said. In fact, they scrupulously avoided quoting my article. Instead they distorted and spun my words like I was a candidate for office and
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Can us common people get to decide what the common good is, or is that exclusively your choice? This legislation is the result of democratic process - i.e. decided by the "common people", if indirectly. > let the greater p
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> “for my own good” No, for the common good. We are all harmed when Apple or Google can decide which businesses will succeed or fail, which apps get censored and which are allowed.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
All these abuses have a single cause - users not in control of their computers. It's no coincidence that vim's start screen isn't being monetized this way.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> you can suffer from bad model predictions This is the worst anti-surveillance argument. The last thing I want is to be accurately predicted. As far as I'm concerned, once the models are perfected and they can accurately predict
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by car_analogy 4y ago
It's not a bandaid. It's retreat, and the battle line will follow you.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Or maybe I don't want my kid's chat and gameplay analyzed and sold by Microsoft, to be used against them in the future.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
What good are rising house prices unless you sell your house, and don't buy a new one? Presumably the vast majority of those older home owning voters still need their sole house to live in, so they don't benefit from rising pric
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> There have been 135 teachers convicted of sexual misconduct [..] More than 18,000 people have died from gun violence. To date. [..] you might say that few of those were directly caused be people with concealed carry permits > It&#x2
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by car_analogy 4y ago
You've now switched to a different argument, but okay. You think the state doesn't have just as great an interest in vetting who is allowed to educate and look after children, as in who may own a gun? Do I have to link to the many
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Including social media account vetting? Because [1] doesn't mention it, and there's a monumental difference between a criminal history check, and forcing one to deanonymize all of one's 1st Amendment protected speech from the
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Expecting Google to frame their mission They're not just framing their mission - they're redefining privacy . And there are plenty of companies that minimize the data they gather for exactly this reason ("considering th
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Google's whole thing is selling ads and surveillance. Any impressions to the contrary is corporate PR working as designed. And that's a very cute perspective - for Google , privacy means protecting my data from access by not-Goog
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by car_analogy 4y ago
As long as they keep blocking 99% of searches coming from TOR, any announcements about how much they protect privacy are a farce at best, deception at worst. They do their very best to leave us no place to hide, then carve out a few excepti
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Located in the U.S. where we could double the population without starting to feel cramped. You're already running out of resources: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-11/californ...
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Yes, the problem with going cashless is that it's not yet convenient, and not the centralized control and surveillance it enables. Another insightful article from the Guardian.

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