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Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by psd1 on Saturday February 08, 2025 @08:08AM (#42982720)
If you are willing to pick a single issue and discard everything else, then any arbitrary head of state is the worst in any arbitrary time period.

HN is awash with libertarians. The libertarian conception of politics is no more sophisticated than the pearl-clutcher conception of technology. To varying degrees, it's Dunning Kruger, autism, and intellectual poverty.

Think for just ten minutes a day about what you don't know. Treat it as a challenge. You can grow! I believe in you!

Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by galangalalgol on Saturday February 08, 2025 @09:00AM (#42982987)
Pure libertarians are no more blindly idealistic than pure anything else. Elegant solutions are attractive, perhaps especially to those working in stem. I once had someone assert to me that the standard model of physics couldn't be true, because it wasn't elegant enough. You could say that was Dunning Kruger, but while they were working in SW, their PHD was in particle physics. Reality doesn't really care what we find elegant it seems. Still that tendency is no worse than pure socialists. Perhaps it is the same tendency even. Real solutions are messy compromises. Trying to refactor an old codebase I worked on taught me that as I added back hacks for all the corner cases a second time to my new elegant design.
Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by psd1 on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:57AM (#42997895)
If you want politics to be elegant, try Bhutan.
Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by batch12 on Saturday February 08, 2025 @09:07AM (#42983023)
To sling autism as an insult is disgusting. Maybe you can do better.
Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by psd1 on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:59AM (#42997902)
Sure. Help me out by showing me how I did that.