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> Why should an engineer be paid that value they produce when they assume none of the risk? Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down? > If the company goes b…

> the bad to good ratio is pretty high but due to the population size This is not how ratios work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics Politics permeates society, and by design. Also this thread is about employment and moving jobs across countries, which is an extremely polit…

That does very little for security, if it's not a net negative at all. Most attacks aim at executing arbitrary code in the process space of the application being targeted. The lack…

> Courts don't operate on technicalities. The intent is pretty much all that matters, as long as you prove that someone intended to pirate stuff, doesn't matter what rube goldberg …

...which led to a level of inequality comparable to slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th-century_London#Poverty https://spartacus-educational.com/U3Ahistory21.htm

Mould? I've seen mushrooms growing. It baffles me how this stuff can be legal.

What? Ireland has terrible isolation and building quality in general compared most of EU.

Life and the universe don't owe us anything. This concepts of "deserve" comes from some monotheistic religions and it's been called Just World Fallacy. > I seriously doubt that mos…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation The last thing this world needs is more people, by far. If anything, adopt kids. Also, how's the marriage required?

Are you serious? It's the very opposite.

> It's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. We are talking activists facing state-sponsored attackers, where "good" security is not enough.

Spot on. Many companies pushing "secure" applications conveniently forget to warn users about the false sense of security. The cryptography might be flawless, but everything else..…

Stallman keeps being right about everything yet people want to call him an extremist. Stallman is flexible enough to accept using closed hardware, closed firmware shipped with a de…

For the HN definition of hackers, maybe.

No mention of Tor and its Onion Services?

> having the sense of being needed and being useful Often, it can be the opposite. Many people would describe their daily tasks as useless or marginally useful for humanity, while …

No, they are not just.

DNSCrypt still leaks your DNS queries to the legitimate resolvers. DNSCrypt over Tor helps (unless all your traffic is sent only over Tor) but I'm not seeing tools to do this aroun…

Firejail is one of the most underrated: https://firejail.wordpress.com/

There is a third option: that 1B Chinese are given uncensored access to FB. By implementing censorship FB will make such option even less likely to happen in future.

A camera/mic switch should be required by law on every laptop and phone. Please don tell me a 5c switch is too expensive for a $300 phone.

HA!

Intellectual "property" is a form of turf war, and the same pattern applies. First the "pioneering" phase, aka land grabbing, then the walled gardens.