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I gave you examples. :) Europeans who wish to wear a hijab may be abused based on where they are; that simple! It is not illegal to cover your face in public in America, and even if it were, the Hijab covers hair; the burkha might cover a face. This article is not what I would be worried about—rather, the anarchist handbook, for instance, or an explanation of encryption, or how to fool facial recognition in public.

Nonetheless, you are extraordinarily correct about citizens united, though I would more finger the blame there on corporate personhood, not free speech. The protections still make sense for individual; corporations do not make sense of individuals.

Https encrypts the path and headers. How would they know which site you’re on? I doubt they’re going to RadicalBombPlans.com.

First of all, I have literally never heard a critique about the negatives of american free speech. Could you help me understand the negatives?

Second, I do think americans are majorly better off than western europeans for free speech. Consider efforts to ban wearing clothing: that is not how you build a healthy, supportive, productive society, though it is perhaps how you let a culture stagnate. Or, perhaps consider this very article: it is not illegal to read something. (Possesion and distribution are another thing entirely.)

Finally, for better or worse, american free speech has plenty of bounds. Critically, those bounds are typically nowhere near politics or morals, except perhaps reflected in hate speech.

Except if they invest a whole $0 in a letsencrypt cert or any service with one.... or have they persuaded the services to allow them to MITM their own citizens?

I did not expect to see “free speech” in there, but I most definitely compare US free speech laws favorably to any and all other countries.

My issue is not that they had the vulnerability, but that the vulberability allowed full access to social security numbers and it wasn’t even the “critical” database!

You can take proactive efforts to minimize the risk of breaches; they appeared to store large amounts of unencrypted (or encrypted in aggregate) personally identifiably information together and allowed a single struts vulnerability unfettered access.

For instance, one could not duplicate social security numbers, or could allow you to encrypt your data so you need to provide a key for others to access it. The possibilities are endless.

Frankly you shouldn’t ever look at porn on a work machine, no matter how much they encourage you to think of it as your personal machine. It is only a liability.

To my understanding, firefox also has support for multiple profiles at that level, but it may be by app launch, not by window.

Yes, you can. The cookie settings are per-container (and there’s a surprising amount of customization per domain, though I wish it had decent wildcard support, it turns out to not be much of an issue).

Yea, it definitely continues to be an annoyance. I have some great bluetooth headphones, but if I forget them I can’t exactly pick up a cheap pair. The adapter works well but it’s easy to lose, especially if you want to use it in a car and also have to remember the lightning splitter so you can charge your phone at the same time.

That said, totally worth the improvements in water resistance. I use it in the shower all the time.

Mostly I just use headphones much less.

I'm sure you could get by working part time for 15 hours a week if you gave up all of your modern conveniences and lived outdoors in a tent, but it wouldn't be very enjoyable.

It’s interesting you’d say that. I agree on average, but the enjoyment in that lifestyle would be hard to imagine in ours. I don’t think it’s hard to see our perception of pleasurable things is different from frequency.

Frankly I think there are only small, incremental improvements to happiness possible after modern healthcare and plumbing. Which are, granted, still extremely expensive where I live.

Well, I think the obvious way to solve this is simply to make it obvious the translation is occuring with a third party (who may do anything with the data). I think this is still fantastic technology even if it is limited to public conversations.

I can’t tell if you’re joking with the app or not.

If you’re good enough to meditate around the app, you don’t need any help from the app to start!

Living better is a relative term. Having access to cheap junk food and TVs does not pay medical bills, nor the debt that follows.

You’re only addressing half the comparison. Yes, the US has welfare, but it’s conditional and often insufficient.

Yea, I’m not sure why this was posted either. Russian bots aren’t the craziest proposition; they certainly don’t dislike Snowden’s PR.

Naturally, the american tax payer still foots the bill via subsidies.

I would definitely buy a crank cell phone if I were allowed to clone my sim (for emergencies).

I have committed myself twice, once for being suicidal and once for life-ruining anxiety. It did not help in the way I expected. You are essentially not allowed to express confidence in your own health because your caretakers will assume you’re overeager and take it as evidence you need more time in the hospital. Don’t get it twisted, though, your stay length is entirely determined by convincing health insurance companies that any time there will reduce recidivism.

The smart people “play” healthy, not admitting ongoing doubts and concerns. Why? Because you go to the hospital to make rapid medication changes. The therapy offered is often insufficient, both in terms of one-one-one therapy and simply what you can cover during your stay. Overstaying is enough to make anyone clinically depressed. It can also cost a lot; while it is illegal to fire for mental health leaves, it is not uncommon to get let go for “unrelated reasons”, to prevent paying for future stays, or simply because they’re uncomfortable supporting their employees to this extent.

Mental health hospitals are aimed at maximizing the number of beds in use, ensuring everyone is at least as medicated as the doctor thinks they can handle, and pumping insurance companies for money. If you are considering one, use it to prevent crises, not to expect any kind of therapy suited for long-term help. The simply do not have the available attention, funding, or even reliable pharmaceutical research to make a dent in the latter.

To be honest, I have high hopes for psychedelics to make fruitful, therapeutic use in a short stay. As it is I’ve lost faith in the pharmaceutical industry to demonstrate the pills they make are effective, let alone not harmful to the general population. 3/5ths of the mental health prescriptions I’ve been given have been pulled from the market, linked to high suicide rates, or linked to other serious medical issues (no shit, Risperdal made me lactate as a male.)

...and of course, the absolute worst part is seeing people you know will never function in society, many rimes without family. I suppose better the asylum than the street, but we will likely always need long-term mental health care in publicly funded facilities.

There are a lot of players in this space.

I wonder if, in the mid term future, you could see e2e encryption over slack and other offerings if you added slack as a team member—granted, they’d be storing the messages plain text on the slack side, but it’d ease and encourage transition onto keybase teams rather than eg SAML.

Right, but SDL at least provides either software blitting or gl context setup (ie doesn’t abstract hardware acceleration at all). Cairo is also software rendering. I’ll check out skia!

Wow that’s out of left field.

Err, this is the myth that keeps spreading mysteriously. There are absolutely massive differences between open source and free software. Why would you want to be open but not free unless you wanted to restrict the use of the code you “opened”.

How is the JSON integration and geometry primitives? I had no idea it was competitive with postgres.

Success does not imply awareness of why it happened, or in fact much of anything. I mean, it’s a joke that he never wanted the job to begin with, instead aiming at inflating his own ego. It’s not even clear he reads memos his own staff writes him. If the man appears to act rationally, it seems to be incidental rather than by design.

Trump is amazing at convincing people to keep treating him seriously, I’ll give him that. What exactly are these assets of his worth billions? What successes has he had? The only thing he’s sold since the 80s is his face. That doesn’t mean there’s anything happening behind it—being the president is more than looking in the mirror.

Last I checked, he’s only avoided being in deep debt to the IRS due to flexible accounting. Of course, when you base your brand on your face, it’s hard to speak confidently about its value at all.... something he continually exploits to inflate his image.

It’s hard to see the value here of dynamic linking vs static linking, especially when it seems like a lot of the value is compile-time selection of implementations and lightweight utility code—not exactly a huge attack vector you’d want to be able to upgrade independently.

And of course it introduces dependency hell, which seems like a poor fit for a library without a consistent ABI.

To take from javascript, this is a mix of underscore (utility) and, uhh, babel(?) for essentially polyfilling certain runtime features slated for future (hypothetical) approval.

I’d argue clippy’s issue wasn’t a tech problem, it was that it couldn’t do much to actually help with anything.

Heh, since when does Trump have any clue what’s going on.