This statement is exactly the bollocks that got us here. Just because you have a social media account, or fucking "likes", does not qualify you to speak about pandemics, or vaccinations, or gravity, etc.
They use email...email. Unencrypted email.
History demonstrates the problem that governments can not be trusted to protect private data once they collect it and they can not be trusted to relinquish any power to monitor citizens once they have it. A relevant…
>I do notice other countries who are a week or two ahead of us It is being reported that South Korea is testing 10k per day. The USA is still having an issue in even delivering test kits where required. That's months…
American Prison by Shane Bauer A good read.
Why is it that almost every company that provides a service with the potential to be in perpetuity, like insurance, always fee creep their customers to the point that you switch because you know you're being fucked…
Too many cooks in the kitchen. Besides a shit UI, the creepy phoning home and ads created many a defector away from MS.
The ISOC-Ethos deal timeline is a conflict of interest story with executive musical chairs: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... It stinks.
Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing. The Sherman Act and the Clayton Act are no longer enforced in the post Citizens United world, i.e. legal US corruption: kochtopus, dark…
Keep proven bad actors and miscreants, be it government or large tech, out of establishing standards.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126754
This statement is exactly the bollocks that got us here. Just because you have a social media account, or fucking "likes", does not qualify you to speak about pandemics, or vaccinations, or gravity, etc.
They use email...email. Unencrypted email.
History demonstrates the problem that governments can not be trusted to protect private data once they collect it and they can not be trusted to relinquish any power to monitor citizens once they have it. A relevant…
>I do notice other countries who are a week or two ahead of us It is being reported that South Korea is testing 10k per day. The USA is still having an issue in even delivering test kits where required. That's months…
American Prison by Shane Bauer A good read.
Why is it that almost every company that provides a service with the potential to be in perpetuity, like insurance, always fee creep their customers to the point that you switch because you know you're being fucked…
Too many cooks in the kitchen. Besides a shit UI, the creepy phoning home and ads created many a defector away from MS.
The ISOC-Ethos deal timeline is a conflict of interest story with executive musical chairs: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... It stinks.
Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing. The Sherman Act and the Clayton Act are no longer enforced in the post Citizens United world, i.e. legal US corruption: kochtopus, dark…
Keep proven bad actors and miscreants, be it government or large tech, out of establishing standards.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126754