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by grandalf 10y ago
> The proof is in the pudding. Exactly, and while Obama promised "no surveillance pudding" he actually went into the kitchen and made "massive metadata surveillance pudding".
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by grandalf 10y ago
True. The sticky aspect of it is that what might technically constitute wiretapping may not reveal special intent to eavesdrop on Trump or his campaign. But this is precisely what's problematic about the metadata program, it casts a ve
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by grandalf 10y ago
> However, Obama was under intense pressure not to appear to be acting politically. Only to the extent that is typically the sitting president's responsibility to jump on board with the campaign rhetoric of his/her own party.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> I would think there would be far more leniency. I'm less concerned with Snowden's treatment than with the way that our leaders dealt with the revelation that crimes had been committed in the excessive collection of data. In
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by grandalf 10y ago
> people want you to have. Well, putting aside the observation that the documents speak for themselves, and ignoring the inaccurate claims made by leaders to the American people about surveillance, what impression should I have?
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Additionally, I'm not so sure my reply is that great of a defense, I am only stating facts because I do not believe that spreading misconceptions is very helpful to discussion on this kind of topic. This is an interesting point. O
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by grandalf 10y ago
> "See? Trump was right!" rathole. And here we are. Not at all. I don't care whether Trump was right, but I do care whether we have a system where an audit can be done that can actually provide reassurance that inappropri
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Related fallacy: there is not a standard ratio of people who should fail school tests. Fair enough, but then one could argue that law enforcement are under-utilizing the powers they ought to have since so many requests are sailing thro
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by grandalf 10y ago
> As an investigation will occur on this matter What seems odd to me is that this "investigation" takes more than a few minutes. How is a system that allows easy auditing and checks and balances also the same system that take
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by grandalf 10y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful comments. I wish Snowden were a participant on HN so he could address the specific detail points. One recent historical point I'd mention based on your reasoning is that there was a period of time toward th
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by grandalf 10y ago
> He was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type filesHe was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type files. I wish he were a participant on HN so he could chime in here and defend himself. My impression is that he held severa
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by grandalf 10y ago
> a thread about unacceptable reach of executive power This is true no matter who is in charge. > top comment a defense of the sitting president It is not a defense, but if you perceive it that way you reveal your own bias. It is me
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by grandalf 10y ago
It depends on your market power when negotiating your contract. Most employees don't have enough market power to negotiate anything more than a week severance pay.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> There is absolutely an audit trail, including non-repudation for the analyst who performed the query (They must use their smartcard or "PKI"). What do you make of Snowden's assertion that he could have eavesdropped on a
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by grandalf 10y ago
> A number of explanations have been posited for the fact executive pay has soared in recent decades while other workers' pay has remained stagnant. I think a simpler explanation is supply and demand. If you want to hire as CEO some
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Pragmatism is a principle. Sure, but toward what end? Himself being elected? Surely most politicians are of the opinion that simply by having their butt in the chair in the office, good has been done. This sort of reasoning is conside
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by grandalf 10y ago
Well, Mayer faced tremendous reputation risk if she failed. Now that she has failed , she is not held in remotely the same high regard that she was prior to taking the helm of Yahoo. She's also been implicated in some of Yahoo's
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by grandalf 10y ago
> This is kind of rude and condescending and I don't see how prepending it to your comment improves the discussion. Apologies. No condescension was intended. I was amused by the insinuation in the comment that Mayer was chosen for
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Obama would've had to have sign any FISA warrant? No, the straw man argument is that we can tell whether Trump was wiretapped by the presence or absence of a FISA warrant. The president does not sign FISA warrants, the entire pu
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by grandalf 10y ago
> I still think she is the perfect pick for COO of Uber. This is a great idea. I think if it looked like she'd take the position she'd get a call from Larry and Sergey asking her to do them a favor and not take the position so
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Could you provide sources for this? Do you think that Yahoo's board decided to grant Mayer the golden parachute out of kindness, or out of sympathy to a fellow member of the nobility? Mayer and Yahoo's board negotiated the te
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by grandalf 10y ago
> If that's the type of monitoring you mean Not at all. I mean that any number of people inside the intelligence organizations could have opted to "wiretap" Trump and there would have been no audit trail and no warrant. &g
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by grandalf 10y ago
While this article offers the clearest presentation of the issue I've seen to date, I think the key point (which the article points out halfway in) is that the truth of Trump's claim that he was wiretapped does not depend on the p
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly. I think it also underscores Obama's unprincipled, opportunistic nature. This is not a criticism of Obama, I think it applies to all presidents, and likely most elected officials worldwide.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Isn't it unlikely that an individual engineer (or even a handful) could effect a design level compromise on such a massive project as building a processor? Yes, very unlikely. Something like the Intel Management Engine would be a
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by grandalf 10y ago
This is a great question. My understanding of it is as follows: There are legal requirements that force doctors and hospitals to offer only the state of the art care. A doctor who fails to do this can be sued for malpractice. Imagine if a
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by grandalf 10y ago
Of all the attacks a nation state could do, surely finding a few talented people to get PhDs in the appropriate fields and go to work at Intel and collect a paycheck along with a nice stipend from the nation state is likely among the easies
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by grandalf 10y ago
> The Amazon Fresh model is far superior. If the item is out of stock, it shows out of stock. How is this better? Most supermarket items are sold alongside many competing items that are nearly identical. As a customer, I may or may not
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by grandalf 10y ago
> provided by the supermarkets themselves? What service do supermarkets provide themselves? I think it's debatable. Safeway in CA had delivery, and using it was a guaranteed way to get bruised, nearly un-sellable produce. Safewa
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'd much rather have those jobs than many other manual labor jobs. At present many grocery stores are quite pleasant. I don't necessarily want to spend time there, but I'd do it for pay if the wage was competitive with my ot

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