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Ah yes the well known EU equivalent of the CIA, NSA

The one that’s so secret it’s not in any of the treaties that the sovereign nations that comprise the EU signed up for and implemented in line with their own democratic processes

That agency

Meanwhile they struggle to put together a border patrol, but advanced pan European surveillance apparatus that isn’t run by the US. Yeah bro


I don't think they were necessarily thinking of one EU-wide agency, but the recent attacks on encryption including Chat Control which almost passed, a lot of EU countries voting for far-right governments. I do believe we still have it better than in the US wrt privacy (e.g. we don't have Flock cameras), but we need to be careful considering what EU governments have been doing.

> EU governments

“European” governments. Non-european governments too.

By definition “not” the EU


Of course, but I'm replying to a comment that speaks like surveillance doesn't exist in the EU because there is not a European NSA, so I'm talking specifically about the EU surveillance risk.

> I'm talking specifically about the EU surveillance risk.

So specifically NOT MI6, GCHQ, the Swiss, Norway, FSB.

Only the members of an economic bloc that you envy.

Okay bro


The free anonymous internet was only ever a ruse to get people to use it so the CIA could spy on them. DARPA, folks, created a “free as in beer” global surveillance network and we all bought it.

Not that we didn’t get anything in return but the idea that the worlds foremost military industrial complex just gave this to the world because they loved us is laughable.


Huh? DARPA created something to help retain communication and coordination capabilities for our government in event of nuclear attack.

Indeed they did, at great expense and gave it away for free!

They’ll get around to guns eventually …

They're already trying to regulate the shape of guns to effectively outlaw everything but the bullet.

Hopefully they tax th bejeesus out of bullets too. Who was the comedian “imma gona pop a cap in yo ass, but first imma set up a layaway”

Chris Rock. And honestly probably the easiest way for gun control

Not really, at least with current SOTA for ammunition. Reloading has long been a thing for high volume shooters.

Right who, at least in my experience, tend to be a bit more responsible gun owners. It would be interesting to study that.

> it doesn't seem like it's possible to send a link for a specific comment

Click on where it says how long ago the comment was posted

For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461367


Thank you!

There’s lots of things you can do in hardware that could be done in software but cost. FPGA should have solved this long ago, but apparently the guys who own the IP want to make it as hard as possible to use it …

In my experience it’s usually the other way around

It is a curious thing how drinking affects people in different ways. Some people get reflective, others belligerent.

Endocrine and nervous system function take a dramatic shift when processing alcohol.

The aggressive drunks didn't get there overnight. They drink more heavily and regularly. Their nervous system is amped up even when "sober", but it takes months to years to fully recover from that state and there might even be permanent nerve damage. All this to say, they will just drink again to calm their nerves and are easily pissed off. That's alcoholism for you.

On the flip side, some of the most body aware and even keeled people I've ever known are recovered alcoholics. There's a reason alcohol has been a rite of passage for most of human history.


It’s not $20 unlimited though, you’ll get a printer fixed then you’ll have to wait 8 hours. Then you’ll ask it to fix something else and it will make a mess of it. Hopefully you’ll realise it at the time rather than a few weeks later and hopefully it will be able to dig you out of your hole.

Wait, why suggest it will "make a mess" of something when the prior in this case was a succesful debug? It doesn't feel very fair to say.

Another way to read this is the tech companies are stupidly bankrolling the EU by not complying with the laws of the lands (EU states voluntarily enact their own implementations of EU directions in return for a slice). That’s far too good a cash cow to pass up. Keep it coming.

We had Concorde - it was too expensive to operate safely.


We just didn‘t have enough billionaires back then. Today the Thiels and Musks and Bezos will be able to afford this.


Agree that this is a matter of economic viability rather than technology. Presumably somebody could just go back and resurrect the Roles Royce IP

There would be the nice side benefit of maybe having all these guys in one place, upon an experimental aviation platform.


Sounds like bag pipes to me LOL


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