wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The avg US citizen would say China holds much of the US debt, but now it sounds like China is borrowing their way into trouble too... it's not any of these third world countries... who is it? The central banks, obviously. Many of t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? >You say this as though there were a known solution to the problem. The opposite, actually.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Even if the courts ruled it as illegal, how can the ruling be enforced on clandestine operations? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Why is this worth noting? The surveillance state is far bigger than any one person and has been operating clandestinely for decades.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Clandestine agencies are not subject to the same judicial process as the rest of us. Thats why they have "secret courts" and the magic words which trump the law: "national security".
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I'd like to also point out that computers and spaceships are also objectively/scientifically testable and controllable, unlike the mind. There can be no objective control group when it comes testing the subjectivity of mind.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Then it is metaphysical and subjective, putting it outside the realm of science.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed it is "normal" in the sense that it is common, but allow me to elaborate. >>Imagine constantly viewing yourself as a failure for 18+ years because you are unable to control your child's behavior This sentiment im
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Very good! This reminds me of an old zen tale: >Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind. "It's the wind that is really moving," stated the first one. "No, it is the flag that is moving," contended
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Imagine constantly viewing yourself as a failure for 18+ years because you are unable to control your child's behavior I understand this sentiment, but looking at it from another angle, this sentiment suggests control/blame is
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>many of the medications in use have been around for 50+ years Which psychiatric medications are you referring to? It seems to me that most anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, and anti-psychotics have only very recently been invented.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The wind, tides, and sun are all real, objective physical phenomenon. The mind is not so
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There is no meaningful distinction between "foreign" and "domestic" on the world wide web.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>irresponsibly put their government in an embarrassing position wrt every other country, friend or enemy Did they put them in that position, or did they simply reveal the reprehensible position that the government had assumed?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Maybe, maybe not. It's not just $65k plus fees and expenses, its also the opportunity cost of having sunk a year into this. How long would it take to recuperate those losses on a product manager salary? Perhaps just landing an entry le
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If the US stopped pouring so much money into blowing up and rebuilding other countries' infrastructure, maybe the US would have some more money to rebuild their own?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Regularly update and backup your systems. Educate your people on social engineering and basic security practices (i.e. how to spot phishing).
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CBD
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This study conducted in 2003 indicates that iatrogenesis (accidental deaths caused by conventional medicine) is the leading cause of death in the US. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003&#x2
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Right, the real money is not going to come from the bitcoin ransoms, but from the information on millions of patients which they surely made copies of.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Likewise not calling the fire department when you know all of our houses are likely to be burnt down in the hopes that some "bad guys" might get burnt is also the wrong approach.
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Has there ever been such a product? What about exploits on the software/hardware underlying the supposedly secure software?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Bingo! If humans are continually replaced by robots without being given an income subsidized by the benefits of automation, in the long run, the robots will have to be shut down because the humans can longer pay for the products!
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of to
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It is possible to build and deploy secure software. By secure, you don't mean 100% secure, do you?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>In many fields, subjectivity is the best we have. In business management, venture capital Indeed, and I see nothing wrong with that. The issue I'm critizing is when a group of people fraudulently present themselves as doctors and s
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Or perhaps you just don't like my definition and its implications so much so that you're unable to consider it. Is there no one who is above the rule of law in your opinion?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Crohns, ALS, Celiac, and early Parkinsons There are biological tests/indicators that are conducted for all of these pathologies.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>One cannot interact with someone that is floridly psychotic and not come to the conclusion that, while the specific diagnostic criteria may be subjective, there is something objectively wrong with that individual's biological func

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