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by mindslight 22d ago
De/centralization is not an either or, but more like a yin and yang. There are aspects of IP that are highly centralized. 1. Assignment of addresses is centralized. Even though it's federated (ie distributed), authority still flow
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by mindslight 22d ago
(Sorry for the delay in replying. There is definitely an analog of Gresham's law for discussions) I completely agree about the feedback loops. They're mutual feedback loops though, and causality can go both ways. We're curren
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by mindslight 22d ago
> I don't know why HN rails against it [ZKP for age verification] constantly Because on its own as often presented, it still has the glaring shortcoming that anybody can proxy an ID verification for anybody else without any form o
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by mindslight 23d ago
> I don't believe government regulation is the answer While I agree with where you're coming from in spirit, if you want to push this then you've got to do the work of actually coming up with workable concrete approach
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by mindslight 23d ago
It seems like you should probably spend some effort on trying to learn at least a few more things?
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by mindslight 23d ago
It's disingenuous to invert the issue. It's not some matter of " don't like ", but rather defaulting to not believing a habitually lying con artist. That is the smart thing to do, right? The real question is why s
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by mindslight 23d ago
Yeah, it's much better to be standing so you can toss the bag of food into the subway car right before the doors close.
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by mindslight 24d ago
The whole point of the label "smart" is to fill in vague positive thoughts for the customary "..." that comes right before "profit" in the standard /. business plan. And the real problem is that it works.
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by mindslight 24d ago
The big problem is that there has been, and is still, basically no political will in the US for GDPR-style privacy rights [0]. The current ID systems (DL# and SSN#) are already being flagrantly abused by an unaccountable surveillance indust
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by mindslight 24d ago
That explains how he got the votes on election night in 2016 . A vote for Grump in 2016 was completely understandable. But he should have plainly been a one term president, after his abjectly terrible handling of Covid (for starters, we ne
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by mindslight 24d ago
It's also abusive for Amazon to delay your order for a week with their Super Spiteful Shipping, pushing you to sign up for their sunk cost fallacy subscription. When I'm in the middle of some project, I've got no qualms about
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by mindslight 24d ago
It feels like we need to tweak the analogy for the surveillance industry. Something more like if all of your friends are pushing people off a cliff...
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by mindslight 25d ago
Yes I am talking with a US perspective. I would hope the GDPR would prevent such things in (most of) Europe. But I also personally wouldn't assume so given that there are still the same dynamics of keeping the info flows private to avo
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by mindslight 25d ago
That's the application software side. I would assume the IMEI and IMSI are both going out to the cell network though, and I would presume that it's trivial to tie a phone number to those with how the mobile industry generally sell
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by mindslight 25d ago
What we actually need to do are things like ranked pairs voting, a recall election dynamic for president/congress/judges, constitutional amendment to enshrine splitting executive power into agencies with heads elected separately f
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by mindslight 26d ago
But the monthly subscription isn't that expensive? (demon rises up. "muahahaha, you don't pay here with money ")
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by mindslight 26d ago
We need a society-wide rude awakening to the terrible realities of these attractive nuisances pushed by the tech^wsurveillance industry. People get lured into using insecure garbage software because "works for me" and "everyo
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by mindslight 26d ago
> We need to drop the narrative that the corporations and their executives are victims. They are being rewarded handsomely for their compliance. I fully agree here! Although I think it's too kind to characterize it as "compli
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by mindslight 26d ago
Yes, that would be one way to do it - split up their power so they don't have coercive power to infringe upon our natural rights. A proper approach to anti-trust enforcement is another issue I've thought about for a while. We shou
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by mindslight 26d ago
> Corporations are extensions of the government? Yes, every US-domestic corporation has been chartered by a state government. Every corporation that operates in the US has gotten a license from each state it operates in. Corporations (
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by mindslight 26d ago
The entire reason we treat corporations as independent entities, rather than as the extensions of the government that they are, is that they are supposed to be institutions executing on their own imperatives, and protected to do so under
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by mindslight 26d ago
For the technicals, this is why data source malleability and decentralization is important, even if 99.9% of the time you never want to use it. How much needless sticky friction is there from people's workflows defaulting to "Goog
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by mindslight 27d ago
This seems like a hollow victory. "No signal" will quite soon become a vanishing minority of users, and websites will simply reject anybody that isn't providing the signal. These laws mostly just prime the pump to get the cor
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by mindslight 28d ago
"Locally true" doesn't help when you need to deal with a much larger-scoped problem, right?. "ZOG" locally suceeds at making you feel like you've got it all figured out, but it's self defeating in the bi
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by mindslight 28d ago
I fully elaborated in the other comment, which you didn't respond to. There is a sibling reply that is on point as well. And sorry no, "Obama is responsible too" has no purchase with me.
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by mindslight 28d ago
As I said to your first comment: positive arguments rooted in what is aren't terribly compelling when the government has gone off the rails (unfortunately). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480377
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by mindslight 28d ago
Basing an argument around the unavoidable physical embodiment of speech is sophistry. There is no "above". The "material support" you speak of is all just republishing speech. By the argument laid out by the government h
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by mindslight 29d ago
> As for the constitution, they are surrounded by lawyers and if they overstep something, they back off. They are applying unitary executive theory as a solution to a slow congress to address the many critical issues facing the US in ou
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by mindslight 29d ago
I'd say the more salient dynamic is mass communication increasing the power of propaganda (now individually tailored!) making it so people are increasingly tolerant those lines being crossed. People voted for this , right? There are l
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by mindslight 29d ago
Fair!

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