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by pear01 8mo ago
You seem to measure success with quite a short term view. You are wrong, the comment you are replying to is quite right. A few days? That one day led America to prosecute two wars for over a decade - both of which failed. Both of which seed
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by pear01 8mo ago
That trend of blurred lines has been going on for quite a while. Iirc a big callout of the 9/11 commission report was lack of communication between the FBI and the CIA. Even on the local side increasingly it seems every major crime get
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by pear01 8mo ago
The system is clearly breaking. Rather than couching your language in rehashed partisan politics that will only lead to further and more egregious breaks, the best thing you could do is acknowledge these events as a system failure. The safe
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by pear01 8mo ago
Are they going to stop because a company fights a subpoena? Or perhaps in the case of some touted alternatives, even if a subpoena were acted upon, no data would be intelligible? Maybe they'll just show up to your house next time. I&#x
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by pear01 8mo ago
Good luck trying to subject them to the same level of scrutiny. They live in places with high walls and armed guards, a lot of them don't even drive themselves if they drive at all. Even when using helicopters or planes their private o
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by pear01 9mo ago
well practiced cynicism is boring. imo there are actually too few answers for what a better path would even look like. hard to move forward when you don't know where you want to go. answers in the negative are insufficient, as are thos
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by pear01 9mo ago
I believe this was "spoofed" only in the sense that a particular provider/online platform accepted data via an API that was abused to draw this on that platform only. Searching around it seems it was not found if you looked o
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by pear01 9mo ago
This doesn't make any sense. Is it individual or up to the culture? You have a culture but it ultimately lies with the individual? So what was this culture before? How can the ultimate responsibility ever be displaced by any culture if
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by pear01 9mo ago
US also tariffs Chinese EV makers out of the US market so they can keep peddling the fiction that EV sucks or China can't build anything we can't. This has the same corrupt nexus with the anti-renewable mantra. Essentially subsidi
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by pear01 9mo ago
Farmers like Ragland are overrepresented. Why do these rural states (several of which have a total population less than that of major metro areas on the coasts) have two senators? The senate is an antidemocratic institution. The compromise
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by pear01 9mo ago
Ah yes, human history is full of societies that never legislated morality. They always trusted in the individual. After all we all remember the nature of God's law and the ten commandments - Thou shalt follow your conscience. Humanity
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by pear01 9mo ago
Sorry but you're just wrong, and shockingly so. "In democracies, they are just protesters protected against the retaliation by laws and constitutions" This is a mind numbing statement to make in context. What do you think the
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by pear01 9mo ago
True enough but really this boils down to we are just doing what they are doing. The reason they had it higher for longer was because for longer the situation was reversed, our cars were better. Now they have surpassed us and don't rea
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by pear01 9mo ago
It's a good point but imo not really surprising when the President of the United States essentially threatened to invade Canada and Greenland. This is classic multipolar politics, trade the two behemoths against each other so they don&
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by pear01 9mo ago
Yes, not to mention the fact that Chinese EVs can't be sold here... protectionism for weak American companies that can't compete globally. We've gone from an automotive superpower and the land of Henry Ford to the government
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by pear01 9mo ago
Your logic on the criminal consequences is simply bizarre. It's like you think if I put myself out there protesting a law and subjecting myself to arrest or other consequences by virtue of this opposition I really don't want to ac
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by pear01 9mo ago
Indeed, good point. Proper threat modeling is everything. This also explains my original reply to the ancestor comment. As I see it, most people's personal threat model essentially already accounts for data breaches to the point that t
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by pear01 9mo ago
People have too much to lose nowadays? Many of King's contemporaries died for this. He was shot and killed. The FBI tried to blackmail him and get him to commit suicide. I would rather people just admit they are cowards. It is fine, mo
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by pear01 9mo ago
I think we also shouldn't sell the nonviolence short. It wasn't merely nonviolence. It was subjecting yourself openly to state violence and not resisting. It was letting the brutality of the state be made manifest as it washed ove
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by pear01 9mo ago
Demanding a password introduces more error and more room for evasion than a finger, which as I said is about the same as getting the phone in the first place. You are right that in some, maybe even most cases, it may not make a difference.
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by pear01 9mo ago
Really? What about phone theft? If someone sticks you up and knows all it takes is your finger to unlock the phone, I would think they would be more tempted to do so, as it takes more or less the same level of coercion as taking the phone.
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by pear01 9mo ago
You should read James Baldwin. Or read up on the debates post revolutionary war in the United States about the French revolution. The truth is the land of the free has always been quite conservative. Which frankly, is true of most societies
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by pear01 9mo ago
So, that would be corrupt because you don't agree with it then? Which are these sane countries? How do you think lobbying should work then? Everyone should get equal access? Hunter and gatherer man was egalitarian like that. Afaik it i
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by pear01 9mo ago
I hope you're joking... Otherwise it would suggest you think the problem is they didn't ask? When was the last time you saw a customer read a terms of service? Or better yet reject a product because of said terms once they hit tha
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by pear01 9mo ago
It's really not that dramatic. Just build it like more classic media. Curated content the company takes responsibility for, closed platform, pay upfront. Or have public programming, that is the oldest model there is. Ad driven online c
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by pear01 10mo ago
Well, people bid for USA government resources all the time. It's why the Washington DC suburbs have some of the country's most affluent neighborhoods among their ranks. In theory it makes the process more transparent and fair, alt
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by pear01 10mo ago
To be candid, this is a common refrain that simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny. > I'm not especially interested in passing moral judgment on others Earlier: > I chose to spend most of my career at a company that did
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by pear01 10mo ago
I believe what you are running up against is a tendency to externalize shame as anger. Part of the tradeoff the parent comment references is a lack of thinking about the moral ramifications. Thus, when you mention your position which is gro
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by pear01 10mo ago
These critiques are so tiresome. Like he forced people to buy macs or something. You're not the audience. For the average consumer the fact they don't even have to think about unscrewing something is a major part of the appeal. Th
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by pear01 10mo ago
You disagree and yet you agreed 100% and made the change. I thought the point the preceding parent comment is making is that you should have thought of that beforehand. Yet you seemed to already come to a judgement about it yet then quickly

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