iacvlvs · HackerTrans

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Why?

There’s always a lot of hand-wringing and FUD around giving people ID numbers, but never a coherent rational argument. What makes it a big brother nightmare for all humans?

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I assume it’s a simple accidental transposition of “case in point”, an instance or example that supports, or is relevant or pertinent to, what is being discussed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/usage-of-case-in-po...

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I use 1password with Fastmail integration to create unique email addresses for each login. This new “sipping from thimbles” approach to authentication breaks that because iOS and/or 1pass don’t recognise it as a login until the password screen, so I’m swapping and searching and copying and pasting just to log in. I viscerally hate that sort of user hostile design of the auth/login.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

South Africa’s violent crime problem isn’t despite its wealth, it’s because of the wealth and, crucially, the inequality in its distribution. Higher inequality is associated with higher crime and lower social trust.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80897-8

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

In many police departments in the US the problem is essentially that there are so many bad apples that every good apple that comes is spoiled or cannot do good. This can only be changed be decisive action from the top.

How many bad apples does it take, to spoil the whole barrel?

I'm not disagreeing with the comment I'm replying to, just trying to challenge the perception that there's anything ok with "just" a few bad apples. The acceptable number of bad apples is zero.

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

> Debian doesn't ask people before including their packages, and ex. nixos pulls directly from those "non-distribution" channels.

Then Debian (or NixOS) are publishing the code for distribution, and Debian (or NixOS) should be morally obligated to do the bare minimum to make the code acceptable for others to use.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

It is fundamental to all markets in the real world. It is also a defining trait of the platonic ideal of a free market, and one of the reasons why the platonic ideal absolute free market is unrealisable. Markets can be more or less free, but never entirely so. Regulation by non-market forces is one way that markets are made less free. Such regulation is often intended to counteract or offset other things that make the market in question less free.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

There is no true free market in the world. One of the defining characteristics of a free market is perfect information. This is one of the downsides of market imperfections.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

From TFA: "In theory, this limits one’s visibility to aerial surveillance vehicles employing heat-imaging cameras to track people on the ground."

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I agree with the point you are making. In the spirit of agreement, I would suggest that the right question is "what is it about your relative's blood test that you specifically want to bring to the attention of the NSA, government, contractors, and lobbyists."

Privacy should be the default state and expectation, and disclosure should be by exception when necessary, for exactly the reasons outlined in your post. The argument that privacy only matters if you have something to hide conceals a number of assumptions, and misses the fact that one doesn't know what one might one day wish one had hidden.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

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vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Would turning your computer off, help? I can see it helping for normal EM interference, but in an apocalyptic EM pulses scenario I thought the induced current would be enough to damage components.

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vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

We're already working on a mosquito genocide solution. Ever since the Nature article ( http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html ) about how the ecosystem would be fine without mosquitoes I've seen a number of mosquito genocide solutions that just yell "mad scientist".

We're using lasers http://www.physorg.com/news185463943.html

We're using smelly socks http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-07/sock-science-f...

We're tricking them into drinking poison http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html

We're even genetically engineering them to self destruct http://gizmodo.com/5852703/mosquitoes-genetically+engineered...

It's a bad time to be a mosquito.

(Also, I think this is how a Starship Troopers / Ender's Game scenario starts.)

iacvlvs

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

It's so good to know I'm not the only one still boycotting them! I was actually starting to reconsider it when the GeoHot thing happened and renewed my resolve. In this case, I don't think we're missing out on anything: if their Android tablets are anything like their Android phones they're going to be locked down to the point of uselessness and crammed to the rafters with proprietary rubbish.

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vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

If we killed off other humanlike species because they terrified us, wouldn't we have also killed off other species that terrify us, like snakes, rats, cockroaches and spiders?

I can't find a reference right now but I remember reading somewhere that European Homo Sapiens contain genetic evidence of interbreeding with Neanderthals, and Asian Homo Sapiens contain genetic evidence of a second, later round of more interbreeding with Neanderthals. I think that suggests we didn't find them all that horrifying :)

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vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

And hobbits! The BBC article Homo Floresiensis. From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis )

Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man", nicknamed "hobbit") is a possible species, now extinct, in the genus Homo

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vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I've worked with worse:

  <PERSON>
    <PERSON_HEADER_1>
      <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_FIRST_NAME>John</PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_FIRST_NAME>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_LAST_NAME>Smith</PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME_LAST_NAME>
      </PERSON_HEADER_1_NAME>
      <PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_1>123 Some Street</PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_1>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_2>Blah</PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_2>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_3>Blah</PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_3>
        <PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_4>Blah</PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS_4>
      </PERSON_HEADER_1_ADDRESS>

... and so on. I can't think of any advantage to (or excuse for) doing it this way. The only possible reason for it that I can think of, is rather comprehensive ignorance of how XML and related standards work.

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vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I know the opposite has been done, on a grand scale. A group of residents in a local suburb were complaining that a iBurst's (a local wisp) newly erected tower was causing headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, totally disrupted sleep patterns, gastric imbalances and bouts of nausea and retching. They claimed that for these symptoms to subside took up to six weeks away from the broadcasting tower. At a meeting where concerns residents confirmed they were still experiencing symptoms. iBurst then revealed they had shut down the tower more than six weeks earlier. Unfortunately, if you're hoping to cure a psychosomatic illness, evidence alone just won't do it. Last I heard, residents were looking at a solution through the Department of Environmental Affairs. Full story at http://goo.gl/8UxNI

iacvlvs

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I can't listen to it right now. Could someone please transcribe it?

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