warbird

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by warbird 7y ago
I am enjoying reading through the scattered comments, but there are now at least four posts. This post exceeds others in points, oddly.
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by warbird 7y ago
Attribution? On some podcast (Malicious Life?) I heard an interesting take on this. Short version: cyber war is not yet real war because attribution is too difficult to justify irl bombs. So, if the barrier to entry in drone attacks is suff
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by warbird 7y ago
Agreed, of course. And, thanks for bringing my sidenote back onto topic (: The subject of the article is not too well-defined, which reflects our inability to come to terms with the associated Big Issues. So, yeah, it's difficult for m
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by warbird 7y ago
The article itself barely touches upon the titular "stake." NPR inserts "election interference" and Smith is quoted in reference to personal data acquisition as a potentially dangerous wealth transfer/concentration.
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by warbird 7y ago
Having worked in a few fields (never in development), my experience is that while it varies in quality, it is almost omnipresent. In my 40s, now, and for a few reasons, looking at having to self-reinvent, again. Opportunity cost is very hig
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by warbird 7y ago
This is close to what I was looking for in this thread. Don't want to clutter with anecdotal chat, but: I worked in Australia some years ago (2015) and I was amazed by the taste of vegetables (and meat, as well, just less so). The expe
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by warbird 7y ago
Agreed on all points. I've lurked HN forever and consider it one of my very few feel-good places online. This post, and (already) some of the comments are not appropriate to my understanding of the site. Edit: to be clear, by "fee
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by warbird 7y ago
Agreed, of course. Bringing up agency is on point, as well. I should have included that in my own comment, in short: the US has trouble being socially effective due to wonky "will power"/moral accountability bias--it cannot p
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by warbird 7y ago
Interesting to bump into this article as a young friend recently quit his just-obtained ambulance EMT job for, in essence, the exact issues described. His take was less sympathetic (paraphrasing): "i thought i would be helping society,