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by grandalf 10y ago
No, he was not really ever a reporter there, just an intern briefly, who overstated his involvement on his resume.
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by grandalf 10y ago
It's a new trend, and to date the reporting has been so strong that it will take more than a few Thiel stories to tip the balance. I'm hoping they come to their senses. They've been doing a lot of "in group" focuse
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by grandalf 10y ago
While I think The Intercept is the most important news organization and overall a profoundly beneficial force in the world, I think it's important to note that The Intercept has been on a path to discredit Peter Thiel as retaliation fo
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by grandalf 10y ago
In war, morality is a propaganda technique to convince mothers to let their sons die hero's deaths, and to convince the young and foolhardy to join a crusade that is likely to result in their death. Periods of the biggest moral clarit
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by grandalf 10y ago
Does this mean that fintech firms get taxpayer bailouts?
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by grandalf 10y ago
This is the sort of thing that ought to terrify the makers of legacy automotive technology, both for how Tesla might scale production, but also how Tesla might become a lot more aggressive with its intellectual property strategy.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think this is just due to a misunderstanding of how genetic traits and risks work. Insurance companies may be angling for the government to be the insurer of last resort for the most costly genotypes. If there is anything that it makes se
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by grandalf 10y ago
> The dystopia might arrive someday, but not now, and not in the near future. Democrats (yes, it was all democrats) got it done seven years ago. Fortunately most people (or someone they care about) are likely enough to suffer from a gene
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by grandalf 10y ago
I hope someone who understands the article can offer an explanation about whether it's possible to use the 23andme data to speculate about one's own susceptibility to this.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Your guy is. I'm not defending Trump. His campaign strategy was to say somewhat ludicrous things and then when challenged, double down on them, thus amplifying the PR impact. To be quite clear, for every person who socially share
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by grandalf 10y ago
> More directly, looking at the approval rate for FISA requests without also looking at the high approval rate for search warrants is going to cause you to reach nonsensical conclusions So you are arguing that search warrants are always
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Did you forget that this metadata collection ended? I do not believe this to be the case. We have been reassured multiple times that our agencies are not eavesdropping, etc., yet revelations have continued to emerge that these reassur
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by grandalf 10y ago
> LOL. That's absurd on its face. His deference to Russia and Putin is complete... Just to be clear, there have been two factions in the US with respect to Russia after the wall came down. Obama did not view Russia as a threat and
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by grandalf 10y ago
> The hacks used implants that were only ever used by the respective groups, which had only targeted organizations that the Russian government was pursuing and were known to be RIS groups So you're arguing that if you were state spo
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by grandalf 10y ago
> We were discussing the Muslim registry that Trump wanted to implement, which goes far beyond NSEERS. Right. Trump stopped calling for this after he was briefed on the metadata program and told "hey we have the best registry you co
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Read them again. I just read them again. There is clearly a great effort being made to embellish the evidence so that it seems like state actor caliber work. I think we can safely assume that the US and Russia conduct steady amounts o
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Trump's counterintuitive, but consistent behavior. What behavior? I read a few more articles on this and unless Trump is very stupid this is NOT the way he'd strengthen Russia at the expense of the US. If he wanted to do tha
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by grandalf 10y ago
> pretend there are no patterns. The only pattern is this: Trump says something outrageous and gets the media focused on what he said. This continues until he says another outrageous thing, attracting attention at will. He's like
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by grandalf 10y ago
I do not pay attention to Trump or anything he says. I think your perspective on these issues is unduly influenced by Trump's claims and your conviction that if Trump claims something it must be false. > And, where else do we advoc
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by grandalf 10y ago
> U.S. intelligence conclusions that seem to perfectly explain Trump's otherwise inexplicable behavior. I think this statement needs to be flushed out a bit to understand the absurdity of it. What is the objective of Trump's b
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by grandalf 10y ago
The attribution of those hacks did not implicate Russia and especially did not implicate Putin. There may be other, secret evidence that does, but it was not revealed to the public for scrutiny. I think it goes without saying that Russia e
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by grandalf 10y ago
> As long as in-house counsel says it is probably fine, the programs go ahead. Yes, I know that all agencies have a John Yoo who is ready to write a learned legal argument for why their actions are within the law. This means nothing. &gt
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by grandalf 10y ago
> you assail the document, but do you expect them to divulge sources and methods? Of course! After the multi-Trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq I absolutely think that the raw evidence for grandiose claims about foreign threats must be disc
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by grandalf 10y ago
> the notion that we would have "likely" engaged militarily is not only unfounded, it is highly improbable. I think you are mistaken about this. There was great disagreement between Obama and HRC on how to handle Russia, and m
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by grandalf 10y ago
> this would have been far better for critical discussion if they figured out a way to declassify actual evidence. True. I think it's very important in situations like this to recall how the alleged evidence for the Iraq war turned
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by grandalf 10y ago
> the government had already stated the program would be replaced. Has the program been replaced? How do comments from high level officials denying that US citizens were being surveilled en mass fit into the picture? What justification
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by grandalf 10y ago
> was that the intelligence came more from humans sources rather than signals intelligence. My read of it was that there was not any human or signals intelligence, only that the idea that Russia meddled in the US election fit with an est
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by grandalf 10y ago
examples? There was not really any press vetting of the information so it's been difficult to evaluate the claims. I do think it's troubling that major news orgs won't go near the details.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think you mistake my intent as being to defend Trump. My intent is only to highlight that a surveillance system that is designed to circumvent accountability is ripe for abuse. This includes abuse of power, but also abuse such as makin
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by grandalf 10y ago
> There was evidence, as repeatedly and publicly corroborated by 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. This is one of the false statements that gets repeated over and over. There was not evidence presented to the public, only an assessment in

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