thinkfurther

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by thinkfurther 9y ago
What about the victims of mass surveillance? In a very real way, that is a constant attack on everybody .
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So a person who is psychologically capable of murdering has more control over me than one who isn't, and both are less in control than, say, a tsunami? Maybe, but neither can get at things I give freely to a friend? Control is the inca
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> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something. -- Erich From
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Did I say it is? I said that one concern is "whether this is fair criticism or talking shit". And for that question the state of the autopilot then is relevant, not any improvements afterwards. Speaking of autopilots I'm
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One concern is also whether this is fair criticism or talking shit about a dead person. Any changes that came after the crash are completely irrelevant to that concern.
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You know, back in the day people actually responded when asked something. Granted, a bullshit response was always a possibility, but not a blank and yet shameless stare.
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I find it extremely ironic that when concrete criticism about how a specific thing used to be "better" by some metric, this old chest nut is brought out, displaying the shallowness it claims to speak out against. The people who th
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They didn't even say "homeless", they said "poor". Nothing in that comment connects to yours.
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> You can't make this kind of statement if you haven't been a pentester. It's not that anyone broke in and stole things here, it's that Facebook dumped their stuff out of the window. A variation of your point I totall
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We already live in that world though, we just pretend we "made" our lives more than lucking into them. I guess some aspects of some religions are attempts to correct that, not in the least the belief in reincarnation. But one way
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I once spent a night in the home of an elderly very poor couple on Tenerife, because they offered some sort of service where the husband would fetch people from the ferry, and bring them to the airport the next day. They were so kind. He wa
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It's not about him saying it, it's about what it betrays, and about the fact that millions of people do have their personal information and intimate conversations on FB. If it was just about his personality, his fake smile would b
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How about you actually quote the man, your own account of what you think you remember is completely uninteresting.
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1. Did Zuckerberg ever publically come clean about that phase and his motivations during it? 2. Has anything really changed? Otherwise, what is this rehabilitation you speak of? Two parties are required, someone who forgives, someone who se
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It is also an indictment of Facebook, where such a thing is not even (supposed to be possible). I had an account for ten years, my real name from day 1, my real pictures from day one, lots of RL friends plus friends I basically casually mad