amirmc

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by amirmc 13y ago
> "But free customers don't." I respectfully (and strongly) disagree. You're essentially saying that free customers can be completely screwed over and have basically no rights at all (and you seem to be implying th
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "What you shouldn't do is transmitting sensitive information without controlling the end-to-end encryption chain." Actually, this is what I meant and I should have been clearer. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by amirmc 13y ago
If you're asking me specifically, then yes I'd be willing to pay for it, preferably as a part of a set of services/tools (that would need to include imap, contact management, calendaring). I'd happily switch away from G
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by amirmc 13y ago
Yes, we do. Especially all those business users who have paid for GApps and have trusted Google with their comms. In general, we deserve to have more decentralised services that are built on the principle of 'privacy by design',
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I would refrain to send any sensitive information over Google Talk right now." Why only "right now"? Why ever send sensitive information over a 3rd party's server. While I believe that Google will find and
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by amirmc 13y ago
> " ... a PhD is training to become an academic." Back in the day, so was doing an undergraduate degree. If you wanted a job in industry, that's what you did. University was for academic pursuits. > "It's r
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Tube cleaners refuse fingerprint clock-in, union says (bbc.co.uk)
2 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
I'm British and until American TV I'd never heard anyone call them 'Legos'
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "The reason people don't seem to be ganging up on Facebook, Apple, etc. in a similar way is because they never really earned that faith. Take Facebook: from the very start their founder was known to consider their users &quo
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it's game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again." I used to think this but now I'm not so sure. With the way services like FB and others
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Formal school lessons should start 'above age of five'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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Are we close to making human ‘mind control’ a reality?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... unless Mailpile provides PayPal with a detailed budgetary breakdown of how we plan to use the donations from our crowd funding campaign they will not release the block on my account for 1 year until we have shipped a 1.0 ver
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I have not read through TOS..." I think this should be step one. If there are specific terms in there that seem odd, then it's worth calling them out specifically.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I'm sorry, your message makes no sense to me..." I'm trying to point out that the topic is wider than power emailing as these feature changes affect everyone. You don't get to choose which ones to adopt.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "The topic at hand is power emailing. Not people who write a message to their family once a week as the majority of their email." That use-case is completely valid. Unless you're going to argue that GMail is meant to
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by amirmc 13y ago
Indeed it does. When I posted my comment, the additional questions about tools and coolest thing you've built, were not appearing. Edit: As mentioned in a sibling comment, This appears to be an issue with Safari where items 'below
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by amirmc 13y ago
The form only asks for education and where you've worked. That's a limited definition of higher standard (especially for hackers and designers). You also wrote this [1] back in 2007. Have your views changed since then? [1] http
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by amirmc 13y ago
PG has kind of already written about this: http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html
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by amirmc 13y ago
This is exactly the kind of acquisition that can help drive even more adoption of a service since it's obvious to users how the two companies complement each other. This is also one of the very few acquisitions where I've read &qu
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by amirmc 13y ago
There's damming with faint praise, or the non-commital 'yeah, he worked here between these dates'. Neither one of those says anything bad per se, but they can signal the unwillingness to provide a good reference.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Be very careful with this approach. You've no idea what those above know or do not know and if handled badly, it could blow up in your face.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... you literally have no incentive (besides immediate salary) ... Resigning may give you better options later on than getting fired. It's going to be tough depending on how well you can function on reserves ..." The
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "The closest analogy is a postcard, and that's the analogy that is often used." Yes, the closest analogy is a post card. No, I do not believe it was the one used most often. Perhaps now it is, but not in the early d
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by amirmc 13y ago
Which the machine won't recognise as a person (and will discard). It would take a human to track you but that's old school. Of course, that's only until gait recognition takes over from face recognition.
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by amirmc 13y ago
I notice the article didn't use it as an acronym - BOSS "Biometric Optical Surveillance System"
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "You should expect that everything you put anywhere is going to be read by spies. That's why spies exist; to gather information" That's ridiculous. It seems like you're condoning mass-surveillance by saying &
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by amirmc 13y ago
This is basically a rephrasing of the meme "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product". That meme is grossly outdated. It's entirely possible (and happens) that you can be both paying for a product and
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'Money reduces trust' in small groups(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
That doesn't mean people will know how to use them. It's easy to understand what you do with a slip of paper (keep it with your passport, show it when asked) vs get this app, keep phone charged, open app and bring up pass when r

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