taraharris

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by taraharris 3y ago
What we need is to minimize or eliminate the adversarial relationships between nations globally. The only winners of the present status quo are the elites in every nation.
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by taraharris 3y ago
Missile defense is a misnomer. The distinction between a defensive and offensive capability is meaningless in the context of arms races and mutually assured destruction. As we pour billions into shooting down ICBMs, China will pour billions
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by taraharris 3y ago
We should repeal the National Security Act of 1947. Nuclear weapons have proliferated to nine nations around the world since the passage of that act. The production of nuclear armaments is clearly limited by political will and industrial po
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by taraharris 3y ago
I don't know what's going on, but it's clear that there are vast sums of money going into illegal black programs beyond congressional oversight. I strongly suspect that Kirkpatrick's role is to deflect public interest an
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by taraharris 3y ago
Either they're lying about fake UFOs to manipulate the American public, or there really are UFOs and they've been lying about them for decades. No matter which of these branches proves true, our government's rampant secrecy i
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by taraharris 3y ago
If our goal in backing the Ukrainians was to weaken Russia, haven't we failed miserably? And how has pushing Russia and China into being allies helped America's interests? It makes me sad that we allowed hundreds of billions in ta
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by taraharris 3y ago
Why is NewsGuard considered a trusted source, given their ties to the US intelligence establishment? The people that conned us about Iraqi WMD do not deserve the right to be the arbiters of what is deemed to be information.
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by taraharris 3y ago
The National Association of Realtors is the #1 lobbyist group in DC. Given the influence they have, the likelihood of any real change is unfortunately low. (I really hope the NAR loses. Good luck!) It's a shame, because restrictions
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by taraharris 3y ago
I don't see any mention in the article of the effects of anti-LGBT parents. When I was growing up in the 1980s, the fear of AIDS and LGBT people in general was so great that it kept me from telling anyone about my inner experiences. Wh
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by taraharris 3y ago
Ok, so we need to get laws passed making it illegal to discriminate against candidates on the basis of educational background.
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by taraharris 3y ago
This is just desperate propaganda to try to save banks and other entities exposed to dying commercial real estate. It won't work!
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by taraharris 3y ago
cpp2, Herb Sutter's compatible replacement for C++.
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by taraharris 3y ago
Official secrecy clearly failed to stop the very scenario you're talking about! We have had nuclear secrecy for nearly 80 years. In that time, nuclear weapons have proliferated to nine countries. North Korea has them, for God's sa
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by taraharris 3y ago
If they're lying, they have a moral obligation to declassify everything they know. If they're telling the truth, they have a moral obligation to declassify everything they know. Official secrecy is fundamentally incompatible with
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by taraharris 3y ago
From the original reporting in The Debrief : Associates who vouched for Grusch said his information was highly sensitive, providing evidence that materials from objects of non-human origin are in the possession of highly secret black prog
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by taraharris 3y ago
If IBM were serious about open-source, they'd make it possible to build POWER10 systems without proprietary firmware. https://www.phoronix.com/news/POWER10-Blobs-Raptor
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by taraharris 3y ago
The stock market is at or near a top, and I'm expecting a pretty massive reversal in the coming months. We are living in the midst of a synchronized global recession, as China's post-COVID reopening has failed. Rough times are ahe
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by taraharris 3y ago
I don't want to be marketed to. I want an open society built on open technology that I can use for free and modify without asking anyone else's permission. I would rather go without something than to pay for it and give up my free
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by taraharris 3y ago
And they want everyone to go back to the office?
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by taraharris 3y ago
Ron DeSantis stands accused of war crimes, according to the testimony of several prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He has been notably and particularly evasive about his military service in interviews during his governorship. Whatever his suppor
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by taraharris 3y ago
Bellingcat is obviously sponsored by the American intelligence establishment and I'm honestly surprised (and a little insulted) when I see anyone trying to pass it off as an independent, legitimate thing. I don't appreciate being
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by taraharris 3y ago
Legacy media organizations never even attempted to repair the damage done by the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. They blocked the link to the breaking New York Post story from being shared on Twitter, and used a letter written
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by taraharris 3y ago
This isn't enough. When you actually read the article, you'll see that the Sackler name will not be removed from two donor boards! Oxford should return the blood money it accepted from the Sacklers. Money talks, BS walks.
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by taraharris 3y ago
If judges in the past were known to be guilty of taking bribes in the past, why should that mean that newly-discovered crooked judges should escape justice? Our government cannot function properly with this sort of extensive corruption in
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by taraharris 3y ago
Is there any proprietary firmware on these? If this is truly open, I'm excited, otherwise I do not care one bit. (Scrolling down the comments, I am honestly disappointed that I am the only person asking this question. Or does everyon
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by taraharris 3y ago
TPM's true owner is the NSA, not you or I. https://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6337282 https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers&#
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by taraharris 3y ago
Why not simply abandon TPM and focus on making simple, trustable, massively parallel general-purpose hardware without backdoors for spy agencies and corporations? Whose computer is this, anyway?
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by taraharris 3y ago
Haiku! I run it in a VM and spend all my time porting SolveSpace to it. https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/164989272422757990... X512 (a prolific contributor) got accelerated Vulkan graphics going on it rec
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by taraharris 3y ago
Who among us hasn't stepped on enough Legos to last a lifetime? Oh well, let's have some more <3
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by taraharris 3y ago
Elon Musk is a complex person, like any other human being. Many of his achievements are fantastic and I cheer them on appropriately. When I think he gets something wrong, I don't hesitate to say so. Allow me to illustrate with an examp

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