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by carboncopy 11y ago
The lede: residents of Louisiana, Minnesota, and New Hampshire (and New York next year) are not able to use their drivers licenses for various purposes, including domestic air travel, due to the failure of these states to require proof of r
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by carboncopy 11y ago
This sounds like something that has happened in your experience, but I've never heard of this phenomenon before. Do you have any articles or studies that talk about this as a trend or normal occurance? Counterpoint: the remote workers
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Does SpaceX have any contracts that aren't for the U.S. government? Aren't most of their aeronautical engineers former NASA employees? I'm sorry to get stuck on the Elon Musk side comment, but NASA is still doing really imp
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by carboncopy 11y ago
> the moonshots are privatized and the liberals are unhappy about it I've never heard this take before, can you elaborate?
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I agree with your statement. I think the clamoring for entitlements and awareness is driven by veterans advocacy groups, not the veteran community as a whole. In my opinion, it's a reaction to the neglect and apathy that veterans of
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Thanks, sorry about that.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
How on earth does your assertion about the NY state capitol's journalistic coverage relate to a statement about press coverage at the national level? How can you assert reporters are vulnerable to influence, when you're replying t
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Glenn and Laura travel to the United States frequently for speeches, and interviews. Appelbaum does get wrongfully harassed when he enters the U.S. Poitras's and Greenwald's behavior support a conclusion that they are not afraid
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by carboncopy 11y ago
You must be joking. The Pentagon Papers were broken by the New York Times. The "Deep Throat" espionage controversy with President Nixon's administration was broken by the Washington Post. American filmmaker Linda Poitras in
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by carboncopy 11y ago
A simple "no, I don't actually know" would have sufficed. I'm not asking you what episode of Blacklist you enjoyed the most, I'm asking you about real life. The lavabit company was served a real warrant made by a
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Why do you think it would be trivial for three-letter agencies to do those things? Is there a legal mechanism, authority, or track record for such a thing? If you're talking about Dual_EC_DRBG, that was a non-trivial, poorly-kept secre
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I have to admit that I ended up skimming over the rest of the article after the false choice of "unicorn or nothing" that the author characterized about SV. Even limited to YC companies, what percentage are unicorns? And is ever
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by carboncopy 11y ago
When I made that comment, there were 3 others in the thread. Next time I'll put a timestamp to add context (I'm not being sarcastic, I genuinely recognized the ambiguity)
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by carboncopy 11y ago
> crime [has gone up] as well. Despite what the talking heads may have you believe, crime has dropped significantly in Seattle since its population and economic growth. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Seattle-Wa
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I think you're making an enormous intellectual leap from the data you have (someone with greater than 500 karma clicked a glyph of an inverted pyramid). api's answer is the most complete response to the question so far.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Sadly you're right, our tax bucks are going to go toward huge overcharging by these companies. As of 2013, the FBI was paying $325 per wiretap ( http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07&#x
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Do you have any evidence that he tried going through the official channels for any amount of time? The only evidence shown was an email where he asked about executive orders vs legislation to the office of legal counsel for the NSA during
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by carboncopy 11y ago
No, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. If Snowden truly is a hero, then he has to be held responsible for the outcomes of his actions. By definition, heroism involves intent and responsibility. Snowden was a steward of the document
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by carboncopy 12y ago
> That's pretty much how I feel about the Fox-watching population of the US. I used to think the same thing, and to some degree I think it holds truth. But after spending lots of time with my right-wing family, I think it's a
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by carboncopy 12y ago
I disagree that part of the mission of a for-profit organization includes responding to costly censorship measures from another country's government. Github would lose significant respect by folding, but unless they're ultimately
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by carboncopy 12y ago
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted; I think differing opinions are the heart of HN. > so-called "official secrets" requiring security clearance granted by party members It appears that you're not from the U.S. o
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by carboncopy 12y ago
Thanks for providing context. It might be unfair to thrust GitHub, and all Chinese developers into this fight. The Chinese government— if the DDoS fails — may very well just block access to Github, developer needs be damned. Of course tha
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by carboncopy 12y ago
> And it doesn't seem so bad since we're the good guys. I'm pretty sure that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. > Post-Snowden, check your premises. What premise are you making? That the United States conducts espionage?