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by ethanazir 13y ago
I'd like to know whether Snowden is still in one piece or if he has been tortured for information on every last CIA officer he might know something about.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
How much does it cost to hire Booz Allen Hamilton?
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by ethanazir 13y ago
the gmail network effect pulls in people who would rather not be grokked.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
probably the last Peace prize awarded under an a priori illusion.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
If I was an NSA analyst who could spy on who ever I wanted, I would not be keen to throw people in jail, but seducing women would be fun; I think there is even a movie about it.
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Silver or Lithium
1 points by ethanazir 13y ago|1 comments
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by ethanazir 13y ago
An MD who is in it for the right reason is hacker; I think Ron and Rand are hackers.
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Hacking the NSA System. How does it work?
1 points by ethanazir 13y ago|0 comments
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by ethanazir 13y ago
I just watched a North America nature show with a group of hawks who conspired to catch game. It had video of several of these big birds working in concert to flush and kill amongst thorns and bushes. Unbelievable theory: those video produc
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by ethanazir 13y ago
For patent purposes: and perhaps English language I would look at New Zealand. I don't know the NZ view on National Security though. Singapore is a tax haven but looks real bad if your not very wealthy. Other options I ignored because
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Consider that he may have whistled heroically or maybe leaked for $million$; i.e. by derailing the U.S. attempt to circumvent tax evaders using Swiss banks which was signed as a deal last Friday; and will now be unlikely to survive parliame
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by ethanazir 13y ago
The new book referenced at http://www.functionaljavascript.com also goes into serious detail on many of these excellent points.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Prism is critical to programming, hacking and startup because it reflects the immense geopolitical power struggle going on in this industry and what you are getting involved with.
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Snowden twist: disrupting secret Swiss banking cartel agreement.(reason.com)
12 points by ethanazir 13y ago|1 comments
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Using Google itself is the biggest problem. Russia, Germany, somebody needs to create an alternative.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
We should resurrect this 2009 Stallman prophecy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318440
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Have a great idea? submit it to us. If we like it we will pretend its our own.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Conspiracy theory presumes a secret: not a fog of misinformation to counter the known and open facts.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
All your government are belong to us. (HN gave me -7 for this statement. But some pts just come back.)
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Prosecutors, like police, have 'discretion.' The ability to decide, hey this is not that important to our community and let it go; there are more important things to do.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
The Mormons don't go on missions to Arab countries, so the Utah spy site is of limited use. But many Israelis on the other hand do speak Arabic; its a secondary language there; so they are naturally a place to outsource electronic surv
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Radical right wing groups like the Tea Party are a National Security threat and it is perfectly legal to spy on these extremist groups without consulting the Judicial Branch because some members of the Judicial Branch are known to sympathis
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by ethanazir 13y ago
I guess people who use encryption stand out. But how can we avoid Watergate type abuse of this information. Say if I'm a Tea Party candidate, I must compete with a one way mirror?
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by ethanazir 13y ago
I went from this blog post; to reading the new Functional JavaScript book, and while I've used underscore for about a year; my eyes were half closed to its 'functional' use; now they are wide open to the value of functional style and e.g. b
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by ethanazir 13y ago
I don't think setting a specific price for issues is a wise idea. However, a crowdfunding feature on public github repositories would be interesting. Just show a list of financial contributors in addition to the code contributors.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
If they think they want this type of employee; they might be better served getting him/her through an acquisition of a start-up rather than hiring someone through a resume and an interview.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Apply for a patent. The office will be too lazy to actually consider what you are doing and give you a license to file abroad which you can show to the feebs to prove you are not doing anything illegal.
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by ethanazir 13y ago
Re #4: The Logan Act makes it a felony for a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority.