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> if I didn't know her personally I'd be starting to wonder if she was, for whatever reason, unable to pass muster at Google et cetera. Not the best decision to
by username223 9y ago
> if I didn't know her personally I'd be starting to wonder if she was, for whatever reason, unable to pass muster at Google et cetera. Not the best decision to drop that after a day of drinking together. But I'm glad I did--it was apparently the nudge she needed to quit.
So she stopped being an indirect servant of popular will, and started selling ads. Great.
> She now works in the private sector and is thrilled with how much closer to her intelligence her new colleagues are.
Not only richer, but less moral and more likely to pat herself on the back. Even better.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoAds are incredibly useful and have prevented trillions of dollars of waste.
- username223 9y agoAnd sold cigarettes. Don't forget that.
- jstanley 9y agoHe didn't say she moved to Google.
- fulafel 9y agoServe Trump and the runaway deep state, or serve spam. That's bleak. That's not the only two options though.
- shliachtx 9y agoNot to get into the politics of it, but isn't the"deep state" supposed to be the entrenched government employees that work against Trump?
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- Xorlev 9y ago> So she stopped being an indirect servant of popular will, and started selling ads. Great. You do realize Google does more than sell ads, right? Search and Maps alone are tremendously useful tools, not to mention the dozens, hundreds of other products. Drive, Docs, Photos...
- PakG1 9y agoMost of which are funded by selling ads, and then feed back into the cycle though, right? But I'm not as cynical as gp about it.
- username223 9y ago> You do realize Google does more than sell ads, right? Search and Maps alone are tremendously useful... Proftable? Not so much. Google is a surveillance company that currently makes money off ads, and gathers data through Maps, Search, Drive, Docs, Photos... Think about what happens when the current ad bubble pops.
- Semiapies 9y agoAnother POV might break it down as: stopped helping spy on her fellow citizens and got an honest job.
- willstrafach 9y agoMight be good to cite sources with direct evidence, if you’re claiming that somebody broke the law.
- ewjordan 9y agoSnowden let that cat out of the bag years ago in voluminous detail. You absolutely do not need to cite sources re: illegal NSA surveillance anymore.
- willstrafach 9y agoIf you believe that his claim was proven by a leak, I am not sure why it would be difficult to produce a citation. My understanding is that it is not a true claim.
- ewjordan 9y agoHis claim was the leak, and it was huge, and I'm not going to dig through it for you for quotes just because you're a contrarian. The NSA did a shit ton of surveillance that was not justified under known US law, and that's pretty well accepted at this point. What claim don't you think is true? Was the NSA not indiscriminately scooping up and querying communications between US citizens?
- willstrafach 9y ago> What claim don't you think is true? Was the NSA not indiscriminately scooping up and querying communications between US citizens? Correct. That would be a very big deal in my opinion. After reading through the hundreds of source documents leaked by Snowden, I did not find evidence of any sort of mass collection on US persons. Only foreign collection, which is the job of a spy agency (Perhaps plenty of ethical arguments there of course, but that is besides the matter of USPI collection/reporting).
- dang 9y agoWould you please not post this sort of nasty snark? Even if you're right, the acid rots the container here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You break the HN guidelines quite a bit like this, so we'd appreciate it if you'd clean up your act.