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The airgapped computer loads propriety Chinese blobs to boot and is pulling it's encryption software over the network via HTTP.

I used to run this until I couldn't ignore that it was pointless because it offloads the attack vector to something I can easily lose, have taken or replaced.

Or someone could come in an pop in a drive with their own kernel.

Nevermind the reality that I'd never completely follow through with the security measures needed on a personal machine. I'd just be giving myself an active role in my home's security theater.

I just encrypt my home folder and don't trust machines/networks for important things.

You're building yourself a false dichotomy. You can put yourself first. 99.99% of healthy people do. Having such social programs in place doesn't preclude that nor does it impede on your lifestyle.

I would say that with the acknowledgment and understanding of how your circumstances brought you to where you are in life comes another component: how you react to that awareness.

If you can see how you benefit from the disparity and injustice, and that something can be done about it, yet you willingly choose comfort and the possibility of lower taxes, the judgment is cast on you.

Your happiness, safety, enjoyment and advancement in life is not mutually exclusive with ensuring society provides a sufficient safety net.

The thing about wealth transfer is it doesn't depend on genes at all.

I'm sure there are literal lapdogs endowed with more net worth and power than I have by their owners.

edit: I should clarify that wealth is not correlated with gene quality or fitness, but it may follow familial/social/emotional connections of the wealthy that seem to point to a "good lineage". Case in point: royal families

At least they're open about it.

When the industry props you up as the only avenue for access to a large collection of streaming music, you don't have to compete on terms of stability, usability or features anymore.

Son, robots build our robots.

Truck driving is one of the few remaining jobs in most states where the local economy has failed its population.

It was the most common occupancy in 29 states in 2014. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-...

Who is the us "efficiency" has helped? At the end of the day, do I benefit from the fact that Company X's truck no longer needs a driver?

Does that benefit really outweigh ruining the livelihoods of millions of people, whose family now can't pay taxes and lost their ability to see doctors or to maintain a roof over their heads?

When do we get to reap the benefits of this automation?

There is a lot of money being made by letting people go and letting the tax payer pay for the societal damage.

Will those millions of drivers be transferred to a new department within the company? Will they get a severance check from the profits of this automation? Or will unemployment and lack of medical care shave 20+ years off their lives so a shipping company can save a dime that society gets to pay for?

Source? I don't doubt you, but I'd like to read up on it anyway as I'm having trouble finding the pertinent information with Google.

The banker or politician will never be affected by this, why would they try to upset the police unions?

When is it ever not nice to have $38m kicking around that isn't pre-allocated and can be used for whatever?

Both communities are heavily moderated

You do not abuse the user's trust like that.

You are under the assumption that 'efficiency' means resource efficiency. That is untrue. Exhibit A is how convoluted our current system is with our non-renewables. Replacing people with machines won't fix that.

Efficiency is celebrating the fact that you can drop your expensive annual costs and the liability of employing humans to conduct your business. People are expensive and demand things like rights and benefits. Machines can be had with a purchase/lease and maintenance costs.

Machines won't negotiate or get a lawyer. That's efficiency.

Meanwhile, we'll strip the earth to build these machines in the name of efficiency while more of the population is made useless and left to rot by an economy that functions without them.

Then why do they do it if they can afford to quit their jobs?

It's a good thing when people are put out of work because of "efficiency"

If state-actor X is pushing an agenda, you can be sure that X is directly benefiting from it and it is all about those benefits.

What makes you think a technological shift will happen that suddenly allows people to own the means of production?

Rent-seeking and leasing of equipment are more likely, ensuring that the power relations of today are secured for the future.

I've never understood the appeal of Spotify, recommendations are shit, the client/ads suck and I'm not whipping out my credit card when I've got a music collection + Google Play + iTunes.

This. Python is strongly typed but the only runtime "checking" you get is the exception raised you try an operation on an object that doesn't implement an assumed interface.

GvR supports optional type checking in Python and has written a few documents laying out its defense, so it is in the works.

What balls are involved in latching on to this generation's witch hunt, getting rich off of presenting nothing but circumstantial evidence and sitting in a room on the other side of the planet for a decade trying an empty chair?

That isn't justice, it's politically motivated theater. They even rented out a basketball court, seats and all, for their production.

This is a convenient and profitable which hunt fueled by the money we decided to burn witches with.

The amount of time and resources spent on the incident are far out of proportion to crimes occurring all over the world by all sides.

You know how often we take out politically inconvenient people? So often we have a kill list.

The last times tribunals like this were held was Tokyo, Nuremburg, Cambodia then Sierra Leone.

Singling out this incident is not in sync with the esteem we usually hold towards these trials to hold powerful state level actors responsible for the mass crimes against humanity and millions of deaths incurred because of their actions.

If this was about justice people who actually have some control over the matter would be tried. It isn't, so a proxy tribunal with literally no defendants is held.

Justice is served.

It's in everyone's best interest that the world isn't annihilated, that power shouldn't be in the hands of people, yet is. That isn't an excuse to hand over more power.

The biggest direct threat to my freedom, and the freedom of the masses, is the expansion of executive power.

Times I've been arrested for expressing my views: 3

Times I've been murdered, injured or locked up by another person: 0

The government already uses the data the private sector collects. It wants better, real-time data using public and invasive techniques that aren't profitable for consumer businesses yet.

I am against both access to that data collected by the private sector and the expansion of mass surveillance. The fact that the data exists is a problem and, ideally, we wouldn't live in a world where surveillance at this extreme for advertising was acceptable.

A local police department outside one of the worst areas in the Northeast has the same surveillance systems they used in Baghdad. They like to brag about it in the papers.

Do we really want to tie a noose at the end of all the rope we already hand the authorities?

There are tools people with power shouldn't have access to, because people with power do not have a good track record of using them in good faith.

It's too bad. For me, the free web worker option was an avenue that made it easy to consume Heroku's paid and partner services.

Given the blog post calling people who use pingdoms freeloaders for using the service they advertised as free and changing offerings like this, there are other VPS hosts that don't pull a bait and switch after encouraging dependence that are cheaper.

It's okay. A good portion of the justice system is in cahoots with investigators' tactics because it puts people they believe are guilty behind bars.

So they're getting rid of their free option for another free option that gives you only 18hrs of non-sleep time a day.

How is this not a downgrade?

Let's legislate the consumer end of things because regulating business which pollute the air by a factor of 1000 is wrong.

Profiling, advertising, avenues to offer their owner services or partners services.