tarakat
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Comment · 4 years ago
> economic justice* has to come first
So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the poorest countries the most. From that point of view, environmentalism is "economic justice".
*Interesting term. Does that mean the economically better off have committed a crime, and must be punished?
Comment · 4 years ago
Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.
But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.
Comment · 4 years ago
> we recently shared an update on how our External Data Misuse (EDM) team works to safeguard people against clone sites
Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?
Comment · 4 years ago
Your examples are all less scalable and easier to detect that hacking.
> That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before.
It's still a black box. You have only their word to go that the published source is what is actually running on the machine in front of you in the voting booth. And they have only the word of their computers.
So yes, it's a great step forward, in the same way that going up a flight of stairs is a great step towards reaching orbit.
Comment · 4 years ago
How many nation-states burned their best zero-days on this public intrusion test?
Comment · 4 years ago
A related question: How secure is an Android phone that does receive security updates from its vendor? I vaguely recall hearing that it can take months before a security patch makes it from mainline Android to consumer devices.
Comment · 4 years ago
> is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them
Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. And that this motel chain owned 40% of rentable rooms across the globe, and a handful of their friends owned the remaining 59%, with 1% belonging to small independent moteliers.
If you leave enforcement to them, then you've effectively privatized policing. Do you want a private police force? Wouldn't that represent a union of state and corporate power, i.e. fascism?
Comment · 4 years ago
Try applying this to any other group. Truth is no defense for "bias".
Comment · 4 years ago
Having corporations directly enforce each-other's terms & conditions is so much more efficient than the slow process of going through the courts.
Comment · 4 years ago
> for 75 years
A sure sign of corruption. An honest lease would be short, so that it can simply not be renewed if problems arise.
Comment · 4 years ago
Conduct the observations at night? ;)
Comment · 4 years ago
A common argument is that, because only a small fraction of US prisons are private [1], it means private prison lobbying is a negligible problem. But this is a fallacy! The fraction doesn't matter, only the absolute amount of funds flowing through private prisons, that are available for lobbying. That, and the political connections of prison owners that make lobbying more effective.
[1] Twenty-six states and the federal government incarcerated 99,754 people in private prisons in 2020, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. - https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?
[1] As at the 2018 census, the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (70 percent) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Demographics