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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
It's so transparent, it's anything but genius. They've taken a completely disingenuous stance in order to manipulate the less logical. Is their PR consultant Hannity?
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution basically says there is no justification for such powers. The entire foundation of the the US Government is a warning against the centralization of power. China operates like you describe and people
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
We already have the safest, most prosperous society in human history. We need to stop taking individual freedoms away just to move the needle a fraction of a percent.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Well, various people want the government to do something to the "other," and these people just disagree about what they want the government to force people or groups of people (i.e. corporations) to do. Others just think we should
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Actually, Mastodon can be set up on your own hardware, with only people you know IRL and be exactly a feed from your friends. You can disable the federation if you want as well.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Perhaps on the first subthread that is the case, but reading through the entire thing paints an entirely different picture. Especially if you focus on comments from more frequent HN participants.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
How do you think Telegram plans to monetize? I realize they had an ICO that raised $850M, but that is not a sustainable revenue mechanism in and of itself.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I would argue Telegram is more of a social network than IM, especially with the channels feature. Its successful growth can be attributed to its viral/network features, and certainly not its crypto.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
OWS does not provide the encryption for those services, they just designed the protocol and helped them implement it. I don't mean to be pedantic, but words matter in this circumstance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
It's hard to believe someone with a PhD in CS (almost), and who values privacy, would not take precautions to mitigate any ability for a large corporation in the age of "big data" to aggregate their data. Let's be clear:
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Why would anyone want to work for someone where the applicant's name is relevant? Think of it as a filter to get rid of shitty employers. As someone who hates pictures, I never smile for them either. I find the grammatical errors menti
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Google Maps was basically pieced together from smaller companies they acquired. From Wikipedia: Google Earth was originally developed by Keyhole, Inc., a Mountain View-based company founded in 2001. Keyhole, after being spun off from Intri
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
That still leaves $99,563M. I'm not familiar enough with the details of the defense budget, but when looking at budgets, in general, the focus should be on line items that move the needle significantly.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
When people refer to the military industrial complex, they are referring to the businesses like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc. that are the private companies involved in designing and building weapons.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I don't know where you live, but when I looked at for Colorado back in 2010, the state's Public Utility Commission regulations require cars to be 7 years old or less.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
12 years ago, one of my biggest customers for RFID tags was 3D Systems. They put them on their consumables exactly for this purpose. I don't follow that industry, so I have no idea what goes on at this point. And, for anyone interested
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
The whole idea that the Constitution is a living document is a myth. There is a process by which we can alter the Constitution, but it isn't by reinterpretation. The federal government is meant to be constrained in its powers in order
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
My belief is that they are still profiling their spammers, and are not acknowledging anything specific as a sort of 'poker face.' >people are trying to give these companies the benefit of the doubt. I think that's a good
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I've got many friends in unions (e.g. pipefitters/welders) and based on the stories they tell me, unions need a 21st century reboot. They need a simple platform to organize/communicate digitally. Do you know of anything that
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I think a specific subdomain or directory for all corrections would also be helpful. Visibility should be long term without an expiration or redirect.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
>Just take whatever is posted here and reverse it. Considering the myriad of viewpoints shown on HN, I don't think that is a reasonable take. I first learned about Bitcoin on HN in 2010, long before it became well-known. Also, when
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by 18pfsmt 13y ago
I get that completely. It's just...I don't believe using 4k bit keys would expose the system anytime in my lifetime. I, obviously, could be wrong. But, I think I would take that chance. I was just hoping someone could convince m
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by 18pfsmt 13y ago
Putting forth a good-faith effort, towards an admirable goal, is not grandstanding, the way I see it.
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by 18pfsmt 13y ago
Couldn't your organization participate in some capacity (i.e. $ or talent) in order to attract more customers and/or talent?
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by 18pfsmt 13y ago
I realize not reading Bitmessage's documentation is lazy, but could you explain the inability to scale such a system? Is it simply the chicken or the egg dilemma of nobody using it currently (and so, pretty much the same issue BitTorre
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by 18pfsmt 13y ago
So, what you are saying is that nobody else, but you, should ever have access to your private key, right? I'm pretty sure that's PKI 101, which I think was Karunamon's point; and, I'm pretty sure the solution to your p
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I'm pretty sure your parent was referring to people that purchase domains without any purpose other than selling it to someone that actually wants to use legitimately. I don't think he/she is trying to figure out why people buy domains and
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Does anyone else find it odd that the OP is using "a ideal?" I realize we are not all native English speakers, but this kind of crap just kills me while reading HN. I normally keep it to myself, but since this post pertains to education I t
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I'm curious how the GP's question can be construed as "good" when there exists a blog post that explicitly addresses it. This indicates the GP didn't do even cursory research to determine the answer for themselves. In other words, the GP wa
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I almost down-voted you, but then I thought about it and I think you have a point worthy of discussion. The core of Github is open source, which allows for interoperability and confidence, but what they have built on top is proprietary and

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