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by Sven7 13y ago
Thanks OpsGuy :) It was indeed an eye opener. If asking a question, in what generally appears to be an open minded forum of seemingly well read people of above average intelligence, can be this complicated...its easy to imagine why Congress
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Finally someone with a realistic solution that can be politically acceptable. Amazing to watch how defensive people get over a question. So thank you, for showing everyone else who has been downvoting me into oblivion, the right way to reac
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:) unjustifiable huh? Feels like I am in an evangelical church questioning god.
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If you were a Congresswoman, and a terror attack happened in your district, and you give this speech, what do you think the reaction would be?
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Yet politicians the world over, in the aftermath of terrorist attacks are expected to act tough. I have never heard a shit happens lets move on speech.
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This is like saying lets have a lottery every year that picks 3000 people and send them over to the middle east. My point is people have to be pushed to answer the question on how to tackle terrorism to take this debate in a constructive di
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And this comment doesn't answer my question.
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That isn't a solution. Nobody is going to get elected on that platform.
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Solutions please. Rhetoric is easy.
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That's why the surveillance state will exist. Cause the answers are non-obvious. What I find most annoying about the comments on hacker news over the last couple weeks, is the amount of people crying about the problems or potential pro
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And how do you plan to stop the next terror attack?
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Cheating is always going to exist in highly competitive environments. Confusing kids in such environments with excessive focus on honesty and integrity can put them at a serious disadvantage. In my experience, irrespective of country or cul
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What were they living on 20 years ago? Wasn't it less? And yet magically a higher population growth rate was sustainable. At India scale numbers are meaningless and highly subjective.
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I have been down this road before. But what I realized was, when you quit work to go find the "deeper" meanings of life, it is very easy to convince yourself that you are actually making progress when the opposite may be happening
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...also all the beauty, takes a hell of a long time to load.
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In software its all good. And that will always be the flaw in this line of reasoning.
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WebRTC, WebGL, Web Speech et al. make today's browsers look like today's operating systems. So stop making silly jokes and get with the program :p
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If they want to save lives, they are better of putting their dwindling resources, into repairing their roads and improving enforcement of traffic laws. Just to get a sense of the numbers, more people are likely to die on Indian roads every
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Sounds more like a typical 29 year old to me. Doesn't have a retirement plan.
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It takes time and effort to make a good choice "from tens of good alternatives". Its great to have that freedom, but to many, spending that time and effort is an inconvenience. That is the trade off.
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On the flip side, the Washington Post did the whole Top Secret America story and nobody cared. And that was almost 2 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America So while I don't like this form of j
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via Tim Wu's Master Switch - open vs closed = freedom vs convenience It's a trade-off. One is not better than the other.
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:) But think about it...right now they have a random bunch of 10 or so tabs (flights, recipes, patents etc) above the search box. Is that it? To expand search to its full potential that list has to expand. What better way to do it than cr
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Contrast their behavior, with other companies sitting on mountains of cash. They don't need to do this. Yet they do. That's good enough for me. Though opening up their index and creating a search marketplace might seal the deal.
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As long as they cost less than putting up cell phone towers in the middle of nowhere, its all good. Idk but I don't imagine cell phone towers cover a 40km radius. Telco's have no great incentive to do this so kudos to Google. And
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Lacking much imagination. DPRK don't need a server farm just a pen drive from St. Petersburg.
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Ofcourse it leads to escalation. What do you think the reaction outside the US to PRISM is? Are other governments, now that they know the extent to what the US is upto, going to reduce data collection and strengthen privacy laws? Give me a
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It won't happen. Data today holds the same value as nukes during the cold war. A whole lot of intellectual and emotional evolution has to occur, across entire populations, before dismantling either becomes feasible. I have a feeling th
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I support PRISM and don't think Snowden is a traitor. Is that opinion acceptable? PRISM can't be dismantled, for the same reason no one on the planet has figured out how to dismantle nuclear arsenals. The other guy is doing it too
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Elephants can't dance.

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