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by mrex 4y ago
>The real flaw in the argument of the parent is, that in a direct comparison between Singapure and Norway Norway still wins: If roughly the same recidivism rates are achieved in a very punitive and a very supportive system, the supportiv
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by mrex 4y ago
>You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example? Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the other person's thesis doesn't fit the facts. And he did that. So, y
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by mrex 4y ago
>Yes, and, expressing emotions helps us move beyond them. Yes and sometimes in expressing those emotions we realize that they're underlayed by a logical basis that our instinct was informing us about, as when we fear the rise of a g
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by mrex 4y ago
>To blindly assume that all characters in LotR must have a Biblical corollary is lazy. Why do you deem my post "blind assumption", when it contained quite a bit beyond that?
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by mrex 4y ago
>Architecture is just a matter of organization. Have to say, I think that's somewhat oversimplifying. Architecture is a lot more than organization. It's also a broad and deep understanding of external and internal resources, th
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>The truth is it’s just a pretext for having a gateway from the South China Sea to the rest of the world- which I don’t think is particularly unreasonable as an aim. But you're shifting around from principles to consequentialism. Su
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by mrex 4y ago
>You can choose to both not be afraid and still walk through fire, so to speak. Fear is a healthy emotion, properly tempered. And it's an entirely rational response to a threat to my freedom and way of life. China is no less than th
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by mrex 4y ago
Reality is made of results, not intentions, so ultimately it's those that we're accountable for. This is one of the most considerable challenges for a species with such creativity, emotional drive, and long vision. I fear the resu
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by mrex 4y ago
>All these disputes are quite clearly about China being pissed off that the US is projecting power right on their doorstep. The South China Seas dispute is, in fact, primarily between China and a series of smaller nations like the Philip
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by mrex 4y ago
>this part I'm not too sure about. Modern China exhibits genuine imperialism. They've even developed and published plans for dominating world standards bodies by 2035[1]. They're crafting a gigantic blue water navy[2]. The
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by mrex 4y ago
DevOps is a sysadmin who doesn't own his infrastructure, mixed with a developer who doesn't own his code.
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by mrex 4y ago
>In someways China is ultra-capitalistic. They will sell what people want. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pornography, anything deemed prurient by the government, anything deemed corrosive to social values, even trivial things
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by mrex 4y ago
To be fair, OWASP does publish some excellent frameworks focused on enhancing broad-based organizational security posture, like their SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) project: https://owaspsamm.org/
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by mrex 4y ago
It's typically some affiliate-relationship that's conveniently structured to permit plausible deniability on the part of the ultimate recipient of the funds.
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by mrex 4y ago
I think there is some "fortuitous things just keep happening to these people" in much fiction, and certainly the LOTR series, right? If you or I was given a knife that glowed when trolls were around, that would probably be the mos
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by mrex 4y ago
Tom Bombadil is quite clearly what Tolkein referred to as a "subcreation echo" of biblical Adam. Oldest, fatherless, unaffected by original sin and thus not tempted or influenced in the least by the ring, literally living his life
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by mrex 4y ago
>He contributed exactly nothing to the story. Or, did you just not understand what he contributed? Why was Tom Bombadil invulnerable to the ring's power? Why was he not tempted by it? If you can't cogently answer that, I feel l
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by mrex 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_four_traceroute
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by mrex 4y ago
>I don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people. Well now that doesn't make any sense. If you spy on the other side, and they spy on you, but you don't spy on you, then how do you know wh
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by mrex 4y ago
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archive...
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by mrex 4y ago
>Browser already operates in “untrusted” mode. My guy, there's a difference between legitimate confusion and this sort of aggressively refusing to get the point. Clearly I'm not referring to sandboxing or app privileges, I&#x27
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by mrex 4y ago
>When you talk about spying on people to know everything about them in order to learn how to manipulate them, you're talking about brainwashing. That's a semantic debate that's neither here nor there. If that's what y
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by mrex 4y ago
We aren't talking about some far-out concept like brainwashing, though. We are talking about information warfare, where information asymmetry is a battlefield advantage. That's not a theoretical or far-out concept at all, it'
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by mrex 4y ago
>What if you just solve the problem by making society a better place? Because I don't know, and I don't think anyone else knows, how to better society in a way that wipes out all the dictatorships and malign powers of the world
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by mrex 4y ago
>Rather than address these questions, I think you have an extremely important question to resolve. Do these boogeymen exist? Are they capable of social engineering to the extent we should be worried? Yes, they undoubtedly do. Russia, Chi
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by mrex 4y ago
Is there a way that we can better balance the needs to surveil against the legitimate fears of the populace about chilling effects that broad law enforcement domination of electronic media could create? Can we somehow effectively, assuredly
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by mrex 4y ago
>Just makes no sense to have such a complex system It's not that complex, it really can be reduced to what the browser already does: attempts to render web pages best for the display, without full hinting from the server-side. In th
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by mrex 4y ago
Wow. I had no idea. This bullshit is why I browse with javascript off, and enable it only on a per subdomain basis with uMatrix, and disable all the tracking technologies I can. I probably already stick out like a sore thumb to anyone doing
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by mrex 4y ago
I wasn't suggesting proxying anything, just that the browser should attempt to correct errors that it introduces into page rendering when it spoofs feedback to the server. And again, is it a realistic threat model to imagine that a hig

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