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by rfrank 10y ago
Something something it's literally impossible to hire engineers who aren't showered in toys and treats. But yeah, I generally agree with you. I like my fancy chair because I spend an awful lot of time in it every day, and I'm
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by rfrank 10y ago
Embody, also by Herman Miller.
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by rfrank 10y ago
I've done the same thing by monitoring Craigslist in the towns/cities where places are closing. Ebay probably works too.
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by rfrank 10y ago
When money is equivalent to speech, it's very easy to shout people down.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Yeah, lets take autonomy from people who don't think like us! They don't deserve it anyway!
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by rfrank 10y ago
Definitely all valid points. For me, using bike share systems is ultimately dependent on how long I'm in a given city. I use bike share when I'm in Boston for conferences, because like you my trips there are point-to-point and rac
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by rfrank 10y ago
You're not wrong, I shouldn't comment on hn in the morning haha.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Your participation in the thread is just attacks on the working class, you think you deserve better? For real though, keep it up. People like you are why Republicans are as strong as they've been since the 1920's.
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by rfrank 10y ago
This post is such a perfect case in point for why people hate tech employees it's almost impressive.
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by rfrank 10y ago
How often do you go over the 30 minute limit for a trip? Between the high price of a yearly membership, and heavy bikes that aren't well suited for the hills of SF, buying a used bike on Craigslist seems like a more viable option for m
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by rfrank 10y ago
> going out and engaging the world is potentially dangerous Do you think this is reasonable in the context of expressing your support for the leader of your nation at your workplace? I certainly don't think so.
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by rfrank 10y ago
That the blowback from tech employees is a real thing which directly contributes to lack of dialog between people with different political opinions, and not caring about the individual while imploring the community at large to engage is a r
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by rfrank 10y ago
>Bay Area and for the matter the greater tech community needs to engage the world, not withdraw from it. > Be afraid all you want, doesn't matter to me. One of these things is not like the other.
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by rfrank 10y ago
I work in marketing. Not selling data direct to people like you or I does not mean they don't sell data. Depending on how hard you try, you can get enormously specific with just the data you are supplied by them. I perceive their busin
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by rfrank 10y ago
Yes. Giving the NSA direct access to their databases doesn't seem like caring about user privacy to me. I don't perceive the 'consent' issue the same way; sending an email or uploading a picture to the internet shouldn&#
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by rfrank 10y ago
Why not Google or Facebook founders, executives, and employees whose salaries are paid with the profits of selling other peoples' information? Why not the C-suite of the ISPs who will happily sell user data? Why not the entire adtech i
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by rfrank 10y ago
And the process of creating said legislation out of public view in the first place, and the courts which oversaw challenges to the constitutionality of the US surveillance state who deemed it acceptable. Much like the doctors, lawyers, and
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by rfrank 10y ago
It's a reality of the data vacuum cleaner era, the house that adtech and social media built.
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by rfrank 10y ago
NYT defends its source of leaked information on Trump's White House, regardless of what they do. More news at 11.
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by rfrank 10y ago
> ...these "techniques" do not actually allow the CIA to bypass the encryption... The definition of the word bypass is, "a secondary channel, pipe, or connection to allow a flow when the main one is closed or blocked.&quot
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by rfrank 10y ago
Almost certainly.
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by rfrank 10y ago
And if pirating music involved breaking into the office of a record company and stealing a CD off their shelf, the comparison to piracy might be valid. But it's not.
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by rfrank 10y ago
> Name a fucking job that a mexican worker is currently doing that you would do? Would you pick tomatoes? Lettuce? Will you cook me a burrito? Will you wash my dishes? Will you make me sushi? I have long said, if the Mexican Rapture happ
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by rfrank 10y ago
> Name a fucking job that a mexican worker is currently doing that you would do? Would you pick tomatoes? Lettuce? Will you cook me a burrito? Will you wash my dishes? Will you make me sushi? I've had a variant of all those jobs, so
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by rfrank 10y ago
That comparison is ridiculous, but this is the worst possible forum to address your points. I'll leave it at that.
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by rfrank 10y ago
Paying for it is different than a request, NSL, or other means of coercing a company to do what the government wants. There are significant barriers to the CIA picking the locks of everyone in the world's door, that don't exist wh
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by rfrank 10y ago
> What, exactly, have we learned here other than a spy agency knows interesting methods of spying? That the US government pays software companies to keep their products insecure [1]. Why do you believe that they aren't spying on Ame
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by rfrank 10y ago
Nothing will stop them from using their tools anywhere, which is my point. When the agencies themselves are fundamentally untrustworthy, as they have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be, the distinction between surveillance domesticall
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by rfrank 10y ago
What's that Sincliar quote people like to throw around on here again? Oh yeah, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
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by rfrank 10y ago
Given the track records of the US intelligence community in that regard [1-4], I honestly don't understand how anyone could possibly believe them when they say they aren't using their tools domestically. There is insufficient over

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