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It seems to start with the fact that the founder doesn’t understand the business domain at all: How do people actually buy ovens? What actually matters for customers, not what do t…

Democracy is a tricky thing. It’s not as simple as “whatever the majority of people wants, goes”, and has always been recognized as such. Classical liberalism requires certain righ…

I think the implication is that the architecture of the internet inevitably leads to social media companies driving for maximum engagement. It’s definitely not explicitly stated th…

The thing about mass media is that there were gatekeepers due to constraints on the amount of content. This didn’t necessarily mean the content was good or neutral, but it generall…

Then spear Phishing is almost certainly more economical. Or just plugging a device into your laptop while you’re not looking and stealing all your session state for browsers.

I think it is both a partial contributor but also overstated for the reason you mentioned. The main culprits IMO are over hiring during the zero interest rate period as well as the…

It really isn’t. The threat model is someone who can watch you type a sudo command, and has physical access to your computer to try to brute force combinations, or a way to access …

Even weak passwords is almost a nonissue. No one gets even millions of tries against most passwords due to lockouts, whereas credential stuffing is a perpetual security nightmare. …

As a general rule, if you have an adversary that cares that much you’re probably doomed. Presumably they’re capable of buying a $5 wrench to physically use against you.

They’d still need to have access to the device, so it shouldn’t be a problem unless other passwords are the same as your device password. Also what demos are you doing that require…

One thing to note is that pretty much every other password field shows length, and the fact that sudo is so much more paranoid reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1200/ Serio…

The funny thing about this is that pre modern cities featured in modern media are always surrounded by unformed grassland because it makes the shot more dramatic and it’s easier to…

Bret Deveraux linked to estimates that 70% of producing clothes is spinning, 20% is weaving, and 10% is sewing. We tend to think of weaving as the time consuming thing but that’s b…

Unfortunately, it’s not as strong a case as you’d think. One of three cases has to be true: either she was disabled and unable to work, disabled but able to fulfill job duties, or …

I don’t think Israel believes that there is anyone that could “surrender” on behalf of the Palestinians. Also, given the nature of the conflict, surrender would inevitably lead bac…

I fully agree that America was very willing to commit atrocities, especially using atomic bombs (obviously) and firebombing civilian centers. The key difference is that the US reco…

Israel doesn’t have a plan to clean up the mess. What is the end goal here? Seriously. They’ve invaded and now what? Options are: 1. Regime change, which I have seen no effort to a…

I’m not sure there is a government that can surrender at this point. Israel may very well have taken out any “leadership” that they view as being able to legitimately speak for a P…

I think it’s reasonable to conclude that Israel is more willing to continue to commit atrocities against the Palestinians than the US was against the Japanese. Like, I genuinely th…

This was less true before Trump’s return. It’s frustrating that people said they wouldn’t support Biden/Harris over this and now instead we get essentially full-throated endorsemen…

What they are actually doing is deliberately entrenching an authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime. I don’t think one can say that any of their decisions are rationally made for th…

We don’t know if their detention is lawful. Whether their detention is lawful hasn’t been litigated yet, but the fact they there’s a preliminary injunction against them doing it mo…

Except they literally just sent Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison without a judge being involved. The reason people are freaking out about this is because it actually happened a…

For the most part none of the people deported or held have even been accused of one of those crimes. Most of the Venezuelans have been deported under the Alien Enemies Act, under a…