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Google Glass, The Corporate Gaze and Mine(creativetimereports.org)
1 points by psn 13y ago|0 comments
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by psn 13y ago
I'm bored; lets go deeper. Why think the man who does not exist exists? why not assume pando made him up, and made the whole story up? The story isn't so implausible that people would doubt it. If anything,the story is toogood - c
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by psn 13y ago
I'm cautious about your Latvia story - its sounds to me like the bike was worried about fraud. Thats pretty common - about half the times I go to the US, I have to ring up the bank and get the card unblocked. That being said, there are
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by psn 13y ago
I can't help but feel that if someone deletes their comment, its polite to respect their wishes and keep the comment deleted.
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by psn 13y ago
To me, this comment is the essence of hacker news. Guy goes around the world. Guy visits tons of dangerous places and miles of border paperwork. One presumes he did a ton of research. And yet, there's a guy on the internet saying &quot
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by psn 13y ago
drive by comment: I don't know what you mean to imply by Oakland (!?!?), but... I took the amtrak south from Oakland, and I was shocked by the level of poverty thats visible from the train.
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by psn 13y ago
Hah. I recall antispam companies doing the same thing - once they got big enough, they demanded money from major mail exchanges. I'm sure companies paid out rather than risk long legal cases and poor PR.
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by psn 13y ago
"The .doc file format was also obfuscated,... it was effectively a dump of the in-memory data structures .... It's hard to imagine a corporation as large and [usually] competently-managed as Microsoft making such a mistake by acci
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by psn 13y ago
I agree with your post generally, but has Snowden said anything about CAs? I did expect to hear that at least one has signed anything the NSA put in front of them, but I don't recall Snowden providing "proof"* of this. * I&#x
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by psn 13y ago
I'm a employee of a large tech company that's being parodied here, and I found this really disconcerting. The scenes with the boss and HR are completely different to my experience. No one cares what I do at the weekend. No one c
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by psn 13y ago
Shrug. The article is mostly a tale of two, uh, causes of excitement. It doesn't make a sweeping claim about getting rid of anything. "continually reduced its nuclear stockpile, or that we've been at the forefront of promotin
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by psn 13y ago
Can you recommend some books on the topic?
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by psn 13y ago
Your comment amuses. On the one hand, its possible that the CIA folks in the article are offering bad advice, either knowingly or unknowingly. For example, I imagine that the CIA has a guy in the basement making fake ids, rather than having
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by psn 13y ago
I see the other pattern - the forgiveness guy grows a rep as the guy who broke stuff, while the "ask permission" guy often finds out people say "yes". The end result is people are happier working with the ask permission guy. Perhaps I'm an
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by psn 13y ago
Not the OP, but this theme (Germany as economic powerhouse, Germany having a large population, Germany being more organized, than say, Russia) is the main theme in Brendan Simms's book "Europe The struggle for supremacy 1453 to the present)
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by psn 13y ago
First thing you might be missing: there are probably a pile of folks on hacker news who don't have money. Students. People who have invested their life savings in their startup. People who work part time and see the world in the rest of the
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by psn 14y ago
The article implies that amazon somehow got the law changed, and therefore it only covers reading devices, not laptops etc. I dislike its tone. Before, no electronics of any kind. Now, reading devices. This is strictly progress[1], and we s
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by psn 14y ago
https://plus.google.com/103382935642834907366/posts/XRekvZgd... is a Chrome developer talking about cache metrics within chrome. He claims the cache is capped at 320MB. Now the graphs in the article never show the cache size hitting 320M,
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by psn 14y ago
I work there as a engineer. The engineers sit in another office around the corner.
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by psn 14y ago
I really liked this post. His experience - there are folk talking on mailing lists, there are folk actually doing stuff, and the two groups rarely overlap - matches mine. The concern I have with gnome 3 is that there is sufficient change
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by psn 14y ago
I found this a pretty interesting read. hackerish reasons: - The scale of the fraud. This guy is making up a race on the internet. complete with other runners, their profiles and so on. Its the sting come to life. - The data based approach
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by psn 15y ago
I work there. Its been four and a lot years. I don't work in mountain view, though. working hours: I average 40h a week. Which is what all the studies say is optimal. The key perk here is picking your hours. If I'm feeling hungover, I work
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by psn 15y ago
I hate this cartoon. it leads real name requirements on sites, in the hope of removing anonymity. This hurts all sorts of groups (see the google+ real names saga for a long list) but doesn't really slow down trolling. You can and do see peo
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Report on System Compromise at University of Edinburgh.(dice.inf.ed.ac.uk)
1 points by psn 15y ago|0 comments
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by psn 15y ago
I suspect that as a result of some out of court settlement with Intellectual Ventures, people are asked to invest. I also suspect that the best lawyers in the world - and apple and google have the best in the world - pick the fights they ha
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by psn 15y ago
https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/commit/33efa5ac62eaf9cf... is the point where I get confused. In a normal tunnel setup, one tunnels at the IP layer, and dumps all IP packets into the tunnel. At the far end of the tunnel, packets are
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by psn 16y ago
Thanks for posting this - its a pretty good example of requirements creep. I doubt that anyone in the fifties planned out that the president would need 16 cars to go anywhere, but thats whats happened. One can picture the Secret Service hol
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by psn 16y ago
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ Tell me when you've done as much as the author. His point - thats we're giving money to companies that for services that they can't provide for themselves - is valid.
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by psn 16y ago
OK, you're running a small non-profit organisation. You get a subset of the records of anglo irish bank, say a truck load's worth. (this is a example, not the current thing they are generating spin about). While most of these documents are
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by psn 16y ago
what we need here is more internet: http://wikileaks.org/media/about.html and search for "Japan".

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