[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Based on the rate of commenting, I guess HN just really really wants to speculate on all the ways they'd have secured things differently in the capital building with retrospect and with absolutely no idea what the circumstances are that went in to the decisions made. So much so that one hour-and-change old thread on the subject just wasn't good enough. It's still on the front page ffs.

Threads like this make it very difficult not to get all ranty about how awful and arrogant tech people are.

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This kind of thing (multiple posts on the same hot story) happens all the time, every day. It's a stochastic process and always works the same way. Reading a narrative into it is (over)interpreting randomness.

[hilbertseries]

> I guess HN just really really wants to speculate on all the ways they'd have secured things differently in the capital building with retrospect and with absolutely no idea what the circumstances are that went in to the decisions made.

You say this like there's a good explanation for the department of defense rejecting requests to deploy the National Guard after the capitol building had been breached.

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It also highlights the unashamed US-centric view of this place.

These kind of events happen all the time in other countries and you don't hear a peep on here, and rightly so it's considered off topic.

But it happens in the USA and it's all over the front page because it's a "new phenomenon".

No, attempted coups are not a new phenomenon, nor are stolen laptops. It might seem that way to most of us US citizens but the USA is not immune to events like these.

As with most things, real politik will ensure things continue in stability. As with any other failed coup, no coup can suceed without the support of the military. Not to mention the wider global political community would do their best ensure that Biden keeps power unless there really was an overwhelming case that Trump had full command of everything.

This thread is just "nerd-wanking" about how if they ran IT there they'd have everything permanently under FDE with 3fa, physical lockouts and a whole host of other things that users would do their best to work around lest they spent half an hour every day waiting for their bitlocker resets on their 512bit entropy randomly generated passphrases.

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I think it's a LITTLE significant that this is the first time the Capitol has been breached in over 200 years.

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It's significant yes, but it's not a new phenomenom.

It's "the Capitol" to you, it's "The US Capitol Building" to the rest of the world.

Is it newsworthy? Absolutely! But it's not a new phenomenon on a global scale, and it's very US centric to claim otherwise.

"First time major thing happens to <country>" happens all the time globally, but only when it's the US that it goes from off-topic to allowed content here.

And that's OK, it's their news site, they set the rules, but it uis jarring to come on here and find essentially general news content and commentary.

[afterburner]

Lol I'm not even American.