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I am enjoying reading through the scattered comments, but there are now at least four posts. This post exceeds others in points, oddly.

Attribution? On some podcast (Malicious Life?) I heard an interesting take on this. Short version: cyber war is not yet real war because attribution is too difficult to justify irl…

Agreed, of course. And, thanks for bringing my sidenote back onto topic (: The subject of the article is not too well-defined, which reflects our inability to come to terms with th…

The article itself barely touches upon the titular "stake." NPR inserts "election interference" and Smith is quoted in reference to personal data acquisition as a potentially dange…

Having worked in a few fields (never in development), my experience is that while it varies in quality, it is almost omnipresent. In my 40s, now, and for a few reasons, looking at …

This is close to what I was looking for in this thread. Don't want to clutter with anecdotal chat, but: I worked in Australia some years ago (2015) and I was amazed by the taste of…

Agreed on all points. I've lurked HN forever and consider it one of my very few feel-good places online. This post, and (already) some of the comments are not appropriate to my und…

Agreed, of course. Bringing up agency is on point, as well. I should have included that in my own comment, in short: the US has trouble being socially effective due to wonky "will …

Interesting to bump into this article as a young friend recently quit his just-obtained ambulance EMT job for, in essence, the exact issues described. His take was less sympathetic…