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Post by Qualman »

jondubois wrote: post #311

I don't see the Great Wall of China as inherently evil. I don't think Chinese people would benefit if we (the west) had free reign to impose all our extreme capitalist beliefs on them. Maybe they are not ready for it. It's arrogant for us to believe that we are on the 'free' side of the firewall. I don't see how one side is more free than the other - Both sides are subjected to constant brainwashing by various media…

The difference is, we in The West have the right to choose what to consume, or be "brainwashed" by, and China's government chooses for them. Which would you prefer?

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by mnem »

kjs3 wrote: post #351
maxerickson wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Operation Plowshare didn't have much practical application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

Actually, Plowshare succeeded in it's practical applications. They wanted to dig big holes fast, and by god they did. That was when the indirect costs of applying the technology (namely, poisoning the world) became apparent and it was prudently abandoned.

Isn't radioactive fallout a direct cost of the technology?

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Post by puredemo »

raverbashing wrote: post #292
adventured wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth noting that Canada is one of the highest gun ownership societies on earth. They're 11th in the world in number of guns per capita. They have nearly as high of a gun ownership rate, in terms of the percentage of the population that owns at least a single gun, as the US.

And their rate of actual shootings and deaths by firearm is much smaller, which is the actual relevant number

Only because they don't have huge ghettos with gang problems. It's basically a demographics issue.

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Post by fluidcruft »

woodchuck64 wrote: post #371
blackgear wrote: post #144

This is the end of a century. People in China had used 4 kinds of tools to skip the GFW: freegate, openvpn, goagnet, shadowsocks. freegate is a traditional http proxy or socks proxy built by Falun Gong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong ). They built lots of software with the same technology: freegate gpass freeu dynapass... People share this kind of banned software sending to each others just like teenagers…

> I means recently more and more evidence shows that GFW has finally find a way to recognize shadowsocks's packets. Hmm... okay, so they defeat shadowsocks by recognizing the packets. > Then they stopped the development of shadowsocks. But if they already had shadowsocks beat, why do they make a public show of shutting it down? Sounds more like they recognize that they don't have the GFW technology to defeat shadowso…

I don't know if this is the case, but I think it's entirely possible to know that shadowsocks is being used widely without being able to do anything about it at the network level. I think that's plausibly how shadowsocks is designed to avoid the GFW in the first place.

For example, if their capabilities to identify shadowsocks traffic is not particularly specific, filtering would result in undesirable impact on other traffic. They can also have other out-of-band estimates for the extent of shadowsocks use (presence of the software on seized or searched equiment, observed chatter, informants, etc).

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Post by strathmeyer »

ColinWright wrote: post #230
sbarre wrote: post #225

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24/7/365 7 *days* per *week* 24 *hours* per *day* 365 *days* per... *year* Why you'd read that as 365 weeks per year I'm not sure, because there's no pre-established convention that would lead you to interpret it that way (both 24 and 7 would have to be "per week"), and most people know there are 365 days in a year. Just trying to help. ;-)

But it doesn't make sense to say: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That just really doesn't make sense at all. I know that the numbers means, and are for, but if someone is saying every hour in the year, to say 24/7/365 is just nonsense. Of course, this is a losing battle. People just don't care if what they say makes sense, they just say stuff and assume that people will understand. This is one of the…

They are all relative timeframes by which a store my be closed; certain hours during the day, certain days during the week, and certain days during the year. Your inability to make sense of it doesn't affect the rest of us. It's like a creationist saying evolution doesn't make sense to them: at some point it is the result of a willful ignorance that you are bragging about. It doesn't make for very interesting trolling.

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Post by chimmy88 »

gnu8 wrote: post #224
radmuzom wrote: post #189

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Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the second amendment and of cause and effect.

oh god, another "Guns don't kill people" nut. not sure why you're defending an antiquated amendment that helps the NRA sell more guns.

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Post by wfo »

mseebach wrote: post #364
chronial wrote: post #331

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That is way to utilitarian for my liking. I am also personally convinced that Hitler (sorry ) was good for the western world in the long run (I think the lesson learnt will have more impact in the long run than the damage done), but you won't ever see me defending anything like the third reich.

I like how the guy who thinks Hitler was a good thing because the war he caused spurred a great number of technological (including, incidentally, the nuclear bomb) and societal advances found something that was too utilitarian for his taste after all.

I think his claim was that the utilitarian analysis is flawed because if you accept it, it may force you to justify Hitler, which is morally unacceptable, so the utilitarian premise that forces you in that direction can't be accepted, and therefore can't be used to justify nuclear weapons either.

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Post by dang »

briandear wrote: post #375
chronial wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is way to utilitarian for my liking. I am also personally convinced that Hitler (sorry ) was good for the western world in the long run (I think the lesson learnt will have more impact in the long run than the damage done), but you won't ever see me defending anything like the third reich.

So the murder of 8 million innocent people in gas chambers justified the means of teaching us a "lesson?" That is the sickest thing I've ever heard on here. That attitude is right up there with Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao. You aren't defending the third reich, you're worse; you're intellectualizing the "value" of Hitler. Millions of people killed. Babies grabbed from their mothers and stomped under bootheels. People diss…

> gas chambers ... sickest thing I've ever heard ... dissected ... raped ... You should be ashamed of yourself

I've asked you before not to bombard HN with political rhetoric. From an HN point of view, it's tedious, off-topic, and leads straight to incivility, which as you know is the thing that's most against the rules here.

Please really stop.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by ColinWright »

strathmeyer wrote: post #406
ColinWright wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it doesn't make sense to say: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That just really doesn't make sense at all. I know that the numbers means, and are for, but if someone is saying every hour in the year, to say 24/7/365 is just nonsense. Of course, this is a losing battle. People just don't care if what they say makes sense, they just say stuff and assume that people will understand. This is one of the…

They are all relative timeframes by which a store my be closed; certain hours during the day, certain days during the week, and certain days during the year. Your inability to make sense of it doesn't affect the rest of us. It's like a creationist saying evolution doesn't make sense to them: at some point it is the result of a willful ignorance that you are bragging about. It doesn't make for very interesting trollin…

  > They are all relative timeframes by which
  > a store my be closed; certain hours during
  > the day, certain days during the week, and
  > certain days during the year.
Huh. That's a way of interpreting it I'd never seen. Thank you.

  > Your inability to make sense of it doesn't
  > affect the rest of us.
No, except that it may help people see that what they think is obvious isn't always obvious to others.

  > ... it is the result of a willful ignorance
  > that you are bragging about.
Well, that's obviously your interpretation, but if others see it that way then it explains the hitherto mysterious yoyoing of points on my comments.

  > It doesn't make for very interesting trolling.
I find it disappointing that you think I'd troll.
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