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okwhatthe2on Linus on btime: “Let’s wait five years” (2010)

Idiots fighting to the bitter end is a large part of what molds society today, unless I have severely missed something. Please educate me if I have.

I'm not sure "it's" really about taking responsibility for all the consequences of your decisions seriously, as much as it is creating the space and mechanisms for your ideas to come to fruition. We cannot "see" the consequences of our actions, but we can create systems that stabilize the world. Perhaps this is what you're talking about?

okwhatthe2on A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid

I actually did not miss this, I simply did not have the space to say it, nor was it relevant to the point I was making.

It is strange to tell someone you have likely never met that they have missed something, based on very little information provided to you. This might be a sign of a cognitive impairment on your part, or perhaps a broken worldview. I don't have time to discuss either of these points, but it may be helpful for you to consider why you believe you can "read the minds" of people over the Internet.

okwhatthe2on Police Use of Social Media Surveillance Software is Escalating

You're forgetting that in many cases these protests turn violent as a direct result of police confrontation. In that regard these surveillance operations only increase the likelihood of escalating tensions between citizens and police.

okwhatthe2on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

Why would it be interesting?

okwhatthe2on A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid

A spoiler is contained in the following reference.

This reminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex: 2nd Gig, wherein a single actor causes an AI to rotate military forces within a refugee area, with the explicit intention of increasing anti-police sentiment among refugees.

The world is a stage and, without proper leadership, crowds will behave in ways they believe are allowed within the hard constraints of the social order. This is at the core of the BLM movement, and a pillar of the Occupy movement: police must not view themselves as separate from the policed. For cybernetic reasons as well as pathos ones. Otherwise, from the perspective of the social order, the distinction between the two is error.

okwhatthe2on Linus on btime: “Let’s wait five years” (2010)

No you don't, you just have to fight for it.

okwhatthe2on The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)

> only even more sadistic

Remember Florence ADX.

okwhatthe2on 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

> ... the world of The Wire ...

I'm not so sure. From my perspective The Wire had a lot of Freshman psychology, philosophy, and civics mixed in with pauses where characters would stare at one another and let silence pass between them.

Mr. Robot is clearly a mature show to a subset of an audience; Rami Malek even won an Emmy, this year. Perhaps you are not hearing the music. In that case, I hope you do. : )

okwhatthe2on 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

It seems OP was referencing a cliché trope as opposed to cliché character.

okwhatthe2on 'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

My sexagenarian, extremely-religious parents watch POI, as do their friends.

okwhatthe2on 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts

Only 6.7% of the global population have a college degree.

okwhatthe2on Judge: child porn evidence obtained via FBI’s Tor hack must be suppressed

> you know

Ignorance like this is a large part of the problem with the world.

okwhatthe2on Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Charges

Groups of people unified together are rarely intelligent things.

okwhatthe2on Ask HN: My work permit was just denied because I don't have a degree. Can I

Oh, stop trying to stifle the confidence of others.

okwhatthe2on Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at risk

If they want to listen to you they will listen to you, although you may make it more expensive for them to do so.

Unless you're using physical couriers and airgapped networks with TEMPEST protection. I say this unironically; these are facts people tend to brush away.

okwhatthe2on Microsoft to shut London Skype office putting 220 jobs at risk

Do you actually know the peers doing the review, or are you conducting the review yourself?

okwhatthe2on U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars

Agreed. Security technologies are about to become front-and-center the way quality control of food and engineering are. Transparency is key

okwhatthe2on Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

Indeed. This is bureaucratic warfare. We should keep that in mind when they say "Us Vs. Them".

okwhatthe2on Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

> nothing has changed.

A key part of any propaganda war is convincing people to abandon the cause. Now that Snowden has stood up, we have no option, as citizens who care about reformation, but to ultimately support him.

okwhatthe2on Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

Don't forget execution.

okwhatthe2on What I Learned from Executing Two Men

It is the erroneous belief that every topic, including those concerning human life, can be a relativism.

okwhatthe2on What I Learned from Executing Two Men

I believe that killing is always wrong, education is always possible, and redemption is always possible.

I place human life above logical consistency in my arguments.

okwhatthe2on [dead]

Hard to believe that the weakest link* in a presidential campaign may understand my Goldeneye and Banjo-Kazooie references.

*weakest link not guaranteed

okwhatthe2on How to Overthrow a Government [video]