thufry

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by thufry 13y ago
I think it's because more tech workers in the Bay Area enjoy their jobs than investment bankers in New York do. When you enjoy your work, you don't feel guilty, but perhaps a little sheepish when you realize how much you're
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by thufry 13y ago
So they would let you die? I'm not sure that's clearly more humane.
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by thufry 13y ago
It also could mean that they don't care about the whole affair enough to get involved on either side.
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by thufry 13y ago
There was no risk of that, Argentina has too much to lose.
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by thufry 13y ago
The problem is that Sweden has thousands, or tens of thousands outstanding rape cases, but has only pursued Assange with this level of detail. If they vigorously extradited every accused rapist who had fled Sweden, that would be highly res
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by thufry 13y ago
The US government may or may not start a congressional investigation into these programs. PRISM may or may not be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. But even if both things happen, the US will do everything they can to get Snow
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by thufry 13y ago
Would you consider someone who murdered several children and then fled the country to be in exile? Because his choices would be to return and face the death penalty, or live in hiding abroad. Whether you think he did a good thing or a bad t
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by thufry 13y ago
This reads like the statement of someone who realizes it might be his last.
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by thufry 13y ago
They're not trying to sell this to startups, they're trying to sell this to the Goldman Sachs website. These type of clients: 1) don't want the same fonts as everyone else, 2) want the high-quality typefaces of H&FJ, and
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by thufry 13y ago
So you're saying that you use the word "sweet" the way she uses "awesome." And let's not go down the road of saying that "awesome" has to be used as if it was "awe some," as people clearly d
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by thufry 13y ago
That sentence is more an acknowledgment of a privileged life.
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by thufry 13y ago
No, this is in fact real life imitating Hollywood -- Snowden has turned himself into a Doomsday device! I am hooked on this story like some people are hooked on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."
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by thufry 13y ago
It doesn't matter what the data is at this point, since it's encrypted, but what it says, to a disinterested observer, is that Snowden is the sort of person who would gladly wield the threat of disseminating classified US informat
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by thufry 13y ago
This is the kind of thing which may help keep him physically safe, but massively hurts him both in the court of public opinion (which matters a lot, if his actions are to have any positive effect for the public), and should he stand trial i
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by thufry 13y ago
Something doesn't have to be done to an individual directly for that action to strongly influence that person's life. The Union victory in the Civil War, to this day, influences the average American's life much more than PRIS
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by thufry 13y ago
Whether a certain action would be more like giving out Allied secrets or more like giving out Axis secrets is a matter of opinion and perspective -- by going public, a whistleblower forces his or her own interpretation of the situation onto
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by thufry 13y ago
I can decide for myself, but by going public, a whistleblower decides for everyone.
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by thufry 13y ago
Of course you revoke the passport of someone who has fled the country to avoid criminal charges -- the passport's purpose is to certify that the US government is certifying your travels abroad, which it certainly will not do for Edward
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by thufry 13y ago
They Seal-Team-Sixed Osama Bin Laden, and subsequently his corpse, out of a country on perennially high military alert. They couldn't do it in Moscow or Hong Kong without potentially starting a major war, but I could easily see them do
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by thufry 13y ago
Do you think that it would have been good for a "whistleblower" to send information about the invasion of Normandy to the Axis leadership? Classified information is necessary when dealing with a hostile force that keeps classified
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by thufry 13y ago
Cut-and-dried espionage isn't a grey area. It's "for the benefit of the public" which can be hard to assess. If a government employee leaked the details of the Osama Bin Laden raid and it subsequently failed, would that
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by thufry 13y ago
No, I don't think such a thing is unreasonable. What I think is unreasonable is Amnesty International using the words "hunt down" to refer to the United States filing criminal charges and making formal extradition requests.
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by thufry 13y ago
Whistleblowing is a desirable behavior only in certain situations, and the distinction between whistleblowing and espionage is one that is made on a case-by-case basis and open to reasonable debate in many cases. Snowden seems to be really
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by thufry 13y ago
I don't know why people think that "I think Edward Snowden did the right thing" is incompatible with "Edward Snowden should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." If I run a stop sign to the hospital because
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by thufry 13y ago
Non-renewable energy sources are being continuously depleted. Mankind's options are: 1) Conserve energy through efficiency. 2) Develop renewable energy technologies. 3) Invent cold fusion. Sure, we might not need 1) or 2) if 3) works,
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by thufry 13y ago
In an imaginary world where an unconstitutional privacy infraction could be demonstrably proven to prevent a million deaths per year, the Constitution would be amended.
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by thufry 13y ago
That may solve the whistle-blower problem, but it doesn't solve the spy problem. There are actual spies, paid in cash, who traffic government secrets, who need to be stopped regardless of your opinion on whistleblowers.
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by thufry 13y ago
They're not the only consideration, but they are a major consideration. The public's tolerance of any privacy infraction will depend strongly on whether that infraction prevents 1 death a year or 1,000,000.
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by thufry 13y ago
You might not be better off for buying the lower-spec model. Especially on RAM, which at today's prices doesn't make sense not to max out. You may actually find yourself needing to upgrade your machine sooner than you previously w
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by thufry 13y ago
I'd gladly give up that $11K three times over to live in San Francisco instead of DC. And, looks like other people would too, hence the ridiculous rents here.

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