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by stracer 3y ago
You're assuming direct democracy will be better in this aspect. Why? Direct democracy is likely to result in naive populist decisions, and a big enough threat will scare majority of people into relinquishing liberties.
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by stracer 3y ago
It is possible, and even in a democratic way. When large enough majority, defined in constitution, votes for destruction of democratic constitution, it is still a democratic process. It's a known bug of the usual democratic systems.
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by stracer 3y ago
If it comes to that, for private communication, yep.
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by stracer 3y ago
Was Lavabit founder in jail for not cooperating with the FBI? It seems he decided to play it safe and shut down, so there was no jail?
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by stracer 3y ago
This seems clearly incompatible with Fifth Amendment. Any real cases where the person is held in prison for not revealing a password? In case of authoritarian government likely to interfere with person's life, do not use just remembere
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by stracer 3y ago
The realistic scenario is company does not advertise strong encryption services, just messaging services. Then the onus is on the government to prove the message went strong encrypted. But just government not being able to see their test me
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by stracer 3y ago
Wait, which country supreme court did that???
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by stracer 3y ago
Not sure what you mean. Re stance on civil rights, I'm surprised by Denmark being on this list.
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by stracer 3y ago
Yeah, you see, it's a different kind of threat. Hamas is just the usual terrorists, from time to time they grow and get organized, and then we look surprised and outraged when they attack, and stump them out or use them in some proxy w
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by stracer 3y ago
The data may be saved as jpegs of kitten and puppies. There is no law against animal child porn, at least not yet, so there are ways...
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by stracer 3y ago
Orban & Co. "work for the family" so not a big shocker. Plus more power over what people can see or do on the Internet, an attractive tool of state power. Controlling TV stations and major outlets works on pensioneers, the nex
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by stracer 3y ago
If this passes, I expect disobedience and even more calls for leaving the EU. EU: Company, this looks like you're facilitating breaking the EU law. Encryption we can't break is forbidden, except when we use it. Company: Prove it.
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by stracer 3y ago
The best legible monotype font for computer screens I know of is M+ 1m regular. Example: https://www.dafontfree.net/data/41/m/94730/map/0-charmap-m-1...
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by stracer 3y ago
This is standard mathematical analysis. Infinite sequence of elements may look like it converges to some target element, judging by mutual distances converging to zero. Such sequence is a Cauchy sequence. When the target element actually ex
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by stracer 3y ago
These attacks on CPU defects do work, and if they are being used to spy on people connected to internet, the attackers won't announce it. If you really care about secrecy of your data, you would not be asking - you have to enable all m
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by stracer 3y ago
Longer name, harder to type, probably won't catch on.
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by stracer 3y ago
No, not "just". Unless all you know comes "just" from the headlines.
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by stracer 3y ago
Greenwald at least is a well-known journalist. Sam Harris is a pestilent self-promoter. > Glenn is a rare kind of American writer. He had been passionately writing on constitutional issues, national security, and problematic interpretati
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by stracer 3y ago
> I won't buy a vintage leather jacket Are you by any chance Jensen Huang?
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by stracer 3y ago
Do what? Let the market function? Upper class does not care about price of food.
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by stracer 3y ago
That should sort itself via the magic of the markets - either there is demand and the price should increase and the pay should rise, or there is no demand, and farmers will produce less, maybe some will close. The latter is a contraction, b
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by stracer 3y ago
Another possibility that is surely called a conspiracy theory is to create conflict in society, so the government is allowed to put in place the desired solutions like increased systemic surveillance and more violent police. It's an ef
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by stracer 3y ago
This sounds interesting. Does that mean that if Rocky Linux and Almalinux die now, I can start paying you to provide security updates for my Rocky Linux 9 servers for 10 years?
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by stracer 3y ago
Sysvinit also works. How is writing init files cumbersome? Writing startup dependencies is easy - there is the Required-Start header in the ### BEGIN INIT INFO block where you put the required services.
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by stracer 3y ago
How did you came to that conclusion? In my experience, sysvinit comes with less bloat, and hangs randomly much less than systemd. I've worked with both old debian (sysvinit) and current centos (systemd) systems, and if I had a problem
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by stracer 3y ago
> As a rule, I think all cats should be indoors Why?
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by stracer 3y ago
> After 100 years I think we'd have seen consistent biological effects Does ionizing radiation have only consistent biological effects? If not, why RF must have only consistent effects? Effects may be varied, just like stochastic ef
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by stracer 3y ago
> Why is the US taxpayer so much more invested in this contrasted to a French or German taxpayer? It's not about the taxpayer, but about what the powerful elites feel and want. France and Germany are closer to Russia, benefited from
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by stracer 3y ago
How would suppressing the competition cut costs? >Shay Assad: The landscape has totally changed. In the '80s, there was intense competition amongst a number of companies. And so the government had choices. They had leverage. We have
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by stracer 3y ago
Does anybody know some interesting practical applications of PCA?

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