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I'm done writing stuff online. Good luck to y'all.

Mandatory hardware based backdoors, unlimited funding for CPU power to accelerate decryption of intercepted data, etc.

This seems to eternally remain relevant: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-...

> That is exactly why I don't share it. I think the best way to handle this dilemma is to try to sense which of your friends and family members are most open-minded and to start wi…

I don't practice religion anymore, but understand 100% of your experience and fully agree (before my experience, this would have been some sort of "ridiculous new age blah blah" to…

I fully agree, this is the "other window" I know of (I would say though that it is a different window, it adds something different, neither better nor worse ). And it physiological…

This leads to the question "How can we get rid of social anxiety?": Other human beings are a subset of your environment. So you may ask "How can I improve my perception of my envir…

This is extremely interesting, because the effect which is proven in this study is (only) 1 of the many beneficial aspects from the experience you live through when you ingest the …

> happiness is kinda pointless and ephemeral Ephemeral? Yes. Pointless? No: If you are happier, you'll make people around you happier. If everybody tries to achieve that, we'll hav…

> Neurological changes? Yes, see: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...

> It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else. Yes, and that's because it is a very powerful marketing tool for Paul Graham's huge YC business.

Isn't the first question to ask "Can I trust Windows?" (and the answer "no", for all the obvious reasons)?

Realistically, we have to assume this, given the fact that this is the approach used by the "five eyes".

Don't forget that borders are becoming less important. Corporate interests don't care about borders and national interests.

I'm not downvoting. I'm not pro-cheating either. People should have sexual freedom and be open about it with their partners, if they feel the need for it, to be happy. I see the ne…

Could be that I'm naive as well, but personally, I hope that people will finally get the message Snowden tried to pass and in the process sacrificed his future (and maybe even his …

Snowden has risked his life and will be forced to remain paranoid for the entire rest of his life. His cause is noble and 100% justified. He did it for society, for us . What did w…

Spot on. I don't get it. It's become so obvious and people still seem to categorically refuse to admit the elephant in the room and to act upon it. It's as if everybody was in some…

And quantum physics will stop being weird once we get its rule set (lightning and thunder had God status, once).

> If A harms B, then your argument is that B has no right to retaliate it Yes and no. Yes, because no judgment allowed means no punishment allowed. But: the correct answer to A's a…

> If some choose not to apply guilt or blame to others, well, then that was also in the cards. Correct. Like this discussion and everything logically was also "in the cards". So, y…

All correct, except: > as societies we act pretty illogical It just looks that way on the surface. Below the surface, you can track all decisions back to their causes (down to "the…

> I would think that "free will" is developed If you see life as a 4-dimensional network of variables linked through "cause and effect", then there is no place for a "free" variabl…