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by tedks 12y ago
I use Tor hidden services to punch through NATs (mostly for SSH); it's also useful in that only you can access the service (since only you know its address), so a hidden service + random port is a cheap "port knocking" implem
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by tedks 12y ago
> It is hard, perhaps, but a good attack for the NSA would be to run many of the exit nodes. It definitely doesn't control most of the exit bandwidth, unless the TorServers and blutmagie guys have been conning us for maybe a decade
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by tedks 12y ago
Even the NSA has to deal with the base rate fallacy. You can't just magically "correlate" traffic.
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by tedks 12y ago
As of the Snowden-leaked documents creation (so at least 2006-2009), the NSA was not, in fact, using that capability at all. Nor was the FBI or DEA in a recent high-profile case against a certain Tor hidden website. Nor were international L
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by tedks 12y ago
It's hilarious this is being downvoted. It reminds me of a time one of my liberal co-workers tried to mock libertarians by saying "But laws are for the weak, right?" I don't think they realized how utterly true they were
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by tedks 12y ago
...yes, well, looking back a little further than a couple centuries, empires crumble , their citizens starve, and barbarians pillage the remains. If history is to be repeated the US will die and it will die screaming.
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by tedks 12y ago
You can't legally shoot at people. No non-profit, no matter how regulated by the ATF, can break down doors in the night, shoot your dog, flash-bang your infant , and ransack your house. ...right? ...I guess I don't know. Maybe th
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by tedks 12y ago
The answer is that those things are not valuable. People don't want news. This is not a bad thing. This means that people aren't like the elitist ideal of what you want in your socialist utopia. Real people happen to like Facebook
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by tedks 12y ago
Similarily, Westboro Baptist Church protests are public safety issues, because they provoke large angry gatherings. How does the FBI handle that? Do they collaborate with corporations and local police departments to systematically discredit
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by tedks 12y ago
The distaste isn't that people are making consumer's lives better, it's distaste that people are making worker's lives worse by making consumer's lives better, and thus enforcing and widening a social divide that ma
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by tedks 12y ago
...why would I expect police work to be associated with protests? That is something I would expect, as the grandparent indicates, in the USSR. I don't expect it in the United States.
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by tedks 12y ago
To me the part that makes it truly insidious is the coordination between banks, the FBI, local police departments, and universities, in order to stifle a political movement. This coordination occurred before the start of the Occupy movemen
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by tedks 12y ago
Playing a rigged game is never a threat to the game-rigger. Do more than that[0][1] and the kid gloves come off. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist... [1] http://www.theguardian
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by tedks 12y ago
Evidence can be unscientific and yet convincing. Very little legal evidence is scientific, but is very convincing. Humans are successful as brains because we generalize very quickly from small examples, enabling us to learn quickly and adap
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by tedks 12y ago
So has the rate of your income growth changed after beginning these experiments? Are the implants your projects? Would you not have been able to do them before you started with nootropes and tDCS? Do you feel like your art is better or more
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by tedks 12y ago
All men that are not active feminists, that are not actively doing everything they can to undermine and destroy their privilege, are not "as innocent as the oppressed." You aren't going to get a cookie for not beating your wi
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by tedks 12y ago
>I've combined that with my own nootropics stack and mental exercise regime, which further enhanced my intelligence, now pushing me into genius territory. It's a blessing, that's for sure, I can now much better strategize
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by tedks 12y ago
For most of feminism "privilege" was not a concept. There is only the concept of oppression and possibly of rights. The introduction of "privilege" came to try to explain oppression to men in ways they could more easily
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by tedks 12y ago
This is a weak sort of agency. Indeed I'm able to resist capitalist oppression by not working, but if the consequences are that I starve to death than I hardly see that as a reasonable outcome. I think this is an uninteresting definiti
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by tedks 12y ago
>The blame-language is endemic to the feminist literature - e.g. men are 'privileged' when they exercise ordinary rights that women would like to share. I don't follow. Is the act of being able to exercise basic human righ
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by tedks 12y ago
> There is a slight difference between name-calling and oppression. Oppression can only be done from a position of power, and it stabilizes the power of the oppressing. Namecalling can be done by any person who wants to do it, because it
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by tedks 12y ago
This rings very hollow to me. When I was in school we were constantly reminded that employers would mine our social media and that we need always police ourselves to ensure we were maximally employable. This xkcd reflects that sentiment: h
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by tedks 12y ago
The old system's punishments are not oppressive in a vacuum. Firing someone is obviously not always oppressive. Oppression is created by a hierarchical social context, not by any isolated act. You'll note that this person wasn&#x2
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by tedks 12y ago
You're right that agency is not zero sum, but in this case we can see privilege as having enhanced agency in some areas (ability to call women names on social media with impunity, ability to command higher salaries, ability to get into
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by tedks 12y ago
This isn't the decline of agency, it's feminism and anti-racism creating agency for oppressed people. Traditionally, if a woman or ethnic minority is being harassed in their workplace, they are unable to speak out against it for
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by tedks 12y ago
I had a lot more insightful discussion on now-defunct .onion forums and IRC channels than I ever had on hacker news. Much more interesting links, as well.
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by tedks 12y ago
>Natsume said Soviets arrived so quickly that they captured seven key scientists. Russians tortured the scientists by thrusting burning slivers under their fingertips and pouring water into their noses .[20] Waterboarding: Torture enoug
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by tedks 12y ago
>The problem was the G+ was pitched as a social network. It grew, like a cancer, into some weird meta-project that defies description Really? It was a single sign-on system to Google properties, tied to a social networking thing. account
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by tedks 12y ago
...but if I have a friendship with you that I want to remain private for some reason, and you make it public, you are going against my wishes, you are a bad person, and you shouldn't do that. This can often result in injury or death to
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by tedks 12y ago
>How does one tell the difference, and does it even matter? It matters very, very, very much. The more those opinions are presented as if they were the opinions of the majority, the more people who disagree silence themselves to protect

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