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The country comparison doesn't do much either, because there isn't a good guarantee that they'll correspond. Some guy posted a repo to distrust every CA except the top 30, and that has a bunch of weird examples, like a bunch of russian sites being signed by a Greek CA. Not to mention some of the biggest sites use CAs that don't correspond with their country of origin. GlobalSign is Belgian for instance. Guess how many of their customers aren't Belgian?

So what happens to americans visiting french sites?

List them? I asked AI for a list of mercenary hacking firms and it turned up:

NSO Group (Israel)

Intellexa Consortium (a bunch of countries including Israel, and the founder is Israeli)

Candiru (Israel)

Paragon Solutions (Israel)

RCS Lab (Italy)

But most polls I see are from professional pollsters like Pew or YouGov? For them, correcting for this is opinion polls 101. That's why you see "representative sample". They're not just randomly polling 1000 people and taking the average. They're adjusting for a bunch of other demographic factors as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_Privatization_Act_of_19...

that's almost a truism if you factor in inflation.

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    Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence (sub6): score=-9.9748, rel_imp=24.937, yoy=3.3
    Health insurance (sub4): score=-10.3886, rel_imp=0.818, yoy=-9.0
    New vehicles (sub4): score=-11.6188, rel_imp=3.748, yoy=0.6
    Used cars and trucks (sub4): score=-13.9776, rel_imp=2.688, yoy=-1.5
    Motor vehicle insurance (sub4): score=-22.0197, rel_imp=2.531, yoy=-5.0

This sort of equivocation, where any privacy invasion gets rounded off to "spying on you" doesn't help either. Clickbait headlines over android making 100 requests to google gets lumped together with more serious privacy violations like random SDKs selling your location data, causing a learned helplessness where people think "spying on you" is normal and can't be avoided.

Have you looked at the actual weights?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_10142026.htm

Airline fares make up a whopping 1.04% of the CPI basket. "Information technology commodities" makes up a whopping 0.752%. Meanwhile the weights of essentials are: Food (13.507%), Energy (7.418%), Shelter (35.323%), Medical care services (6.834)

Has this been quantified? Otherwise it's easy to fall for confirmation bias, eg. "facebook is secretly listening to you"

But that's not an infinite excuse to extrapolate from one person's statement to the whole of uk political establishment. Not to mention he's not a totally neutral party either. According to wikipedia he's against the conservative party and supports Reform UK.

"In 2025 he dropped calls for the creation of a start-up party to replace the Tories and in a blog post in March talked up Reform UK."

> b) he didn't resign in disgrace.

You're right. I edited my comment.

Why should we care about a former government advisor who resigned 6 years ago, and isn't even in the same party as the government in power?

edit: retracted the "resigned in disgrace" part

It might not be entirely hallucinated, but it's still a real concern given all the discussions about the AfD inevitably gets filled with people engaging in motte-and-bailey tactics. For instance, are the AfD literally against democracy, or against the constitution (vaguely defined, because they're discriminating against immigrants)? In cases like these rough summaries inevitably mangle the exact policy positions, which might make them look better/worse than they actually are. You might think "AfD are fascists anyways, who cares if their positions get mangled?", but that's terrible epistemics.

Wait till you realize how 911 aka "swatting" works.

>The company itself must be responsible.

So in the swatting case should we blame Verizon for allowing the call to be placed in the first place?

You know what's worse than sitting in jail for a few days? Dying or losing a loved one from 9/11. So you better get used to more federal agents scanning your communications and more TSA groping you at the airport. No cost is too great to prevent losing a loved one to terrorist attacks!

/s

Someone made a fake account -> we need "Whatever is needed" to make creating fake accounts harder is exactly the wrong way of thinking about it. It's the same kneejerk reaction that got us PATRIOT act and TSA after 9/11.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

Or if you're more swayed by social justice, all these onerous checks also makes it harder for "unbanked"/"underbanked" people access to the financial system, which has real harms for them.

"On the plus side, the average cost of food, rent, and services might drop"

Of course, "of the defendant's choosing" causes all sorts of moral hazard.

Is this actually true? The way the techspot article was laid out certainly implies that prosecutors knew about all the contradicting evidence, but they offered a plea deal. However, if you read the article carefully it doesn't mention any interaction with the prosecutors or that the contradicting evidence was presented to them.