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by toofy 5y ago
maybe. these are different problems existing in different scopes. a modern echelon dragnet would get an absolute mass of encrypted data so your fear will depend on whether or not you believe governments can break that crypto, and if so, at
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by toofy 5y ago
I understand how messy the context surrounding this next point is but it’s worth considering. From what Ive been seeing over the past couple weeks, the article is probably correct in that pegasus is just the beginning of what we’re going to
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by toofy 5y ago
we can be as pedantic as we like, but either way, people like that were not the target audience. <—- that’s the important piece of what i was saying.
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by toofy 5y ago
I think there’s some merit in what you say, I’m just not sure we would agree on how to define “…large number of restaurant owners…” This is completely anecdotal, but I know three different restaurant owners and all three of them live very v
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by toofy 5y ago
Again, Im just not following. This has little to do with the point my comment was making. I said, anyone who would tune out The Guardian article as noise because they disagree with the topic is not the target audience of the walkout. How mu
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by toofy 5y ago
Who is saying not to analyze the event? And who is saying never to engage with others? I’m certainly not saying either of those things. Did you respond to the wrong comment?
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by toofy 5y ago
There is almost nothing which would change the minds of the people who don’t already understand these as problems. No one seeking change is targeting them as the audience. Though, in their own heads, they probably delude themselves into bel
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by toofy 5y ago
We’ll you’re still talking about it all this time later, so at the very least it absolutely contributed to topics being in the conversational arena. We have to remember how many people still say “Did Occupy really change anything?” —- on it
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by toofy 5y ago
> ShotSpotter’s claims about its accuracy have increased, from 80 percent accurate to 90 percent accurate to 97 percent accurate. According to Greene, those numbers aren’t actually calculated by engineers, though. > “Our guarantee was
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by toofy 5y ago
> … why is alcohol talked about as if not drinking prevents you from hanging with friends? I don’t think anyone is saying this at all.
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by toofy 5y ago
is there a reason why it’s nothing but a link to a random youtube video rather than an article or something which can be skimmed? sorry poster, but i’m not going to watch minutes of a random youtube video from a random account to decide if
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by toofy 5y ago
> Which will impact the QUANTITY of movies produced, but not necessarily the QUALITY. Absolutely. We have a signal/noise issue. We need to figure out how to find the signal. I think one of the issues we really need to come to terms
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by toofy 5y ago
> Given Jeff Bezos success in growing a business from scratch… One thing we have to remember, savant level of greatness in one area can often indicate deficiencies in other areas. If I were starting an online retailer 20 years ago, I wou
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by toofy 5y ago
I think a lot of people might take issue with the statement “plenty high”. This type of statement comes across as similar to when we constantly heard ISPs decrying “25 down is plenty! it’s only pirates who need more than this!” and this was
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by toofy 5y ago
> IMHO, most activists are exactly just that sort of monkey. If you value accuracy in the analysis then you are doing yourself a disservice by only looking at the most ludicrous of street level activists and have somehow missed the incre
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by toofy 5y ago
I suspect that won’t happen. Certain segments of the population rarely face the same level of life-altering repercussions that others might.
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by toofy 5y ago
> Big ship, gentle turns. Some might argue that certain situations require more agility not less.
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by toofy 5y ago
> …instead of an intelligent debate about how to move forward… The very article is all about how these companies are actively sabotaging intelligent debate.
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by toofy 5y ago
Even worse, as this leak shows, they’re spending considerable resources to actively sabotage intelligent debate.
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by toofy 5y ago
It comes across a bit disingenuous to imply that the choice is either 1) executives use their considerable resources to actively disrupt public discourse. or 2) we all lose access electricity. It comes across even worse if you’re implying t
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by toofy 5y ago
Yeah, I hope this doesn’t come across as if I’m coming down on this list, it’s wonderful, but curation can do quite a lot for actual usefulness.
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by toofy 5y ago
> Does this still apply when talking about farming? I think many farmers have moved towards using various types of something called “cover crops” rather than tilling. These cover crops have different impacts depending on which are used:
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by toofy 5y ago
i mean, how many hobbies can you say that about? most of them i imagine. hobbies are about tinkering and learning. we usually put far more in financially then we get returned financially. hobbies are expensive.
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by toofy 5y ago
i don’t think this is an investment kind of project. it’s a hobby, more for people who enjoy the tinkering as much as some people enjoy playing in their own gardens which often costs far more than they’re getting in return via food. simpl
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by toofy 5y ago
> ….I feel like the current culture of never disagreeing with anyone… I’m not sure I follow. Do you see a culture where no one disagrees with each other? From my perspective it would appear that the opposite is true. Particularly in soci
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by toofy 5y ago
I’m sorry, but, we’d be foolish to discard anything and everything that we can’t quantify due to complexity or a lack of understanding of what specifically to consider. Does this mean we should move into decision making based on a kooks wor
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by toofy 5y ago
They did pull the same app when it was called “vigilante” Not sure how the owners got it through again, but they somehow slipped it through after the namechange. I suspect it won’t last long on their, particularly after they very publicly a
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by toofy 5y ago
Economic systems failing in the past is not evidence that the current paradigm will fail and it’s certainly not evidence that it will fail because it’s fiat. Economic systems in the past have failed for countless reasons that had absolutel
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by toofy 5y ago
It’s probably more useful to use “coercion” rather than limiting it to violence. The threat of losing something one finds important is incredibly serious whether it’s through slow motion coercion or fast paced physical violence. You’re bei
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by toofy 6y ago
> So explicitly pay more for certain people on a race/gender basis? ... Literally no one said this. Please try to stay in the actual conversation–it makes for a much healthier discussion.

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