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sorry, but i wouldn't want my money manager to attempt to engage in unethical or illegal practices in order to turn a profit...

The point is that it's the job of the democratic legislature to codify what you just stated here into law, so that all money managers have to abide by this standard, not just those that have a personal conviction for it. That's the essence of rule of law.

You can't have a functioning government if it's elected by a corrupt society. Exhibit A, current US situation.

There is room for both. Not every aspect of morality needs to made law, as significant portions are subjective and debated. Law should be a least common denominator.

This leaves room for individuals to act in accordance with their morals above and beyond the law.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

> In April 1933, the government announced a national census to identify Jews, Roma, and other groups. Black reports that Dehomag offered its services in Prussia and that Watson approved new investments, raising IBM’s capital in Germany from 400,000 to 7 million Reichsmarks. The funds financed IBM’s first German factory in Berlin. Black also describes a “secret deal” between Watson and Heidinger giving Dehomag authority to serve IBM clients outside Germany, and argues that Germany soon became IBM’s second-largest market. He states that the 1933 census, using IBM machines, raised the official estimate of Jews in Germany from roughly half a million to about two million.

since learning this fact, i have boycotted IBM (not that it's particularly hard, they're not the giant they once were)


So you don't use anything Linux related in any form or fashion, whose devs are on IBM's paychecks, or owned by IBM like Red-Hat?

in 2026, by a drunk who gives out whiskey bottles branded with their name

also BLM, israel palestine

and the genocide in myanmar, that was definitely accelerated political action


famously the Arab spring



the guardian isn't paywalled..?


It is if you don't want to allow tracking.


It’s so we all read the same version. AI vuln hype cycle in full effect, changes are made, deliberately.


i fail to see how for profit policing with less oversight would be a good thing for the general citizenry?


but moving to a lower COL area can reduce that amount of public and private services one gets access to, no? network connectivity will, for example, likely be worse out in the sticks


Starlink / amazon something etc etc


i have found a surprisingly large amount of success in uploading an .apk to Claude and asking it to extract all HTTP endpoint used and to display them as a Swagger document. most apps use HTTP(S) to communicate with their APIs, so reverse engineering is relatively trivial


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