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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by JustSomeNobody on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:56AM (#17373583)
What if in the future your country needs the US military?
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by sidr on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:46AM (#17373896)
What if in the future their country ia attacked by the US military for some bullshit made up claims of WMDs? If you weight the outcomes with their probabilities of occuring, they believe that the US military is a net negative. You just have a different cost function and a different pdf of certain events occuring.
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by salvar on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:52AM (#17373948)
Isn't the point here that there are too many what-ifs to state that a strong US military is good for everyone?
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