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NSA will have a lot more documents now in their collection to analyze.

• kevincrane 13y ago
  It's like we're not even trying to avoid cliche comments any more.
  • electic 13y ago
    It's Tuesday night, it's late in SF. Still at the office. I felt MS Office Online should have been free from the start. So having a bit of fun, no need to be serious and write 5 paragraph comments analyzing the news, how you feel about the news, and how it impacts the industry. Sometimes being cliché is exactly what is in order.
    • corysama 13y ago
      Jokes on HN are strongly discouraged. As much as people like them, their presence creates a feedback loop that drives the noise-to-signal ratio through the roof. Jokes can be made, understood and voted up very quickly. In a democratic situation like HN, this leads to a large volume of replies and up votes that quickly drowns out all relevant conversation. The more threads that feature jokes, the harder it becomes to discourage them in the future. It seems the fate of all vote-based forums to eventually devolve into a sea of memes (HN -> Reddit -> Digg). HN's anti-humor downvote brigade gets a lot of pushback, but they are so harsh because they are doing their best to hold back that tide.
      • kevincrane 13y ago
        No, I like jokes, don't get me wrong. I'm just kind of sick of the NSA being dragged into subjects that don't warrant it.
  • futurist 13y ago
    Cliche? No, it's a reminder Microsoft sells it's users down the river. Maybe you don't, but some people actually speak up for their rights.
• icpmacdo 13y ago
  I feel like it is very unlikely that any of the documents saved on this service will ever be of interest to the NSA so I would guess this would just add more noise
  • futurist 13y ago
    The Russian people thought similarly in the 1920s about their letters and conversations - until in the dark of the night family members were dragged from their beds and deported to the Siberian tundras to die.
    • BuckRogers 13y ago
      Aren't you a downer.