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by kyboren 4y ago
> better yet if you use Clear. Fuck you very much for normalizing automated tyranny.
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by kyboren 4y ago
Anything that makes humans more legible to machines is a threat to human liberty. Biometric surveillance and digital identity initiatives must be resisted or we will inevitably find ourselves hopelessly ensnared by a totalitarian clique. Ma
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by kyboren 4y ago
A more accurate and comparable figure is $16,085 per pupil[0]. And that has grown very much since then to now $20,855 per pupil, a record-breaking figure (like all the years in the preceding decade--just look at that chart!)[1]. Also consid
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by kyboren 4y ago
> Being issued by a sovereign state would probably be a better test. Aha, so they just need another layer of indirection. Acting on the imprimatur of the country's central bank, programmatically issue a sovereign CBDC upon the depos
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by kyboren 4y ago
So the Fed hikes in order to cause fiscal pain, succeeds, then bails out the international banking cartel with unlimited liquidity secured by bonds under par. Where is the liquidity bailout for single parents who lost their jobs due to Fed
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by kyboren 4y ago
The commission was created by legislation authored by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. It's not like this is some random group of academics with no political power. I agree that it has little chance of becoming law, though.
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by kyboren 4y ago
GlobalSuperMegaCorp has plenty of competition for their company town that includes a grocery store . If you don't like their company town, you're free to move to another town like 85% of the rest of the world. Oh and BTW there ar
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by kyboren 4y ago
Copyright may be a great tool for artists and software coders to collect rent off their creations, but it's not the only way for them to get paid. Patronage and commissions have supported artists since time immemorial. I'm sure co
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by kyboren 4y ago
Welcome to Intel, Germany!
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by kyboren 4y ago
I don't think this should be downvoted. I believe this is all 100% correct. Maybe because of the "left's deficit spending" part, which is not wrong, but ignores the right's historical deficit spending (e.g. TCJA). O
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by kyboren 4y ago
Because sovereign monetary policy is a much-underappreciated but absolutely key element of sovereignty. Joining a monetary union and ceding independent control of monetary policy is extremely risky, especially when that monetary union is no
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by kyboren 4y ago
OK, please see the chart at the top of page 5 of the 2021-22 budget PDF: https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/BudgetSummary/K-12Edu... . You can see that in 2012-2013 there was a big jump in funding from 20
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by kyboren 4y ago
> underfunding This is a decades-old talking point that simply isn't true and hasn't been for years. Funding levels keep breaking records year after year. "K-12 per-pupil funding [in 2022-23] totals $15,261 Proposition 98
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by kyboren 4y ago
Like all animals, we eat, fuck, and die, but humanity's ability to alter the landscape far exceeds that of alligators and beavers. Our combined and fantastically developed use of reason, tools, and written language have elevated humani
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by kyboren 4y ago
Newsom would make a bad President and a terrible candidate. He's a classic corrupt corporate Democrat patsy[1] who holds power in a one-party state. Furthermore, that one-party state is California , which fact alone is enough to turn
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by kyboren 4y ago
By way of analogy: They took a precocious, promising young child and assimilated her into the Borg.
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by kyboren 4y ago
Central banks' links with governments pose threat to financial stability, says me.
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by kyboren 5y ago
> There are subsets of the population which are far more likely to not treat or even detect these illnesses That's an argument for improving detection of these diseases which influence clinical outcomes, not for prioritizing care on
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by kyboren 5y ago
I also think this is the most viable offramp. Everyone gets to plausibly claim victory, if not total victory. Russia keeps the money pit dear to the hearts of many Russians and doesn't become a Chinese vassal state. Ukraine ends the bl
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by kyboren 5y ago
This is... not great. It's crucial that these records be open to public inspection. But instant full-text search of the entire dockets of 630M cases feels wrong, invasive, and dangerous to me. It's yet another instance of panoptic
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by kyboren 5y ago
If you're already going to these lengths to compartmentalize, you might as well just run Qubes. It's really not much more mental overhead. Plus you get nice features like different color window borders for applications running in
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by kyboren 5y ago
I think you mean keys , not hashes. > But don't delude yourself into thinking that any meaningful number of people, even cryptocurrency believers, share your position. You'd be surprised.
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by kyboren 5y ago
Obviously it depends on the system involved, but there should be no need to touch any column containing personally identifying information in order to calculate aggregate sales statistics for each of your products.
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by kyboren 5y ago
Well, it's not necessary to process any personal data in order to calculate that. Can you ask your bookkeeper to tell you the top 3 best selling products for your top 5 customers without declaring that the purpose of the data transfer
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by kyboren 5y ago
> If you absolutely must have email out of the hands of low to mid grade government entities you need to implement the technical solutions yourself. Very off-topic, but this is exactly the most important and consistently underappreciated
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by kyboren 5y ago
> In comparison if an attacker gets a credit card that card could be disabled and or have transactions cancelled. That's why attackers never go after credit card numbers, right? I think non-revertible payments do not really make a b
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by kyboren 5y ago
That's thanks to the Federal Congress and Jerome Powell, not to California's supposed fiscal prudence. California has benefited from the Federal spending bonanza and also has famously high tax rates, treats capital gains as ordina
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by kyboren 5y ago
> Schools are understaffed and underfunded Please stop parroting this talking point. It's just not true. California schools are funded at record levels--$18k p.a. per pupil[0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by kyboren 5y ago
I am no stranger to criticizing the US--and there is certainly much to criticize--but this is just laughable. I'm surprised you're still able to breathe with Xi Jinping's dick lodged in your throat. In any case the lack of ox
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by kyboren 5y ago
> In Vietnam, Soviet troops helped manned SAM batteries and were advisors They also provided hundreds of MiG-21s, trained ~40 pilots/yr in the USSR, and,as you say, trained North Vietnamese pilots in-country[4][5]. But their direct

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