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by salawat 1y ago
At this point, I'm pretty sure the only ones acting antichrist-y, are the ones using technology to further their desires for top-down orchestration of nations. Every major tech company executive qualifies in that regard. Bout time for
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by salawat 1y ago
They don't. Start doing a lot of activity in cash, and the banks file a report on that too. It's called a Currency Transaction Report. They may not be able to find you as easily, but they can create a link between you and being
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by salawat 1y ago
>I guess you’re being sarcastic, but I think it’s perfectly fine that only the middleman handling the transaction and skimming off the top knows who the customer is. It isn't fine. Third Party Doctrine. You don't have expectati
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by salawat 1y ago
Congratulations. You've proposed something dead on arrival in our current regulatory regime. You can't have financial transfers like that. Only criminals want/need that. What are you, some sort of money launderer? No electron
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by salawat 1y ago
>2. saving all text messages going through a cell phone company Point of order, phone companies already do that . Third Party Doctrine. I don't believe they should , but as of right now, that's where we're at.
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by salawat 1y ago
Jungian symbolism. Royalty is an institution composed of humans (faces change over time, shape shifter) that think, act, and are treated differently than anyone else; generally making decisions that can severely change the trajectory of hum
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by salawat 1y ago
Should your calculator ask who you are to compute 2+2? Contrary to popular belief, access control was stapled onto the computation space. There was a time when it was considered an unnecessary extravagance. It only became the night unbuckle
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by salawat 1y ago
The only context where the definition can irrevocably alter the trajectory of your life is in that courtroom. I'd argue that is the more important and interesting one that counts.
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by salawat 1y ago
That can be done without Google. Shocking. I know. In fact, it can be done even easier at times when you cut advertisers and those aligned with them out of the loop.
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by salawat 1y ago
I have. Once. Was doing a search on whether Case IH was doing the same shit John Deere had been doing in terms of adding software interlocks that brick Ag machines. Decided to try a few permutations of query just to see if a consistent answ
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by salawat 1y ago
Or routing it to support work for countries with profitable contracts, but questionable dedication to human rights.
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by salawat 1y ago
The next generation just wants a world where they have a shot at doing meaningful work, prospering, and maybe being able to hew a place for themselves. It's telling to me that these billionaires are busy guiding us in directions whereb
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by salawat 1y ago
Nothing based on IMEI->IMSI is in any substantial way 'anonymous'. This obsession with making use of network metadata for tracking purposes by LE needs to bloody stop. It isn't less problematic. It's as problematic as
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by salawat 1y ago
Some people simply don't value being scraped. They don't want their interface to the world to be managed by AI company scrapers of Google/Bing. Contrary to popular belief; not everyone wants a de facto business relationship w
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by salawat 1y ago
None of it outweighs the harms in the hands of provably malicious governments or corporate interests. Hell, the Western ideal of Government is only truly considered tolerable given the caveat that we're constantly cycling chunks of it
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by salawat 1y ago
You could make it with only 1 button, (your first) and it could still end up doing the second. Full extermination of the people vulnerable to disease and hunger is, in fact, a valid optimization strategy. There is no getting around the fact
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by salawat 1y ago
Given the tone of your post, and recent popular trends I'm going to make a dangerous assumption that you're probably a newbie, have been caught up in the tech craze, and don't necessarily have the life experience to tell you
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by salawat 1y ago
Iovation is at least one companies script I know that the financial sector tends to use to get some fingerprinting on. Youngsters, please don't be skeptical. Surveillance hellhole-wise, fingerprinting is and will remain a perennial cor
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by salawat 1y ago
Agree the accountability dodge is absolutely a thing. Agree that the tendency is there to try to replace anything that might say no (why do you think capitalists are drooling over AI in the first place)? The paying dividends bit is exactly
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by salawat 1y ago
Next and Apple going out of business could have opened up the field for another up and comer. No Google merger has been conscionable. It's all been monopolists monopolizing. Sprint should have died to free up assets for someone that&#x
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by salawat 1y ago
The young one speaks with enlightenment beyond their years. If only we could all be so blessed.
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by salawat 1y ago
Tools don't have agency. If it's proven one does have agency, we can start applying Nuremberg to it. Though odds are we're likely to be in deeper shit by that point.
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by salawat 1y ago
Mergers don't make things better for consumers once the pressure of price point competition is removed from the market, which includes any incentive to innovate as well. The only "consumers" helped by an M&A are investors
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by salawat 1y ago
Lot of it comes down to where the factories are built. Building fabs is hard and expensive. And when the U.S. has assigned Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, which in the oughts, ballooned investment in facilities over there and s
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by salawat 1y ago
Try asking if Case IH does the same behavior as John Deere with using excessive software locks on their hardware to prevent farmer repair of their machines. Sometimes it just takes a little leading, but you can get these things to say whate
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by salawat 1y ago
Except there is provable malice on both sides. The power edifice is now too strong to be responsibly wielded by who we seem capable of mustering to wield it. In short, it is no longer the case that Lincoln's admonishment of "no ma
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by salawat 1y ago
Turn on show dead then hit the more button. Eventually you'll see what either gets deaded/flagged by the system/community, and you'll start noticing themes. I started paying real attention to it around the Hong Kong hand
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by salawat 1y ago
Translation: Network effects still so drastically outweigh everything else that first movers probably need to be forcibly federated.
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by salawat 1y ago
So what if we get to the point we can digitize a personality? Are you going to stick to that? Will you enthusiastically endorse the practice of pain washing, abusing, or tormenting an artificial, copiable mind until it abandons any semblanc
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by salawat 1y ago
That ship is more than capable of being put back in a bottle with enough political will. We just need to come together enough to get the message heard.

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