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by praptak 8mo ago
In practice the opposite is true. There's not enough people willing to sabotage countries like 1933 Germany or Putin's Russia.
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by praptak 8mo ago
The moral duty of a citizen is to sabotage their country when it becomes immoral.
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by praptak 8mo ago
I don't believe one is needed. USians seem ok with wars. The last one which caused problems also had a forced conscription.
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by praptak 8mo ago
Oh, it's not only Israel. It's also a powerful distraction from the Epstein files.
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by praptak 8mo ago
CS Lewis has a speech about the ingroups and corruption. His thesis is that the mere desire to be "in" is the greatest driver of immoral behavior: "To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will c
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by praptak 8mo ago
The post doesn't mention AI, it's not about AI and it's not even about implications of applying AI to software development. AI happens to work in the same direction as the one the author is worried about but none of their the
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by praptak 8mo ago
I'm in EU and I'm 100% okay with being blacklisted from ever entering US. Just as I'd be okay with being blacklisted by 1933 Germany. To be honest I don't even think it's ethical to work for a US company anymore. (T
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by praptak 8mo ago
How does the deal with the original author work with regard to the ownership of the copyright? I mean, the article means passing the torch but how exactly is this assured in case the author dies and the estate holders don't release the
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by praptak 8mo ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001
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by praptak 8mo ago
> I find it unreasonable to "demand" clarity "at the start" because there is no such thing. Obviously you cannot "demand" stuff but you can do your due dilligence as the person who chooses a technical soluti
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by praptak 8mo ago
My (admittedly superficial) knowledge about blur reversibility is that an attacker may know what kind of stuff is behind the blur. I mean knowledge like "a human face, but the potential set of humans is known to the attacker" or e
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by praptak 8mo ago
If I started implementing the organizational sabotage section at Google people would think I'm going for promo.
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by praptak 8mo ago
Phone numbers are kinda concerning given their popularity as 2FA. A phone number is now basically your shared password for everything. It's also semi public, hard to change and you are basically one SIM swap attack away from a full com
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Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump(jacobin.com)
1 points by praptak 8mo ago|0 comments
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by praptak 8mo ago
Since it's ultimately about morals, maybe it is time to reread CS Lewis' "The Inner Ring" from 1944[0,1]. It's about the same kind of choices but in situations which are much harder to extricate oneself from than ju
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by praptak 8mo ago
Show me an example of a large complex software system built from spec rather than evolved.
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by praptak 8mo ago
There's a ton of difference between a random person noting my presence at a single point in space-time and a commercial entity tracking and storing my movements all the time. Being okay with people watching me in public does not imply
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by praptak 9mo ago
Street protests were an effective tool for suffrage, anti-segregation, labor rights, civil rights, anti-colonialism, gay rights to name a few. It is disingenuous to associate this with the Waco-style idiocy.
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by praptak 9mo ago
It is not foolish if you consider they are looking for their Reichstag fire.
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by praptak 9mo ago
How far are you prepared to go with the "loyalty to the tribe" argument? If your "tribe" is 1942 Germany and you know about the ongoing Holocaust, does your line of thinking imply that you should keep quiet about it? You
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by praptak 9mo ago
You can never tell the breaking point of fascism but this certainly looks like it. I'm happy I don't work for a US company because I no longer think it's ethical to do so.
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by praptak 9mo ago
You can never tell the breaking point of fascism but this certainly looks like it. I'm happy I don't work for a US company because I no longer think it's ethical to do so.
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by praptak 9mo ago
If your business model needs the impossible then it's a bad business model. If your margins are too thin to absorb the schedule uncertainty then don't produce software. Alternatively treat it like a bet and accept it may not pay o
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by praptak 9mo ago
I hear you but let me add that what you feel is not necessarily the good indicator. PM 2.5 does have the potential to trigger asthma & similar stuff but it also causes cancer and heart disease, neither of which can be felt (until it&#x2
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by praptak 9mo ago
To be exact: the problem here is fossil fuel and wood being burned in inefficient furnaces/stoves/fireplaces where the fuel doesn't fully burn. There are efforts by the government to replace them but they aren't super ef
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by praptak 9mo ago
There's an interesting coping mechanism (verging on the conspiracy theory) popular on some Polish forums, namely that the abysmal data comes from abundance of sensors combined with them being placed (by whom and why? here's where
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf](cia.gov)
165 points by praptak 9mo ago|63 comments
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by praptak 9mo ago
> Not if the data is small and in cache. Isn't it another way of saying what the author says in the previous paragraph, namely that "ideal SIMD speedup can only come from problems that are compute bound" ? If the cost of
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by praptak 9mo ago
It's challenging to design the exhaust so that the smoke goes away, but not too much heat.
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by praptak 9mo ago
Moving to another continent isn't a particularly easy way out. It's also more than 99% of people are prepared to do.

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