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by mmooss 8mo ago
> countries where users barely need it? Why don't they need it? There is widespread corporate and government surveillance in those countries. Privacy is a major issue. What is your standard?
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> increased home values, allowing them to sell and improve their lives That also raises property taxes, making the neighborhood unaffordable and driving them out. > it's now a more pleasant area to live in. For new wealthy reside
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> good housing full of artists and musicians and other self-employed creatives It looks like - it might not be what you mean, but it looks like - you're saying 'good housing' is housing that has "artists and musicians
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Good for whom? If it's good for the residents, that's great. If it's bad for the residents, who get driven out, but good for some developers and outside rich people - that's what gentrification is.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Its wild how the solution to housing costs is really just: > Build more housing. Keep law and order. Safety (law and order) increases housing costs, as you say. It's desireable on its own, but it does not solve housing cost. NY
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Why Tech Giants Are Ditching the Power Grid(nytimes.com)
3 points by mmooss 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> If it’s consensual obviously a 16 year old is fine. That's not obvious to me. For example, would it be fine for a rich, powerful 40 year old to sleep with a 16 year old? Given the power inbalance, is consent really possible? >
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Or doing work that regularly involves writing complex equations, which is what I was asking about - what field and what do they use?
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Hmmm ... the GP says > I don't actually know many people still doing any of this sort of work on Windows.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The graphic at 13:25 re current (2019) PC hardware is interesting: * Bus between CPU and South Bridge not protected. * Most of Intel's "secure boot" functionally implemented in South Bridge. * At boot time,
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Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story (2019) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by mmooss 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mmooss 8mo ago
What stack are those people using?
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Again, it was not always this way. It's like saying drownings happened before the tidal wave, so it's always been this way. People will put up any defense against facing and acting on the reality of their situation.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> prevent terminally ill people from voluntarily experimenting on themselves to find a cure and further our understanding of disease Those seem like a good starting point for standards: Is it voluntary? Are they of sound mind? Are they g
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> it’s also how America has generally operated in the past It's not. That's why we have the rules that they are recinding, and why the US has long had among the the most transparent, safest, and liquid markets in the world. Say
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by mmooss 8mo ago
In the past, stupid situations on Wall Street have not resolved that way; they've resulted in disasters that cause economic harm to many people in the country and the world. Though sometimes people on Wall Street do make money from tho
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The parent comment (to mine) is by nxor2; yours is the grandparent.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Spoiler: That cabbage patch was on the property of Robert Goddard's aunt.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
The parent comment is just anti-Muslim hate. It has nothing to do with the topic.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
You can see this pattern repeated often by conservatives (not invented by them, but currently popular with them): No matter what happens, attack your political enemies. Every problem, every event, is an opportunity to smear them.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
'Bureaucracy' is commonly used as a trigger word. When I see it, I'm alerted to manipulation and, in some contexts, a certain partisan dogma. After all, who likes bureaucracy? By the same token, who like stop lights or authen
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by mmooss 8mo ago
People love repeating this stuff, a form of navel-gazing: 'Norms' is used by bad people to support their obviously bad ideas - 'I know this sucks, but it's inevitable!'. Instead of complaining, do what prior generat
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by mmooss 8mo ago
I can't tell you more than I have. Good luck my friend!
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Most of that I didn't say, but it's certainly true that wage increases are commonly absorbed by reducing profits (or investment) rather than closing the business (!) or increasing prices. Closing a business because wages or any co
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by mmooss 8mo ago
There's no cite for the 171 million, which is a bit hard to believe. There are cites (which I didn't check) for these claims. Maybe they are counting people watching clips on Twitter? According to Streams Charts, the ceremony pea
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by mmooss 8mo ago
It's been embraced and is highly successful all over the world.
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by mmooss 8mo ago
Yet universal rights have taken over the world, and are embraced by all the most free, most wealthy, most safe countries; it is the foundation of their governments. They are the most succesful governments in history with no others even clos
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> The claim is that some people are willing to sacrifice one thing they value a little (freedom) for something they value more (safety). You're assuming what they value more. Also, without freedom there is little safety. Without fre
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> The employer is operating at the lowest profit he considers acceptable. Businesses are profit-maximizing organizations. They operate at maximum profit, not at the lowest! A business's managers don't meet to consider the lowes
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by mmooss 8mo ago
These are the same old argument that the dictators have made for generations. 'People here don't value freedom'; 'it's just your opinion'. They are called universal rights for a reason, and finding one popular

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