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gdhbcc··on Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones
If a court order said he had to confess, and arrested him for not doing so, would you say that is a lawful order?

And if not, what is the difference between being ordered to confess and being ordered to produce evidence harmful to yourself?

Courts should have the right to seek evidence, no one is disputing that, nor is anyone disputing the rights of the court to seek that evidence unmolested, but there is a difference between seeking evidence and mandating compliance.

As far as I am concerned courts should not have any right to compel any action, particularly specific action. They should only have a right to compel inaction. In short, the court can issue warrants that permit their officers to conduct actions that would otherwise be illegal, for example entering my house without my permission, and they may even compel me to stand outside and not interfere while they do so, but they should never be able to compel me to open the door for them.

gdhbcc··on Australia May Be the World’s Most Secretive Democracy
Expect they are morally equivalent because morality is relative and individual.
gdhbcc··on Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos
I have to admit I'm curious as to why you prefer trackball, from my experience there is no actual benefit to it over laser, expect perhaps if you prefer heavier mouses
gdhbcc··on Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
It is censorship though. Part of the job of the censor is to determine whether the likelyhood some information will be seen, justifies the censorship in question.

You can read the censor reports from the estado novo for example, and in many of them the censor declined to ban the book because even though it was objectively illegal, it would naturally be a book that wouldn't be sought after by the general public, and so only those who knew about it would look for it.

I'd say this is an even more pernicious form of censorship because you dont know what you dont know.

gdhbcc··on ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
Yes. Additionally they should design their architecture in such a way that means they are unable to comply.
gdhbcc··on Canva security breach: hacker claims to have stolen the data of 139M users
Given that the hack only occurred after the breach I would say no
gdhbcc··on A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)
Portugal got Cha by sea (through macau)
gdhbcc··on Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR
Id that were the case targeted das wouldnt be a thing.
gdhbcc··on Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
So worst case scenario it does nothing, and best case scenario it protects against a common security risk? Seems to me it should be standard...
gdhbcc··on Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
To be honest, as far as I'm concerned there is no reason why Google or anyone should ever even have access to the plaintext passwords, let alone log them.

There Is no reason why we can't have 2 rounds of hashing, one client side and one server side. This way even if Google is malicious, it cannot know the actual password.

gdhbcc··on Abdication, Succession and Japan’s Imperial Future: An Emperor’s Dilemma
Germany was not a monarchy during ww2. The Italian king fought for both axis and allies (and joining the allies was a big reason why he was voted out after the war). Yugoslavia was invaded by the axis, as was Greece.
gdhbcc··on Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges
I dont see how Lyft gets off calling this fraudulent. Seems to me it's the system working as intended, and as it should.

Drivers dont want to drive for under a certain value, so they simply inform the app who adjusts the value to fulfill demand. Seems like its what you want to happen.

gdhbcc··on Get Your Book, Make It Free
I firmly disagree with pretty much everything you have said.

There is no evidence that intellectual property in any way increases production of works, and indeed there is plenty of evidence that inhibits it. See http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm for a comprehensive look at the subject. While I dont agree with their conclusions, the data they show is solid.

gdhbcc··on Get Your Book, Make It Free
Information should be free. Humanity as a whole benefits from free access to it.
gdhbcc··on Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury
There were plenty of laws banning black people from Sitting on the wrong place in the bus, and yet if someone were to defend the jailing of someone due to violating that law you'd be talking about the injustice that was.

The law is the law is only an argument if you're willing to always take it to it's full logical conclusion, so my question to you was, if this judge was ordering you to do something you felt was morally horrifying, such as for example sterilizing someone without their consent (as has been done in the past), would you accept it and do it?

gdhbcc··on Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online
Better yet, do both
gdhbcc··on Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury
You go to prison forever
gdhbcc··on Germany proposes $2,800 fine for parents skipping measles vaccination
The argument is exactly the same though.

The argument being made is "infringing on peoples bodily integrity is ok if a measurable amount of lives are saved by the infringement".

I simply extended that argument to other things where we can measurably evaluate how many more people would be alive if we infringe on peoples rights.

Abortion is a perfect example because not only can we establish a clear upper bound on the number of lives lost due to it, but we can also save those lives through an infringement on bodily integrity in particular.

In short, if we can infringe bodily integrity to save less than 1 life a year, by mandating mandatory measles vaccines, then it stands to reason that all other similarly permanent offenses to bodily integrity are also permitted if they save 1 or more lives per year.

gdhbcc··on Businesses are scrambling for workers in Hungary
Sounds like the ideal scenario, no?
gdhbcc··on Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App
Or perhaps transmitting photographs on screen unlock that are used for image recognition
gdhbcc··on UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)
How exactly are they doing this?
gdhbcc··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
Theres a reason why it was profitable, low labor costs
gdhbcc··on Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
That kind of looks like throwing a darf, and then painting the bullseye after.

In any case, the Huawei Matebook pro x would seem to fit all but the default unix OS requirement.

I dont think any PC comes with any unix os by default, other than apple, but given the ease of setup I'm not inclined to view that requirement as anything other than a way to select what you wanted a first

gdhbcc··on In China, tattoos border on illegal – and they're his life's work
Tattoos are not illegal in South Korea, neither having them or making them is illegal.

It is simply classified as a form of acupuncture and regulated accordingly.

gdhbcc··on YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content
Your first point is objectively incorrect. The EU copyright laws apply to every website/company, the only difference is small companies/websites have 3 years to bring themselves into compliance.
gdhbcc··on 'PJ paralysis': Why advocates are pushing to get patients out of pyjamas
Learned helplessness is a thing, and a big part of what helps patients recover is reducing that helplessness.

It might seem rude and just pilling on someone who is already down, but from personal experience and from talking with nurses who deal with palliative care and care of elderly patients, a major indicator of whether the patient will improve or not has to do with how much they actually do for themselves.

My own grandfather for example was hospitalized for a few weeks after being blinded in 1 eye. For the first 2 weeks he continuously got worse, not because of his original injury, but because of the lack of motivation direction and drive. Eventually when my father noticed his nurses were cutting his food and feeding him, he put a stop to that with a "why are they doing that for you? You still got hands, so use them". It hadn't even occurred my grandfather that he could do it himself.

gdhbcc··on Everyone’s Income Taxes Should Be Public
The government should keep no secrets beyond those absolutely necessary to ensure national security. Knowing how much each person pays in taxes is not a national security concern, so it stands to reason it should be public.
gdhbcc··on High Speed Trains Are Killing the European Railway Network (2013)
The company I previously worked for did pay for a bahn card for me when I was doing the Frankfurt-Bonn route twice a week for a few months
gdhbcc··on A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA
Until someone comes to power that doesn't like your particular ethnic group
gdhbcc··on Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules
Sounds like the company would do well to keep that employee happy then.

I don't see a reason why we should be okay with removing such powerful leverage from the workers hands.

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