kimlelly

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by kimlelly 13y ago
Lots of small governments with small budgets. Instead of that 1 point-of-failure-and-corruption that we have today. That way, "government" really belongs to those who it is supposed to serve: the People. PS: "Decentralization
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by kimlelly 13y ago
But keep in mind that the NSA stores everything, just to be able to go "back in time", whenever it pleases them. So, when you encrypt with today's algos, and it gets stored by the NSA, it will become cheaper for them to dec
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by kimlelly 13y ago
But that's only a short-term solution. Because de cription is only a matter of the amount of resources you through behind, and: 1) Those resources become cheaper by the day 2) Technology, by definition, improves with exponential progr
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by kimlelly 13y ago
Plus: "Some have called on us to move Persona servers outside the US..." But: "We’d rather focus on efforts to change the Law to respect user data wherever it lives." What?! Who says it's an either-or question? IT&#
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by kimlelly 13y ago
All of these other variables you mention can be prevented by having a good mental health. In a lot of places in Europe, people CAN get a therapy with a shrink (b/c or when it's covered by insurance), but they won't because of retarded cultu
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by kimlelly 13y ago
> And put a bunch of people out of work You can always create more jobs by lowering the salary/job. And this is by the way what has been happening: minimum wage was not even adjusted for inflation, which means it was effectively lowered
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by kimlelly 13y ago
Absolutely, the "band-aid"/short term help IS needed and the people behind it should get support. As to why we still haven't eliminated the tragedy/ies at the root: -> A few rich people control the media -> control our vision of our
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by kimlelly 13y ago
It's really nice when people want to do good. They deserve our full respect. Having said that, we, as a society, need to understand that we must correct the sick systems we've built and have come to accept as "the new normal". In other word
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by kimlelly 13y ago
Well, the more I think about it, the more see that being a "dork" or a "douche" is not the problem here: The problem is that it's a disguised projection of power onto others. The user is implicitely saying to people around him: "I can film
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by kimlelly 13y ago
I overheard a guy at the supermarket checkout, he was saying to what seemed to be his GF that he would actually kick people with a Glass from behind because that way he wouldn't be recorded... not very happy thoughts, I have to admit. What'