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by loceng 2y ago
In a similar vein: "The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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by loceng 2y ago
You can't know to what extent a government will behave, and people will have different limitations and tolerances. It's why referendums exist - however the more authoritarian a government becomes, the less they want the population
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There's irony and arrogance in much of what you say, especially "When the facts are being twisted and misinformation endangers human life, there is a responsibility to get it right or shut it down." What if that actually appl
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Can you also go on the record to say what do you think the % odds are that the IDF killed Hamas' hostages (your own fellow citizens) when bombarding Gaza - which they continue to do - which arguably further increases the odds of killin
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by loceng 2y ago
Why do you think that not creating more Hamas isn't also an aim?
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Isn't it any less worse that 170+ journalists were killed among the 30,000+ civilians? And no, it's unlikely these are journalists who picked up a gun - the IDF is dropping up to 2,000 Lbs bombs, and that's possibly how many
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by loceng 2y ago
Censorship occurs on most of the major platforms, targeting specific topics or phrases, instead of outright banning channels; arguably to be as discrete as possible and not spook the herd, and where Twitter-X is going to allow the most info
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I would argue that's an apples to oranges comparison. Since by international law definition Gaza is an occupied territory, for one, and it's perhaps one of the most disproportionate "conflicts" in modern history. Re: jou
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Far too many eyeballs witnessing the "conflict" now - and with Elon buying Twitter-X, the censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus has a massive hole in it now. #ZeroIsASpecialNumber
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FTL: "... while more than 100 journalists were killed in six months in Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) ..." Anyone know where to find what the current accurate count of number of journalists killed in the Gaza bombardment
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by loceng 2y ago
A lot of interesting policy options in that case - thanks for sharing. I think an evolution of government is necessary, likely where a relatively blank slate is needed to flush out the influence of regulatory capture - and most important wh
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by loceng 2y ago
You need to pay 80% of the efficiency improvement for a higher-tiered curated set of code output from only senior-experienced developers. /s
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I find perfectionism gets in the way in such conversations: the goal is aiming for the freest market possible, but no - you can't legally sell services to assassinate people; unless you're the state who has a monopoly on violence.
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Until there's consolidation and it's no longer local but national or multi-national, or global companies like Blackrock et al who own controlling shares and board member positions to steer the companies how they choose. But there
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Have consumers had any really good or inspiring options yet that put privacy first? Most of the pundits of Bitcoin and similar - an evolution of the finance industrial complex - seem to claim that the reason there isn't wider adoption
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by loceng 2y ago
If you look at a small enough timeframe and a completely free market without setting up rules to the game to keep it an even playing field, then that's an issue, yes. What are your thoughts on patents?
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Reminds me of the military industrial complex.
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I honestly don't love taxpayer funding being used - unless the underlying technology is open sourced and available for commercial use, so then the free market can make improvements on it, etc. Or funding situations like e.g. "we&#
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by loceng 2y ago
Well, the reality is likely once they get access to the data, are allowed to use it - they will likely be happy to be grandfathered into their accelerated position if legislation passes to create barriers of entry by preventing such mass da
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by loceng 2y ago
A single Starlink could service bandwidth to a whole lot of people through local wired connections - which is a serious disruption to the existing industrial complex-government power structure; is what comes to my mind first.
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by loceng 2y ago
I looked it up, it's an official word - at least on Wikipedia: "Enshittification is the pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products such as Amazon, Facebook, Google Search, Twitter, Bandcamp, Reddit, Ube
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by loceng 2y ago
And so this has to be done on a technical level in Canada to have the same capacity as the social oversight of CCP personnel being firmly embedded in each ISP on mainland China, right?
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I wasn't sure, so I was asking; I wonder how complex of an understanding of these systems have integrated into how they actually address the topics. I don't like to assume - but would I be more right to assume you're big into
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by loceng 2y ago
Is this an argument for having or eliminating the gold standard, where currency is anchored to a physical good?
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Not accounting for government-produced inflation is interesting. I wonder if city could sue Federal government for printing money and causing such consequences? Reminder that deflation should be occurring with the benefits of automation tec
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Who's on second base.
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Canada will be abbreviated to CCP at that point.
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"Ottawa announces it will require telecoms to provide backup for each other during outages following Rogers system failure" - https://www.thestar.com/business/ottawa-announces-it-will-re... Are you aware of t
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by loceng 2y ago
And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right? Or did that not happen? The government mandated that after the "Rogers outage" - so that other providers can act as "backups", so "that never happen
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by loceng 2y ago
All true. What I'm getting at is people need to get exposed to the knowledge and practices, if they are to potentially benefit from the tools and support available. So that first starts by somehow gaining an adequate level of attention

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