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by clicks 13y ago
This sentiment was also echoed by Snowden in the original video interview. He supposedly had greater insight as to how civil rights at large were being violated, only because as a sysdmin he (and not others) had a broader picture of what
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by clicks 13y ago
Don't worry, you were already on their list. HN fields roughly 200,000 unique visitors each day, most of which have a markedly anti-gov't-spying slant[1], that's enough evidence to be in their cross-hairs. [1]: Such that in s
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by clicks 13y ago
Good catch -- and really, I find it to be quite foreboding in terms of how indomitable it is precisely because of the secrecy of the program. "This was a secret treaty, allegedly so secret that it was kept secret from the Australian Pr
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by clicks 13y ago
In most cases people who commit suicide are in ill mind (clinical depression, psychosis, and so on), so I don't think calling it 'sinful' is such a prudent choice.
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by clicks 13y ago
E la carte has you covered then: http://elacarte.com/ It's a Y-combinator funded company by the way. I really hope it catches on big really quickly, I think it's just wonderful.
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by clicks 13y ago
The album 'Let It Be' (which was performed at the famous rooftop concert) came to be precisely because of McCartney's insistence that they for once create an album without any double-tracking, fancy technology, etc. and perfo
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by clicks 13y ago
So, by that logic, the Beatles at about the time Revolver was released... were not musicians. Because, as you may or may not know, with the Revolver album they became a studio-only band. They neither wanted to play concerts (they were sic
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by clicks 13y ago
Is there ever really a case where the server is so bad that you have to take it to the manager? In my 14 years of frequently going out to eat I am hard-pressed to recall even one such instance. I think it is quite peculiar that the service
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by clicks 13y ago
What a lousy hitjob. Offering loan backup vehicles, a backup gas tank, etc. are not necessarily "shortcomings" or "apologies", they're things to make the vehicle a little more affordable and a little more practical.
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India's attempt to ignite a startup boom(management.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
One interesting implication is that Chromecast will probably affect Smart TV sales -- because justifying the extra few hundred bucks to get a smart TV vs. just a dumb 1080p TV just got a lot more difficult. I was planning on buying a Smart
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by clicks 13y ago
Cool, I didn't know this. However, still I wonder if that's enough. I mean, I can imagine that could get annoying really fast considering ! is a little tough to get to on the keyboard. Maybe a modal switch (a la vim, a mode for fu
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by clicks 13y ago
Those very basic operations work, but it's not feasible yet to use it exclusively as a shell and be able to do anything moderately complex without getting fancy with subprocesses and so on. Though, it's been a while since I used i
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by clicks 13y ago
Woah, support for inject HTML, etc. sounds very interesting, and seems like a big deal. On another point: I'm increasingly intrigued by the idea of having something like IPython (or perhaps, IPython itself) be used as your command-line
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by clicks 13y ago
Do you know a lot of Hacker News is not indexed by google?
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Joseph Bonneau, 2013 NSA award winner, holding a Reddit AMA (reddit.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
I think it would be appropriate if someone just made a short video clip out of that.
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by clicks 13y ago
You make good points, but I think you overlook the fact that when you're in a climate where anything goes -- a climate that has come to be that way precisely because of a series of complex precedents where it had been unclear where the
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Russia won’t extradite Snowden to US – Kremlin(rt.com)
140 points by clicks 13y ago|66 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
I switched to DO a few months ago, ... and just recently switched back to Linode. I'll pay the extra few bucks for reliability and decent uptime. I had very frequent downtimes and the support was often unhelpful. I heard from others th
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Senate bill authorizes sanctions on any country offering Snowden asylum(washingtonpost.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
No, I meant in this limited context Russia has been given the whiteknight image. Hence my use of scare quotes. Sorry if I was unclear.
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by clicks 13y ago
No, he probably did not plan on ending up in Russia, but he has been wise in dealing with the situation he was put in with the very limited number of options he had. That he is still alive, well, mentally sound, able to freely speak to jour
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by clicks 13y ago
That's an over-simplistic view of things and implies that Snowden is perforce the lesser fool. I think it's rather more the reality that Snowden has been quite wise in his planning: he is aware that he is putting Russia in a posit
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by clicks 13y ago
Because it's a poetic, hacker'ish celebration of something that all --err, some of us love so dearly.
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by clicks 13y ago
> The Gmail team realized that there is spam that's not spam That is a very good way to put it, and is just how I feel. It's too bad they were criticized that the tab move was just all about more effective advertising (it may b
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by clicks 13y ago
Looks good, is to the point, very convenient -- tells you what to say, who to say it to. Wonderful job guys. I think this is going to be a pretty effective grassroots campaign.
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by clicks 13y ago
And yet I still think the reason it happened was not because of gov't intricately and carefully orchestrating things with great forethought, it happened because media corporations went after easy profit and found out that pandering to
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by clicks 13y ago
And that is a-okay with me. I say that because the term 'wealth redistribution' when it's used usually carries with it a loaded connotation, which I'm not sure if you meant to communicate across or not. It's vitally
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by clicks 13y ago
One possibility is having it be CG. Under current law that is illegal.

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