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by seanw444 3y ago
Those that accept that everything is as they're told are also usually not great minds.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Yes, but that is beyond human perception. A nanosecond is pretty much now. Several billion years is a whole time machine.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Yes, that is true. I'm meaning the senators' interactions at a state-to-federal level is further beyond the average citizen's purview, whereas state senators are more likely to know who's fit to represent the state as a
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by seanw444 3y ago
It's a council of 9 justices who vote on final decisions. They are appointed by politicians who the people vote for. This is intentional, for the same reason that the Senate wasn't meant to be directly voted for by normal citizens
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by seanw444 3y ago
I think there's a culture on HN too that most of us enjoy and try to maintain. When a low-quality/low-effort or not at all relevant comment comes in, it gets downvoted to oblivion. Forming that culture from the beginning is the ha
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by seanw444 3y ago
That has to be a joke.
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by seanw444 3y ago
While I agree with you in most other cases I've seen (this happens a lot), parent wasn't necessarily ragging on the dev, just adding a useful note. I found it helpful, as I wasn't aware there was an updated specification.
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by seanw444 3y ago
I wasn't necessarily saying you were making that claim. Just in general.
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by seanw444 3y ago
They transplanted some components, most namely Stylo. But Servo in its entirety is far from complete.
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by seanw444 3y ago
There's a decent chance that without US assistance, that wouldn't have been the case. We sent them a lot of equipment.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Certainly seems like hypocrisy is the name of the game.
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by seanw444 3y ago
> A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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by seanw444 3y ago
That's exactly what will happen. Unencrypted by default, so that the people that really need encryption (criminals) will still be able to do it, and people that are most deserving of encryption (normal citizens) will be too lazy or too
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by seanw444 3y ago
Unless you're not talking about the US, encryption is absolutely protected multiple times over. 1A for helping to prevent government backlash on the press. 4A because they require at least a warrant to attempt to "search" any
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by seanw444 3y ago
And even those breaks in encryption are overwhelmingly the minority of what gets people caught. Bad OpSec is the worst offender. Metadata too.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Thank God there isn't. My own government scares me more than random hackers do.
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by seanw444 3y ago
I get caught off guard when people use "physical locks aren't actually that secure because the government can just make it irrelevant, but encryption is dangerously strong" as an argument against encryption, when it should be
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by seanw444 3y ago
> They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4 What is the "M4" in this case? If it's the rifle, that's all they can focus on anymore.
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by seanw444 3y ago
I don't see the relevance to my point here.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Alright fine, CIA was my <insert three letter agency here> choice. NSA is probably more appropriate.
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by seanw444 3y ago
I've thought the same, but in the end it doesn't give us enough of the people that want to make positive change. People with good ideas and motivations overwhelmingly succeed in the private sector. In democracy, they get held back
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by seanw444 3y ago
Parents taking responsibility for what their kids do online, and taking their protection into their own hands? Blasphemy. That's what we have the government for.
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by seanw444 3y ago
I just think it's really funny but also terrifying that it's the cool thing to hate on the CIA now, knowing all the exposed operations against their own fellow countrymen, and yet people still think they should be the ones with
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by seanw444 3y ago
We continue to put responsibility on the government to fix our problems, when many of them nowadays are societal and cultural. You can't slap on a law to fix immorality and lack of wisdom. All you do is restrict the moral and wise. I h
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by seanw444 3y ago
Maybe not with all the finer details considered. But we're talking about dirty games, like misleading vague headlines about how children are in danger, and not mentioning how "solving" it directly leads to a nightmare for pri
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by seanw444 3y ago
I track GitHub's trending page for Go, Rust, and occasionally Python projects. Limiting to these languages tends to yield the kinds of projects I'm interested in, just by the nature of the demographic that uses them. Sometimes I b
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by seanw444 3y ago
The bureaucratic evolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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by seanw444 3y ago
Ah, giraffe_lady again. No, that's objectively not what the Punisher skulls are for. People don't slap a Punisher skull on their truck and say "alright, how many minorities can I oppress today." At least not the overwhel
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by seanw444 3y ago
Yeah, memes aren't necessarily those images with the top and bottom text in Impact font anymore, y'all.
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by seanw444 3y ago
The point can be made equally well without the elitist condescension.

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