happythomist

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by happythomist 6y ago
But encrypted conversations, by definition, are recorded. With a warrant, law enforcement is permitted to search a safe containing written records of a conversation; why shouldn't they be allowed to search an encrypted consumer electro
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by happythomist 6y ago
There's a pretty significant difference between "no HTTPS" and "mandatory decryption for consumer electronic devices with a warrant", even if the latter is still a bad policy.
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by happythomist 6y ago
I thought it was fairly clear "suppress political dissent" was referring to the suppression of peaceful political dissent, and I was responding to that claim.
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by happythomist 6y ago
Actually, the op-ed states: > Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equival
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by happythomist 6y ago
We have not been able to simulate any aspect of subjective, conscious experience using a mathematical model, and personally I think we have no good reason to believe we ever will. The qualitative, by definition, cannot be quantified.
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by happythomist 6y ago
> There's a reason many ancient religions forbid loaning money at interest entirely; and it's the same reason we have bankruptcy laws. The Catholic Church condemns usury as intrinsically evil because, in the words of Aquinas, u
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by happythomist 6y ago
> It was taken for granted by philosophers, that an "infinite regression" is a logical fallacy (e.g., used in a proof by Thomas Aquinas)... Aquinas specifically objected to the notion of an essentially ordered infinite causal s
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by happythomist 6y ago
> It's a different strategy. Prime is an investment up front, so it puts people in the mindset of wanting to come up ahead. By buying full Prime, you've essentially prepaid $120 in shipping costs, so you want to take advantage
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by happythomist 7y ago
I don't see how obvious discrepancies between the official Wuhan death toll and on-the-ground accounts constitute "wild" derivations. Moreover, Radio Free Asia is quoting named residents, so this cannot plausibly be described
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by happythomist 9y ago
There's nothing stopping a malicious actor from acquiring a passcode by force as well. https://xkcd.com/538/