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by mehwoot 13y ago
Yes but you can create your own App Store, and people do. There is nothing stopping new ones popping up if the Play Store starts rejecting a lot of apps.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Firstly, I feel like assuming the government has the ability to monitor your communications and acting accordingly is better than assuming they can't and getting worried when it turns out they do. Secondly, I have zero power to change
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Since more or less all software encrypt their traffic, the FRA-wiretapping is pretty useless. Huh? Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but are you saying everybody uses SSL?
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by mehwoot 13y ago
A lot of people— sometimes the most technically competent ones— were busily telling them that wholesale surveillance was infeasible... greatly underestimating the available funding and ingenuity. The fact that this is happening to _everyon
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I do wonder though whether the benefit achieved by the action stfu suggests might on balance overcome any detriment. Yup, and that's precisely the argument the government is making- the benefit of catching terrorists outweighs any de
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by mehwoot 13y ago
To make people realize the possible consequences of surveillance. If there is a consequence of surveillance that would make these people change their mind, then publishing that information is hypocritical by somebody who thinks it is ethi
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Explain to me then what the purpose of collecting all the public data about these people and publishing it would be.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Each of those tweets I can see says "nothing to hide from the government ". You are not the government. Secondly, the fact that you would stoop to doing exactly the sort of thing you oppose, because these people are on the other
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It was a joke. They are parodying the (allegedly) vague wording that companies used. E.g. direct access to ports 81-49152 on any of our servers. Obviously they could use a port outside that, etc, etc.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It's naive to pretend the trade-off doesn't exist already or that a decision hasn't been made. The trade-off has always existed- a warrant can be produced to violate your privacy. It's just a question of what the proce
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by mehwoot 13y ago
An internet campaign by privacy advocates to shame those people who expressed an opinion. That's a great idea. You should totally do it. This won't backfire or be hypocritical in any way shape or form.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This is silly. It is impossible to know how many other bombings have been stopped because of intelligence gathering attempts. In fact since 9/11 I've been extremely surprised at the low number of terrorist acts which have subseq
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Frankly, I would argue that the 2,400 lives lost at Pearl Harbor pale in comparison to the total number of casualties that occurred during the war in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor was the first act of that war, not a cause of the war. Wherea
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It's the Vietnam war- just declare victory and move on. Better than the promise of the "year of the linux desktop".
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by mehwoot 13y ago
You can redefine screen size into some absurd bullshit, but that just means you are crazy, not that you are right. Except they are not redefining it, that is how it is always advertised. Nobody advertises screen size based on actual area
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by mehwoot 13y ago
> It's their platform and they're not convicted monopolists, so they can set their pricing however they like. I can't speak for countries I don't live in (like the US), but where I live, this isn't actually the case. You'd think it wou
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Why does everyone assume they feel threatened? Crowd funded indie games are hardly destroying their business, or look like doing so anytime soon... Just because someone makes fun of something, doesn't mean they are threatened by it.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3607456/tumblr-20-billion-... According to that, Tumblr had 20 billion monthly pageviews around september 2012. That is about 250 billion pageviews a year. http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/Rough
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by mehwoot 13y ago
But Tumblr had $14 million in revenue last year. I suspect they could be in the black on that, and if not, they're within striking range. Well they clearly aren't. The company has received $125 million in funding to date, including $85 m
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by mehwoot 13y ago
For most customers, maybe, but I suspect there's a pretty sizable portion of the population Yup, and for those two things you mention that you are willing to pay more for, there are probably 98 other things you aren't. Each person will h
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I'd bet the total volume of bitcoins you could buy for physical cash is less than $5mm/yr/person right now, without a seriously high profile. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but couldn't you deposit money into bank accounts in "less stringe
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Yeah, I know. But it isn't insignificant and I can't believe that there aren't people with a few million dollars who want to launder it, and would do so if the service kept existing (or maybe already do). Isn't the daily limit for reportin
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Mtgox monthly volume from bitcoincharts.com: $454,693,733 USD. I'd be impressed at any cartel making $454 million in an hour!!
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by mehwoot 14y ago
I'm rather stunned to see the U.S. government even somewhat reacting to the startup culture. Huh? Path is a company, they broke the law, and were investigated and fined as a result. How is that "stunning"? It happens all the time. It's
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by mehwoot 14y ago
When some has commented "Maybe it's just me, but the Jobs worship on HN is getting pretty annoying.", it is vapid, as you say and without any tangible value or merit. I disagree. It started a discussion and then you replied with how it i
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by mehwoot 14y ago
Hold your horses, I was just replying to your comment, not the article content. If people like the article, they should comment with why. If people don't like it, they should likewise do so. That way people can have discussions. The "if
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by mehwoot 14y ago
this type of comment is lazy and pointless. Trolling at it's most insipid. Here is an idea; if it bothers you that much, don't read it and don't comment on it either.
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by mehwoot 14y ago
They'd still need a collaborative cleaner in between... Such cleaners are easily built in the model you mention. (Out of country, with hands in both clean/dirty channels.) Not really, the government could just say any out of country trans
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by mehwoot 14y ago
This is garbage. I say I am not a designer because my design work isn't of a high enough standard to be professionally acceptable and because it is a waste of my time, and thus my employers money, when I do so. Specialization is a key par
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by mehwoot 14y ago
Who did you vote for in 2012? Ron Paul?

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