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by wizeman 4y ago
> You’re defending a billionaire with empathy arguments while we have homeless people in the country and abroad. The argument you just used is called "whataboutism" and it's a logical fallacy in and of itself [1]. It'
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> Billionaires do not have riskier lives: https://www.forbes.com/2005/04/05/cx_vg_0405feat.html?sh=647 ... That is the result of a myriad of security measures that they and their families take every day, in
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> You're completely sidestepping the issue that the man is amongst the richest in the world, so the whereabouts of his private plane could be argued to be of public interest. I'm guessing most participants in that privacy progr
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> If it's public info by law then referring to it as private seems very misleading, wouldn't you say? But it's not public information by law. It's private information: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic&#
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> My understanding is that he _stopped_ using this service and now his plane broadcasts the same tail number all the time. Where is your understanding coming from? Elon Musk himself confirmed 2 days ago that he is using that privacy sche
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> The information is publicly available because it is mandated to be as a condition of flying. No, it's not. Elon's jet receives a private temporary aircraft identifier unconnected to its owner every month, because it is subscr
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> Wouldn’t a 24 hour delay be enough to satisfy the curious about Elon’s flying habits, without creating a possible security risk? I don’t know how real the risk is, but it is certainly not zero, as he is a controversial public figure. I
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by wizeman 4y ago
> ADS-B information is broadcast unencrypted in real time from every civilian aircraft all the time. ADS-B information is available publicly, but what's not always available publicly is which aircraft (or rather, which aircraft iden
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by wizeman 4y ago
> This information is easily accessible publicly literally one search to get the aircraft registration number Except it isn't. Elon's jet has been subscribed to this program for months: https://www.faa.gov/air_t
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> C'mon. We know it's his jet. Yes, we know. Because of the twitter account. My point is that it would be much harder to know which airplane is Elon's jet if it weren't for the twitter account. Which goes to the gp&#x
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by wizeman 4y ago
How do you know which of those 10,000 airplanes is Elon Musk's jet? I've searched for "Elon Musk jet callsign" but apart from the mentioned twitter account, I couldn't easily find out which one it was.
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In the future, it might be AI who designs better "hardware"/wetware for humans. If you don't change your mind (no pun intended) but most of humanity does, it sounds like you'll just be left behind, like very old peo
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by wizeman 4y ago
Your source doesn't mention: 1. Daily subsistence allowance (~5000 EUR/month) 2. General expenditure allowance (~4300 EUR/month) 3. Travel allowances (up to ~2400 EUR/month) 4. Vice-president allowance (~800 EUR/mon
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by wizeman 4y ago
> Yes. Exactly. Only the transport part is protected. Well, isn't that valuable? > With messaging, saving old messages is more or less the default. When that happens the value of forward secrecy is negated. It's not negated
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> If they weren’t VPs, they would still be regular MPs, so only a 800 € difference. But if those 14 VPs were MPs then there wouldn't be the need for 14 other MPs. Which means that the difference per VP would be the price of an MP +
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by wizeman 4y ago
We are not paying 800 EUR / month for these 14 VPs, we are paying more than 22.000 EUR / month, each, which is somewhere between 3.7 and 4.6 million EUR / year in total, for the 14 VPs. That can definitely make a difference i
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> Yeah, I am a bit worried that we may be too harsh but these laws combat real issues in our society. Well, there are many other ways to combat these issues without treating innocent citizens as criminals unless they prove they are innoc
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> I literally have the equivalent of $1500 in my wallet right now. > Any country that considers that a crime or potentially a crime is dystopian. Then Spain and Greece meet your definition of being dystopian, as their cash payment lim
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by wizeman 4y ago
And that's not even counting the remaining >21.000 EUR / month that they earn. And we're talking about a European salary! Which they don't even pay income taxes on (only a small EU tax). So that's practically aft
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I thought the point of forward secrecy in end-to-end encrypted messaging was to protect past conversations at the transport layer against the key being compromised? In other words, the point being that a man-in-the-middle attacker cannot de
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> there are 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament in total Of course. First rule in government spending: why have one vice-president when you can have 14 at fourteen times the price?
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> Most restaurants and cafes don’t accept cash either although they are certainly free to do so. Ok, so I'm curious about this place where you live where most restaurants don't accept cash, so here's a question: Let's
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> Whose fault is it? I mean they literally don’t and as far as I know this is because is insecure and expensive. "Under AML regulations, anyone involved in vehicle sales can face significant fines and even criminal prosecution if th
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> E.g it’s in the interest of society to mandate important functions such as buying food is always possible with cash. And buying a car is not important? > Only that if they do, there is a limit. And this limit is below the value of m
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> And while the value might be there, both are a massive hassle for the seller, so they’d simply refuse most likely. And the "hassle" is not actually accepting cash, as that's the least of the problems. It's dealing w
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> I like my government. I believe it operates with the best interest of the majority in mind. Yeah, I used to believe that too. > Are people accepting living in democracies they experience working so poorly that they believe governmen
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> Why not have police question people for wearing shoes that are a little too nice or seize expensive watches? Please, don't give them more ideas.
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by wizeman 4y ago
Do you mean this? https://github.com/RomanHotsiy/commitgpt
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You never update the kernel? What about security flaws?
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> Hah. Call me when you find an architecture where ints use over half the addressable memory. I mean, I get your point if it's a joke :) But I think the AI was just pointing out that you'd get a compiler warning because of the

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