theincompetencetheorist
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Privacy and Security is not the same thing. Just because there is opt-in feature that supposedly keeps your privacy with cryptography it is not that the same thing as securing information with cryptography from untrusted parties. I usually detest analogies around these things. But the lock for your bathroom door is for privacy and the lock on your front door is for security, the requirements for the lock designs are different. Kerchoffs's Principle still applies for any kind of key escrow in that your information security will be as secure as the security guarantee of the escrow provider.
Also directly from Apple Machine Learning Research page about the homomorphic encryption. Identifying the database shard relevant to the query could reveal sensitive information about the query itself, so we use differential privacy (DP) with OHTTP relay — operated by a third party — as an anonymization network which hides the device's source IP address before the request ever reaches the Apple server infrastructure. With DP, the client issues fake queries alongside its real ones, so the server cannot tell which are genuine. The queries are also routed through the anonymization network to ensure the server can’t link multiple requests to the same client. For running PNNS for Enhanced Visual Search, our system ensures strong privacy parameters for each user's photo library i.e. (ε, δ)-DP, with ε = 0.8 , δ = 10-6. . i.e. it requires a trusted third party not to leak information to apple about your IP as a sidechannel.
Further I would like to have independent cryptographic review of the homomorphic-encryption both of algorithm and implementation before even trusting it with my privacy. There are so many ways of creatively undermining cryptography algorithms and implementations for information leakage.
theincompetencetheorist
15d ago
Well that doesn't help with disproving conspiracy, because it would be within the imagination of the conspiracy theorist that he was coerced to making the device and in a last act of heroism he intentionally built it less destructive. It is also a well known plot device in movies and TV-series ... eh.. so yeah, the western media is actually what feeds into the conspiracy theories.
theincompetencetheorist
15d ago
An active duty special forces soldier that can't build a more destructive bomb? I'm not a fan of conspiracies but this doesn't smell right...
theincompetencetheorist
26d ago
We are not in court. I'm just speculating that this would be a potential flashpoint for revolution with the reasoning that health insurance companies are extractive institutions and with historical example of the American Revolution that extractive institutions can be overthrown violently if they reach a breaking point of the "extracted". It is triggered by your "Let them eat cake!" moment! But for me the cost of being either right or wrong are extremely low, since I live in a country with a single payer health insurance.
theincompetencetheorist
29d ago
Insurance companies sell a service to individuals that the day that the individual needs healthcare they will pay the healthcare provider for that healthcare. So usually this is person is working and pays for that service of eventuality needing healthcare out of their salary, because in most cases if you need healthcare the person can't pay that premium(I hear that it is what is called). Now if that insurance company delays or even denies payment for that healthcare it means that the person can't get back to work to continue paying the premiums. It is more profitable for the insurance company to extract the money for a service and have people literally dying so they don't pay anymore for the service that possibly would have helped them survive.
This event has the potential of becoming a trigger of revolution and if this is the potential "tea party" this is the equivalent of going like "Well the profit margins on running the British Empire are low so we should be paying more taxes on that tea!". You can cue up all the technical differences with that situation is different from colonial taxation but the bigger picture is that both of these situation is extremely extractive institutions for the benefit of an elite, it never lasts forever and has potential to violently be ended by the subjugated.
theincompetencetheorist
3mo ago
Where does the idea of "Late-stage Capitalism" come from? What are the other stages?
I don't know for certain since I don't have the time nor resources to verify, but I do believe the ideas are a continuation from Deleuzes Societies of Control. The general idea late-stage capitalism is that capitalism controls us through various means, and there is some truth to that because of corporations we can't have any discussion we want on Reddit for example. The problem is the parasitic ideas of neomarxism has tagged along with it.
theincompetencetheorist
5mo ago
I didn't write anything about creating values ex nihilo, the point was slave morality is the passive values that is foisted upon the masses and never questioned. This forum is a rejection of slave morality essentially because the purpose is to come here and discuss our values, not come up with new ones but make our values more well grounded and well though out.
Yes, thank you for the precision that my language lacked. But yes master morality and the transformation to superman requires being active, so they look masterly to the slaves because they are passive.
theincompetencetheorist
5mo ago
I would also like to use the same disclaimer here.
I’m an expert on Nietzsche (I’ve read some of his books), but not a world-leading expert (I didn’t understand them). So take all of this as a riff on the concept, rather than a guide to Nietzsche’s original intent.
In my interpretation of slave morality vs master morality is a matter of being passive with your values vs being active with your values. To become the superman you want to actively decide what is important for you and live accordingly despite norms and structures of society. In a way consumerism is a slave morality, you buy your values to show off for others. And in a way Andrew Tate talks Master morality but he is just a Slave when buying a car to show the trappings of success. That is why there is the example of the MAGA Republicans as having Slave morality, most of them have just passively adopted the opinions of their tribe. Then there there are the woke tribe doing the same, passive values virtue signaled with the subtlety of throwing a brick at your face. Slaves locked in eternal conflict as we know as the Culture War.
theincompetencetheorist
5mo ago
The American IT industry was hit hard by COVID. Businessmen, C-suite execs, saw their people remoting in from home and trying not to return to the office. These execs, many of them free riders, realized they could halve their costs by hiring remote MSPs from out of country for IT and relying on Crowdstrike to be their security bottom line. A flood of IT layoffs happened this past year, deflating IT wages and making entry level jobs scarce.
I do think that it is slightly more complicated than that. First off all the lay offs of 80% of Twitter showed everyone that you don't need that many people to run a website. It was predicted by multiple of people that if Twitter didn't stop working other big tech companies would follow. Then there is the whole deal with Section 174 also that has affected the bottom line. Tech isn't unaffected by higher interest rates, when money was cheap they could amass people to be ready for "initiatives". Well not anymore.
I can give you the point of the free riders. The worst thing about them is that they actively make our tech worse to promote some number go up on their OKRs. Google is making search worse so people stay longer trying to find what they came to google for and watch more ads. Windows search always hits Bing when you do a search locally on your computer, just that it increments a number so a free rider can get a bonus. Just to take examples of search.
theincompetencetheorist
7mo ago
So I've started to see Elon (and many other tech CEOs for that matter) as living LLMs most of them can guess the correct technobabble to look smart for people that don't have knowledge of the areas they talk about. There is no true understanding of the things that he has been speaking about lately and has managed to staff with people that have been able to correct him in the past, but now no one can contradict Elon anymore. He is surrounded by yes-men and has been successful too many times being contrarian that there is no one to save him anymore. You are essentially listing stuff that is straight from Elon and someone who truly knows something about cars, running a social media company or rockets are able to correct or massage the message down the hierarchy anymore.
theincompetencetheorist
8mo ago
The whole point I'm trying to make is that the given that it is very public protest against the Israeli-Palestinian situation and Israel getting the second place in the popular vote. So if that vote is political then calls on cracking pro-Palestine protests would have been bigger than it is now. People are sitting at home and basically "fuck your virtue signaling" to the protestors and voting Israel. I see that as an apolitical act. One of the reasons we have a culture war is that we allow people to make everything political.
theincompetencetheorist
8mo ago
That is the point. It wasn't the queer theme or the politics that matter it is if people enjoy the show or act, my comment is in response that the "usual suspects" are "organizing a ballot stuffing". Well the usual suspects should have also been stuffing with UK votes. Ukraine winning because they are being invaded is an exception.
theincompetencetheorist
8mo ago
Or the televotes result is a disorganized majority that is tired of the agenda that shove politics in their face by what is en vogue for the terminally online, they just come for the entertainment and music. Because if you look at the UK televote votes. They received 0 points for almost a gay live show. And Israel received more televote points than the LGBTQIA+ winner. So in my mind, people simply didn't give a fuck and voted for the act they liked the best.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
Tech choices mostly impact the business on how easy it is to hire for it and how much the tech has a tendency to create messes. There are bunch of over engineered Java projects and PHP hacks out there that just messes with the businesses. Other than that, it doesn't really matter if you avoid that trap with sane choices. Mostly wanting to play with cool tech is an exercise in masturbation that started out with scratching an itch that last project caused. e.g. "The web UI was a kludge of JQuery, lets do it in a framework like React."
So mostly we are entertaining ourselves with the next cool tool unless it is something that is awful slow to get things done in for one reason or the other.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
So you think that "food deserts" don't exist because you can walk an 30 minutes to yours? There doesn't exist places where people live where they have to drive an hour to get "real food" while passing various corporate fast food chains on the way?
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
Do you know what a sumo wrestler is?
or their food is still so much more pure.
I wonder how much HFCS you can find in their food that they get from 7-11s? The options for good food at 7-11s AFAIK better than anywhere else ( not that I've looked myself but know people who have lived in Japan and talked about the cultural difference).
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
If you look at the history of "fat pride" it essentially started as dating for guys that loved fat women. And the post-modernist got its claws into it and gave it the social construct treatment and here we are: "healthy at every size". But the greater point I tried to make that some of the obese people have less choice in becoming obese, because their options are limited with what food is available to them. Yes being obese is a disease but I'm just making the claim that it is in big part caused by ultra-processed food much like cirrhosis is caused by overconsumption of alcohol, but it is much more reversible with better food and more excercise.
theincompetencetheorist
9mo ago
This little quote from NYU professor
discriminating against people who have a chronic disease.
People who are fat because of a chronic disease is in an absolute minority. The majority have issues with their size is because of eating too much ultra-processed foods full of subsidized crops like corn that is cheap and exercising too little compared to their energy intake. Is it a personal choice? Well if you are poor living in a "Food Desert" (i.e. a place where grocery stores with non ultra-processed food are far away) eating what ever is available, how much choice do you have? If you don't live near a grocery store it usually means that you are poor. Is poverty a choice?
As I see it the polemic of "personal choice" vs "chronic disease" is a faux debate disguising the fact that the options for the poorest urban areas and poorest "flyover country" don't have options with getting food without subsidized crops with high energy content. The only chronic condition they have is being poor.
So where does that leave "gym fascism"? Perhaps "Cui Bono" selling ultra processed foods to the poorest population is a multi-billion dollar business and it is also subsidized by politicians, they get to sell medicine for the consequences of that food(insulin for diabetes, pills against hypertension and so on) and so on. What happens if people notices this, that they are essentially being poisoned by the food supply? Better nip it in the bud the notion to have less processed food and more exercise cause losses. Lets call anyone who has that idea fascist? I don't know... It is a conspiracy theory...
It's good that you know better what's good for someone than they themselves! If only they had you to run their lives.
No that is not what I'm saying. Back in the day there where a bunch of rules put in place to rein in finance industry. Banks actually had a bunch of duties to fulfill when conducting business. One by one those duties has been removed, so instead of having someone with fiduciary duty now we have someone selling you financial services when invest in funds.
And indeed you cannot get a mortgage if your DTI is too big.
Yes you can if you have collateral that the bank can see as free money. They have no responsibility towards the borrower stopping them making a bad deal, which they used to have.
Edit: to amend. We are not in disagreement here on how it should work. We are in disagreement if it works like this today. The starting point of this whole discussion is that my theory is that the 'life script' isn't working is because there has been an effort over the last 50 years to make companies more responsible towards their shareholders than to the customers of the companies. You as a customer have little recourse against a bank that tricks you out of your house with a bad loan. This is what happened 16 years ago and I've heard nothing that has changed preventing that happening again. If you don't believe me.... I'm done trying to convince you.
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
Why would the borrower take a loan that didn't benefit them?
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin
They'd take out loans even if the price of the property didn't go up.
I'm not sure that would be the case if they would be targeted with marketing for taking on more loans.
This is a fully general argument against homeownership.
No it is not general argument of homeownership, it is an argument against predatory practices on giving out loans without the safeguards of looking at DTI etc... i.e. the first claim you made on how it is supposed to work.
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
Just because you find companies where it doesn't seem to hold up in one aspect it doesn't mean the whole statement falls. Large companies like Google do other stuff that is against the interest of their customers and especially against their users. For example "ad topics" is to use their browser monopoly to be the only game in town for targeted ads on the "open web", after disabling third party cookies they jack up the prices. Also they are trying their best in tricking chrome users on enabling it.
But keep in mind For every "bloated big tech" company that pamper their employees, you find big tech companies who doesn't do that. Oracle, Cisco, IBM, AWS ...
The obvious case is the investment banks where the employees are millionaires while shareholders fight over scraps.
As for investment banks paying their employees much, who do you think has the most ownership of those companies? Is the compensation given to employees as equity(i.e. shares) in the company?
Businesses that treat employees poorly are generally structurally unprofitable – forced to compete on cost. They don't want to, but they have to in order to survive.
Talked as someone who hasn't been in contact with private equity firms I see.
theincompetencetheorist
10mo ago
Sure people pay off their loans, but there are a bunch of people that use the raising equity prices to fund that they can on other liabilities.
I cannot parse this sentence.
People take out more loans when the price of the property goes up, they leverage that as an asset to have as collateral on other loans.
Obviously, the bank is not a charity. People enter into agreements for mutual benefit.
Again looking on the mechanics of the subprime crisis back in 2008, the loans given were not to the benefit of the lender. The calculus for the banks where that the value of the property would be higher when the lender defaulted, thus being the only ones benefiting on collecting the interests and get the money back with the sale of the asset.
Even after they rediscovered a Chesterton's Fence with 'Good Fire'? As far as I understood indigenous people of California used to do controlled burns for Brush Management.
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