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by champagnois 5y ago
I know that taking things in context in this way is unpopular among folks who are looking to just sling mud at China. I aim only to provide further context to the intellectually curious who may be wondering how or why. My posts do not justi
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Except this is about nation state behavior, context, and geopolitics spanning decades rather than some series of small unrelated events. See my other reply. I am not excusing the behavior of treaty breaking so much as I am saying their lead
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I wouldn't say that. I would argue this is a lot more like the WW1 relationship to WW2. The events are related to how the Chinese leadership feels pressure from their public to perform and stand up to adversaries. In short, China'
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by champagnois 5y ago
Your intentional aversion to the full context doesn't help anyone understand the situation. When people do not understand any context, they are lead to believe the situation is absurd and is occurring for no reason at all. Full context
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Probably because they have a range they are willing to pay depending on what value the candidate can be assumed to bring to the team.
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Your last paragraph implies the person you speak of is a hacker, using 0day attacks? I hope such people get caught. I only worry about innocent westerners living in a society that is creeping toward authoritarianism in the name of some poli
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There are ways to create secure communications if need be. I have thought of ways that would work to accomplish doing it. I won't detail the designs here, but we are talking very cheap to build and design. I am sure such devices exist
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Considering endpoints are compromised like swiss cheese in 2021 and third party apps are all compromised, people should be of the belief that they cannot trust anything they didn't write and build themself.
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Does this mean voice assistants and GPS will one day be made consumer friendly and support any voice/name we want them to have, rather than this gimicky brand driven marketing malware known as Alexa or Google or Siri?
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LC?
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by champagnois 5y ago
Key quotes: (1) Dr. Lahn had touched a raw nerve in science: race and intelligence.... (2) Dr. Lahn says he is moving away from the research. "It's getting too controversial," he says. (3) Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law an
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If I were to work on building a search engine from scratch, I would probably approach this from these directions: (1) Investigate if running a DNS server will help me get a more robust picture of what websites exist. (2) Investigate if supp
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I believe a good brain benefits from less stimulation and periods of downtime where one can think of a problem peacefully. When studying diseases of the brain, there are some dementia cases where a good approach is to modify the environment
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He is friends with Nick Szabo and has a pretty sharp mind with some good experiences. I think he is basically done with the rat race of becoming successful now and he has written a bit of relevant advice for folks.
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For someone who talks so much of loathing social media, they seemingly do very little to avoid it. Acknowledging the technology is basically poison at scale, maybe remove it from your life so you do not suffer the same brainrot as the masse
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What can and cannot work on a small scale is generally an indication of how it would perform on a larger scale. When trying to make a micro macro comparison, I tend to think of governance of nation states as very similar to governance of co
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I am reasonable enough to see truth in both sides of this argument. Not bad.
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Photographers and journalists are people who's time is rewarded with money as compensation, as well as fame and status in some cases. This follows in line with the claim -- >>>"People are transactional and do not have tim
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by champagnois 5y ago
I have lived a hard life, but I acknowledge no one cares about my hardships and they care even less about my identity. Healthy, functional people are just looking for ways to get further ahead in life. People are transactional and do not ha
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Windows creeps me out. Software that hates the user / owner creeps me out. We are no longer Microsoft's customer, but instead we are their product. I am not the world's biggest fan of where tech has gone.
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Planning to try and do something like that.
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I really did it. Context: I am essentially making a hobby of rebuilding my family's filtered version of the internet, leveraging the same powers as the tech giants. With my setup, instead of promoting partisan hate, the front ends for
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My family will never own Oculus products or anything connected to Facebook. Block and filter anything related to their platforms.
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Yeah, to get too into it is to become part of the problem. My way of handling it is to not participate and to set a better example for good citizens to follow. When (X) became part of the internet hate machine last year, I put a filter on m
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While difficult to pull up from search engines, throughout the riots and looting sprees and jury trials, there were two things I can roughly quote having heard a number of times from figureheads on the left: John Lewis's "good tro
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We live in a time when the anchors on TV as well as the politicians running the government are telling their supporters to break laws. Be it January 6th or the riots and looting we have seen for the past two years. Both sides have figures i
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Also note that in Apple's largest market, China, iCloud is entirely managed by the government. There is no reason to have any faith in Apple's endpoint or cloud security.
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@renderedcarrot -- Pros, Concerns, and Ideas: First the pros: (1)Your product looks clean. (2)Your heart is definitely in the right place. (3)I really like what you wrote in your posts here. (4)It sounds like an experienced team that is pas
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Its just a label that is pretty universally applied to people with that mindset. I have lived under communist governments. It is what it is, even if you refuse the label. People are innately different. Marxism, in all iterations, has always
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With which part do you disagree?

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