dfundako

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by dfundako 7y ago
Are people literally burning investor money?
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by dfundako 8y ago
I think a fun thought exercise is finding the fine line between tech and guns/alcohol/cars. You cannot sue a gun/car/alcohol manufacturer if their product is used to injure someone because it functioned as designed but w
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by dfundako 8y ago
I would be shocked if LE started using this tech, imprisoned a bunch of people, and used the excuse "Well, we followed the FAQS." I would imagine they would work very closely with Amazon and run a ton of calibration. For the ACLU
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by dfundako 8y ago
In my opinion, this is where the crux of the misinformed population epidemic resides. Sensational headline that causes mass amounts of doubt, panic, uncertainty, and outrage will get thousands and thousands of retweets and shares, yet the v
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by dfundako 8y ago
I concur. I really enjoy reading the comments section on some websites because there is some very insightful discourse happening that offers counter-arguments to the points in the article. But I am thoroughly unimpressed with the HN communi
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by dfundako 8y ago
Are you seriously asking if the situation of the TSA is different than the situation of the SS in Nazi Germany?
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by dfundako 8y ago
'startups cleaning up plastic' on Google is a great starting point.
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by dfundako 8y ago
I believe there is a huge difference between you working on something that has the main function of facilitating an illegal enterprise and you working on something that has a tiny minority mis-using your product for illegal purposes. Silk R
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by dfundako 8y ago
>"For example call someone once a day just to check if they are ok." You mean like a telephone?
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by dfundako 8y ago
Discussed quite a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443727
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by dfundako 8y ago
You calling others retarded and saying their arguments are stupid is hardly 'rational arguments'
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by dfundako 8y ago
Let's not go ahead use 'Retarded' as a pejorative word. There are more constructive adjectives to use to get your message across.
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by dfundako 8y ago
Even though this sounds like an incredible minority of employees at moment based on the article, this along with all the other flak the big tech companies are getting could potentially impact legislation on how much power they have and even
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by dfundako 8y ago
124,000 employees at MS and 'several' are upset and two are considering leaving.
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Amazon: Get Out of the Surveillance Business(action.aclu.org)
1 points by dfundako 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Should hi-profile tech people keep personal views off social media?
1 points by dfundako 8y ago|1 comments
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by dfundako 8y ago
As odd as it is that people can use religion as their motivation for refusing to do something (refusing to sell alcohol/pork to a customer as a store checker because it is against their religion to consume those things), the free marke
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by dfundako 8y ago
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17143452
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by dfundako 8y ago
There are also lots of people who equate receiving negative, honest feedback with being attacked.
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by dfundako 8y ago
You are right. What it seems like a lot of people in these comments are saying is that the question perhaps should not stop at "Do you feel welcome?" because that only explores feelings of one side, which is highly subjective. If
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by dfundako 8y ago
SO could make a site with all the same content, downvotes disabled, comments disabled, and all flags disabled. You would also get random upvotes to reinforce that your question was good. That would make everyone feel safe and appreciated si
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by dfundako 8y ago
I too was wondering how this shakes out. The vast majority of <100 rep users I come across that ask pretty dicey questions have a default user profile picture or a picture of something that is not a person, not associated with an ethnic&
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Amazingly Good Security(twitter.com)
61 points by dfundako 8y ago|9 comments
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US Senators send letter to Grindr inquiring about data policies(twitter.com)
1 points by dfundako 9y ago|0 comments