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Amazon is staffing up for its $600 million cloud for spooks
- hkmurakami 13y agoDiscussion from 3 months ago when the news first broke. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403733 "Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal"
- taternuts 13y agoI know the area, and their used to be a building that was pretty much known to be some kind of CIA building. They made it 'fit in' by covering the building with fake windows, although I did see them doing some renovations on it so I'm not sure if that's still the case.
- stevehawk 13y agoAll black one? now an all white one? didn't belong to them.
- taternuts 13y agoI don't know if it had a color, really, as the whole building was covered in fake windows so there wasn't much color showing. It could be all white now, I'd have to look next time I go by.
- stevehawk 13y agoI assume you're talking about the building that was at the SE corner of 7100 and 286, off Sunrise.
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- ck2 13y agoHopefully half-billion taxpayer funding to Amazon will bring down consumer prices even further elsewhere in their network. It's all "fun and games" until that network is hacked and info on half of the United States is copied to a foreign country or a foreign mafia.
- tropicalmug 13y agoWhy does Quartz allow for their menu bar to resize for any window size but prevent the article pane from doing the same thing? I get large grey space on the right side of any story that I read on a large-enough monitor.
- wtvanhest 13y agoHonestly, their UI is so terrible I have decided not to even click on any more of their links. Its like they designed it to be user unfriendly.
- sneak 13y agoI'm glad it's not just me. I read a proposal today for bp;dr (behind paywall, didn't read). Can we have an acronym for "fucked up zoom on my ipad"/"doesnt even render with ghostery enabled"/"stupid marketing modals render it unviewable"/etc?
- mcovey 13y agoui;dr Unusable interface, didn't read. It's also fairly self explanatory!
- kryten 13y agoAt least you can read it. On a windows phone it just redirects to the start page and there is no link to the article. Utter crock.
- dfc 13y agoOne thing that’s mysterious, and possibly telling, about Amazon’s job announcement for a “Systems Engineer—Government Cleared” is that the location of this job—Herndon, Virginia—may or may not coincide with the location of the CIA’s own cloud computing centers. This is not mysterious or surprising. Herndon, VA is full of entities doing TS/SCI work. It would be mysterious and surprising if the job announcement was in Kohler, Wisconsin.
- xauronx 13y agoWhere I come from "spooks" has two meanings, and neither makes sense here as far as I can tell.
- _delirium 13y agoIt can be a slang term for "spies", and sometimes by extension, anyone who works for a secretive government organization like the CIA or NSA.
- caw 13y agoYes. There's even a TV show named "Spooks", though they renamed it for the US/Canadian audience. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160904 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160904
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