Kylekramer

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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Why force them to sell one product that is worse (capped) instead of two products with clearly delineated use cases?
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
If you put it in those terms, yes. But you are the one who put it in those terms. No one said a black president has lower standards for the job, they said it was notable that a person from a community who has been historically marginalized
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Depends on use case. Location history, you can just keep using Google Maps. Telling others where you are: http://www.glympse.com/ , but that is more for a specific period of time rather than passively sharing it as Latitude
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
I think the gloating is deserved, particularly as a message for the HN community as it currently evolving. There was a fairly large pile-on of people vehemently disagreeing with tptacek despite him presenting an entirely reasonable argument
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
I think the answer is pretty simple and has nothing to do with a philosophy about simplicity and quality. The reason is money. People tend to forget how Gruber makes his money and how that affects his blog. It requires companies with produc
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Not to be rude, but "doing fine but they weren't able to grow" sounds like PR bizspeak for "unable to sustain themselves". It isn't like Opera is a company that can really grow Fastmail when they haven't
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
They sold to Opera, so clearly it wasn't sustainable by itself.
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Nope: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
But Yahoo did comply, they just fought and failed. If anything Yahoo proves these companies didn't have much choice.
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
We have primary documents supporting a very small subset of what he says. Most of the claims, including the more extraordinary ones such as he can wiretap anyone in the world including Barack Obama's personal email from his desk, remai
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Maybe I am a cynic, but how does a book that is unremarkable in every way besides its hidden true author and only sold 1,500 in the UK get reviewed in the first place? It seems a little too perfect. Famous author, sometimes painted as medio
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
How does that follow? It is not just about the cost, but the amount of utility for the NSA. There are plenty of free services that are not on the PRISM list and I am sure even Apple employees would freely admit their pre-iCloud user numbers
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Well, in the NSA's eyes, that main difference is important. Free (and highly pushed by the very popular iPhone and iPad) meant people actually starting using iCloud. The cost-benefit analysis shifted tremendously from .mac/MobileM
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
How is DDG not an advertising company already? One of the top hit on every search I do on DDG is an ad (actually in my testing I found if I do an informational search like "Barack Obama" I get an ad on DDG and none on Google). If
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Yes? That seems unrelated. Amazon didn't get to their position via M&A and the DoJ not approving certain M&A doesn't mean monopolies are illegal. The government certainly doesn't like monopolies, but as long as they
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
The most favored nation clauses and the subsequent agency deals that were pushed on competing ebook sellers by the publishers make it clear it wasn't just Apple and partners working in their own venue to raise prices. It was a tactic t
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
This angle of "why prosecute Apple when Amazon has the monopoly" is just lazy. Monopolies, which Amazon does not even have and is unlikely to gain, aren't illegal. Conspiring to raise prices is illegal. Amazon just has the po
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Words have connotations whether you mean them or not. It is hard to see how you could not foresee a negative reaction to calling a woman being featured in a professional context a "chick".
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
There is a problem with broad statements like the grandparent comment. College students buy water everyday without trouble, people own guns without being harassed daily, people makes bets daily without any trouble, people make joking threat
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
I imagine it has something to do with the fact Ghostery is owned by an advertising company. Not sure if that is this particular "attack", but a lot of people use it without understanding why it is made and it periodically gets wid
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
How does that follow? I know the NSA is enemy number 1 around HN right now, but how does saying they don't object to lawful protests imply that if they did object to the lawful protests they would disrupt them somehow? If my aunt had b
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
I propose a third: they didn't see threats of public assassination of Occupy participants as credible. Considering the assassinations didn't happen it wouldn't be the worst course of action.
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
You saying "trust me" doesn't feed their family. Looking at my Facebook page, there are dozen of people I personally know desperate for jobs. Even their belief that working for the NSA was selling their soul was taken for gra
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Maybe I am way off base, but I wasn't under the impression college recruiters were in a position of power when it comes to employment.
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
I imagine the fear of not being able to provide for you or your family takes precedence over privacy concerns for the vast majority of people. There was a news report about how 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck last week. I'd
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
We are talking about a person who responded "LOL" to questions about whether his magazine's articles would be able to be sent to competing read it later services (he has since just changed that to "No"). There is a
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
The lack of "mass" is going to be a real problem. If you add up the visible numbers of people following their social sites, it is hovering under 25,000 with about 20,000 of that number coming from their subreddit. It would be fine
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
What is the difference between asking for extradition and pressuring to deny asylum? It just seems like anyone could make that accusation who flees a country to avoid a trial.
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Accusing the United States of depriving him of the right to seek asylum seems like a tautology to me. If the United States wasn't attempting to bring him back to the US for a trial, he wouldn't need to seek asylum. Does this mean
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by Kylekramer 13y ago
Snowden himself made a similar claim minus the clearance part: "My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” he told the Post on June 12. “That is why I accepted that p

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