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by selmnoo 13y ago
That is a hasty oversimplification. Apple stands to make money selling your personal data just like Facebook and Google. And, were it true that Apple makes money only selling hardware, it would not feel the need to purposely confuse an iP
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by selmnoo 13y ago
A big portion of establishment journalism is now infotainment, but it's unclear if it's the infotainment corporations that are to be blamed here. I know many journalists who work for these 'infotainment' businesses who h
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China’s official news agency calls for 'De-Americanization of the World'(news.xinhuanet.com)
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3 American Professors Awarded Nobel in Economic Science(nytimes.com)
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Can Microsoft and Twitter save the dying Urdu Nastaliq script?(medium.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I'm really sad about KPCB and other firms taking the direction they're taking. It hit me hard to hear John Doerr express his desire to focus a lot of his energy on firing up Zynga. I had a lot of respect for KPCB when they were go
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by selmnoo 13y ago
A lot of the accounts that were replying were not simply new, they were 3 days old -- incidentally also the age of the account with which Cumberbatch was participating in the AMA.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> The greatness in what Manning did is that she knew that she was breaking a law and she knew that there was no way she'd be able to avoid punishment and she did so anyway. Manning never intended to get caught. She was not outed on
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by selmnoo 13y ago
http://b.vimeocdn.com/us/vod_poster/781/7816_275.jpg -- but I cannot find a large sized one. Try asking @wikileaks ( https://twitter.com/wikileaks )
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Given that he's pretty anti-Manning ( http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/14/benedict-cumberb... ) I strongly doubt that's a genuine response. Most likely it was written by a PR manager. A R
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Assange should do a Reddit AMA promoting this movie, seeing as Cumberbatch just got done promoting The Fifth Estate yesterday on Reddit. The Cumberbatch AMA was very disappointing, because all upvoted questions were just fawning compliments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
He's still pretty much the decision maker though. And anyway, I've always thought that the title 'publicly held company' is a bit of a misnomer. The word 'public' (to some people) almost implies a connotation o
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by selmnoo 13y ago
A lot of Hacker News superstars make that mistake. Rayiner makes it the most often. Of course he probably knows the difference, he's a really smart guy, but it's odd that he gets it wrong so often. I used to look down upon people
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I see what you're getting at, and I kind of agree, but the comparison isn't altogether wrong, it's just a little stretched. Anyway, we should really make something out of the frustration we feel over getting our privacy right
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Tell HN: Lawrence Lessig is doing an AMA tomorrow on Reddit at 2pm
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Liftware Launch Video - spoon for people with Alzheimer's (vimeo.com)
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Google changes terms to add user data to Web ads(usatoday.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
That is one of the things that really, really, really bugs me. I want to tell my friends "don't ever put up pictures that include me on facebook" but I can't because it's too big of a request at this point, and I&
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Might it be that they need to keep things secret with greater effort than ever before because it's harder than ever to keep things secret? Furthermore, Obama is a very image-conscious guy, so it's difficult to determine if he&#x
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by selmnoo 13y ago
That is a particularly useless observation. What about when wealth distribution is done not through simply handing poor people money, but through providing more social programs, mental healthcare, high-quality education, etc. to people most
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by selmnoo 13y ago
America has a somewhat similar problem. One family right now has more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population combined. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/18/business/la-fi-mo-wa...
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I improved my IQ by 20 pts in an year's time. It was pretty simple: study SAT/GRE words, and do a lot of arithmetic exercises. I know that it increased by 20 pts. because I underwent an IQ test conducted by a licensed psychologist
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Will PBS Deliver the Death Blow to the NFL?(vice.com)
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American Adults Score Poorly on Global Test(abcnews.go.com)
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Amazon Wins Ruling for $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract(bloomberg.com)
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Amazon Web Services Wins Again In Battle To Build The CIA And NSA Cloud(techcrunch.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
For the fortitude he has shown in fighting the good fight, please consider donating to his defense fund: http://lavabit.com/ (link at the end).
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I agree with the larger point you're making, but one nitpick: > AirBnB isn't competing with luxury apartment rentals. Have you seen some of the houses listed on AirBnB? There are some that ask like $3000 per night. Luxury apart
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Well, yes, but you're still qualifying the actions building customer loyalty and trust as actions that're ultimately in shareholders' best long-term interest. So the meme in question is just trite, not inaccurate or invalid.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I too wish the meme would die, but not because it's not true, rather because it's overused a lot as a reply. As I understand it these companies do in fact have a fiduciary responsibility to make every move be one that benefits the

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