> Hacker News, as usual, loves to pretend it has all the answers to life’s problems, and the issue is that nobody has listened to them.
eh, it’s not just HN.
like, there’s no single technical/material solution to something as complex and widespread as humanity’s apparent base need to “get more stuff”. which is the root cause for acting maliciously — it’s just “getting more stuff” in a way that’s harmful to others.
but that won’t stop people from claiming that they can come up with a technical solution. whether that’s politicians, tech bros, HN commentators or that guy down the pub on a thursday evening.
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that being said, signing software is better than doing nothing… so, a better way of phrasing it from the GP would probably have been it is a partial mitigation for the problem in some cases.
eh, it’s not just HN.
like, there’s no single technical/material solution to something as complex and widespread as humanity’s apparent base need to “get more stuff”. which is the root cause for acting maliciously — it’s just “getting more stuff” in a way that’s harmful to others.
but that won’t stop people from claiming that they can come up with a technical solution. whether that’s politicians, tech bros, HN commentators or that guy down the pub on a thursday evening.
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that being said, signing software is better than doing nothing… so, a better way of phrasing it from the GP would probably have been it is a partial mitigation for the problem in some cases.