Extending on your line of thought, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was morally justified because the collateral deaths of the innocents in those cities caused the Japanese to surrender to the Allies, thus ending the war and limiting further casualties. My grandfather supported those bombings using the same line of thinking. I'm not so sure it was, though.
Wow, a huge mine of personal data for corporations and the government to sift through. Generating a large amount of data to obscure important data and patterns only works if there exists no means to sift the data.
But that's where modern informatics comes in.
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Extending on your line of thought, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was morally justified because the collateral deaths of the innocents in those cities caused the Japanese to surrender to the Allies, thus ending the war and limiting further casualties. My grandfather supported those bombings using the same line of thinking. I'm not so sure it was, though.
How about diethyl ether?
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Wow, a huge mine of personal data for corporations and the government to sift through. Generating a large amount of data to obscure important data and patterns only works if there exists no means to sift the data. But that's where modern informatics comes in.
When you want to do something again... again.