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Post #AtQ5nbLxfEi8p0W5Hk by [email protected] |
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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of pers… |
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Post #AtQ5nbUp8HnfGUfA6C by [email protected] |
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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:> The margin… |
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Post #AtQ5nbbuhvTHcTyp9M by [email protected] |
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Or, put it another way, the only way to prevent *all* fraud is to chase away a … |
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Post #AtQ5nceQq350qaALiK by [email protected] |
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Schneier had a foolproof way of shutting these fools up: "Fine, just groun… |
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Post #AtQ5nd65BFCKEL6QoS by [email protected] |
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That is to say, some things are just *complicated*.20 years ago, my friend Kath… |
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Post #AtQ5neA1E5wNWpx5aS by [email protected] |
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All this flexibility makes email *really* popular, and it also means that users… |
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Post #AtQ5neeVOkKL3ODR6e by [email protected] |
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Many solutions were proposed to this at the height of the spam wars, and they a… |
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Post #AtQ5nf7vdLrYWdyvy4 by [email protected] |
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So Kathryn and I were talking about this, and she said, "Yeah, all complex… |
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Post #AtQ5nfbLrxOlztkQpU by [email protected] |
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Open systems - like the web, or email - succeed because they are so adaptable, … |
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Post #AtQ5ng6C1I4JXYB3tw by [email protected] |
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"The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero," because "everything s… |
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Post #AtQ5ngXUNnu2uCwrRo by [email protected] |
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Social Security has to accommodate 65 million variations on the (surprisingly c… |
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Post #AtQ5nh1Gb5iqOYsdrU by [email protected] |
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In cybernetics, we say that a means of regulating a system must be capable of r… |
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Post #AtQ5nhSCyvGzk7U9r6 by [email protected] |
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Anything that complicated is gonna have parasites - once you make something cap… |
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Post #AtQ5nhrjS1gp1HQXdg by [email protected] |
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You can build good fraud detection systems (as the SSA has), and you can invest… |
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Post #AtQ5niHxsUfoKdhUWm by [email protected] |
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But if you want to reduce Social Security fraud from "a fraction of one pe… |
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Post #AtQ5niiuGKDxgCJ0WO by [email protected] |
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For example, you could simply declare that anyone whose life and work history c… |
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Post #AtQ5nj9UfTUX0ekExk by [email protected] |
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Conservatives *hate* complexity. That's why the Trump administration banned… |
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Post #AtQ5nja54cl6L7BTP6 by [email protected] |
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After all, the thing that made your childhood "simpler" wasn't th… |
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Post #AtQ5njzbXjAvcH7rBg by [email protected] |
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Complexity is an unavoidable attribute of all complicated processes. Evolution … |
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Post #AtQ5nkQtuF0eyvtejY by [email protected] |
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It's ineluctably (and rather gloriously) complicated.The conservative proje… |
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Post #AtQ5nksYFR7yMgpjpg by [email protected] |
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Like Social Security, fraud in the immigration system is a negligible rounding … |
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Post #AtQ5nlHijrGDckbq41 by [email protected] |
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It is already so overweighted with pitfalls and traps for the unwary that a goo… |
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Post #AtQ5nlp2jxupI6CS0G by [email protected] |
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After my decades of experience with the US immigration system, I am prepared to… |
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Post #AtQ5nmGh5A28fr8X6O by [email protected] |
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Which poses a problem for Trump and trumpists: having whipped up a national pan… |
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Post #AtQ5nmj3Niic5oPBJ2 by [email protected] |
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For example, you could ban college kids planning to spend the summer in the US … |
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Post #AtQ5nnAhiupvTZLGPA by [email protected] |
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Or you could ban the only research scientist in the world who knows how to inte… |
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Post #AtQ5nnci2nEosQRd3Y by [email protected] |
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Of course, the US has long operated a policy of "anything that confuses a … |
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Post #AtQ5no4iMfdiHHXzhw by [email protected] |
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The only immigration system that doesn't leak a little at the seams is an i… |
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Post #AtQ5noVekVBrcq9VhY by [email protected] |
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The only species with just two genders is one wherein members who fit somewhere… |
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Post #AtQ5np0UtprPAUa8m0 by [email protected] |
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A living system - a real country - is complicated. It's a system, where peo… |
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Post #AtQ5npUH77gCeqVvBg by [email protected] |
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Complex systems have parasites, sure, but complex systems are *resilient*. The … |
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me … |
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Post #AtQeijvrpvIqNRjE9o by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic This is more part-and-parcel than a mostly separate thing, but con… |
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Post #AtQeik2bQsgsiKsbei by [email protected] |
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@jackwilliambell @pluralistic Insofar as conservativism emerges from the desper… |
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Post #AtSUunsKONCOr66f7Q by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic absolutely fantastic. Thanks! |
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@alpradocabrero Thank you! |
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@pluralistic It would be helpful if you would put something more informative th… |
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@foolishowl Please see here for notes on how to read Mastodon threads, and why … |
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Post #AtSUvDpNtwIFLUvg8m by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic such a great read as always from Cory Doctorow |
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Post #AtSUvDwTTZxrhUFLBw by [email protected] |
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@devorars Thank you! |
