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rpgmaker
10y ago
This reminds me that I was always disappointed when they didn't include a Stalin reference when he was mentioned.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
I can't find this on archive.org. I want the epub download (if available), does anyone have it?
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Also, > But we were confronted with documented evidence in 2013 that even what most people would consider to be a fairly forthright upstanding government was abusing these capabilities in the most indiscriminate way. This really does d
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Oh, so that's how it's done? I always thought there was a formatting rule I was missing. Thanks.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Right, because everyone just has their own "platform". And one that can compete with Amazon no less.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Apparently not even whatsapp is a "blockbuster startup" either.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
That's very unfair. The author took the time to share his knowledge about legal issues surrounding startups and, as is customary when legal matters are discussed, he provided a disclaimer to avoid personal liability but that doesn'
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Thanks.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> The fact that Sam Altman is turning this into a public spectacle is further evidence that he knows YC fucked up badly, and probably doesn't have a legal case. The only reason to write what he wrote is if you're out of actual
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Jeremy is left in what at first glance seems to be a scummy position but we live in the real world here and from the looks of it he does have a valid claim here. Sam says "Kyle made an extremely generous offer to settle this claim by
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> Government is not as stupid as we'd like to think. Government doesn't believe that "terrorists" will stop using encryption. These laws are not for "terrorists". They're for us. This is one of the thin
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rpgmaker
10y ago
His point is that the government asks for this information, maybe as a requirement in order to procure official documents needed for everyday life and business. There's not much to do when the government of your country makes your givi
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rpgmaker
10y ago
I'm am sorry but what kind of security researcher can claim that this breach isn't serious? The electoral implications may be a bigger controversy but to suggest that the breach isn't serious it's insane. What is describ
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> Imagine for a second that the San Bernardino iPhone had used Touch ID, don't you find it highly plausible that the US government would be able to find a good fingerprint that could be used to unlock the phone? I guess they even ha
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Does anyone know if this is the last installment or how many there will be?
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> Wow... Seems to me that the guy is far from being over with his burnout. He's still obsessed about work, numbers... and went from reading "non-technical" books to "self-help" books aka psychology technical book
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Not necessarily, govtspeak explanation[1]: Normally, one would think that a communication that has been intercepted and stored in a government database as “collected.” But the government’s definition of what it means to “collect” intellige
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> I remember briefly using evernote in 2013 and finding it confusing, cumbersome, and pointless. I don't need this huge app to store notes. I completely agree with this but ours seems to be the minority opinion given Evernote's
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rpgmaker
10y ago
The investigative side of BuzzFeed isn't given the credit it deserves, particularly from the HN crowd. When most major news organizations have reduced or flat out dissolved their investigative units BuzzFeed has been spending more and
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Well, they are... the question is: are they "collecting" you?
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Thanks!
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Which is why I qualified it (' depending on where you live ... '). The article is about how the practice is spreading around the world.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
There was another, longer excerpt featured on HN recently does anyone have the link? I think it was also on the NYT. Or maybe it was a profile about HubSpot written by another person. Not sure anymore.
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rpgmaker
10y ago
I googled images about this practice and I saw some of the boxes were being left on the floor. I certainly hope that people aren't leaving their babies in these boxes ON THE FLOOR overnight. I don't want to sound morbid but depend
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> But the greatest flaw of this - and most analyses of the antebellum era - is that it does not sympathize with the problems of the past. I think you're critiquing a different article than the one submitted here. The author never qu
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rpgmaker
10y ago
I know you see it as a reasonable "middle ground" solution but you have to be aware that you are still telling FB a lot about yourself. The fact that you only added your actual friends the second time may even make it easier f
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rpgmaker
10y ago
> To me, Comey is a man who has lost the goal in pursuit of his particular mission. Many of his statements pretty directly show that he doesn't care about the collateral damage to innocent people's privacy or any founding princ
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rpgmaker
10y ago
Thank you. If that is indeed the case then I'm left asking the same question.
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rpgmaker
11y ago
What makes you think that they aren't doing that already? That seems like the first thing anyone would think of doing.
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rpgmaker
11y ago
I was going to say the same thing. I still upvoted the comment because it's true when applied to most wars (and devs working at BigCos).
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