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by tnzm 5y ago
If they say that they are
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by tnzm 5y ago
>So privacy legislation would protect me more universally. Fundamentally, this is where our opinions diverge. You are simply more accustomed than I am to the idea of rule of law working as intended. If we're looking to make an objec
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by tnzm 5y ago
Reality does seem quite inconsistent with itself lately. Maybe if I got in touch with it I could tell it to come back when it has fixed all its double standards. But I'm pretty sure it won't listen. If you wanna try and tell it th
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by tnzm 5y ago
>What in the world causes this? Boredom? Routine? Unfreedom.
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by tnzm 5y ago
How much are we talking about? The chance I mean
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by tnzm 5y ago
That's not how it works at all. Suppose those two options were equally likely to happen. Would they be then equally likely to actually accomplish this goal? In my mind, one option basically goes like this: get so many people outrag
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by tnzm 5y ago
And then users are going to be thankful that their data is not encrypted at rest. Classic pincer maneuver
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by tnzm 5y ago
This guy, and not the amygdala-hijacked no-theory-of-minders that rolled in the other day?
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by tnzm 5y ago
Maybe we should. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
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by tnzm 5y ago
Ultimately it's the patients that are the victims; the institution to which they had entrusted their health was the one that exposed them to remote attack.
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by tnzm 5y ago
As if following the path of least resistance is universally a good thing.
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by tnzm 5y ago
>Making pervasive tracking illegal would do so much more for purchase privacy than cryptocurrencies. Considering governments are not going to give up their panopticon-like powers without a fight, how about making pervasive tracking techn
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by tnzm 5y ago
Bingo.
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by tnzm 5y ago
The first sentence of their purported apology does contain 3 obvious Russisms.
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The real question is did the hospital promise to be more careful next time
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A state-sponsored operative would say the same thing though.
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Arguably, the scrape is better than the original.
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by tnzm 5y ago
>committing the status every few minutes (seconds?) to a blockchain Only if the status actually changes every few minutes.
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by tnzm 5y ago
There is no such thing as "conspiracy theories". "Conspiracy theory" is itself a loaded term used equate any independent research critical of mainstream consensus with the ravings of lunatics. A theory can be: (1) either
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by tnzm 5y ago
That comment might as well seem to be a camel, but what it is an indictment of the exact same conflation that you conclude with. The fact that you are correctly able to make equivalent distinctions (more or less) in the paragraphs prece
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by tnzm 5y ago
It's less "shot themselves in the foot" and more "broke our legs". Mass media's entire function has been reduced to hobbling public discourse.
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The rational and common reaction is to duck .
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Verbing weirds language.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Did you accidentally a word? >Is buying a in-game COD skin utility? Or how about roblox bucks? How about the trillion dollar derivatives market? No.
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by tnzm 5y ago
>It's true that if a black person gives up without trying because they assume they can't succeed then their failure contributes to the inequality between the races. Not really my point. But what you're saying is legitimate
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>I would just say that anyone who claims they won't get ahead even if they try because of systemic racism is being ignorant. They might have to try harder than a white person would. They might face some adversity, but there really i
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>This is a wild rollercoaster of a thread and I want off of it. You just hopped onto it to say you want off of it?
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I suspect financial institutions are interested in crypto because they don't want a new financial system with a more democratic organizational model to make them obsolete. Maybe there are some forward thinking people there who want cry
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I was going to delicately skip that point but what the hell, what's a few rungs up the watchlist these days anyway.
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by tnzm 5y ago
What about your chat history then? Social graph? Statistical model of your behavior?

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