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It's basically impossible to talk about how to secure a computer system (or how to gain covert access to one) without talking about which account has which privilege, let along things like how to ensure an unbiased random number generator, or do an analysis of who has what without looking at an intersection of sets.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

That's the problem with being on the side of the rule of law: you're constrainted by it, but the side of lawlessness is not.

 

This is the very essence of the difference that should exist between a President and a King. From Federalist 69:

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.

The failure of the Republican party to support this kind of check on Presidential power is why we're having this crisis now.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We could be, but are also avoiding a lot of drownings that are likely if we try disassembling it while at sea

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

We are very very far from anything like the Star Trek prosperity society though. I'm not expecting changes to monetary policy to be able to get us there either; they're a way to moderately improve peoples' lot, and to shift the balance of power from capital to labor and tiny bit

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

It was part of how we got out of the Great Depression — it transferred money from the owning class to people who had debts. We don't actually want to go back to gold (or any other non-inflationary currency) because it gets rid of the flexibility to do that, which part of how we prevent bad recessions from turning into deflationary recessions.

In any case, having fiat currency, or not, is a separate issue from whether the US will actually pay its debts as promised. And it's the debt payment that Trump is putting in question.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 33 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of countries have defaulted without doing that. I'm a lot more concerned that it'll cause an interest rate spike, with associated stock market crash, and bring on a sharp cut in business investment and employment.

 

Krugman has this to say about it:

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt

Musk and Trump are both in the habit of stiffing people they owe money. If markets even suspect that this habit will extend to Treasuries, God help us

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I think the fact that they were running stories on the seedier side of the tech industry created a bunch of contacts and background knowledge which made a lot of this reporting possible.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's what happens when you have an unlimited plastic surgery budget and have forgotten what the uncanny valley looks like.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because they were doing it at work, where other employees saw them. Other people having sex in front of me is generally inconsistent with getting work done.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's definitely the problem. If we can catch them violating it, it might eventually mean contempt of court, and putting some of the people responsible in jail.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That was the racist eugenics one. This one didn't resign from the government.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 66 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah. Most of the tech industry intern firings I'm aware of are for sex with other interns at work. Horny teen learns self control is a story they can tell.

Leaking trade secrets is not.

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