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  • Academic security research is constitutionally bad because academia as an environment selects people with a “hacker mentality” out at the freshman stage.

    It’s inherently biased towards rule-followers. That’s not a bad thing, but it means it’s bad at some things. Such as computer security research.





  • This. The Brits have a first past the post system. Greens now are winning mayorships and parliament seats and making deals with labor not to split the vote in their favor because they have been building local support for decades.

    They are a force in their districts, so they get elected to office in their districts. Do that to a few dozen districts and you can meaningfully affect the balance of power in Westminster. Then you start getting into coalitions and supplying ministers.

    You can’t just wake up once every four years and hope to be anything but a spoiler candidate.