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by evgen 6y ago
Somehow all of those explanations seem to gloss over the fact that you generally need to be born into a wealthy family in order to have the cushion to take the risks that allow you to collect billions. As an example, Paul Graham would have
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by evgen 6y ago
Good point, it probably is :) I was looking for some other example that would have been potentially provocative to a clear ally and was coming up short. But it turns out the USN actually publishes a list of the places where they engage in
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by evgen 6y ago
This was a 'freedom of navigation' exercise and the entire point is that you do not ask permission. Ever. Asking permission presumes that the other party has an opportunity to say 'no', and an FON transit is to show tha
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by evgen 6y ago
The idea that iMessage was the lock-in factor here is absurd. No one purchased an iPhone specifically to get access to iMessage.
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by evgen 6y ago
Maybe if you did a bit of basic research you would learn that the public _can_ visit Buckingham Palace and tour various rooms that were basically mini-museums containing parts of the royal collections. Last time I popped in was soon after
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by evgen 6y ago
No one mentions it because this 'fact' is both self-evident and is in no way specific to Signal or any other piece of software. If I can own the platform then there is NOTHING you can do to stop me from owning all of the informat
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by evgen 6y ago
No one is forcing _anyone_ into subjecting themselves to experimentation. You have the choice to opt out of social situations where your presence is a danger to others and where those people would like the option to exclude your presence d
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by evgen 6y ago
That is a risk with everything, it is turtles all the way down. There are not 'better solutions' available for the general public out there and anyone who claims otherwise is selling snake oil. What Signal (and similar efforts l
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by evgen 6y ago
Instead it is controlled by Russians and has a history of dodgy security/crypto. Yeah, that is _much_ better.
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by evgen 6y ago
Never knew quite how much I wanted something that I did not even know existed before bouncing through the product list...
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by evgen 6y ago
You have the right to choose who you associate with, you do not have the right to force the rest of us to accept your company or society. There is a free choice, you just want the benefits of society without paying the freight and expect t
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by evgen 6y ago
And vaccine passports give people the right to choose not to vaccinate and avoid what they see as a risk from the vaccine. What these free riders object to is the fact that they can no longer hide and externalise the risk they are trying to
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by evgen 6y ago
This is a classic free rider situation where the cost for the rest of us is a continuation of a deadly and costly pandemic. That is the wonderful thing about vaccine passports, you can be as anti-vax as you want and the rest of us can shun
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by evgen 6y ago
You should have the right to refuse a vaccine and the rest of us should have the right to not associate with people who have decided to put the rest of us at risk. If only we had some way to easily let people know to which group you belong
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by evgen 6y ago
If you want to understand the tech more you should start with the E language it is based on at erights.org. In the case of distributed GC the system understands that the network can fail and plans for this: http://www.erights.or
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by evgen 6y ago
> Restarting an engine in the middle of a rotation like that, fuel sloshing around is really hard. Just restarting an engine in zero G has always been tricky, because the fuel is floating around and doesn't have gravity pulling it t
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by evgen 6y ago
Business owners in Europe are not any less greedy or evil, they are simply constrained by laws and the political environment to be unable to commit the worst offenses.
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by evgen 6y ago
Seriously? Start with your standard orbital space station. Add a bit more structural support and stiffening, then lower it into the atmosphere and use balloons to keep it at a set altitude. Voila, cloud village. Repeat as needed until y
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by evgen 6y ago
It could also be the case that US unions operate in a country where power is held by a class of people who would really prefer their serfs to STFU and get back to whatever dangerous, ill-paid task they were assigned. When the most egregiou
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by evgen 6y ago
If I happen to mention to you that it would be a shame if my associates and I were to decide to burn your nice little business down in the night, but maybe if you pay us that won't happen I would assume that you would know that a threa
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by evgen 6y ago
You are wasting your time. It seems quite apparent the person you are arguing with has a rather poor grasp of the history of science and technology and has also bought in big-time to the 'great man' theory of history. Reality is
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by evgen 6y ago
I am not saying it is certain, but there is a distinct class of people who expect everything to go back to the way it was and to do so immediately. They need to consider the possibility that things might _never_ return to the way they were
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by evgen 6y ago
Here is something for you to consider: this is the new 'normal'. That world you lived in 18 months ago? Gone. Not coming back. There is no 'end point', it just goes on and we learn to adapt. Eventually we get better
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by evgen 6y ago
> If a cop asks me if I want to buy drugs and I say yes, they most definitely have no case whatsoever here in Denmark even though I were willing to buy. That is also exactly how it works in the US. Intention and action, both are require
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by evgen 6y ago
And people claimed that Brexit was all downside and there would be no benefits....
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by evgen 6y ago
He wasn't 'prodded', he was given an opportunity to do something he was already doing and any suggestion that this is entrapment is only made by people who have no idea what that word actually means. This sort of investigati
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by evgen 6y ago
These days, by the time you are grinding to make the next level and avoid the 2 year cut you are already past the point we are talking about. The post-hire grind at a FAANG is now closer to what a middle manager at GS would do; it is good
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by evgen 6y ago
I guess I would assume that it produces better outcomes from the company perspective but honestly can't think of a good counter-example to use as a comparison. After enduring the hazing it is much easier to convince you to do things t
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by evgen 6y ago
'Good FAANG job with better work life balance" Ha. Ha ha ha. The grind to get in to those jobs is similar to a banking entry job, the grind for the first few years to make a small mark and advance up the ladder is very similar, an
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by evgen 6y ago
The long hours also serves as a sort of hazing ritual that can increase bonding to a particular world-view. If you are a company like GS you know you can pull in the cream of the crop by dangling huge payouts at the end of the apprenticesh

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