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by vrganj 1mo ago
Well that's the exact premise of adversarial compatibility. You just scrape the platform their friends are on and cross-post.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I think adversarial compatibility is the way to go. Move people over slowly as you add new features the old platform doesn't porvide.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I'm not sure how this questionable statement is in any way connected to my above comment. At least try to be coherent?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Who cares about some American Bill in Italy? Y'all really think your country is the only one with freedom of speech?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Because opposing fascism gets fascists to target you and people are concerned for their safety.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Whats the dictionary definition of terror again? > violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion > especially: violent or destructive acts (such as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimida
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Basically, far right extremists targeting antifascists through mechanisms of political repression while having the gall to call themselves pro free speech.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
You did a neat rhetorical trick there where you swapped out "recognizing a right" for "guarantee". A right is not a guarantee of perfect outcomes. Most countries do recognize the right, though implementation is obvious
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Neither am I. But presumably you're a citizen of somewhere. And that place should provide you with safe drinking water.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
You're not simply a consumer. You're a citizen.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> The natural state of being is freedom That is an ideological assertion, not a fact.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
But maybe it should be ? What does it say about the US government apparatus and its basic claims to legitimacy if it can't even guarantee safe drinking water? What lack of aspiration and ambition does such a denial demonstrate? Why sh
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by vrganj 1mo ago
"Plugging"? You mean "fundamentally altering the self-perception of the country founded on immigration"?
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You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules(motherjones.com)
237 points by vrganj 1mo ago|179 comments
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by vrganj 1mo ago
But you won't reap the benefits. You'll just be cut out of the conversation that's still happening. To me, what you advocating for is performative self-flagellation, not a solution to the systemic issue. The system's s
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> Because the public getting to decide how to spend their own tax dollars is the bare minimum standard for calling something a democracy. Dictating that the public must spend tax dollars on things they do not support is completely unlike
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I think you're conflating a few things here. With ZKP, you specifically don't have to do that. That's precisely what the Zero Knowledge in Zero Knowledge Proof means. Those are good for stuff like age checks. But for the ot
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> Because on its own as often presented, it still has the glaring shortcoming that anybody can proxy an ID verification for anybody else without any form of accountability for having done so. As do physical IDs, as somebody who's bo
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by vrganj 1mo ago
The government doesn't know what you use your ID for in a properly implemented ZKP system, either. And clearly, the alternative is not the corner store. It's private monopolies building databases of 153M IDs.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I'm not American, so I'm less interested in debating your (or even any Anglo!) political traditions and norms. I'm more interested in systems design and the implications of structures. It's easy to get stuck in the parti
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by vrganj 1mo ago
But the government inherently has that data, as it comes from there. They're the ones issuing the IDs in the first place. Theres no avoiding this, structurally. So the best thing you can do is not to introduce any additional points
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by vrganj 1mo ago
This is precisely why the authority doing these checks needs to be the government that already issues the IDs . Using ZKP as the EU proposes is the only way to prevent this data being leaked to unreliable third parties and leaves the knowl
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> That's not "democracy," that's constitutionalism, which is inherently anti-majoritarian That was a nice sleight of hand, but democracy and majoritariansm are not synonims. IMO majoritarianism is the failure mode o
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> But when it comes to voting on what will receive public funding, that's based on having a majority. Why? That's the reasoning Orban used to purge the media and strengthen his corrupt regime. Private journalism already is beho
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Sell them the machines they need to make the machines to run their AI?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Part of democracy is plurality of views. Shutting down journalists just because they're not ideologically aligned seems a bit antidemocratic to me - it's important for the fourth estate to be an independent watchdog over other ins
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Maybe VC always has been VC? Maybe the cancer was always inherent to the system and the author only just now noticed it?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Please, don't peddle in conspiracy theories and implications. If you have a point, make it and prove it. Don't degrade the discourse with nonsense.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous whataboutism. I strongly doubt any other party has leading figures repeatedly calling for mass murder of political opponents.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I wouldn't trust a single word coming out of an AfD reps mouth. Here's some choice quotes from AfD politicians, translated to English: "We must proceed completely peacefully and deliberately, adapt if necessary and butter up

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