sage_joch

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by sage_joch 13y ago
Google doesn't seem to realize that one of their most valuable assets is trust. And that trust has eroded a great deal in recent months.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
Looks like something right out of the /r/nosleep subreddit.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
The response here seems overwhelmingly positive. And to some extent I get that. But it does make me nervous to see escalating tensions between major world powers. Especially when there were already tensions from the war in Syria.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
I thought he was going to say a Flashlight app.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
This reads like the backstory to a Terminator movie.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
A couple things: 1. Today there was an anti-NSA article ("NSA Assures Americans That PRISM 2.0 Will Be Way More Invasive"), which kind of invalidates my point. 2. "Comedic organization" was the best term I could come up
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by sage_joch 13y ago
Um, that one was extremely pro gun control. Read it again. "Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack". This is making fun of people who buy guns in the aftermath of shootings, and who seek the preservation of 2nd amendm
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by sage_joch 13y ago
Another thing I noticed is that every Onion story related to the scandal has been pro-NSA (today I learned pro-NSA humor exists). It reminded me of the recent gun control debates in which every Onion story related to that was pro gun contro
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by sage_joch 13y ago
1984 is a pretty incredible book, even without its relevance to current events. It is probably in my top three of all time.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
Given that civil liberties were such a big part of his 2008 campaign, the best case scenario you describe is still a bit of a problem. I'm actually pretty angry at him right now. I donated a lot to his campaign in 2008 based on his foc
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by sage_joch 13y ago
> What the hell does this even mean? It means that if telling the truth is illegal, they should have the courage to break the law.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
It sounds weird when you say it out loud: a huge part of our government operates in secret and without regard to the law. At this point I think everyone is just hoping that they are breaking the law for benevolent purposes (like fighting nu
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by sage_joch 13y ago
Heh. I sure romanticized a semi-mundane thing that already exists. ;-)
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by sage_joch 13y ago
This is a potentially great idea. You could make your build process include submitting your code to a search engine like this (perhaps in some obfuscated manner) and making illegal patterns fail if not manually "approved". Just because the
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by sage_joch 13y ago
To be fair, he does say "If ties were simply a clothing option, I would decline to use them but there would be no reason to make a fuss about it." His complaints are about the situations in which there is an expectation to wear a tie.
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Anyone with a Reddit account can now receive and send bitcoins(reddit.com)
7 points by sage_joch 13y ago|3 comments
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by sage_joch 13y ago
I think he makes a good point about ties.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
It should also be noted that startups aren't for everyone. After reading PG's essays in ~2005, I realized there was too much stress and anguish in that path for my personal tastes. It turns out the idea of creating value is also a useful ab
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by sage_joch 13y ago
This is the beginning of a much longer roller coaster. It opens the door to a public demand for more surveillance, and debate over what kinds of data are allowed to exist.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
This inspired a submission to /r/firstworldanarchists on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldanarchists/comments/1dzhw4...
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by sage_joch 13y ago
This sounds suspiciously like a government that works for its people.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
I argued in a previous thread that there is nothing morally wrong with pirating older works like The Great Gatsby. Unfortunately, that doesn't help with higher-budget derivative works, but it's a start.
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by sage_joch 13y ago
They have an asset that has become an integral part of the culture, and I don't think that's an understatement. How much would something like that go for on the open market today?
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Ask HN: is Reddit becoming an asset comparable to Facebook and Twitter?
7 points by sage_joch 13y ago|11 comments
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by sage_joch 14y ago
He was an incredible writer. Any critic who reviews as many movies as he did will get the occasional one wrong (see his rating for Fight Club for another example). As an aside, I recommend his review of The Wizard of Oz. I never really unde
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by sage_joch 14y ago
I would be proud of their efforts to push back against an increasingly Orwellian government.
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by sage_joch 14y ago
They have identified the problem with online dating: men don't get responses and women get bombarded with messages. It seems like a simple fix might be to have a rule that says only women can initiate conversations (for the heterosexual seg
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by sage_joch 14y ago
If every senator and representative did this, we could abstract away Congress.
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by sage_joch 14y ago
There's a famous quote along these lines: "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."
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by sage_joch 14y ago
I wonder if SETI focuses in the direction of Earth-like planets, or if they just search the entire sky?

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