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by tocf 10y ago
>> Is it possible to have a free society that's completely surveilled? >It is, if a society's ethical and legal code and how its members actually behave are closely aligned (which prevents blackmail), surveillance is done
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by tocf 10y ago
> I don't really understand the threat. Do you view the government as benign? What if that were to change? Do you view all governments as benign? Foreign governments can further justify their actions by pointing at so called "f
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by tocf 10y ago
The competition must have known that VW was cheating, yet not one "competitor" called them out on it. The whole thing is a systemic failure. Regulations don't work. Regulators are generally lousy at their jobs (if they aren
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by tocf 11y ago
What? Where is he inciting people to get out onto the streets? He doesn't. He's asking a valid question, that a lot of people including economists are asking. The poor and middle class are getting crushed. It hasn't quite hit
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by tocf 11y ago
One of the issues with PKI is ensuring that the public key you're using to communicate with the person is actually the right public key, and that someone hasn't replaced it with their own. I'm curious if you used something li
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by tocf 11y ago
> CO2 is not strictly human emissions and to imply so is so dishonest is ridiculous. That was never implied. In fact, they made a point of comparing human driven emissions (which includes things like transportation and agriculture) to na
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by tocf 11y ago
You're basically saying anything funded by government that might impact economics, and thus revenues, is biased. Right.. You do realize that you can be against taxing say, income and profits, but be for taxing carbon? I think quite a f
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by tocf 11y ago
You're exactly right. While we look at this stuff as despicable, because it really is, we can't blame the companies. Except ... we can, right? They're the ones who have manipulated the tax codes, right? They're practical