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by fabulist 11y ago
The article was not about praising or condemning Telegram, but reporting on an incredibly sudden shift in policy.
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by fabulist 11y ago
The article never claimed they were. It is posing the question; "what happened?"
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Thank you. (Though I'd caution you that working off the clock is an excellent way to get overworked.)
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by fabulist 11y ago
May I ask if your comments in this thread were made in an official/"on the clock" capacity?
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by fabulist 11y ago
Rob Graham doubts this is production code. http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code....
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by fabulist 11y ago
Out of curiosity, has anyone been banned specifically because it was believed they were compensated for their comments?
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I'm glad they're responding to negative public opinion in the only honorable way, driving themselves out of business. It's so rare to see a corporation with values.
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Let's try not to let terrorism enter _every_ conversation.
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by fabulist 11y ago
readtext is a more friendly interface to textfiles.
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It is definitely problematic, and I don't feel great about it. I recognize the need to compensate the creators of the content we consume. But the industry needs to move on from the surveillance business model before it rots away under
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by fabulist 11y ago
No one signed a covenant saying that they would point their eyeballs towards ads, be they web surfers with ad block or television audiences with TiVo. The flip side being, no one (or very few) ever signed a covenant saying they would not sp
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by fabulist 11y ago
Thank you for posting all these old textfiles lately. They make me smile.
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I took a very different message from it. He started out having fun with physics, worked very hard to accomplish tangible things with it, and burned out because that made it stop being fun (to the point where he found it "disgusting&quo
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Some of us have ethical issues with Google, and prefer not to give them traffic.
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For those ctrl+f'ing for "non-paywall", see above.
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I guess my bias is revealed in my conception that Tor browser is something everyone has lying around. If you aren't using plugable transports, installing Tor browser is trivial (single-click configuration after you've extracted th
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by fabulist 11y ago
Perhaps I picked a bad example. People are more likely to say something to the effect of, "Paul Graham is wearing no clothes." People are even more likely to say, "These people who, in the future, will be my potential employe
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by fabulist 11y ago
I didn't mean to say our hypothetical founder joined the thread in a fiendish attempt to unmask the throwaway. I don't think this is a very likely possibility. I do think that they may, opportunistically, hunt through their logs.
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by fabulist 11y ago
My intuition is that police would prefer hostages behave passively to maximize their odds of survival. As problem solvers and technologists it's tempting to think we hold the cards, but I think this is an example of problem technology
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Ask HN: Tor accessibility for throwaways?
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Any application might very reasonably choose to do this. Maybe version X never does, and you can satisfy yourself of this by peaking at the code, but there is no reason to believe that X+1 won't, or that another vendor's product&#
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by fabulist 11y ago
It would be more like, "let the script kiddies using this tool shrug their shoulders when it stops working and switch to another (of which there are legion)."
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Maybe it would be less contentious, but paying telecom companies to deliver Facebook for free is anticompetative and I'm not a fan of monopolies or monopolizing tactics. In my mind, this is an even bigger issue than their lack of frank
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by fabulist 11y ago
Why are you under the impression that people without Internet can't or don't communicate with each other? This is not access to communication or information, it's access to frivolous distraction. Facebook has less bandwidth a
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by fabulist 11y ago
I guess it would be more accurate to say, when I was trying to learn Verilog, people I knew tried to convince me to abandon Verilog in favor of Haskell flavors. This gave me the (perhaps false) impression that this was common practice.
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by fabulist 11y ago
If Arch isn't intimidating to you, you could run "news" (which HN is a fork of) on some machine of yours. (It ships with the language as an example.)
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I suppose it is prudent, then, that most Hidden Services last less than a day. (I can't find the talk which is my source, but I'm fairly sure it was connected to this paper: http://ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013&
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by fabulist 11y ago
I'm not convinced of the value of life imprisonment (or of imprisonment). I only meant to state that the maximum sentence is not related to these perpetrators, but the worst possible perpetrator of a given crime. (Edit: forgot the &quo
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If the aid they're receiving will ultimately be more harmful than helpful? Yes. It is one thing to be self-interested, and another to be duplicitous.
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Not every killer should go to jail for life, but (let's say) some do; thus, the maximum is life. Maybe these brothers deserve 20 years, maybe they don't, but bringing people into a new country, where they will be dependent on you,

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