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by zhxshen 4y ago
apparently so
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Read it again. Money money money. Whether it's Spengler or Plato, Weimar or Weimerica, people haven't changed. The lesson still applies.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Comparing Mudge to a cop... Just Say No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Company dumps creosote into the ground for 40+ years. Somebody blows the whistle, EPA prosecutes the whistleblower. Company gets a slap-on-the-wrist fine, while the whistleblower gets house arrest. https://theintercept.com&#x2
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Mudge isn't a politician, has an excellent reputation, and would probably be much happier if Twitter just had its shit together in the first place so he doesn't have to kick-off a whistlestop tour on the subpoena train. First sto
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Some of this digging might not be to discredit Mudge, but to estimate how well his claims will hold up in the crossfire. That would be useful information to some hedgie looking to make a big play on twitter stock (or tesla stock, indirectl
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by zhxshen 4y ago
That doesn't really figure into it. My point is that administrative law has failed. It invests too much power into too few people with nowhere near enough transparency, and the things it seeks to address are so far above the "th
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Not a trick ... an observation. Spengler put it better than I ever could in " The Decline of the West ": If by "democracy" we mean the form which the Third Estate as such wishes to impart to public life as a whole, it
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Through venal politicians, and--judging by the typical " man on the street " segment--voters who are barely literate?
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Foreign agents run amok before an FBI warning: sure, shit happens. Foreign agents still running amok after an FBI warning: WTF?!
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by zhxshen 4y ago
It's easy for us to be sanguine about knocking down the ladder after most of us have already scurried our ways to the top. Think of existing regulation (banks, environment, agriculture, pharma... you name it). Is it really there to p
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Are you even watching this? They're talking about foreign agents running amok on the inside (even after Twitter being notified by the FBI), lack of logging, mishandling of email addresses, etc, etc. Bots or no bots, all of that stuff
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Feeling like Twitter is just about to ruin the low-regulation party for everybody. Could be wrong though. Not much happened after the Experian breach after all.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
With " day of the pillow " as a slogan for boomer genocide, maybe we want to re-think the name for this one?
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Why do web APIs tend to use pre-shared keys for client auth instead of pubkeys?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
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