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It could be a collective defense mechanism. The idea of animal intelligence being a threat to what many people perceive as the necessary status quo of being able to endlessly consume the resources of nature without consequence.

This is engineering. Not art. We learn from our failures and build better than before.

And not a single director goes to jail. Not even for a weekend.

In the wake of an unprecedented attack on the core institutions of a democracy; forums and websites that were being used to plot violence against lawmakers are discovering that all available sources of pressure on them to change their behavior are being exercised?

The Parler dudes are just lucky that they haven't been arrested for material support of terrorism yet.

There is also the viewpoint that bitcoin was a crime from beginning to end. That the goals of it's creation were to provide an unpreventable vector for money laundering. That it's current function of undermining the dollar order is also an intended result.

And let us not; in this age of ecological collapse, forget the emissions impact of cryptocurrencies.

You seem to think that teams of economists don't cherry pick metrics that suit their perspective.

Is it the phone people are addicted to, or the media available through it?

Especially Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Twitter. All of which seem designed to cultivate obsessive compulsive behavior in their users with social proof, intermittent rewards and a builtin hedonic treadmill.

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support.

I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.

Construction companies seem to do fine even though building codes exist.

It's not uncommon for a mature industry to face a reckoning around damaging practices that were common when they were nascent industries.

Would you like to live below a dam that was built under a loose and permissive regulatory regime? How about storing sensitive personal data in a datacenter whose owner specifically disclaims liability for it's exposure?

This is an idea that should be explored more fully. The downside is that it will make information technology a much less freewheeling and innovative field.

Police work a _lot_ of overtime in most jurisdictions.

So the base salary may be misleadingly low. Especially since many police contracts have a 2x or even 3x payout for overtime under some conditions.

As with many statistics around policing there is a deliberate and calculated intent to muddy the waters and prevent effective policy discussion.

For such a high value target why aren't they using MFA built in to the hardware?

They're a networking company but they apparently build stuff like it's still 1996.

Remember that these individuals are usually hired and given responsibility based on their ability to game class signalling games; they exist to justify the status quo.

If the status quo were more justifiable their actual job responsibilities to other people within the organization ( conflict resolution, scheduling, resource allocation, and personnel management) are things that could be automated in a hot minute.

I wonder how long until we see the first lawsuits for stock price manipulation using this feedback loop?

If an unscrupulous executive were to make factually true statements that were engineered to mislead automated assessment algorithms so that they or their associates could buy the dip.

Would it even technically be against the law?