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Off topic: "If there is one thing the world needs to do more it is laugh." I always pondered about 'humor' being discouraged on HN being a GOOD thing, because
by singularity2001 8y ago
Off topic: "If there is one thing the world needs to do more it is laugh."
I always pondered about 'humor' being discouraged on HN being a GOOD thing, because it saves real good humor from reddit-like automatisms.
- singularity2001 8y ago"However, equating Beijing to Washington in many of these specific [surveillance] issues is simply non-sensical authoritarian apologetics." Here is where you[1] are dead wrong. Collecting the data is the original sin. Once our profiles are created it is only a matter of time before they will get abused. Yes, by a (future) evil government. [1] (the author, probably the only one reading through those 100s of comments) "I always ask people where they are from." How about: "What do you DO?"
- throwaway37585 8y ago> you are dead wrong So you're equating Beijing to Washington?
- singularity2001 8y agoonly in specific [surveillance] issues
- throwaway37585 8y agoYou think Beijing and Washington are equal in terms of surveillance?
- singularity2001 8y agoI'd estimate that the US has more data on you but china has more live surveillance.