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I think https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-bes... has much of the same content, and might be easier to read.

> witness statements submitted to the court by US prosecutors on Saturday argue that Assange does not enjoy First Amendment protections because he is not a US citizen and because the amendment allegedly does not protect speech made outside the United States.

Wouldn't this logic extend to all the other amendments as well? Meaning Assange has no rights, at which points, why even bother with a trial? Just execute him as soon as he touches US soil.

Of course, this logic could be applied to all foreign nationals then.

My only question is, if US rights don't apply to foreign nationals, how come legal restrictions do apply? Can the executive branch just arbitrarily decide which laws apply to a foreign national?

I'd be interested in learning more.

I thought we were talking about non-mail-in ballots, that you print at home, but submit personally.

Birth-control is libido-suppressing?

> According to a copy of Williams’ agreement that Apple attached to its complaint, the contract required that Williams “will not plan or engage in any other employment” that competes with Apple or is directly related to the company.

"You may not engage in work, necessary for your survival, with anyone but us." - how is this not one step removed from slavery? Unless he works for Apple, all he's allowed to do is untrained labor!

And just like forced arbitration, this will become a standard element of contracts if we allow it.

As long as you're not in 1950s US and vote for a socialist, or vote against the communist party in any eastern European country for much of the 20th century, or against Putin or the CCP, or vote conservative and have aspirations in academia [1], then yes, there is an extremely limited range of times, countries, and opinions, for which non-secret voting wouldn't be absolutely catastrophic.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majo... -- "One respondent wrote in that if department members “could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them.”"

I'm confused - wouldn't that mean the vote isn't secret?

Why is Tesla (or any car manufacturer) allowed to keep the code secret?

Not just TLS connection, but the whole stack of voting software vendor, OS vendor, and phone hardware.

Edit ("posting too fast"): For paper votes, no computers need be involved at all - they can be counted and summed by hand.

Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn't exist -- https://www.salon.com/2016/10/03/stuff-white-people-like-yog...

Cultural appropriation of Māori traditions is an exercise in entitlement and privilege -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/04/cultur...

What makes cultural appropriation different from cultural exchange. Why white models sporting dreadlocks at Marc Jacobs fashion show just isn't OK -- https://www.salon.com/2016/10/01/how-to-explain-cultural-app...

5 things white people need to learn about cultural appropriation -- https://www.dailydot.com/via/5-things-white-people-cultural-...

As a white female rapper mistakes appropriation for artistry, black women remain pushed to the sidelines -- https://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/iggy_azaleas_post_racial_me...

Tamara Eagle Bull: Stop Appropriating My Culture. Use of Native American symbols, knowledge, and practices pervades the building, entertainment, and media industries. Here's why it needs to stop. -- https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/tamara-eagle-bull...

Stop appropriating Native American culture -- https://sundial.csun.edu/60632/opinions/annihilation-of-nati...

Justin Timberlake Dragged Over BET Awards Tweet: ‘Stop Appropriating Our Music and Culture’ -- https://www.thedailybeast.com/justin-timberlake-dragged-over...

6 Ways You Harm Me When You Appropriate Black Culture – And How to Appreciate It Instead -- https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/appropriating-black-cul...

The damage of white culture “borrowing” from black culture for fashion trends is unmistakable. -- https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2017/02/how-black-culture-...

5 Ways To Prevent Cultural Appropriation In Fashion Because You Can Appreciate Without Appropriating -- https://www.bustle.com/articles/86089-5-ways-to-prevent-cult...

How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation & Promote Cultural Awareness Instead -- https://www.commisceo-global.com/blog/how-to-avoid-cultural-...

5 Simple Questions That’ll Help You Avoid Unintentional Cultural Appropriation -- https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/05/avoid-cultural-appropri...

When will the Kardashian-Jenner family stop appropriating black hairstyles? -- https://www.mic.com/articles/151142/when-will-the-kardashian...

Stop Appropriating, And Start Appreciating Culture! -- https://youth-time.eu/stop-appropriating-and-start-appreciat...

In March 2016, an African-American woman at San Francisco State University confronted a white student. She said he should cut his hair because dreadlocks belong to black culture. The incident went viral. -- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cultural-appropriation-wh_b_1...

Dear America, Stop Appropriating Caribbean Culture -- https://www.theodysseyonline.com/perception-caribbean-music-...

Marvel’s Iron Fist: cultural appropriation that belongs in the past -- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/18/marvel-...

Chola style – the latest cultural appropriation fashion crime? -- https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/aug/15/-sp-chola-st...

As they plunder minority cultures in their desperation to appear edgy, the only thing artists such as Iggy Azalea and Madonna succeed in doing is flaunting their unoriginality -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/madonn...

> And if you could pre-print your completed ballot

Your printer will betray you by printing invisible identifying dots on your ballot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

Turnout can also be improved by voting on Sundays instead of work days. Yet they skipped that step and went right for electronic voting, that's nearly unanimously opposed by experts.

In related news, Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos' phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122779

Could a similar hack be done on a larger scale, and used to alter votes before they are sent, without changing the electronic signature?

Lets assume no until proven otherwise. And if proven otherwise, lets assume it was an isolated incident, and it won't happen again after a "commitment to do better".

Lets also assume Mr. Tusk's firm can be trusted - after all, why not put a private middle-man between voters and elections? As Mr. Tusk correctly points out, the only plausible explanation to resistance is wanting to suppress voters.

> Privacy isn’t important until, suddenly, it is.

That suddenly might come sooner rather than later, as the Chinese Tencent has invested an undisclosed amount into Discord: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

The same Tencent that owns WeChat, used as a surveillance tool for results such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vspukvqxTSg

And user agent string based protections are even more easily foiled, that's why I don't believe this can be plausibly counted under DDoS protection.

This would be much better solved with IP-based rate limits. And if IP-based doesn't work, then you're dealing with a DDOS, and it doesn't sound like this case was DDOS protection.

> malicious actors and abuse

It's hard to consider simply viewing content to be malicious or abusive, no matter how automated.

> any user with a karma > 1000 is trivial to dox

How so?

> but if everything goes without "surprises" in real life, I would be surprised.

Do you also shave all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves?

> but as soon as the rest of the society realizes what is going on, I fear that there will a massive backlash.

This backlash cannot come soon enough.

> Why do protesters have an expectation of privacy?

You asked about harm. Expectation of privacy is a different matter. And they might expect privacy due to wearing masks - why is it okay to regulate those, but not facial recognition? While I'm against regulating facial recognition, I'm at least aware of the harm it causes.

> If you're a peaceful protester, it shouldn't matter.

It shouldn't, but it does. If the government and corporations were so perfect that it wouldn't matter, you wouldn't be protesting in the first place.

> I think at least some of these people are secretly upset that people can't break windows and burn cars with impunity.

This is a pure ad hominem, and not a very good one either. The motivations of an imagined 'some' people are irrelevant to the harms of surveillance and facial recognition.

> The result is that the burden of debt and property taxes motivates young adults to work hard and progress economically.

Then we should double the interest rates on that debt and raise taxes on the poor, to motivate them even more, and get even more economic progress! But leave the taxes on the rich low, since they've already economically progressed enough, and have done their part for the American economy.

And whistleblowing anonymously is getting more difficult, due to all the surveillance whose downsides are purely theoretical...

Though trade with China flows both ways, if you look at know-how and production capacity, it only goes one way - towards China.

> I've yet to see privacy advocates identify actual undeserved harms that have come to people as a result of the technology that they want to regulate.

Harms like protesters getting identified, in Hong Kong and elsewhere?

> I think it's insane a private company is even allowed to do this stuff

I wonder if this private enforcement of law goes both ways - can a car owner barricade Walmart's entrance to force Walmart to pay them what they've unilaterally decided they're owed?

> not just computer experts.

Which is itself misleading - no living expert understands a computer system end to end, from silicon to microcode to code and compiler, not to mention the massive chain that went into making the code running on the machines.

That's all assuming the black box the expert is looking at is the same one he thinks he understands, and no chip- [1] or compiler-level [2] vulnerabilities were inserted, or the whole thing wasn't simply replaced with an identical-looking device.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/adding_backdo...

[2] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

2 year lifespan, seriously? My phone's standard mini-USB cable is at least 5 years old by now, and shows zero signs of wear. What the hell is Apple doing to make such awful cables?

Edit: Correction - it's a micro-USB cable.

> General Eisenhower witnessed this happening.

I know he warned about it in his last speech, but do you have a source or more specifics on how he witnessed it?