First of all, US companies dominate the international market as for... as encryption technologies that are available through these various apps. And I think we will continue to dominate them.
In saying this, he is either ignorant of or deliberately misrepresenting history.
Back when it was illegal for the US to export effective crypto, the effect was that outside of the government itself there was almost no serious crypto development being done in the US at all. The reason was obvious: if you developed it in the US, you couldn't sell it outside the US. If you developed it outside the US, however, the world was your oyster.
The result was that the US fell behind in crypto (Israel was the top dog in that realm instead).
The only reason that crypto development returned to the US in later years was the elimination of that law. However, excellent crypto development continues across the entire world as well.
If the US were to make effective crypto illegal by mandating back doors, there is no question what the effect would be: individuals will simply use imported crypto, and crypto development in the US will once again grind to an effective halt.
I love that comparison. Although homeopathy is clearly and provably complete nonsense, at least there is a some relationship to a real effect (an actual biologically active molecule was, in fact, near the water at one point).
Trivedi water doesn't even have that much going for it.
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"You're also making assumptions that I think atheists are somehow better than Christians."
Your statements make that clear. Just like how your hypocrisy is clear as you accuse atheists of being full of hate while exhibiting how much hatred you have for atheists.
I'm not saying that the concept of electronic voting is unworkable. I'm saying that all of the current approaches to it are, open-sourced or not. They all share a showstopper problem out of the gate: there's no way to verify votes or do meaningful recounts.
I'm still amazed that anyone -- particularly election boards -- thinks that these machines are an acceptable idea. They are, in fact, the exact opposite of that. They would be dangerous even if the source code was available for audit.
I have a sneaky suspicion that when people fantasize about flying cars, what they're really fantasizing about is the ability to avoid traffic. I think that's the main point they're thinking of.
The problem is that fantasy involves there being few, if any, other people with flying cars. The reality would be that most people would have one, so the traffic congestion problem would simply be transferred from the ground to the air.
My comment was not about how much energy is required for a flight, but about how sustainable the energy generation is. If we're talking about cars burning gasoline, there's an obvious problem.
However, there are other energy sources that don't have that problem. Many of them are close to, but not quite good enough, to support useful flying machines. The first step toward flying cars is to further develop such energy sources.
Which would mean that they're a one-term congressperson. But I would argue that an actual saintly person (rather than my iffy hypothetical one) would not run for office in the first place.
Temporarily, yes. We've gone so far down the hole that any path back to light will involve increased short-term pain. But that increased pain is coming no matter what, so it's only an illusory cost to actually standing up for ourselves.
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"Lots of readers don't need anything more than that to get what they need from the story, so they never visit the news operation that actually reported the story."
These are the exact same people who read a headline in the display newspaper and are satisfied enough that they don't buy the paper.
In other words, these are people who aren't really into reading the news and therefore won't magically turn into customers regardless of whether or not there are snippets.
Yes. The decline of newspaper began before the internet became a realistic place to get news, but the newspaper industry stubbornly refuses to see that fact. The internet is not killing newspapers, the newspapers were already dying. The internet was just an escape hatch for readers who wanted to actually get news.
What's killing the newspaper business is the extreme amount of consolidation (which began in earnest before the internet was a factor) under large media companies. That consolidation resulted in a serious and dramatic decline in the quality of reporting.
I've noticed that the quality of TED talks has been dropping a bit. There are still very excellent ones, but the days when you could assume the talk is excellent just because it's a TED talk seem to be in the past.
I suspect it's because they've expanded and franchised too much.
This is one of the reasons why I do not put advertising on my websites. The main reason is that I have respect for my readers, but the second reason is this sort of thing. If you carry advertising, you are giving up a measure of editorial control over your site. This is true with all ad networks, not just Google.
The problem isn't so much individual politicians, it's institutional corruption.
Let's say you are a saintly person who somehow got elected to Congress. Once you arrive there, you will quickly learn that you have a choice: you can either play the corrupt congressional games or you can have no chance of actually accomplishing anything at all while you're there.
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Crypto "domination"
In saying this, he is either ignorant of or deliberately misrepresenting history.
Back when it was illegal for the US to export effective crypto, the effect was that outside of the government itself there was almost no serious crypto development being done in the US at all. The reason was obvious: if you developed it in the US, you couldn't sell it outside the US. If you developed it outside the US, however, the world was your oyster.
The result was that the US fell behind in crypto (Israel was the top dog in that realm instead).
The only reason that crypto development returned to the US in later years was the elimination of that law. However, excellent crypto development continues across the entire world as well.
If the US were to make effective crypto illegal by mandating back doors, there is no question what the effect would be: individuals will simply use imported crypto, and crypto development in the US will once again grind to an effective halt.
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Trivedi water doesn't even have that much going for it.
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Your statements make that clear. Just like how your hypocrisy is clear as you accuse atheists of being full of hate while exhibiting how much hatred you have for atheists.
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I'm still amazed
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The problem is that fantasy involves there being few, if any, other people with flying cars. The reality would be that most people would have one, so the traffic congestion problem would simply be transferred from the ground to the air.
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However, there are other energy sources that don't have that problem. Many of them are close to, but not quite good enough, to support useful flying machines. The first step toward flying cars is to further develop such energy sources.
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These are the exact same people who read a headline in the display newspaper and are satisfied enough that they don't buy the paper.
In other words, these are people who aren't really into reading the news and therefore won't magically turn into customers regardless of whether or not there are snippets.
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Yes. The decline of newspaper began before the internet became a realistic place to get news, but the newspaper industry stubbornly refuses to see that fact. The internet is not killing newspapers, the newspapers were already dying. The internet was just an escape hatch for readers who wanted to actually get news.
What's killing the newspaper business is the extreme amount of consolidation (which began in earnest before the internet was a factor) under large media companies. That consolidation resulted in a serious and dramatic decline in the quality of reporting.
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Re: Fixing the patent troll problem.
Congresspeople got paid a lot of money to ensure those "loopholes" were there.
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I've noticed
I suspect it's because they've expanded and franchised too much.
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This is one of the reasons why
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Let's say you are a saintly person who somehow got elected to Congress. Once you arrive there, you will quickly learn that you have a choice: you can either play the corrupt congressional games or you can have no chance of actually accomplishing anything at all while you're there.
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