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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed there can be profits gained from FOSS but they are required, and FOSS still doesn't meet the "private" ownership qualification of capitalism.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I always like to think Free/Open source Software is the only known occurrnce where socialism works. You give 100% of what you have for free as a programmer, but in that very same moment you make everyone, including yourself, richer
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>this is capitalism at it's finest If by capitalism, you mean: >an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Then no, because
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be expo
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
From Dan Rua's LinkedIn: >The power of the internet to inform, entertain and liberate mankind is at a crossroads. The future of ad-supported content is in peril, and with it, free access for citizens to critical news, education, dis
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>it's a matter of determining whether you have to redo the entire election, and whether you have to do that with different procedures or equipment and whether other jurisdictions have to redo their elections and whether past electio
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How can any one person be sure that a completely paper based voting system is working fraud-free in a country with hundreds of millions of people? How can you be sure the financial system you use is working? >nobody will ever be able to
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There are generalists and there are specialists. It just depends on the scope of your job duties within your team.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>From what I've seen "full stack" seems to be entirely a web notion. Is it just that the backends are simpler - requiring little more than glueing together some Spring components for CRUD operations? Maybe it has more to d
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I think that they owe it to the country to put together a Manhattan Project for AI. I hope we can come up with a better primary goal for AI than mass murder
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
So fraud seems to be the biggest reason why? Hasn't blockchain technology shown itself to be more reliable at preventing fraud than the old fashioned way of simply trusting that someone is keeping the books in perfect order?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That many technologists are being hypocritical by wanting to prohibit electronic voting because of "security concerns" while at the same time developing and using other institutional systems with equal or greater attack surfaces a
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>For other systems, a disruption is just inconvenient for most people. Like if I can't use my credit card for a day, I don't care Would there not be far more immediate and direct inconvenience if no one could use their credit c
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The electronically run global financial system is not free of devastating vulnerabilities, and yet it "works"
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Does a system have to be 100% free of security concerns to "work"?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It would seem that not much has really changed since then: "To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, `by restraining it to true facts & sound pr
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why is it that electronic voting is so vehemently opposed here on HN and by many technologists in general when virtually every other existentially vital system they rely on is run electronically?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>MSM has mostly abrogated it's responsibility to inform the public. That's a myth. The only real responsibility they have is to maximize profits for their shareholders.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It's insane that the government allowed them to do this. What do you mean by this? The statement seems to imply they had to ask for permission from someone other than themselves?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Define love
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It remains that in a country which brags of its freedom of speech you could be arrested for replaying the words of a civil rights activist who was assasinated 50 years ago. "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rig
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If you were to put Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech on your website, the government can force you to take it down under copyright law. Both the US and China censor free speech, they just do it differently.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's important to consider the difficulties in translating Mandarin to English.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Those exploits could be used for theft and fraud, and many other malicious things
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Methods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>lot of the popular "anti-monsanto", "anti-gmo" groups (e.g. David Avocado Wolfe) are pretty nutjob It's worth noting that having such groups is a commonly used counter intelligence tactic: create a loud and inco
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'm sure if the state wished too, they could easily counter encryption if just by forcing you to give the key. Or the state could bribe security companies like RSA to use crypto that they backdoored: https://en.m.wikiped
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Computers also enable absolute privacy via current-gen public/private-key encryption protocols. You don't work in netsec do you, judging by your use of the phrase absolute privacy? Crypto does not guarantee privacy, especial
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There are more people who don't work for the government than do, and would prefer the original source
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>invasion of privacy (through computers)... environmental degradation through excessive economic growth (computers make an important contribution to economic growth) Is there not evidence of those things?

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