A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
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- Feb 7, 2023
- #FreeSpeech #Law
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loop...
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Number of Pages: 304
ISBN: 0393866661
ISBN-13: 9780393866667
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Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
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Mar 22, 2023
This is great. @ShellenbergerMD and I both wondered, when we saw coordinated efforts by would-corporate competitors to suppress speech, why no one was looking into potential antitrust issues there - kudos to @JudiciaryGOP for investigating. Why no Democratic interest?
quant @quant
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Aug 16, 2023
This is such a great read that I have to quote a part of the book:Basically, if you understand a system well and deeply, you don’t have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
You can look for flaws and omissions in the rules.You notice where the constraints the system places on you don’t work. You naturally hack the system.
And if you’re rich and powerful, you’ll likely get away with it.