Realize the administration is not competent or ethical. It fits their behavior and has predictive value.
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Sending them to foreign prison camps instead is in fact a crime against humanity.
Realistically, it is for the best if countries are resilient to US failure. It will make Americans generationally poorer, but the world will be better off for it.
Trump will try to replace Powell extra-constitutionally and at this point, I suspect he may succeed. It will be close to the lights going out at that point.
They have an agenda that is based on errors, ignorance, and being manipulated by parties that are adversaries to America and democracy. Soon this will be irrecoverable within this generation, at least.
People have the mistaken belief that things are bad right now. They can get drastically worse.
And Hacker News gestalt generally thinks politics is off topic - guess what happens to "disruptors" in a crony capitalistic system?
Hacker News and YCombinator, more than anyone, should be at the vanguard of stopping this. It will set innovation back by a decade by the end of the current administration's term.
If the word of America is not honored that is exactly the disgrace I'm talking about. A nation's word - the treaties they sign, the contracts or agreements they make with people of other countries - has to be honored. Like the conditions of visas.
An administration can change future agreements or renegotiate within the frameworks it agreed to, but it should honor existing agreements. That is one of the many ways a government is not like a corporation.
It is a disgrace to the honor of America.
This is not clickbait and can't be overstated, there is no precedent for this sort of action in recent history in the US. Your normalcy bias is the problem.
He'll keep his ball of twine rolling past TSLA's next earnings date on April 22nd.
- OpSec failure to use an insecure non-DoD channel to communicate military operational status. Doesn't matter if it's signal, SMS, Slack or anything.
- Signal specifically is e2e encrypted without retention, in fact a first class feature to delete messages after some time. This bypasses legal requirements for record retention. Even if an "approved" DoD channel was used, the deletion of communications is a massive, massive scandal.
As others have noted, specifically Signal has a special bulletin due to exploits by Russian actors. This is a big infosec story proceeding in real time. The Hegseth / Yemeni / Goldberg angle is a small facet of it, and possibly least important.
I can't imagine the confusion of the mind that thinks it is conservative to behave in this way, or to think this is political and not related to technology.
A good writer, an interesting person, but very overrated economist. And much more insufferable as he begun this self=laudatory fart-sniffing phase.
But you have your own eyes and brain and you know it is illegal. It is plainly illegal, which is why nobody had done it before this. They are doing illegal things because they are crooks.
They are trying to get you to give up and lose hope. Hacker News is far more of an echo chamber in that regards than other environments.
Like others note, leaving that aside it seems like a kangaroo court outcome in terms of the facts of the case and amount of damages.
But back to the point, why are they sending packets outside government networks? What are they sending? Who else may have access to that data?
It is throwing absurd tariffs at anyone with a pulse except for Russia.
It stabbed an ally, Ukraine, in the back. For a treaty with their invaders. Dividing Ukraine's national resources between the US and Russia, negotiated without Ukrainian representation, in Saudi Arabia.
The space between the perception of America and China internationally has much less space between them a lot of Americans would prefer to acknowledge. I don't have much recent data, but I would suspect international sentiment on the whole right now is more favorable of China than the US in absolute terms.
It only works until it does not, and it works less well if one does not abuse it. Maybe this administration will just make it more profitable and safer to ally with China at this rate. A number of countries will be making this decision in the next four years, and Americans very well may be disappointed.
You can simply imagine what Rand Paul would say about it if the Biden administration did it if you think otherwise.
Who is harmed by blacklisting a company? The company will just hire someone else, and you potentially won't have a salary.