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by strictnein 1mo ago
> "It’s zero click but it needs an entry point, do we know the entry point? Yes of course! It’s the phone number!!" Sort of, but not really. iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal, etc are the actual entry point. You can use some of those
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by strictnein 1mo ago
They're the leading agency in the US involved in stopping human trafficking and child exploitation. Unfortunately the good work they do is being overshadowed by the other nonsensical shit.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
They are also heavily involved in stopping human trafficking, preventing child exploitation, etc.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
When a company sells a 0-click exploit like that, they don't sell the actual malware/exploit, they sell access to a service or product. The contract will likely have a certain number of attacks with additional infections having a
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> Parts can be obtained from Russia by Russian speaking Ukrainians that are indistinguishable from Russians. I'm not sure what the point of that is? I can order Russian parts online. Too many people watch movies and think all this s
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The conspiracy that Google is protected on high because people have rotated between two giant employers. If you think it is "nice evidence", how many people should have moved between those two employers? And you made the claim tha
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by strictnein 1mo ago
A separate discussion for sure, but simply seeing a headline and declaring it an "incredible miscarriage of justice" seems a little far fetched. For example, many times the courts will point out that the laws need to be updated, w
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> "long history of prevailing in court" is another way of saying "Google isn't being punished as much as they deserve" Those two things are completely different and have very different meanings. For the most part
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by strictnein 1mo ago
This started under Biden? Crazy. > These days all three branches march lock step in their jackboots Which is why the Judicial branch has been ruling against the Executive branch again and again? I don't understand what evidence you
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> You can't meaningfully prove that the NSA sat on their hands in the 13 interceding years since Snowden. I mean, you're correct? It's impossible to prove a negative. > There's no evidence that US interventionism i
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Kind of my point. How does one know something is a miscarriage of justice if you haven't read the ruling? Because you don't like the outcome?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
That makes the argument worse, not better. Google employees tens of thousands of people. The US intelligence apparatus employees hundreds of thousands of people. In all of that, over eight years, there are 251 people who moved between the t
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The DOJ isn't part of the Judiciary branch, it's part of the Executive. > FAANG and the three-letter-agencies are one revolving door Most of the NSA is active duty service members and former military. Did you mean other three l
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The ACLU has a long history of prevailing in court, as does the NRA. Courts should regularly issue rulings you don't like. Their job isn't to make people happy.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Assuming you read the ruling, what do you disagree with the judge on? What politicians were paid off to make a judge in a lifelong position who has served for decades rule in Google's favor?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The judge was appointed by Clinton, so they've been in their role for decades now. It seems unlikely that someone who has served that long in her position would rule based on making the child in the White House happy.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
A false flag attack would malfunction? Why not do damage to really up the reaction? Even after an explosion there's plenty of pieces left to investigate and figure out where the devices came from. Just throw some parts made in [insert
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> Unlimited free or near-free road consumption is the norm across the entire US Roads are funded with taxes. How does that make them free? The main source of road funding in the US are property taxes and gas taxes, followed by things lik
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> It takes just 1M USD in drones to take them down You can buy incendiary armor piercing bullets that could take one down for $5, but strangely they've been utilized for decades. Finland will run out of provisions in a weeks? How so
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> That was a rather obvious false flag attempt No, it wasn't. > That said I do expect Russia is likely involved in at least some of the incidents of weapons factories They're involved in all of them. > sleeper agents wit
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by strictnein 1mo ago
How can you argue here that it is "free road consumption" while in another comment you point out that there were already tolls? Which one is it? Is it free or were there tolls?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
You seem to be avoiding the point that to get a discount you must travel into the city by car more than ten times a month and those first ten times are full price. And then you must pay 50% of the price after that. Then, in April, you may g
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Living in NYC is really expensive. Those that earn a lot can do so. Those that have families frequently cannot. It's not "arbitrage" to commute from a place you can afford to a place you can't. Being middle class isn&#x2
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> Well I don't care how the money flows and neither should anyone else Why shouldn't people care how the money flows and why are you the decider of what people should care about? If the money from congestion pricing was for a n
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by strictnein 1mo ago
A government fee or whatever you wish to name it is still a tax. Didn't the city already charge tolls on the bridges and tunnels in and out? A road isn't a scarce resource. You can't deplete it.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
It's not "absolutely trivial" and it's not "obviously what they do in NYC". It is a convoluted system of city and state tax credits, partial discounts, etc that you must do every year. Not only do you have to f
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Snark isn't actually a productive way to discuss a topic. A productive way would be to say that congestion pricing should be used to expand bus service.
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This is a subjective observation, not an argument for congestion pricing.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
I mean, sure, if you set up poor arguments like that, they're easy to knock down. "What about people who need to drive due to mobility issues?" vs "What about people on a fixed income who need to drive due to mobility is

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