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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by concordDance on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:11AM (#23905171)
> And 'waiting for the details to come out in a few weeks' is never justified.

Given how distorted and contextless the politically relevant information we get is, waiting a few weeks for the details is almost always the right choice. This situation may be an exception but I doubt it.

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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by tsimionescu on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:40AM (#23914526)
Doing nothing is not a default position in this type of situation - it is an active choice. This is similar to the pandemic. If you stop and wait for more data, you're not taking a conservative approach, you're deciding based on the available data that the best course of action is to do nothing.
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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by concordDance on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:30AM (#23925019)
With an information environment as awful as the current one? That choice is still normally the best one.
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