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Politicians love to pass off their opinions as "facts" or "settled science". It leaves your ideological opponents with less room to maneuver in.

Because it goes against the narrative of lockdowns being a matter of "settled science".

Did Shakespeare have a four year humanities degree?

>At the level of state schools, it's a zero sum game that people feel forced to enter because their ability to make a living is otherwise severely impaired.

What you're missing here is that colleges... teach stuff. You are more skilled after you get a good STEM degree than you were before you got that degree. Medical schools aren't a "zero sum game" or way to protect the oligarchy, they teach you how to practice medicine. This tangible, practical value of education is missing from the humanities.

Is that better or worse than saying that your own ideology has a monopoly on truth and it is impermissible to let others talk about opposing ideas?

"Right wingers" don't have a monopoly on ignorance. People of every ideology are unwilling to listen to opposing viewpoints, read controversial books, and rate movies based on the social context rather than the artistic content. Pointing at the worse parts of only one ideology is counterproductive.

It was entirely sarcasm.

From John Pescatore: "This is the first time I’ve seen DHS/CISA put out a detailed public report on how an attack against a government agency succeeded."

Can't believe how biased western media is, calling the Vocational Educational Camps "internment camps". They just don't understand the cultural context of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

It is new to run targeted ads at protected classes. And it is new moral territory.

Example: The government of Iran use pizza ads targeted towards gay people to track down their identities. Still the same as other media?

I don't design message apps. I just know that law enforcement did just fine before the internet when most communication (face to face, over the phone) wasn't recorded or verifiable.

A statement from the user who submitted it, including their unverifiable copy of the offensive message. The law is not computer code. They don't need to break ciphertext to get a warrant.

Turn it over to law enforcement. A single chat message is rarely a crime, but can be used to find further evidence of crime.

Only on Hacker News will people argue that using the defaults is taking a moral stance...

By supporting it, do you mean that you donate? Or do you mean that you just talk about it? It takes a lot of money to develop hard features like this.

We can build bridges and build microprocessors. No one has bottled up one "Earth's atmosphere" in a lab and run controlled experiments on it. It's not empirical.

Yes. You can't run controlled experiments to study the complex system of the Earth's atmosphere. It's not empirical.

Dear young people: please vote (for my preferred candidate).

It's only bad if the services running on those ports are not secured.

The US sinks billions into strategic weapons so that it doesn't have to use them.

I like Standard Oil. How about we let people buy from the businesses they want to?

China does what it does because it wants as much control as possible over its populace.

Prove that no teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars.

An alternative explanation: Microsoft execs cannot be convinced that the amount of money it would cost to remediate these security risks would not be recouped in extra sales.

Unfortunately modern activists and politicians want to make it seem like no reasonable person could disagree with them. This makes it impossible to engage in a dialogue and bridge a gap.

I have a different perspective. I think that the scope of the 2nd amendment has narrowed over the years. In 1776, private citizens owned every kind and sort of weapon used by the military. Ordinary people owned cannons, were instructed to put cannons on their private ships to defend against pirates, and owned the same sorts of muskets used by the army. The modern equivalent would be buying tanks at Walmart for cash and not registering the purchase nor requiring a background check.

By the way, the archaic meaning of "regulated" means "properly disciplined and drilled". It did not refer to control or supervision by a state.

Insert the "always has been" meme

Congrats, you don't get encrypted because you're not a member of a tightly regulated militia.

Sarcasm aside, the only way to make sure people get encryption is to make it impossible to restrict the technology. That's how encryption ended up spreading. You don't put disruptive tech on every computer on the planet by waiting for permission.

If the cabin depressurizes, the pilots immediately fly the plane down at a 45 degree angle to quickly move to an altitude with more hospitable air pressure. People who don't put on masks (and most people don't) regain consciousness after a couple minutes.

The real safety hazard is anything that makes it harder to evacuate the plane, such as bulky clothing or eye-wear that make it harder to see in the dark or through smoke.

>Unfortunately, they only get warrants when civilians are looking over their shoulder.

Source on this?

>Those judges, and the members of the senate intelligence committee are most definitely not an independent committee.

What does independent committee mean to you? They are from entirely different branches of government. That's as independent as it gets.

The post you linked is from the Senate Armed Services committee which is not the legislative oversight for the NSA. Different people, different processes. Geriatric senators probably forgot we had troops in Nigeria because America has troops in untold dozens of countries. No one remembers the whole list.

If you think the Taliban is our biggest threat you should leave national security to the people who do it for a living.