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I gave you examples. :) Europeans who wish to wear a hijab may be abused based on where they are; that simple! It is not illegal to cover your face in public in America, and even if it were, the Hijab covers hair; the burkha might cover a face. This article is not what I would be worried about—rather, the anarchist handbook, for instance, or an explanation of encryption, or how to fool facial recognition in public.

Nonetheless, you are extraordinarily correct about citizens united, though I would more finger the blame there on corporate personhood, not free speech. The protections still make sense for individual; corporations do not make sense of individuals.

Https encrypts the path and headers. How would they know which site you’re on? I doubt they’re going to RadicalBombPlans.com.

First of all, I have literally never heard a critique about the negatives of american free speech. Could you help me understand the negatives?

Second, I do think americans are majorly better off than western europeans for free speech. Consider efforts to ban wearing clothing: that is not how you build a healthy, supportive, productive society, though it is perhaps how you let a culture stagnate. Or, perhaps consider this very article: it is not illegal to read something. (Possesion and distribution are another thing entirely.)

Finally, for better or worse, american free speech has plenty of bounds. Critically, those bounds are typically nowhere near politics or morals, except perhaps reflected in hate speech.

Except if they invest a whole $0 in a letsencrypt cert or any service with one.... or have they persuaded the services to allow them to MITM their own citizens?

I did not expect to see “free speech” in there, but I most definitely compare US free speech laws favorably to any and all other countries.

My issue is not that they had the vulnerability, but that the vulberability allowed full access to social security numbers and it wasn’t even the “critical” database!

You can take proactive efforts to minimize the risk of breaches; they appeared to store large amounts of unencrypted (or encrypted in aggregate) personally identifiably information together and allowed a single struts vulnerability unfettered access.

For instance, one could not duplicate social security numbers, or could allow you to encrypt your data so you need to provide a key for others to access it. The possibilities are endless.

Frankly you shouldn’t ever look at porn on a work machine, no matter how much they encourage you to think of it as your personal machine. It is only a liability.

To my understanding, firefox also has support for multiple profiles at that level, but it may be by app launch, not by window.

Yes, you can. The cookie settings are per-container (and there’s a surprising amount of customization per domain, though I wish it had decent wildcard support, it turns out to not be much of an issue).

Yea, it definitely continues to be an annoyance. I have some great bluetooth headphones, but if I forget them I can’t exactly pick up a cheap pair. The adapter works well but it’s easy to lose, especially if you want to use it in a car and also have to remember the lightning splitter so you can charge your phone at the same time.

That said, totally worth the improvements in water resistance. I use it in the shower all the time.

Mostly I just use headphones much less.

> I'm sure you could get by working part time for 15 hours a week if you gave up all of your modern conveniences and lived outdoors in a tent, but it wouldn't be very enjoyable.

It’s interesting you’d say that. I agree on average, but the enjoyment in that lifestyle would be hard to imagine in ours. I don’t think it’s hard to see our perception of pleasurable things is different from frequency.

Frankly I think there are only small, incremental improvements to happiness possible after modern healthcare and plumbing. Which are, granted, still extremely expensive where I live.

Well, I think the obvious way to solve this is simply to make it obvious the translation is occuring with a third party (who may do anything with the data). I think this is still fantastic technology even if it is limited to public conversations.

I can’t tell if you’re joking with the app or not.

If you’re good enough to meditate around the app, you don’t need any help from the app to start!

Living better is a relative term. Having access to cheap junk food and TVs does not pay medical bills, nor the debt that follows.

You’re only addressing half the comparison. Yes, the US has welfare, but it’s conditional and often insufficient.