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What if there's another backdoor lurking in your VPN software? Why are you more confident in your VPN than SSH? Of those two pieces of software, which do you think has more eyes on…

I would prefer to see these things enforced by culture and norms rather than laws and licenses. I don't want to have to parse legalese as part of my role as an engineer. I don't wa…

He actively discouraged mask use. Fauci and the Surgeon General said wearing a mask was more likely to get you sick because you would touch your face more. "You can increase your r…

OCR is only an issue if it is an image PDF that came from a scanner. I'm in the staffing industry and deal with automatic resume parsing tools. They have no problem with text PDFs …

Just wait until the CIA is considered the foreign affairs authority, and all information that disagrees with them is considered misinformation. The US government will be able to en…

Regardless of what the science says, Fauci believed masks worked, and he engaged in a deliberate misinformation campaign with the goal of preserving PPE for medical staff. People w…

Sure it does. But lying about that as the reasons and saying masks don't work is misinformation. And that is what the government health officials said. They intentionally engaged i…

This is not what happened, not in the US anyway. Fauci, after the recommendations changed, admitted that masks were discouraged to prioritize them for first responders[1]. So we ha…

This may be the only way to scale a service that is free to users. But once you are selling a product to paying customers, those customers need to be at a different tier with real …

Reducing the options to divine or arbitrary is a false dilemma. Math is discovered/invented by humans, but it is far from arbitrary. A slave will appeal to society because society …

> "Rights are a societal construct" doesn't mean that nobody has a right to believe different things from society. Unless society doesn't recognize your right to believe differentl…

Having an opinion doesn't make that opinion fact. But if you say that one opinion is in any way superior to another opinion then you are recognizing that there is something to meas…

What grounds would a slave, living in a time and place where slavery is legal, have to argue in defense of their freedom? If you are willing to recognize that society has had an in…

Everyone who works on Linux must rebase and squash commits so that every commit builds and passes tests, and does a single thing. More about how Linux uses git: https://www.mail-ar…

In a decade there will be threads wondering why only big chain restraints are left. And they'll blame capitalism and cry for more regulation never realizing how their regulations a…

Politics is discussing when it is justified and appropriate to use violence. For enforcing laws, collecting taxes ect... All peaceful human interaction falls outside of that.

I think you're lumping contractual EULAs with technical limitations and they're not the same thing. If I bought a system that I am technically able to install anything I want onto,…

Not all jobs or service contribute to society. But if you invest in a company that provides goods and services that people don't want, that money is lost and you lose your ability …

Do you mean supply of credit? Because additional money wouldn't drive demand for credit, it would drive supply as those with money look for places to lend it. If you are saying an …

Investing in companies is contributing to society. Government is not society. Investing in Walmart so that the rural poor have more access to affordable goods is virtuous. And a wh…

>Drunk people are banned from driving when they're drunk, not when they're sober. But they're not just banning gatherings of sick people when they are sick, they are banning health…

Where they are allowed to compete yes, they will compete on service. But in many places it is illegal for hospitals to compete at all due to Certificate of Need laws. In places wit…

Because very few people pay for their healthcare. Insurance coverage separates the consumer from the cost of the service making little incentives to market on price. Additionally h…

So should we ban all driving? Because that is the analogous reaction to prohibiting any gatherings.