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by dictum 13y ago
Idea: A label of Dr. Bronner's Soap with text generated by Markov chains from usually overblown content, e.g. spammy e-books. A @bronner_ebooks of sorts.
902.
by dictum 13y ago
A few guesses: social isolation, physical isolation (spending all your time in the same places, e.g. living alone and only leaving your house to go to work, or working at home), burnout, unemployment, unfulfilling jobs, childhood traumas (e
903.
by dictum 13y ago
Those glasses are a pragmatic solution to a moral problem, so there's not point in discussing the moral problem, and your parent is presenting a pragmatic (as depressing and curtailing to personal freedom as it is) solution in counterp
904.
by dictum 13y ago
Good. EDIT: My overly clever pithiness that doesn't add to the discussion stems from having seen too many similar posts for every social network or mobile app since the early 2000s. Any service that relies heavily on everyone buying in
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by dictum 13y ago
>Let me break this to you gently. The government is not interested in your conversations with your aunt, unless, of course, she is a key terrorist leader. I'm quickly becoming the go-to person for "what about the foreigners&quo
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by dictum 13y ago
It is the same prize once awarded to Kissinger, after all: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
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by dictum 13y ago
Can't wait to learn how, like "collect" now means inspect, "monitor" now means permanently store. Assuming storage, it's simple: metadata, deduplication, compression, selective monitoring, keeping only the logs
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by dictum 13y ago
>I don't think Mr. Snowden is a patriot," Obama said, adding that Snowden had legal means to bring his concerns to light. Such as voicing his concerns to a superior, getting his clearance revoked just because, and then ranting
909.
by dictum 13y ago
I just realized this is the domestic version of "...and you are lynching Negroes!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
910.
by dictum 13y ago
Is it necessary to call attention to a form of surveillance by downplaying another? The NSA apparatus will be very useful for those who love to perform these searches on black people. Sharing of information between agencies and departments
911.
by dictum 13y ago
Even trying to be less trackable makes you more unique.
912.
by dictum 13y ago
What saddens me is that while in the 2012 elections it seems most Obama voters were effectively choosing the lesser of two evils, in 2008 they were voting for Obama. They believed in what he was supposed to represent. In retrospect, maybe
913.
by dictum 13y ago
>Since the NSA's vast data-gathering programs were revealed in June, the president has repeatedly said he would encourage a national conversation on the need for U.S. surveillance while respecting people's right to privacy. Let
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by dictum 13y ago
Speculation: 1. American citizens do not believe the people running the US government are or could become corrupt; 2. They haven't considered, or are not bothered by the fact that their habits will be shaped by the fact that someone is
915.
by dictum 13y ago
I'd be discussing on HN if a shadowy entity suddenly put a backdoor on a service I run to watch my customers' actions within the app. And I'm still very much annoyed that, as a foreigner who happens to have American customers
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by dictum 13y ago
>I tensed up as he began to tell me that the Chinese have been utilizing the Noisebridge TOR exit node. He made it seem as if it was a very real threat >“There are times when they slip back into Cold War thinking and Cold War mentalit
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by dictum 13y ago
I'd say they've already found another hose: self-driving cars. How they'll get them to market is the question.
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by dictum 13y ago
ROT13 is ready for enterprise.
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by dictum 13y ago
>Do you think every country, and every country folk, would let the government pass a bulldozer all over their rights like this? If your government is not willing to pass a bulldozer over its rights, the US are more than willing to bulldo
920.
by dictum 13y ago
They have a dedicated service for SaaS companies, Saasy ( https://saasy.com )
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by dictum 13y ago
A country cannot be on the United States' good side without bending to its will. Also, the governments of other countries would love to have a peek on whatever intel the NSA has regarding their enemies. So, if the US wants your data, t
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by dictum 13y ago
If Lavabit allowed large attachments, I'd say photos. 122KB is the average. The majority of emails were probably 1-2KB. Then newsletters, around 50KB. Lastly, emails with attached photos, ~5MB. Probably follows a simple Pareto distribu
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by dictum 13y ago
First they came for the foreigners...
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by dictum 13y ago
I have a lot to learn from the whey protein industry. They've managed to convince people who have never stepped foot in a gym to drink the old whey and maltodextrin concoction and call it a revolution.
925.
by dictum 13y ago
Intrusion with a 3D-printed key is deniable, while breaking a lock isn't. Someone could enter your house with a printed key and you'd never know it; a destroyed lock would immediately tell you someone broke (or tried to break) int
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by dictum 13y ago
>wget http://shortfin.io/install.sh && sh install.sh Isn't it recommended that any project doing one-line installs use HTTPS?
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by dictum 13y ago
>I think if we're going to do extensive foreign SIGINT --- and, sorry, we just are going to do that --- we should at least firewall it off from domestic law enforcement A personal question, sorry: legality and constitutionality asid
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by dictum 13y ago
I do not know if there's a word for that (imperialism doesn't seem quite right), but the US are totalitarian in regards to other countries, and they've been so for a long time. Now some of the tricks learned from speaking s
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by dictum 13y ago
Great idea and great execution; beautiful landing page. I think it would be nice to have the option of putting the tab on the sides (left and right) of a page, too. I've seen this on some customer feedback apps. I didn't check it
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by dictum 13y ago
Then you should be creating $198 papers and hoping someone buys them. EDIT: It's easy to be dismissive of a company, occupation or field of business. Nielsen just happened to at the right place when the web became big as a commercial m

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