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CISA recommended Signal for encrypted end-to-end communications for "highly targeted individuals." https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...

That's not even the point, though. Those smart-but-not-techy people are not going to grow GDP at the pace that Satya Nadella needs them to in order to keep his KPIs going up and to…

"Quick, guys, find something useful" coming from a CEO who's bet his company on an idea should be a market top signal, right? And no, I'm not saying the technology is bad. The busi…

That would be harmful to their self esteem.

The empire has vassals, not allies.

The honor system is a remnant of a high-trust society. Living in a place where you can generally trust your neighbors is neat.

OpenAI is in no way "commercially successful."

It's impossible for a layman to know because most people in accredited positions of authority lie without cessation. Identify people you trust on a subject, filter their claims thr…

I try to discourage people from using the internet. I work in infosec.

OK, fed.

"Debt creation also gives value to the dollar" Only because enough people believe that's true, and then only because there are aircraft carriers that convince people in other count…

Inflation is value confiscation. It's a tax. It reduces the burden of the greatest debtor (government) at the expense of everybody who holds dollars and produces value. What do I g…

The US has been in a risky economic situation since it went off the gold standard. Possibly since it created the Federal Reserve Act. Slow-moving train wrecks are still train wreck…

OK: I believe authoritarians should be laughed at early and often. If anybody happens construe the people I mistakenly described as authoritarians as fucking authoritarian, please …

I agree with you. More power. More houses. More roads. More bridges. More freedom to build it all. But back to the story at hand: a few motivated people can shore up Old Town Road.…

I'm not trying to convince anybody. Humiliation and mockery are how you deal with authoritarians.

Yep. Been reading variations of the same article for decades. Captain Planet up there says building bridges and moving dirt around causes inequity, though, so I guess we have to li…

There's the authoritarian collectivist power differential take! I knew you were coming, you little rascal! Massive amounts of resources are being wasted on bad climate ideas now. P…

People will adapt to change. Calm down.

Hey now. We should probably implement some kind of centralized global authority before we get too hasty with "solving problems."

When you knowingly break the law, you're taking a risk. It may be a stupid law, it may be an unjust law, but it's still a law and people with guns who enforce the stupid laws might…

If they were "errors" the balance of the errors should be evenly distributed between overstating and understating the severity. When more than 80% of the "errors" favor an agenda, …

Commissars gonna commissar. No reason to submit to people like that.

That's a fine justification for ignoring something if you don't want to think about the implications too much.

You're free to be stupid. The probability that there will be less water available than there could be will be higher there than places that are less idiotic.