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by icambron 13y ago
> the authorities truly believe that these leaks are aiding terrorists to evade their surveillance Even if that were true, leaking documents that aid terrorists is not same as being a terrorist. If it were, they would have arrested Miran
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by icambron 13y ago
Thanks for the answer. I'm still not sure I understand this, but I'll do some poking around.
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by icambron 13y ago
> Then it emerges at some different angle Why does it do that? I get why the principle demands that it does and I get why it's a stable solution once it's been made to happen, but how did it actually make the jump from "st
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by icambron 13y ago
I get why the glancing blow is a "stable" solution, but I don't understand what stops me from aiming the ball so that it hits dead on...
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by icambron 13y ago
You can see a slight darkening around the edges; it's easiest to see on the default gray button. I agree: this needs to a be a stronger indicator.
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by icambron 13y ago
According to the article he was offered a lawyer said no. You should basically never turn that down. Also, if someone tells you that you don't have a right to silence, continue being silent . I know that's easy for me to say from
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm no lawyer and I have no specific experience with the law in the UK, but I think the best path here is to shut the hell up and not answer anything until you get a lawyer. He was foolish to turn one down. You may be legally compelled
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by icambron 13y ago
That's a reasonable point.
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It's possible I first heard in the OSS world and imported it to my jobs, but I'm not sure.
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by icambron 13y ago
IANAL, but I'd have guessed that the answer to Kerr's first question -- does an IP address block constitute a "technological barrier?" -- would be no. My reasoning is this: IP addresses change all the time and so a norma
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by icambron 13y ago
If you were one of those people who still -- after all this time -- says things like, "it's OK, [insert law] is only for acts of terrorism", now would be a good time to reconsider that. Or issues of national security or state
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by icambron 13y ago
As I understand it, UK and USA spying are part of a well-connected system also including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I'm not sure there are relevant distinctions to be made here in terms of spying.
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Or making the city a worse place to live.
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Not sure what you mean by "again". > They just can't pay him for having demonstrated a vulnerability by hacking someone's account. I don't see why that is. They already provide the following caveat: > When yo
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by icambron 13y ago
To the extent that "YOLO" can be applied to a variety of things, it does not make a good summary of anything. On critiquing: something has gone very wrong when you're making dismissive and snarky remarks about someone's
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by icambron 13y ago
Repro, with an r. I've heard it more the last, say, five years than previously. Also East Coast.
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by icambron 13y ago
>this would have gone better for all parties if he had used a test account and included some kind of repro instructions Clearly, but that's not really something you can control. From your perspective, the other side of the tradeoff
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by icambron 13y ago
Does it concern you that ultimately the way the OP got your attention is by posting to MZ's account? Are you sure you'd have ever "discovered" it if he hadn't? I agree that the OP didn't do a great job, but if
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by icambron 13y ago
Right, so that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. I don't know anything specific about Astoria Village, but if rich people want to live there (and presumably they do, or else the real estate developers who wanted to build
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by icambron 13y ago
> He has basically engaged in a massive gentrification of the city. Can you elaborate on that? Specifically in what policies Bloomberg supports that have led to gentrification. I ask because often gentrification is an effect of making a
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by icambron 13y ago
I give a different name. My problem isn't so much that no one knows how to say mine; it's that no one knows how to spell it, and since someone else reads it, they generally fumble the totally weird series of letters the other bari
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by icambron 13y ago
What I don't quite understand in this discussion is the either/or nature being suggested here and elsewhere in the thread. There are plenty of opportunities to contribute to OSS in the context of proprietary software. Even if you
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by icambron 13y ago
Right. Snowden's path was a brave one, but that kind of martyrdom can't reasonably be expected of anyone.
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by icambron 13y ago
I don't buy it. For one, the asymmetry in risk and strength between a manned supersonic fighter plane armed with laser-guided missiles and unarmed person on the ground is already massive. Drones should only piss you off slightly more
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by icambron 13y ago
I really like this. As an avid user of Coffeescript, Knockout.js and Erector-style code-as-templates, this is a great fit for me. Additionally, while I now understand how Knockout works internally, I was initially frustrated by how much mag
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by icambron 13y ago
> its hilarious people still dont know what to take off in those lines, i dont blame them for getting pissed. Why is that hilarious? The simplest explanation is that they simply don't know; why do the people running the show get to
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> This kind of sounds like referring to SF startups like Americans refer to baseball championships--'world's' startups ... 'world' series Startups in SV are a subset of startups in the world, and my argument appl
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I don't understand this response at all. "Businesses provide services to people that require those services and have the money to pay for them? Living in a densely-populated area gives you access to such niche services even though
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The lack of a downvote button doesn't imply that everyone would downvote the things you don't don't care about. I don't know him except through Twitter and HN, but I care about his new job and upvoted the article. "
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by icambron 13y ago
Sort of amazes me that you can write an entire article about the dying art of pickpocketing and not interview any of the old picks. Would have made the article a lot more interesting than just some quotes from criminologists.

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