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by glurgh 13y ago
I think every time he opens his mouth some shadowy characters in some windowless bunker stateside are ordering another round of illegally imported Cuban cigars and a particularly peaty single malt Scotch. Given the creativity of conspiracy
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by glurgh 13y ago
I don't want to bury you in some dreary repeat wall of text so I sort of combine-replied to you in the response to the upthread poster. As to the quality of his choices, I think that's the actual interesting thing - not whether we
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by glurgh 13y ago
I'd suggest he should have quit his job, made his disclosures and stayed put. Look at the three people in the linked interview - while it's undisputed that they've suffered great disruptions to their careers and lives in gene
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by glurgh 13y ago
Ooof, kind of, sort of, maybe? I can see the argument, at a very high level but I don't think it survives even a cursory examination of the details, which are - by going to HK he's walking into a very convoluted situation the outc
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by glurgh 13y ago
Well, I think I already agreed in the post you're replying to that these sort of revelations are not particularly harmful to any of the state actors involved. They are, though, tremendously harmful to him and his purported cause - to t
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh, agreed that it's quite unhelpful and Snowden revealing details about such activities is a pretty terrible idea. On the other hand, such revelations in general aren't all that new or rare - the most recent one probably being ab
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by glurgh 13y ago
How is it not easy? For every Ai Weiwei whose fame gives him some protection (and who still ends up getting harassed and put under house arrest) there are many Li Wangyangs http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/wo
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by glurgh 13y ago
If developed countries can't trust each other not to spy on their diplomats where does that leave us? It leaves us precisely where we are - developed countries have been spying on each others' diplomats and using their diplomats
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by glurgh 13y ago
I'm not being entirely serious (hard to be, given the little we know) but I'm not being sarcastic, either. Some of Snowden's behaviour has been pretty odd. A variety of interpretations are possible. One is that he's a ma
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by glurgh 13y ago
Hashlife's pretty sweet although that particular answer you can get in time too short to measure by just typing some multiplications and divisions into a calculator. A glider contains 5 cells, a glider gun 36 and after the first glider
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's striking how one obscure blog post can be more valuable than all the media speculation on this question (that I've seen) put together. The infographic is taken from the South China Morning Post, a mainstream media outlet.
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by glurgh 13y ago
This seems highly unlikely given that just about every EU country engages in foreign surveillance. What do you think is the primary purpose of agencies such as the GHCQ or BND?
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by glurgh 13y ago
Yep, that's what I meant, perhaps a little unclearly, by 'game' rather than just 'high performance CPU'.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Some of the (somewhat critical) opinions in that thread are Alan Kay's - worth a read.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Leonov held a press conference and his claim is that he's had access to additional documents that back his theory. Unfortunately the documents themselves haven't been released so this mostly amounts to Leonov re-iterating his posi
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by glurgh 13y ago
Someone's been just about to beat Intel at the high-performance CPU game, any day now, for a couple of decades. The AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola) alliance was very fond of hockeystick graphs showing their planned crushing of other
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's just a roundabout, equivocating way to say 'you're full of it', since that would be rude and against site guidelines.
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by glurgh 13y ago
How hard have you thought about it? What's the line of thought that makes the current government less respectful of the 4th amendment than, say, a government that, with the knowledge and approval of the president, sends a bunch of goon
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by glurgh 13y ago
The parent said that any additional revenue recovered from uncollected taxes will necessarily be spent on oppressing people implied there is no point collecting it. I wasn't starting a debate on how we should spend tax revenue, just a
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by glurgh 13y ago
The threat was real but it had about as much to do with the mutual distrust and, yes, paranoia of two nuclear-armed superpowers as with anything else. A case in point is the mythology you mention - Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident wa
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by glurgh 13y ago
If it's true, 'not good' is a very understated way of putting it. On the other hand, if there's anything this whole clusterfuck has reiterated is that it's best to be wary of uncorroborated, single-source statements
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by glurgh 13y ago
The government at the time saw communism everywhere and Hoover's FBI was eager to paint any dissenter as a communist. The civil rights movement and racial relations in the US themselves were used for propaganda purposes by the Soviet U
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by glurgh 13y ago
Perhaps the OP meant Castro, many historians have interpreted some of Castro's communications to the Soviet Union at the time as calls for pre-emptive or first-use nuclear strikes - this is mentioned a couple of times in the wikipedia
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by glurgh 13y ago
Had me until he drew an analogy between MLK Jr and Edward Snowden.
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by glurgh 13y ago
More (lousy) data is not always better. Facebook's own statement: These requests run the gamut – from things like a local sheriff trying to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to a police department investi
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by glurgh 13y ago
These seem like orthogonal issues, though. Even with the most simplistic tax code conceivable (say, a flat tax) a tax authority would have to examine your self-reported financial data and financial data relating to you reported by third par
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think (and I should have said so) I was mostly responding to the categorical-sounding 'No' at the start of your comment - such transactions do occur, occasionally even for straight up 'services rendered' (with the othe
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by glurgh 13y ago
I wouldn't just not participate in a program like this; I wouldn't work for a company I found to be participating in one. Many (I'd even say most, maybe?) venture-backed startups engage in something like this, though, just
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by glurgh 13y ago
You can't - the government's argument is that you can use the metadata to usefully augment other intelligence/investigative techniques without undue violation of the privacy of, well, everybody whose metadata you've coll
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by glurgh 13y ago
I realized, there was a difference. People in China know about the firewall. That's the part they know about. Political dissenters in China are actively censored, suppressed, imprisoned, spied upon - systematic efforts to access over

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