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by freddybobs 5y ago
This article on HN today https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/ "Politicians regularly claim that they need to ban encryption to protect the children. But who is actually being monitored?&qu
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by freddybobs 5y ago
> "We are going to minimize the anti-covid measures as much as possible, as long as there are still hospitals bed available to treat patients. If that means people get infected, so be it, as long as we can treat them. We know some a
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by freddybobs 5y ago
Even if I accept the premise that "Not a single entity anywhere in the world has been able to come up with any model that accurately represent COVID-19 infection rates and evolution." (which sounds highly unlikely especially at th
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by freddybobs 5y ago
> It's only the case because you see roll backs of previous relaxation as a sign those were "mistakes" proving that those were "scandals". No, this isn't really it. I'm actually making a more broad clai
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by freddybobs 5y ago
"The approach you describe : open / close / open a little / close back a bit more according to the situation is exactly how we need to handle things. " The actions seem to follow this pattern not because of some w
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by freddybobs 5y ago
There is a good episode about homelessness in the US on the 'You're wrong about' podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homelessness/id1380008... In it they cite studies that show that
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by freddybobs 6y ago
> Many of the problems arise when people with some power have dehumanized other people in their minds, and start to mistreat them, within whatever level of power they may have. By their very nature, such mega-corporations tend produce ma
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by freddybobs 6y ago
Politics != government. "Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals,
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by freddybobs 6y ago
I think Mr O'Reilly is largely incorrect. He is espousing a tech utopian vision. Underlying that idea is that politics is redundant. That is born out of the (not wholly unjustified) frustration around the failure of politics in the wes
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by freddybobs 6y ago
I should start by saying I'm not very keen on having government mandated IDs in order to be able to use a internet service. I'd also point out that increasingly companies are forcing such policies - using mobile phones - that in t
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by freddybobs 6y ago
What's your take on the dead sea scrolls ? How do the aspects of the early church align with scriptural literalism? Specifically the split of the early church between Paul and Jesus brother James. James was Jesus's choice to lead
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by freddybobs 6y ago
GDPR is generally a good thing IMHO. It seems this can only lead to 1) Rolling back to pre GDPR, where user data is largely a free for all 2) The UK having it's own 'unique' rules Neither which seems very good for users and&#
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by freddybobs 6y ago
This gives Facebook way too much credit. The Upton Sinclar quote probably applies: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” In the 'owning it' - it doesn't r
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by freddybobs 6y ago
Checkout 'Capital in 21st century' on Netflix. It's based on the book by the same name from Thomas Piketty, who's in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce... It makes the
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by freddybobs 6y ago
Yes he did. Perhaps not pedantically and explicitly, but implicitly he did. It's no different than a mob boss saying 'wouldn't it be a shame if X had an accident', and then X dies at the hands of some associated people.
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by freddybobs 6y ago
So thinking beyond their stated reasoning - which doesn't make much sense unless they do something similar to facebook and co, which they won't - makes me wonder. With this administration everything is overtly political and typica
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by freddybobs 6y ago
The US is a democracy - a representative democracy (as opposed to say 'direct democracy'). It can be a democracy and a republic.
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by freddybobs 7y ago
I didn't call you a psychopath, but seems like it's something on your mind. Lack of empathy is a defining trait. If you find yourself on occasion wondering if you are, or other people pointing out that you might be, that certainly
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by freddybobs 7y ago
Just wow. To paraphrase "I don't care about other peoples suffering." "I do care about oil. This doesn't really effect oil tho." Conclusion: "So I don't need to care about any of this, and I don'
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by freddybobs 8y ago
The Slang compiler is OSS (MIT) and is under active development here... https://github.com/shader-slang/slang
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by freddybobs 9y ago
Whilst a VPN is an important and arguably now necessary way to protect yourself on the internet, it's use in practice is very far from a sliver bullet. Ignoring the somewhat inevitable problems of latency and bandwidth - much of the in
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by freddybobs 9y ago
Sorry - that was from a comment below, and wasn't really what I was responding to. 'Their' means HSBC. Assuming the documentary is accurate - that HSBC was the go to bank for money laundering. That was a big part of their bus
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by freddybobs 9y ago
"At their scale, that's a small fine. Barely 10% of annual net profit." HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels. They also helped fund terrorist organisations like ISIS. They made it possible to at s
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by freddybobs 9y ago
There are lots of problems you see in practice which are not discussed often.... * Inability to send mail though a mail program * Daily disconnections of VPN service * Captchas and other verification/friction when using services (eg yo