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I picked the most sensationalist propaganda on account for rhetorical purposes. I imagine I could find much more modern, subtle and pertinent examples of propaganda from the Vietnam war era if I spent enough time looking.

Are you suggesting that I start blindly taking the mainstream media's reporting about war at good faith? Aren't there enough historic examples of how the American media establishment have been used to further American foreign policy objectives?

I've always thought of myself as left-wing. I came of age in the 'War on Terror', and recall the collective skepticism of the American establishment. I remember the attitude of left-wing intellectuals like Chomsky, and the public reaction to what many other young people like myself thought was a war fought not for justice, but for American foreign policy interests. I don't see this kind of skepticism anymore.

I feel a very satisfactory kind of schadenfreude at the idea of you filing this HIPAA complaint.

I've worked extensively with employees from these Indian labor companies throughout my career as a software-engineer. Many of my positions have implicitly been just to ensure that these developers can't do too much damage. For a long time I despaired about the poor quality of software these contractors would create, and wished there was some kind of justice for the companies that employ these bodyshops. Then I realised, this is how that justice happens. There's been a string of these high profile security incidents over the last few years caused by contractors from these labor companies.

I had always wondered what the avionics in the early F-111 looked like. Thanks for documenting this!

This is hardly news. Without an actual report to refer to, one can't help but wonder if this article is part of some kind of narrative building exercise. A few years ago the TV-watching public was introduced to this concept with all of the concern about so-called Russian hacking. All I could think was if you think what our enemies do is bad, you should see what our allies do.

The United Kingdom is nothing if not a surveillance state, and their crime clearance rates are lower than ever. They seem to have a different set of priorities for their state surveillance apparatus.

When people hear the word 'propaganda' often what springs to mind are relics of the cold war: gritty soviet posters; or GI Joe. This is what the propaganda of the 21st century looks like, however.

What if someone hired even more private security, and just tore the whole thing down? What if they shook everyone down, took everything and bailed? Is this a 'perfectly anarchist response'?

Real-world hunter-gatherer societies hardly match the idyllic anarchistic fantasy projected onto them. They tend to be superstitious, and patriarchal. With explicit, arbitrary hierarchies enforced by physical violence, or deprivation.

When people discuss hypothetical anarchistic tribal societies, the first thing I think of is the parallel societies that sometimes exist in immigrant populations in the first world. They often feature hawala systems, cash-only societies, occasionally even alternate currencies. I have firsthand experience with this from my own family.

I don't think ignore the haters is sage advice in this context. What was directed at this project in the original HN thread was not hate, it was criticism. These are very different things. People were not abusing the author. Some of the original commenters had very salient critiques, and questions.

"Ignore the haters" reads like: "I ignored all criticism of my idea, and some other people like it anyway.".

There's already so many terrible technologies in the web programming domain that have plowed onwards in the face of so much criticism, and now we're stuck with them. Part of being a good programmer is being humble, and accepting that you might not have all the answers, the best ideas, or see the bigger picture.

> ...not worth listening to anyway...

> ...Most of the users of this site...

> ...think they're more brilliant...

I suppose the above critiques are not directed at yourself?

I don't see any reason to believe a word of this post. It's designed to pander to stereotypes, and people's preconceived notions of cybercrime. They say they dropped out of an Ivy league college, however their posts have some very embarrassing spelling, and punctuation errors. Flattering the intellectual vanity of Redditors is truly cringeworthy too. My idea of who the people are behind these enterprises is very different.

I think he's pointing out the relative difficulty of hardware positions compared with being a 'software engineer' in FAANG.

I'll never understand this. It's my opinion that you need to be much smarter to be an electrical engineer than a computer scientist, which again requires much more intellectual rigor than being a 'software engineer'. The kinds of wages companies are paying for just about anyone to write Node.js right now are ridiculous. My view is that this state of affairs can't possibly last forever, given how low the bar is. I imagine that eventually the standards will rise again as more intelligent people are attracted by the absurd pay, and the field becomes more competitive.

In the past I've been tempted to leave reviews for bad employers I've had. I've always come to the conclusion that the risks of doing so totally outweigh the completely minimal rewards. The risk of being deanonymised, and receiving retaliation from the company is too high. My threat model didn't include the possibility of litigation compelling the company to hand over PII. I was more concerned that I'd inadvertently betray my identity in my review. Not to mention the issues related to Glassdoor as a company, and their lack of objectivity. Why do people use their service in the first place?

Asking as a layman to macroeconomics, if you think that the current rash of crypto companies collapsing heralds a greater economic catastrophe, do you have any advice on how to best survive another dot-com style crash?

The nav circles are a bit misleading. I'm clicking on them, and nothing happens. Otherwise, the design is very nice!

Maybe this relates to how the west seems to consider the highest form of self-actualization to be triumph over adversity. It makes up the core narrative structures of western literature. It defines the core story arc show on television. I wasn't at all surprised all those years ago when Lana Del Ray affected this faux veneer of 'prom queen goes melancholy'. It's existed forever, it's just broken mainstream now.

My impression was always that the term connoted one who was wearing an ass as a hat, i.e. has their "head up their/an(?) ass". Which as many would already know is an English idiom connoting someone of poor manners.

I second the recommendation for Synology DSM. The setup process is remarkably painless.

Although this might be a bit too conspiratorial for the tastes of many. I suspect that this is an act in a larger piece of political theatre. Someone showed me this: https://who.is/whois/jewishrallyforabortionjustice.org

It's an incredible coincidence that someone knew to have this website up and running just ahead of the draft leak: https://web.archive.org/web/20220426203219/https://jewishral...

It could be totally unrelated to this abortion controversy, however that would be amazing coincidence.

The site maintained by this group: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-council-o...

I'm aware of the fact that it's run by Jewish organisations will make me the butt of many accusations. All I'm alleging is that rumours have probably been moving around the right circles for a long time.

My sincere, however unlikely hope is that the division regarding Musk's acquisition causes enough users to leave to cripple the platform. I don't think there will be another Twitter if this one fails. I can't foresee any single platform gaining the same network effect now that the idea of this style of site has been replicated. I think that Twitter is already waning in relevance, and too politically fractious as is.

I legitimately think that Twitter has a net negative moral utility, and I hope it dies.

Sesame Street clearly had a big influence on you.

Would you walk on Kensington Ave with your children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1Kf-1qd6Y

No. France did nothing when thousands of people celebrated Notre Dame burning. Throughout the Trump presidency making threats against the president was pretty much the bread and butter of Twitter.

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This is total nonsense. In modern times it's Christian, largely European nations where slavery has not flourished. Check the data for yourself. Slavery is alive and well in many parts of the world. In many cultures it's hardly even controversial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17...

https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/

> "Yes! And it's freaking fast!"

They're surely not talking about compilation times. Admittedly it's been a few years since I tried to build a web stack in Rust, but I felt like I was back in the 1990s dealing with the long compile times on modern hardware. Diesel was such a nightmare to use. It was poorly documented, and took a long time to compile even trivial example projects.

Yes, you're right. My last sentence was incorrect. I mean to say: _"What happens when people use their higher faculties, and end up making a decision that you don't agree with?"_

> "Propaganda is real, it does work, and it is a problem."

Do the supporters of 'Liberal Democracy' never employ propaganda? I use this as an example since when the issue of foreign interference in the American democratic process is brought up it's usually in the context of the 2016 election. Trump of course representing a deviation from decades of America's foreign policy being the export of 'Liberal Democracy or else'.

> "An electorate that is perpetually thinking and voting with activated amygdalas is not a good thing."

What if people use their "activated amygdalas" and come to conclusions that you don't agree with?

Very effective. As long as you only retroactively accuse Russia of responsibility for all of the democratic outcomes that you didn't want.