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by deveac 13y ago
>Having some shiny new method does not mean these people that do not currently use a pin/password will magically start using this. It actually does mean exactly that in the aggregate. There are huge number of people that don&#x2
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by deveac 13y ago
The 'Mine' policy of Hubski makes sense and is a good fit. Hubski employs mechanics that, by their nature, mitigate and solve a lot of the issues that 'Not Mine' policies attempt to address. I agree that those policies o
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by deveac 13y ago
Correct, as Putin pointed out in the piece (in the section I quoted above). The point I was making was that this a political play by an invested actor, not the passionate reasoned plea it was trying to come across as. That was quite an omis
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by deveac 13y ago
He certainly does know his audience, and he certainly failed to mention a certain key foreign power supplying weapons to one of the sides... >This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bl
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by deveac 13y ago
>Hang on - there's a big difference between saying "not all political stories are off topic" and saying "this political topic is on-topic". I'm saying both.
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by deveac 13y ago
>The subject is vast, and it is occasionally technical, I'm saying the subject itself is technical, but I think it's worth pointing out two things: 1) The conversation surrounding it is still more technical here on HN than al
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by deveac 13y ago
Good point. I think "ignore those unconcerned people and those with short attention spans" would have been a better way to phrase it.
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by deveac 13y ago
Of course you can feel any way you wish, but please realize that per the first line of the HN FAQ, this is on topic, and your assertion that valid topics you don't wish to see should be flagged is an abuse of the feature and rules of t
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by deveac 13y ago
>If the subject is not technical, it should be removed/flagged. Incorrect. See the HN FAQ. Political discussions are allowed (saying only that most are discouraged implies that certain ones are. If there ever was one, this is it
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by deveac 13y ago
The subject is vast. The subject is technical. The subject is on-topic. Beyond all that, the subject rises to a level of fundamental importance to a degree few others do. Certainly more than 99% of topics that find their way to the front
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by deveac 13y ago
For all the moaning and complaining I've seen on HN over the persistence of this topic, the conversation still hasn't gotten loud enough, and hasn't gone on long enough. As much as MA rubs me the wrong way, I applaud him here
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by deveac 13y ago
It doesn't make me want try their tablet browsing experience when they screw up the UI on my desktop.
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by deveac 13y ago
I think that the unethical (illegal?) problem is already inked in black and white where the three tiers of market information recipients exist. I didn't make that clear at all in my comment, but yeah, I agree that the 4th tier is defin
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by deveac 13y ago
>Specifically, Nanex saw a spike in the milliseconds before 9:54:58 on December 7th, 2012. To be exact, they saw a flurry at 9:54:57.18, nearly a full second before the "third-tier" algorithmic subscribers got their data at 9:
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by deveac 13y ago
You don't even need to ask if the NSA broke the encryption to answer the question "Is this standard effectively compromised and not suitable for use?" Based on what we already know, keeping in mind the goal of encryption in t
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by deveac 13y ago
>Think of an employee as operating within a sphere of trust -- a set of assets and functions he or she has access to. Organizations act in their best interest by making that sphere as small as possible. The idea is that if someone turns
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by deveac 13y ago
>"I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when somebody possesses material which is secret without having authority." Terrifying. This describes journalists and news organizations unless his proposed ratch
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by deveac 13y ago
>It doesn't seem to have much more impact than when anyone else does it. Not sure how one would measure that specifically, but any sort of public education on the issue by any influencer with a significant network is additive.
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by deveac 13y ago
Well, Jimmy Carter is a former president of the United States, ambassador, and politician. I was thinking generally of famous people that don't have a past or present connection to public policy. Either way though, it's a grey ter
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by deveac 13y ago
I would not think you'd need me to spell it out for you, but I'd wager it is because it illustrates the penetration of a major technology issue into popular culture. An issue who's presence (or lack of) in mainstream mindshar
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by deveac 13y ago
Additionally, the article cites Yahoo!'s threatened display-ad model. Aside from the intangibles of grabbing all of the users of a property that is not only large, but young, vital, and growing, -Tumblr creates content. Yahoo! Places a
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by deveac 13y ago
Not the point. He's effectively equivalent to a TV news anchor reading a a teleprompter about the topic, except his message is being delivered to a larger network than many broadcasts and the message itself is less neutral and more sym
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by deveac 13y ago
This is the first instance I am aware of where a mundane celebrity not known for an interest/connection to tech has spoken out against the NSA on this topic. I'm sure there have been at least a few instances of lesser known person
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by deveac 13y ago
>Actually, you're wrong, sometimes the iOS apps have features that Android doesn't have yet... I didn't say they didn't, nor did I even imply it. Understand that this doesn't change the fact that Google witheld
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by deveac 13y ago
Hard to imagine it will not: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-wh... Google will use Glass to make money from advertisers, -that much is beyond question. PPG is about the least obtrusive (f
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by deveac 13y ago
>we found exactly where the buck stops - not with the supposed head of the free world, but with the practically invisible collection of people and corporations that work behind the scenes to operate the puppets we vote for. This is an
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by deveac 13y ago
Well, Google certainly builds walls for its garden. Looking at things like nuking Reader in favor of G+, nerfing its applications on iOS compared to Android (funny how quickly iOS got turn by turn Google Maps once Apple released its own map
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by deveac 13y ago
I substitute hot chamomile tea for whiskey or water with my lemon and honey when sick. Extremely soothing and performant during flu season. For some reason, alcohol of almost any sort just makes me feel worse if I have a cold.
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by deveac 13y ago
I've read that their digital stores run near break even before. In 2010 CFO Oppenheimer stated that it was near break even. In 2011 it was estimated near 300 million. Now in 2013 it is alleged to be making over a billion: http:/&
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by deveac 13y ago
>Trying to physical destroy copies only resulted in a somewhat burned laptop, and maybe made someone to release an "insurance file". If you buy the plausible argument that this was a UK govt leak designed to discredit Snowden

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