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Wait, so does this mean that if you were being monitored with a stringray, your phone would just be a brick without access to mobile network data (calls, texts, data) etc? that seems like a huge giveaway???

If you only need 8 hours of work from a worker, then find someone looking only for part time work. They're out there.

The problem is there are millions of people working 40 hours a week or more , sometimes at multiple jobs, who still can't afford to guarantee they and their families eat 3 healthy meals a day or go to the doctor.

Look at the increase in worker productivity since the 70s and then look at the lethargic growth in worker compensation. Those two variables should be tightly coupled.

Especially since, and correct me if I'm wrong, the oceans count as a border too.

Given that Intelligence Agencies are often times under the direction of State Departments, and State Departments are constantly breaking international and domestic law, what gives you your confidence in their commitment to operating within legal boundaries?

yes, this exactly. thank you. im not some paranoid "tinfoil hat" person as accused below.

I mean, we see the articles posted here on hackernews daily about insecure information security, corporate malfeasance, and stories like this where law enforcement steps over legal boundaries.

I dont think its an incredible position to hold that intelligence agencies exploit all 3 of those situations, including any number of undisclosed zero-days, in order to surveil broad swaths of the population.

No, I'm not saying the seizure of the phone is less egregious. Rather, I'm asserting that intelligence agencies almost certainly operate outside the law regularly. That doesn't make the first thing less bad, but it does show our whole situation to be far worse.

Agreed it certainly does feel like we are on the highway to some kind of neo-feudalism. My words, not yours, of course. It does frustrate me to no end when these Free Market right-libertarians hark on about personal responsibility and demonize welfare. Like, do they realize the amount of public funding, safety nets, government contracts, and subsidies the private "free" market relies on? Then they have the audacity to call out poor folks asking to be able to go to the doctor, or reliably eat 3 meals a day every day. The cogitative dissonance is real as hell.

To the first point, good question. I dont know how we could solve that problem writ large.

As to UBI, I am all for it but I have concerns as well. Like a super basic one being what is to stop commodity prices inflating proportionately to the new lowest possible income set by UBI. Say UBI is 20k for every human on Earth. Great, but what's to stop the rise in prices of commodities to essentially UBI adjusted income + original price of commodity? Im genuinely curious what you think.

Just look at the number of executions of people with mental handicaps and tell me the current justice system is capable of acting in a just fashion. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/list-defendants-mental-retardat...

I think you're presuming the loophole here a bit too quickly. It shouldnt be difficult to determine when it is that a wealthy person hired a less wealthy person to do the unsavory thing in order to exploit the lower fine.

More to the point brought up about Finland's lower wealth inequality: yeah, that should be what we're shooting for. Say we return to a robust progressive income tax system where if you make over say, 10 million dollars a year, you get taxed 90%. The arbitrage loophole doesnt work because, what, are you going to split up your 10M/Year income between 20 different less wealthy people and have them spend your money for you in order to avoid the tax?

What am I saying, of course the rich would find a way to skirt taxes. It's like, their whole shtick. I loathe the whole "Of course I'll do every shady, up to and including illegal things, to pay less taxes because if theres a loophole I want to exploit it". No, in fact you are acting being an anti-social cretin who neglects to give back to the society that produced the material conditions that allows for your wealth.

Food stamps are not intended as a subsidy for private industry to take advantage of so they can underpay their workers. Yet a casual observation of these conglomerates actions and policies clearly shows this is their strategy.

Im glad she resisted this seizure of her personal property. But what about all the data that phone transmits over the internet which can be / is collected by most every intelligence agency, without a warrant?

And to be fair, the docs are littered with warnings about not using debug mode in production. Debug mode is open for.... debugging. not production.

It's nigh impossible to rationally argue an opponent acting in bad faith out of their deeply held conspiratorial thinking.

Cool, is this Unix like teaching operating system going to be clandestinely installed on all future Intel CPUs like Minix was?

Im about to fully read Mark Fischer's "Capitalist Realism" [0]. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zerobooks+capitalist+realism&t=ffa...

Something like this, perhaps? https://hackaday.io/project/15711-raspberry-pi-stingray-dete...

Looks like a pretty standard software defined radio reciever that profiles local cell towers so as to notice when a new, lower power (local) tower is put up, which you can then assume is some kind of stingray type device. Looks pretty easy to set up as well.

^^^ I've been repping physical data transfer to people for a while. Veracrypt is a great option.

There was an interesting point made on a podcast yesterday (Struggle Session EP 48 w/ Felix Biederman, i believe) todo with growing up online in the 00's and the social experience of being online and being a teenager. Many of us here can likely relate to feeling a bit out of place in our primary edu and the experience of going online to "find your people". Whoever you were comfortable "hanging out with" online, RPG people, emo kids, poets, FPS gamers, programmers, whoever - you could find them online.

Thats definitely still true today, but 10-15 years ago we didnt have this convergence of platforms so much. Instead all these communities existed on sites of their own with closer control of their space. The problem today is that everyone is thrown into one bucket, and everyone in that bucket is looking at one another and obsessing over current events (poorly) and using their real names. Platforms are like monoculture farming, and the more decentralized internet of the recent past was more like smaller gardens tended by loving gardeners. Sure, the new internet is more productive, but we can't say its the same thing as the diverse, small garden.

What about Firefighters???

Reunification efforts in the late 1990s and early 2000s were complicated by the shift in US Policy from the Clinton to Bush Admin. Clinton's admin wanted to support the so called Sunshine Policy, which favored moving towards reunification.

For the US's part, they agreed to not re apply new sanctions on the North as long as the North continued to operate within the parameters of their Sunshine Policy negotiated with the South. That was what was happening, but then Bush came into office and this policy changed. New sanctions were put upon DPRK and they would eventually be included in the Bush Admin's "Axis of Evil" (Iran, Iraq, and North Korea).

This caused the North to go back on its agreements and the Sunshine Policy as a whole, and did also align with more conservative governments in South Korea.

All that said, I was smiling so big last night seeing the two leaders shaking hands, smiling themselves. A reunification of the 2 Koreas would be an absolute blessing upon the world. Many people in the North and South long to be reunited. Not to mention the ease of so many tensions in SE Asia that would come from 1 Korea.

What do you pay as a wage for these people who you, so to speak, bail out of jail? Is it minimum wage? If so, then this seems less, but still rather exploitative of the individual. Especially in in the case where they are acquitted and not convicted.

i wonder what the I/O speed of those crystal drives are...

I dont overly care what regulatory framework we place Uber into, I care that they dont misclassify their workers as independent contractors. The whole gig "economy" is a scam, people smarter than I have broken down the numbers about the cost of maintaining your vehicle (in uber's sake) and the tax bill due in april exceeding the pay. Not to mention theres little to no job security or benefits. Pay Your Workers.

As long as line length is pep8 compliment, there can be as many exclamation points as you want.

Sounds like their workflow is the problem, not their tool. I'm no shill for Excel, but it is without a doubt powerful and can be quite programmatic. Maybe Excel could get a plugin system like Atom or VS Code or Sublime that could handle integration with centralized platforms / databases.

Just wondering: can you make an API call / ORM query to a database from within Excel macros? How much I/O can you do with macros?

"not if anything to say about it, I do" - Yoda

As programmer in his mid 20s, NN was the first political issue I developed a position on when I was a child. The fight for the open Internet has been going on for a long time and I really reciprocate that feeling of helplessness in the face of these patently corrupt regulators. Im calling reps and filling comments with the FCC and telling everyone I know about this, but I still feel like these people are gonna shove it down our throats. This whole process is so anti-democratic it's depressing.

Wait but I thought the free market operated in good faith and not by brutally cutting corners on service, monopolizing, and lobbying government for preferential treatment?

I think there may be value in society providing some kind of fusion of these two things at universities. University has become a sort of coming of age ritual for young people, when they can manage to go. Craftsmanship and trades skills are certainly solid ways to support yourself, especially when paired with a decent, democratic union, but I cant help but feel that theres something about a college experience that is hugely beneficial to people. Even just the interpersonal relations you experience at university are deeply influential.

Maybe we could have universities run more traditionally trade school type programs as well as liberal arts, stem, art, and music curriculums? That way the philosophy students have the opportunity to take a class in engine repair and the students in the electrician's school can likewise take a class in Computer Aided Design or Astronomy Lab.