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by deleted_account 14y ago
I don't understand the vitriol aimed at the recruiter. Any developer in the Bay Area with a LinkedIn account gets a dozen of these a week. The author just isn't interested in working at a start-up, but god forbid he receive a recruiting ema
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by deleted_account 14y ago
As an employee, knowing this only costs the company $5.00, this wouldn't even register in my "total compensation" calculations. I mean, it would be like them sliding the offer letter over the table and saying with a wink, "Annnnnd we'll buy
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by deleted_account 14y ago
I didn't get any sense that the author was expecting others to divine the solution to his problems; I think he was just irritated because they were besieging him with "concern" without actually helping any. Therein lies the contradiction.
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by deleted_account 14y ago
I think it's more sad to expect others to divine the solution to your problems when they have no point of reference; I think it's sad when expressions of love and concern are rebuffed with a dismissive, "But you don't understand ." Of cour
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by deleted_account 14y ago
"It only takes one crazy dick to cause dicks for generations to be forever mutilated, The Butterfly Dick Effect." What am I reading.
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by deleted_account 14y ago
Why after months of research, stringent requirements for data centers, and general hand-wringing, would you consciously pull the plug for 9 minutes? Edit: That sounds snarky; didn't mean to be. It just struck me that a lot of energy was put
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by deleted_account 14y ago
"First they came for Facebook's right to collect all of my personal information, and I didn't speak out..." Tragic. You managed to think yourself into a corner where a law protecting personal privacy from corporate misuse is an attack a
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by deleted_account 14y ago
Hm. That's a weird trade-off, but whatever. The thing is though: these guys aren't secret vigilantes. 25 years ago they'd be war-dialing every number in their city prefix ('cause Mom and Dad would get pissed if there were long distance char
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by deleted_account 14y ago
/facepalm Anonymous is really embarrassing themselves. Trying to connect the dots from doxxing "management at community banks" back to Aaron Swartz is so cringe worthy I can only shrug and assume they're doing it for the lulz. row row fight
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by deleted_account 14y ago
Really? That's ultimately your beef? "It ruins my social life."
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by deleted_account 14y ago
Great example, let's run with it... By your analogy, COPPA would be the law that prevents people from collecting and selling children's organs. Because kids are gullible and and it's easy to convince them out of a kidney or two. Except repl
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by deleted_account 14y ago
When you define it as such, yes. But here's the distinction: the "protection of privacy" is not a subset of the "protection of children." You're throwing COPPA into the same bucket as every other misguided attempt to shelter children from
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by deleted_account 14y ago
You seriously misunderstand COPPA; it is not designed to protect children . It's designed to protect children's privacy .
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by deleted_account 14y ago
No, I assume it's intended to protect the privacy of children. Seriously, go read it ( http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm ). You're getting your jimmies rustled under the pretense that COPPA has anything to do with protecting children from th
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by deleted_account 14y ago
No, that's not the practical result. You don't run afoul of COPPA by just knowing someone's age; you get into trouble when you knowingly collect the personal information of children under 13 without their parent's permission. Honestly, I
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by deleted_account 14y ago
The investigation was launched due to Path uploading people's entire address book to their servers with out the user's permission. I have little sympathy that such a casual disregard to customer's privacy would come to bite them in the ass
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by deleted_account 14y ago
You know that the "PP" in COPPA stands for "privacy protection," right? It's not "child protection."
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by deleted_account 14y ago
Are you kidding me? A "Show HN" to an imgur link of a photoshopped UI? Be honest, this is thinly (poorly) veiled ad for New Relic.