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> My support for encryption and private communications has been consistent and unwavering So tell me about that support. I use signal for security. That is pri
by ghastmaster 4y ago
> My support for encryption and private communications has been consistent and unwavering
So tell me about that support. I use signal for security. That is priority number one. This is the only statement in the message that explicitly mentions any support for security. Most of the rest of the message in fact focuses on aspects other than security.
She is very good at saying thing's that have no substance. For example, "So I bring a clear understanding of the environment shaped by the dominant tech business model, and of what it takes to build tech that rejects this model", is not explicitly stating she rejects that model, just that she is familiar with it. The message is full of implied, not explicit statements of principle.
I am a little disheartened. This message serves to make me pay more attention.
- _nalply 4y agoWhat I expected is a concise message of goals. What I found is that my eyes glazed over.
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- _0ffh 4y ago>She is very good at saying thing's that have no substance Jives with her qualifications, which are a bachelor's degree in Rethorics.
- ticviking 4y agoThe Rhetoric here is terrible though. That or we're not the audience.
- UncleMeat 4y agoJennifer Widom was chair of the CS department at Stanford and is now Dean of the Engineering school there. She has a bachelor's degree in Trumpet. Criticizing people for their undergraduate degree is foolish.
- _0ffh 4y agoYou mean mentioning someone's qualifications in order to inform a conversation, like you just did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073? Jennifer Widom has a PhD in computer science from Cornell, btw. I don't see how they are comparable in any way.
- FabHK 4y agoYes, would have been nice if the statement had been more about the product and the product strategy than about the author.