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Fascinating data. There's a breakdown per-state showing that only eleven states have a lower homicide rate than Egypt. Looks like Puerto Rico, District of Columbia and Louisiana ar…

In a word, context. Human brains are just context gathering pattern matching machines. We can't even count without all kinds of context being automatically bubbled up into our cons…

There's nothing wrong with this. Public/Private keys are for sharing secrets and proving identity. Assuming you are using a sane cipher and mode, your risks boil down to any of a m…

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You've narrowed down the scope of logic to apply to everything !good, which is some emotional value that exists outside of logic. In reality…

I think we are both arguing that some people narrow the scope of arguments to the point that they aren't useful to the original problem, merely more amenable to logic. Let's call t…

I think we agree, but I appreciate that my wording wasn't perfectly clear. "pare down to its essence" was a bad way of saying "disregard intersecting issues and focus on one logica…

That's true, but it doesn't really have much to do with my points: * Common (current) culture around rationalism fantasizes about the human using it being able to choose the best c…

There's a ton of (especially early) nerd culture idolizing many forms of what most people know as the "Spock" character (somewhat more accurately, Vulcans in general). This is typi…

It's odd that that page refers to the desktop client as "native". The parts of an electron app that are native to the OS (as opposed to the OS-independent HTML/JS) are irrelevant t…

Your citations seem roughly in line with what I said and expected: Americans pay double overall, with a similar dollar amount of public healthcare. Proportionately speaking, that m…

I think I misunderstood your original comment. I heard "paying for one's own expenses plus for those who can't afford it" (which is same in the US and the EU), where it seems you m…

You're putting words in my mouth, complete with quotation marks. I never said anything about what anyone should do. I didn't even say that on the whole people in the USA pay less. …

Possibly, on average. Some pay (vastly) more, some less. I don't see the double-dipping in the math though. EU has populations of people who aren't contributing in taxes much or at…

We already know that prices are changed for different devices and browsers. It's not a stretch to think that choosing the Filthy Rich profile will cost you in online shopping.

Should be "deaths / person-miles" when comparing to driving.

As the sibling says, Signal really isn't that bad for convenience. I didn't have much difficulty switching my family to it. I suspect use of messaging apps other than Signal has li…

It was frequently said that /at the time of release/ ie6 was better and more standards compliant than the other web browsers. Then it was left to rot for years. Perhaps notably, it…

I don't think the prevalence of hate groups is necessarily related to any countries' commitment to freedom and human rights. Virtually everyone outside of the hate groups wishes th…

Try to create a new profile to compare nondestructively: "firefox --ProfileManager" I can confirm both that newer firefox is notably more responsive than old, and that I (or an ext…

Depends on how you define "the problem". Homelessness is a symptom of several other things widely considered to be problems. If you limit the problem to "some people who want a hou…

Setting aside what will surely be a torrent of what-abouts, the parent's point about the US federal (lack-of-)authority seems like an example of a better system. (First what-about:…

I think there's a bit of confusion about what exactly Google is doing. IIUC they use (and develop) gerrit. Effectively this workflow means everyone is working on the same branch an…

It looks like you're moving the verification goalposts away from what is actually running on the hardware and simultaneously walking this back from government to civilian uses. The…

I'd be interested in further details about the testing. If any manufacturer actively wants to backdoor their hardware I'm skeptical that anything but an extremely expensive teardow…

> Huawei has completely opened its source code and hardware to several governments, including UK, Canada and Germany, for security testing. Their findings are much more informative…