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More like a different kind of sharing app/company as the potential starting point to people figuring out how to live the way they want to. I am indeed wondering out loud about whet…

With you on that point for sure. It is just as important for the US to end it's for-profit prison system as it is for China to stop punishing people for thinking the wrong thing.

That's fine. The corrective for it is to name the bad conversational behavior where you see it, don't get too bothered about it, and demonstrate the kind of conversations you wish …

Agreed, Nixon was a moron, basically everything his administration did was truly awful. The war on drugs must end, the people put in jail for having or consuming the wrong plants m…

>wrong think 99% of time gets you an invite to the police station to "drink tea" and sign a paperwork not to do it again. Maybe occasionally a write self criticism letter. That is …

I can go with the general feeling here, but to use that to put the US's behavior on par with China's, specifically with regard to each country's own citizens, that is definitely a …

Good questions, for another time perhaps.

The specific people referenced in the post I was responding to were not US citizens and should not be expected to be granted legal rights equal to US citizens. > Hicks was captured…

I think people find it insincere because pointing out that both parties in question have a problem doesn't change anything about the situation or the problems. It is most often use…

They may indeed like to disagree, as I'm sure anyone who has broken the law would and is entitled to. Hence the existence of a fair trial and the possibility of a "not guilty" plea…

Note that this does not apply to US citizens. US citizens, even those accused of terrorism, still retain their legal rights under US law. That is what citizenship in any country, i…

You are completely dodging the other poster's central point. The US locks up more people, but not for wrong-think. Instead our country does it for consuming the wrong plants at the…

That makes your email box effectively a password vault. Might as well use a service designed for that such as LastPass, or 1Password. Or better still, use a password calculator app…

> a secret word for phrase that both you and the service you want to sign into know That would not be a password, that would be something you share. An actual password must be poss…

You never get "realtime" in data processing. Actual realtime systems are a totally different animal. Mostly done in the embedded space, the design of a realtime processing system i…

In the case of networked hardware, the stealing the device part is a relatively minor concern. For the case of passkeys, expect the bad actors currently playing the phishing game t…

The phone unlocks with the bio-metrics but the passkey has no additional lock. Be careful to take note of what thing you are actually "unlocking". For example, if your 2fa codes fo…

IIRC, the code for at least some of those unlocks is available open source. And usually hacks or jailbreaks have a tendency to trend in that direction even when the hackers are cha…

I've seen and read up on how some of the communes have gone, but I haven't seen any that made a serious attempt to run a company that way. By using the existing structures as a buf…

That sounds about right, I try to engage with people on this topic as much as I can without annoying any of them too much. That basically looks like asking them why they don't grou…

Not totally opt out. That's a stupidly dismissive take on this idea. The point is that you would never get a wholesale light-switch style shift in any civilization anyway. So just …

Some time well before torrents were a thing? Music became essentially free long before it become a thing people rent.

I keep trying to tell the socialists and communists out there that they can totally implement the way they want to live within any democratic capitalist system. Just make a corpora…

Speed? yes. Acceleration? Not so much.

Possibly the stupidest day-one DLC play we've ever seen. >"Customers might see that as “a bit of a cheat,” Because it is a cheat. There is exactly zero chance this doesn't get bypa…