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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
We might not have a world government on paper, but governments around the world tend to be largely on the same page. Those that aren't following the lead of the world hegemony have an unfortunate tendency to get invaded, have uprisings
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Was the key ever returned?
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
I was roommates with a heavy equipment mechanic in his >$500k house. He barely spoke English and when his company got terminated from their contract on a tunnel he was rehired the same week for a $40k pay raise. He quit that job for anot
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Using all the bandwidth on the interwebs.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Nix seems to have that ability via Disnix[1], though I haven't used it. Looking through the manual[2] it still looks like its in nix. [1] https://github.com/svanderburg/disnix [2] http://hydra.nixos.org
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
How does this compare to something like Guix or Nix? It seems those provide many of the same assurances without needing centralized trust.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm (hopefully understandably) pretty skeptical of anything google puts their name on nowadays. That said, my speculations were about Google's intentions (not sigstore's) and if you think they are "
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Thank you. I'm picturing something similar to MANPAD but for tanks.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
What is ATGM? Seems like something I'm not comfortable searching for.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
I seem to recall something on HN a few months back where google wanted to require full names for FOSS code, but can't find it now. (If anyone remembers that I'd appreciate a link.) This smells like it's trying to do the same
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
The law and morality are often fundamentally opposed. Saudi Arabia punishes homosexuality with the death penalty, and Apple happily removed the encrypted communications from their phones so they could continue selling in that country. Illeg
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
The difference between open and closed source is not lost to anyone on this site. There is a grand canyon sized gap between 'could already exist and you have no clue' and 'we have built and are deploying this system'.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Thank you, this is one of the best posts I've read on here. >on behalf of their main essential coalition members - the worst, wideley acknowledged, most objectively evil and mendacious organizations in the history of world. Very few
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
The entire technical infrastructure to scan your entire device for arbitrary content is being built and deployed. The only change necessary to scan other files is changing a path and that's configuration that could even be silently don
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
There's plenty of things governments could be busy doing that aren't controversial, but managing the existing state doesn't have nearly the glamour (or reelection PR) of changing it.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Barely related, but is CSAM a new acronym? I hadn't heard it until this fiasco.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
"Moreover, this gradual (and, of late, rapidly progressive) decay of freedom goes almost without challenge; the American has grown so accustomed to the denial of his constitutional rights and to the minute regulation of his conduct by
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Another decade of bombs and depleted uranium is bad for the environment too. Besides, DoD is already the biggest polluter on the planet. Anything that slows the war machine will be a net positive.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Our government put more effort into stopping poor people from having affordable vehicles than preventing the Taliban from getting military vehicles[1]. See engine disablement section, basically just replace oil with salt water. [1] https:&
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Peace and allies through collateral damage.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Correct[1]. >Facebook is more than willing to sell visibility into people’s lives, unless it’s to tell people about how their data is being used. Being transparent about how ads use people’s data is apparently enough to get banned; in Fa
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
The US has more people in in prison than anywhere in the world. It is broken.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
It hurts how much that resonates with me, especially the constant editing. I'll probably be editing this post for two hours and attempt to tomorrow but then realize that it's too late.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Post was pretty weak. To start, it's not only the US government but also big pharma that have experimented on African(American)s[1][2], including Pfizer[3]. In Africa, Incidents like these have contributed to a distrust against Western
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
>there is a difference in vaccination rates between different racial groups Considering that people of color have been the targets of medical experimentation under the guise of public health by both our government and the same drug maker
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
It's not just you. I stopped using amazon and other big corps completely when they locked us down.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
I think there's already some that do that iirc.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
I thought I was the weirdo for thinking tomatoes on burgers didn't add any flavor. I love flavorful tomatoes everywhere else, generally, but the kind used on burgers are like mushy water.
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another would be "Do one thing and do it well", which is Unix philosophy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
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by kook_throwaway 5y ago
Just a few short weeks ago, HN was quoting official sources single digit inflation numbers. Everyone that said they were wrong was called many names, most of which included the word 'conspiracy'. For a place that prides itself on

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