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You make an extremely compelling point. I was arguing in sound bites and your final paragraph is entirely reasonable.

That’s what every parent hopes to leave their kids with: an obligation

I’m curious if you’re just misremembering or if there’s some particular reason you say that.

For me, building a machine is identical to writing code.

I can’t really see a difference.

These comments are all over the place. I can’t identify a coherent point.

Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.

Why do you say “true customers”?

Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?

People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead of a “Twitter customer”

> You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker

You absolutely can, especially with something as multifaceted as a country.

> nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".

They do and you can.

What’s wrong with 3DES?

Do you mean in size?

Surely you don’t think changing size has much to do with what makes humans intelligent.

It’s not doublethink to say the programs should have been exposed and that Snowden was a traitor for exposing them in a manner that otherwise hurt our country.

He could have done things properly, instead he dumped thousands of files unrelated to illegal surveillance to the media.

The grandparent post is asking about the people who need to know enough to program TLS to

> let it choose

If a competitor had perfect quotes I’d still use google. They’re too reliable at other things.

How do you accurately include those sqrt(n)’s in your analysis?

If I write a song am I not deriving it from the existing works I’ve been exposed to?