I don't think it's particularly relevant that the suspect is a software dev. Many people in the US are software devs nowadays. It has become a completely mainstream career option.
According to his LinkedIn he worked on Civilization VI
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#272He gave the Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads, and described Unabomber as a "political revolutionary". Excerpts from his review: "It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out." "He was a v…
What’s your point? I haven’t read the manifesto, but I have read that many consider it uncomfortably correct
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
More or less lays out his motive right there. I disagree with his thoughts on violence. When you try to solve a problem by inviting violence to dinner you'll find you have a guest you are unable to excuse.
Violence is very effective. The authorities use it to subjugate the population and the American military uses the threat of violence and the action of actual violence to keep the United States the way it is. Except when it is used by governments, it is often called defense and when it is used by the police it is often called 'keeping the peace'. Violence as a tool for revolution is quite effective -- only pacifism is…
It’s effective if you’re fine with your own life and other regular peoples lives sucking for 20+ years vs. The status quo
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#274Some perspective: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
BS diatribe trying to tell that since asshole X does not do as much damage as asshole Y is not an asshole.
Well they both are
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#276Some perspective: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
This reminds me of two excellent back-to-back episodes of This American Life in 2009, when the debate leading up to the Affordable Care Act was at its peak: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/391/more-is-less and https://www.thisamericanlife.org/392/someone-elses-money It has been a while since I listened to these episodes, but my main recollection is the argument that insurers are the only entities in the system actua…
I don't think modern health insurers want to lower costs. Middlemen benefit from an increase in costs because they operate by skimming off the cashflows passing through them. This has been codified with the 85-15 rule in the ACA but there were less formal incentives pointing broadly in the same direction even before then. If you take a fixed percentage of every dollar you get, you're going to want to get more dollars.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
More or less lays out his motive right there. I disagree with his thoughts on violence. When you try to solve a problem by inviting violence to dinner you'll find you have a guest you are unable to excuse.
Yet, violence is constantly used by governments and countries. If it is not effective why are the only surviving countries the ones who which have been willing to use violence?
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#278With programmers, hackers, computer scientists, systems designers/engineers carrying some of the most privileged skillsets needed for designing and implementing replacements to systems of oppression (and disruptions to said systems), I've been wondering where the ones working to do this can be found. I learned in Computer Ethics 101 about how the history of the development of radiological machines led to the realizat…
If you want better healthcare you don't need to invent anything new or "disrupt systems of oppression". Just pick another country where it's working and do what they do. Largely, they have a lot more doctors, hospitals and MRI machines per capita than we do, and they pay their doctors less and require less education from them. This is particularly safer in America because the #1 thing voters hate is anyone doing anyt…
The United States is #2 in the OECD for MRI machines per capita [1], with double that of France and nearly four times as many as Canada. Of the 38 nations of the OECD, only Japan has more MRI machines per person.
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnet...
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#279Some perspective: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
Additional perspective: https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...
The health insurance industry is effectively a maximally hostile middleman. It's hostile to service providers, and it's hostile to service users. (The most charitable thing you can say about it is that it creates enormous amounts of paperwork, thereby creating jobs and boosting GDP.) It's not difficult to see how it has become so widely hated.
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#280I just think it’s great that for a short time, we got to live this fantasy that being a rich CEO is no guarantee that someone couldn’t easily just walk up to you one day, kill you off, and then disappear without a trace as a hero to those you did wrong. The fantasy of jury nullification is still alive, but very unlikely to happen. If someone can turn the guy in, then someone could easily find him guilty.
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