Finance follows the risks and the users. We'll probably never convince end-users to "vote with their feet" and use Privacy-focused products. But we can absolutely, through legislation or just precedent, raise the Risk…
No one has watched Ukraine unfold and said "Yes, it will indeed be easy for me to invade a smaller but technically sophisticated neighbor" China will never invade Taiwan, but they will unite politically one day.
We've already stopped the "Worst case scenarios" by rapidly replacing Carbon-intensive energy with other sources over the past decade: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/climate/emissions-worst-c... Still work to be…
You need a certain baseline of power and influence in order to inspire a backlash like what we're seeing in the US. It happens because so many Scientists are influential, and in particular because of the way that…
Right. A lot of "Internet Freedom" is just dishonest Anarchism. A thought terminating cliche that halts otherwise brilliant people from actually considering the tradeoffs of policies like this. The whole appeal of…
Back in 2008, we'd perfected the art of combining high-grade and dogshit Mortgages into one Security which could be sold on to, of course, Pension Funds. Took almost 20 years for someone to find a way to scale up the…
I've done this. I'm very surprised that, in your case, the POA was not sufficient to get your business done. I'm not sure what alternative you are proposing. This only gets much, much worse when the aging person is…
There are no other online choices. If my Bank login goes totally Kaput, though, I can take my ID down to the Branch to get it sorted. Same with my telecom provider. I try to only depend on services which have this…
If Claude meetups are the new Tupperware parties, OpenClaw meetups are something darker still. The tech is indeed worth discussion and celebration, but the Brands are clearly taking too much. This is a really important…
Is a dozen replies on a forum really so much? And yes, I will wave to the SF speed cameras I pass today.
How about we eliminate Police entirely, since they will inevitably misuse any power we give them? Of course we have to strike a balance. We just disagree on where "cameras on a public road" fall on the scale.
Your terms are acceptable. That's not what the killed legislation did, though.
I don't regard complete anonymity on a public roadway to be an "Essential Liberty" and neither would the Founders.
Were the lists really the problem though? Or was it the Genocidal Intent? The first mass killings, on the Eastern Front, made no use of such sophistication and had no need of it. It's always Politics.... Terrible ones…
The FBI has been an IBM customer for a very long time. Like maybe the "cheap cameras everywhere" part is novel + important, but "central data store" truly is not. Slippery reasoning like this is how silly taboos get…
... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today? Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveillance data? It's really a fantasy and a…
Why would they "almost certainly" have been caught otherwise? This is a load bearing component of your argument and it seems thin. From my perspective, you are synthesizing a harm while ignoring the clear and concrete…
I am not harmed when I go through a toll plaza or an express lane. Nor when I pass a flock camera. You are boxing with phantoms, I think.
Fair enough, if you're certain the final bill will only penalize "false advertising" like this. I see how the article supports this view and maybe I did read too much into it. My concern would be if games "sold as a…
What if an Indie developer wants to make a game, where the primary mechanics and state live in a "service" they control? Why should they be burdened with this stuff if they move on, if indeed they sold a "service" and…
The "final boss" of bad legislation. Often, Government intrusion into the markets is worth the side effects. But in this case, even the best-case outcome is extremely dumb. Companies are forced to expend resources just…
Yes, I think that the phones of minors should be traceable back to their parents; who would provide their ID at the sale of the e-SIM.
I agree that we need better case law - downstream of better politicians and better judges - to apply the intent of the 4th to modern society. And if you think we need a new ammendment to strengthen it, i'm in for that…
Privacy has to be one goal among many in a reasonable society. I am very glad to see this change, because phone-based Fraud is a plague on the Elderly and other vulnerable members of society. And an incredible annoyance…
In the case of many teachers, there is no "company". The union fights valiantly against the State, and against the pay structure Voters democratically select for their public servants. Further, I posit that existence of…
Finance follows the risks and the users. We'll probably never convince end-users to "vote with their feet" and use Privacy-focused products. But we can absolutely, through legislation or just precedent, raise the Risk…
No one has watched Ukraine unfold and said "Yes, it will indeed be easy for me to invade a smaller but technically sophisticated neighbor" China will never invade Taiwan, but they will unite politically one day.
We've already stopped the "Worst case scenarios" by rapidly replacing Carbon-intensive energy with other sources over the past decade: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/climate/emissions-worst-c... Still work to be…
You need a certain baseline of power and influence in order to inspire a backlash like what we're seeing in the US. It happens because so many Scientists are influential, and in particular because of the way that…
Right. A lot of "Internet Freedom" is just dishonest Anarchism. A thought terminating cliche that halts otherwise brilliant people from actually considering the tradeoffs of policies like this. The whole appeal of…
Back in 2008, we'd perfected the art of combining high-grade and dogshit Mortgages into one Security which could be sold on to, of course, Pension Funds. Took almost 20 years for someone to find a way to scale up the…
I've done this. I'm very surprised that, in your case, the POA was not sufficient to get your business done. I'm not sure what alternative you are proposing. This only gets much, much worse when the aging person is…
There are no other online choices. If my Bank login goes totally Kaput, though, I can take my ID down to the Branch to get it sorted. Same with my telecom provider. I try to only depend on services which have this…
If Claude meetups are the new Tupperware parties, OpenClaw meetups are something darker still. The tech is indeed worth discussion and celebration, but the Brands are clearly taking too much. This is a really important…
Is a dozen replies on a forum really so much? And yes, I will wave to the SF speed cameras I pass today.
How about we eliminate Police entirely, since they will inevitably misuse any power we give them? Of course we have to strike a balance. We just disagree on where "cameras on a public road" fall on the scale.
Your terms are acceptable. That's not what the killed legislation did, though.
I don't regard complete anonymity on a public roadway to be an "Essential Liberty" and neither would the Founders.
Were the lists really the problem though? Or was it the Genocidal Intent? The first mass killings, on the Eastern Front, made no use of such sophistication and had no need of it. It's always Politics.... Terrible ones…
The FBI has been an IBM customer for a very long time. Like maybe the "cheap cameras everywhere" part is novel + important, but "central data store" truly is not. Slippery reasoning like this is how silly taboos get…
... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today? Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveillance data? It's really a fantasy and a…
Why would they "almost certainly" have been caught otherwise? This is a load bearing component of your argument and it seems thin. From my perspective, you are synthesizing a harm while ignoring the clear and concrete…
I am not harmed when I go through a toll plaza or an express lane. Nor when I pass a flock camera. You are boxing with phantoms, I think.
Fair enough, if you're certain the final bill will only penalize "false advertising" like this. I see how the article supports this view and maybe I did read too much into it. My concern would be if games "sold as a…
What if an Indie developer wants to make a game, where the primary mechanics and state live in a "service" they control? Why should they be burdened with this stuff if they move on, if indeed they sold a "service" and…
The "final boss" of bad legislation. Often, Government intrusion into the markets is worth the side effects. But in this case, even the best-case outcome is extremely dumb. Companies are forced to expend resources just…
Yes, I think that the phones of minors should be traceable back to their parents; who would provide their ID at the sale of the e-SIM.
I agree that we need better case law - downstream of better politicians and better judges - to apply the intent of the 4th to modern society. And if you think we need a new ammendment to strengthen it, i'm in for that…
Privacy has to be one goal among many in a reasonable society. I am very glad to see this change, because phone-based Fraud is a plague on the Elderly and other vulnerable members of society. And an incredible annoyance…
In the case of many teachers, there is no "company". The union fights valiantly against the State, and against the pay structure Voters democratically select for their public servants. Further, I posit that existence of…