reginaldjcooper

LOL your argument against black people being targeted for arrests is percent of arrests as proof of black people "committing more crimes"? Holy shit it's like an Onion article came to comment.

Yes, what I got from it was that they were irritated by this journalist for wasting their time when they could have been wasting their time targeting other innocent people. At least this way we got some investigative journalism out of it.

One significant reason I don't want the government collecting all of my data is because they seem totally incapable of creating a secure system or even a system that operates properly.

It sure did; http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/fbi-kansas-suic...

You have a fair point, but I claim for a proof-of-work computation it might be good for it to be a bit unpractical. (Depending on the parameters, this paper is on my reading list but I haven't gone through it yet.) I think it's incredibly interesting also, in any case I hope you enjoy the paper :)

If the cost of covering everyone is less than or equal to the current cost, why not?

BI is supposed to cover food and simple housing, people that want to travel, have a large house, or have hobbies will probably need at least part-time jobs to cover that, their incomes will be taxed.

The problem is getting over the idea that some people would be freeloaders, but again, if the total cost is less than the current cost of welfare, it's in our best interests to switch.

I'm not certain that it will work or that it is a good idea, but the counter-arguments seem to be 1. people irritated that they'd be forced to pay for the lazy and would rather lazy people have a shitty life than have less welfare expenses for the state, 2. people who assert without a scientific study that the majority of other people in absence of a job wish to do nothing but watch TV all day every day, and 3. people who just flat-out construct strawman arguments about lazy people having parties all day every day at the expense of the state.

Unless I am mistaken, you can verify arbitrary computations[0].

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2003

Incredible post.

Yes, yes, no because clothing is affordable and not gone after a single use, yes, no but internet should be a utility and libraries should have computers available. Am I too socialist?

I don't think poor people steal from rich people, they seem to steal from other poor people.

Those people are already not working. So, instead of spending more on officials and offices and paperwork determining if they can have welfare or not, let's just give them the money directly.

Oh I like this logical exercise. How about, "there used to be a feudal system, and men and women didn't fall dead in the streets of hunger in droves." Did I do that right?

If you specifically choose definitions of words that don't agree with the typical usage and act like those were the definitions that were used when you were asked a question, you are, in fact, a big fat liar.

If you need to compare Android devices to the previous market in order to make it look consistent, it is in fact fragmented.

It's not like you need a new binary for each platform, but the screen sizes, device capabilities, and whether or not the drivers work properly differs across devices. Enough so that an app which works fine on some devices might not operate properly on a specific device or a certain manufacturer's device line.

That is one of the more shortsighted laws I have ever read. Or farsighted, depending on your cynicism about surveillance.

I wonder if I generate a UUID on your phone in my app, if you delete the app data does that run afoul of this law?

Android's permissions are not granular enough and forcing the user to accept them all or not use the app is a security/privacy fail. I love that Android apps can access the telephony API but the permissions for that need to be more fine grained and the toggles to enable them need to be discreet over individual permissions.

Discreet toggles and the request dialogs are roughly the only thing I prefer iOS to Android on. Too bad the rest of iOS is a prison.

I beg to differ, Bricklayer B would reject the job on account of being too busy doing work that paid a sum reflecting the value provided rather than reflecting the sociopathy of the employer.

In cities, companies are not allowed to freely lay cable wherever and so they must regulate some way to share in order to make it a free market.

I haven't done one because a. what are they going to give me that I don't already suspect b. it's another data point for them to use in modeling.

I don't turn on DNT in browsers either but I still run AdBlock and restrict third-party requests by a lot.

That's a big let down. I had the impression Germany basically as a whole was against the NSA stuff all along. Thanks for informing me, I'd rather be disappointed than wrong.

Right on. I literally believe the United States government is doing more harm to the United States than the terrorists are, but they are not themselves terrorists by any stretch of the imagination.

I wonder if you can predict HN comments about Bitcoin depending on time of day. Sometimes it seems like they're entirely "can't you see it's all tulips", other times, "all fiat is obsolete."

Just FYI, If it was a free-market enterprise, you would have reasonable prices and services. As proof I submit certain areas of Europe where companies are required by law to lease the last mile of wires to competitors at reasonable rates.

As it stands, if, say a city tries to band together and make low-cost high-performance municipal internet, the existing companies will sue to maintain their monopoly.

What is this hygiene add-on?

This is a polished and wonderful add-on.

> Still, I'd like everyone else to join me so that I can get lost in the crowd. The untracked, encrypted, well-rested crowd.

There's this add-on called Blender that is supposed to make your browser send headers like the average browser, you might be interested in that.

I use a RefControl and just don't send the header, although I feel that's close to being the least of my worries.

I just thought I'm already using NoScript, AdBlock, RequestPolicy, BetterPrivacy, Cookie Monster, Blender, and HTTPS-Everywhere; might as well go all-in.

The argument is not that surveillance is evil or causes totalitarianism, the argument is that given a legal system wherein anything one does can be interpreted as a crime and a panopticon, the laws will be selectively applied to individuals who have personal conflicts with government agents or ideological conflicts with the government itself; the extreme version of this being some future totalitarian government that has ideological conflicts with nearly all citizens.

It's a matter of the additional power granted to the government... in exchange for what? An insignificant decrease in the likelihood that I am killed by terrorists?

When your company's devices are catching fire, you'd better send out replacements for free and without terms, because if you don't someone else will.

I would abandon the US market until I had the funding to fight trolls or they get responsible legislation going. Once foreign corp. X have got the funding I don't know what would stop a mysterious new US corp. Z from buying access to the X userbase and APIs with the express purpose of doing the exact same thing as X but domestically. And then, once the patent business has been cleared up, merge them. It might have to be as convoluted as X -> unsullied foreign corp. Y -> Z to launder the relationship but I bet it's possible.