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by pionar 13y ago
I think your view of history is just as myopic. The NSA has been around since the 50s and the original FISA of 1978 was written specifically because it was revealed that the NSA was spying on domestic targets at the request of Nixon. Every
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by pionar 13y ago
Really? Are you kidding? .NET as it stands, is way ahead of other virtual-machine environments. What are you basing this on?
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by pionar 13y ago
The problem with your argument is that it's not that he blew the whistle, it's that he didn't do it in a responsible manner. Also, whistleblowing doesn't always include breaking a law or contract. Also, he also exposed
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by pionar 13y ago
They did change it, except for the one thing the provider of the so-called "open" API doesn't even do - HTML5. Why should Google hold MSFT to that standard when it doesn't even do it itself? I smell the same anti-trust
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by pionar 13y ago
It's a raw deal for the cable companies, too. They'd rather do an a la carte format, but the networks bundle themselves. It's like this, ABC, which owns ESPN (one of the most watched TV networks) says that if you want to ca
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by pionar 13y ago
Good comments, plus, if you can do it, it might be wise to have a version of your product that's not SAAS. A self-hosted version, like Github Enterprise. Be careful, though, self-hosted customers can be huge PITA's.
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by pionar 13y ago
How is walking into a public space and having a conversation with someone an invasion of privacy?
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by pionar 13y ago
I suspect they've already chosen the new logo, but are showing off the "also-rans" first.
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by pionar 13y ago
So, then if it's that important to you, give the people giving you the cover of HTTPS some money, stop being a cheapskate.
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by pionar 13y ago
this is actually to lastlogin. Your answer is 2.
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by pionar 13y ago
Americanesque? 80 hours? 3 hour commute? America is bigger than SV, my friend. Here in the midwest, you'd be VERY hard pressed to find a tech person that works more than 45-50 hours on a rough week. The longest I've ever comm
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by pionar 13y ago
What is there to feel shame about? Opinions are just that - opinions. You shouldn't feel ashamed for people that have different opinions than yourself. That seems overly judgmental and elitist, especially the "relatively rural&
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by pionar 13y ago
Hmm, why not look into laptop docks? That's how we do it at my company. Each workstation is just a dock, screens, and mouse and keyboard. You can move around anywhere really easily.
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by pionar 13y ago
Does anyone else think we need a new open-source widget toolkit? Qt, GTK, and what else is there? Those guys are old. I've done both, and WPF, and WPF is just so much better. I wish there was an open-source toolkit that didn't
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by pionar 13y ago
A reply does no such thing. They can say that your request is denied without even looking to see if the information exists first. They're not saying, "It's there, we're just not going to admit it." They're say
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by pionar 13y ago
You're right about the citizens thing, but multiple court cases over the years have asserted that constitutional protections only apply to "US persons". So, citizens, legal residents, non-legal residents, visitors, anyone ph
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by pionar 13y ago
> you're doing it not in some hypothetical utopian future I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. I really hope it is.
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by pionar 13y ago
Oh, they know. Legislators have pretty high clearance.
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by pionar 13y ago
How so? It says "All Customer Data" and across all their products.
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by pionar 13y ago
But phone calls are not supposed to be public, and web crawlers only access items which are public, so your argument isn't valid.
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by pionar 13y ago
Never said it was disbelief, just pointing out that AI is not a reliable source for news. But, I misunderstood the parent's point. So I stand corrected.
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by pionar 13y ago
No, but not everyone has the resources (encouraging parents, teachers/community leaders that help, etc.) to do it that I did.
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by pionar 13y ago
With this and the send snail mail through the web thing from earlier, you could mail yourself a letter without leaving the house. Internet complete.
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by pionar 13y ago
I'd say it's just coincidence. The White House doesn't decide to take a policy position like this "over the weekend". I'd bet it's been in the works for a couple months, they've just been nailing down the plan and the wording.
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by pionar 13y ago
But it's normally not a good idea to grow by "hiring a lot of people fast". Startups outside of SV aren't really interested in the rocket growth. What happens usually is that companies with that hockey-stick growth generally just have a l
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by pionar 13y ago
I find myself falling into this sometimes. I came from a relatively poor area and family (at least by US standards), and sometimes foolishly get the attitude briefly when confronted with poverty of "I got out of that, they should be able t
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by pionar 13y ago
AI isn't exactly an impartial source either. That's not a news article, it's an editorial.
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by pionar 13y ago
I noticed the other day (through an email I received) that it's no longer available through Kindle.
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by pionar 13y ago
But, that's not what your argument was. Your argument was pretty aristocratic. It's like saying, "Stop being ugly, I don't like looking at ugly people". Very dickish to say, as people shouldn't really give a shit some random dude at the
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by pionar 13y ago
It's interesting that most of the countries with the higher levels of paid vacation and holidays have some of the absolute worst economies. Portugal? Spain? Italy? France? Greece? Yeah, how's the guaranteed vacations and holidays working o

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