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From reading the article it seems like their co-operation has largely been snitching on their friends in the DDOS community and a crypto-currency analysis app.

The tool doesn't matter so much, if something is encrypted with, say, AES and a specific mode of operation with one tool, it can be decrypted with a separate tool given the same ke…

I've had panic attacks my entire life.Fortunately they're few and fair between these days and I can for the most part calm myself down when I feel one oncoming (they're almost alwa…

Yeah autism occurs on a spectrum, from very low-functioning people who can barely verbalise or take care of themselves, to relatively high-functioning individuals who are capable o…

I don't know if I'm on the spectrum or not but I empathize a lot with the experiences of autistic people, most stories I read could almost verbatim be applied to myself. Including …

Check out Boatmurdered for a look at how a dwarven fortress spirals into amazing and beautiful chaos: https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introducti... That version i…

Wow. Is this seriously how far conversation on this site has descended?

... which is exactly the problem. The issue is the tactic, not the company employing it. It’s just this company has a serious habit of employing those tactics, hence the distrust.

The state exists in it's current form because we don't trust private enterprise to perform those functions, otherwise we would. So you're agreeing with me, although I could have ph…

Apart from Marx not one of those individuals has made any positive contribution to anarcho-communism, so I don't see your point. Tell me your thoughts on Revolutionary Catalonia, o…

In your other comment you made this point >What do you need to make a modern enterprise? You need tools and you need labor. Some people provide labor, and others provide the tools.…

>Its strikes me that these people don't know what capitalism is In my experience Anarchists are some of the most well read community of political activists around. May I suggest th…

Another next generation Electron-based editor? What generation are we at now?

I would consider the actions of Xi Jingping to be reviving the communist ideology in China. Certain moreso than under Deng Xiaoping

Capitalist liberal societies will always peg communist countries wrong, because in liberal societies there is a fundamental lack of understanding about Communism. Which is quite ob…

What choice do you have once every single provider is doing this? Seriously are we supposed to build our own car? Businesses only care about profits, so if one manufacturer sees ot…

>The more forcefully and loudly people try to suppress certain ideas, the more they are afraid those ideas might be right. What bollocks, most "ideas" people are trying to surpress…

Agreed. The wide spread of experts who come out and give first hand accounts of the event/product being discussed adds a tremendous amount of value to the discussion on the site. D…

>$10k is too much of a barrier for a hobby? Yes. A few hundred dollars is normally too much of a barrier into a hobby, let alone $10k. Your friends are obscenely wealthy

> But if America’s access were further restricted, it would be a blow to the site, and to many of the “capitalists” that use it. The Verge are definitely misunderstanding Elbakyan …

> I suspect we all had the feeling that we'd shaken a velvet-gloved hand on friendly terms and sensed that there was steel underneath. Could someone explain what Dennis means when …

Why's that?

You're kidding yourself if you think at will employment is used to just "fire slouches no questions asked". It's a gun to your head held by your boss. One wrong step and you're on …

Well they haven't actually used their past actions, they've just said that they've been "failed". Seems like if you're on an anti-union bend you could give specifics rather than va…

I'm an office worker and I am in a union. > today we have many government controls in place that protect workers You're joking right? You brought up America so I assume you're disc…