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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Judging by the use of drones for "extrajudicial" assassination, the narrative of robots as merciful weapons sounds dubious at best.
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> Nothing is risk free. I specifically called out SYSTEMIC risk. What's the systemic risk of solar panels and wind power, for example? A terrorist attack destroying 100 millions solar panels? > On the other hand The usual false d
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Do you want a bit of perspective Thanks but I don't need a strawman.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...as long as you completely ignore any catastrophic risk for the next 10.000 years.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
and yet the whole Mastodon and Briar ecosystems run on pennies.
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No, and you are not even allowed to fork and modify their client that connects to the official Signal servers. Also you cannot put their client on f-droid. It's by far the most locked-down "open source" I've seen.
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Not to mention the huge security risk.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
It's amazing how this place is called "Hacker" News and downvotes opinions that are not mainstream enough or not corporate-friendly enough. You are right that self-hosting means that your data sits on your devices, and this s
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No, I'm saddened that people spend hours to support hardware from companies that go against users freedoms. We should work on what matters: free software, open hardware.
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> With a public health system, medical care is tied to the country's wealth This is misleading. In a country with less wealth wages are usually lower, including those of health care provider and so on, making medical care cheaper. C
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Triggering a malfunction is incredibly easy compared to a proper backdoor. A kill signal could also be injected through side channels e.g. a power line, and the kill mechanism could be implemented in many other semiconductors than an FPGA.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> unnecessarily harsh and critical self analysis Where? The article starts with "we pivoted our YC startup" and then claims that some behaviors are "morally incompetent"... ...to justify the pivot.
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> Last year, we pivoted our YC startup from a socially-good mental health product (Quirk), towards a socially-neutral software infrastructure product > It's more important [...] to improve mental health than to be working on impr
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Good luck hiding an effective backdoor in an FPGA. The attacker (the FPGA fab) has no idea of how it's going to be programmed.
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This is absurd. Even with a beefy severance package, employees can face very serious risks after being laid off, while companies face minimal risks.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Sounds like XMPP all over again. At least XMPP is community-driven.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...because some people with an agenda want to promote bitcoin.
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The silent downvotes I'm getting are part of the example.
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> For example, could a union stop the payout of that high-level exec that was eventually shown the door for harrasment with a good bonus? Yes. As unions represent workers and carry barganing power, they ask (or demand) companies to chang
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The idea that a certain pattern of economic behaviors is "pragmatic", "non-ideological" and even "non-political", while others are, is in itself a good example of ideology.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> HSM in their pocket If you refer to the typical smartphone, it's an HSM without the Security, and also it's not truly Hardware.
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Thanks, I'd rather not use it. My time is valuable as well.
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> maybe the site's reading time estimator is broken? sarcasm intended. It was not rewritten in rust?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I am overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and mature design of this language - it almost reads like Python Sarcasm?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Streets are one of the only places that all bank robbers go after a robbery, just to get out of the bank. This is why we can't have streets... ?!? Jokes aside, you just provided a very good example of the prison mindset: Instead of try
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Power structures and actual power matters too Talking about power structures while criticizing Foucault is pretty rich.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are completely missing the point. Try https://www.schoolprison.com/ and you'll see how the esthetic of building can change dramatically while keeping the same requirements of efficiency, cost and safety. Look at br
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Alternating your "main" job with other physical work, perhaps outside, is much more healthy both physically and mentally.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
A good bunch of downvotes? I struck a nerve, it seems.

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