trestles

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by trestles 7y ago
What problem does Julia solve again?
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by trestles 10y ago
honestly, since this is in translation, a word like "petty" raises numerous issues for negative connotations that might not be in original.
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by trestles 10y ago
Very few people care about the issues raised by the author. From a practical pov, I think the best way to create something like this would be from some prebuild community that might care like Burning Man or something.
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by trestles 10y ago
Kinda an obvious post; the name dropping of schools is a bit obnoxious in my opinion esp since the current highest valued private company is run by a UCLA dropout - something Suster would obviously have loved to invest in after the fact. I
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by trestles 10y ago
I agree there is not a great difference in the places I am mostly (SF and LA) but I think Uber was smart to bring on a lot of cheap capital the past few years.
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by trestles 10y ago
I could see see something like Uber electric cars / golf carts where driving distances are small such as Sun City in AZ. Baby steps. Can't have a death in an accident though.
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by trestles 10y ago
I know a LOT of people who prefer Uber to self-driving. Expect that to be an emergent behavior once the cost of the driver is subtracted.
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by trestles 10y ago
a bit of a strange argument. Twitter's salty environment is the nature of the beast in many ways. He seems to have some idealized nature of "how it should be" vs "how it is". Also, make clear distinctions about wher
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by trestles 13y ago
bradley manning used cd's and supposedly edward snowden has a bunch of usb drives. Solves a very reasonable problem
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by trestles 13y ago
Why is a dot release on the homepage of hacker news? Not saying that to be snarky but is there any specific reason.
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by trestles 13y ago
The problem is with Greenwald / Snowden - they needed to provide indisputable evidence regarding their most garish claims; or `direct access` to a representation of the evidence
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by trestles 13y ago
Sounds like a new product; just integrate your pgp public key into your facebook profile or something. It'll be here in like a year or something. Geez, why the constant downvoting?
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by trestles 13y ago
Could you just PGP encrypt all your email?
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by trestles 13y ago
These publicly traded companies lying? There's plenty of things that companies are legally obligated to lie about. See Boeing, Raytheon etc.... The fact that it is now a tech company is just new players in the game. The problem with hi
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by trestles 13y ago
I agree - there was an egregious failure here and if it was due to somehting that could be fixed than it should be. Nobody is asking for a lynching or anything.
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by trestles 13y ago
My point is that, if you perceive that the capabilities of PRISM are new and that the behavior that the NSA has engaged in for 10 years are new and you are outraged by it (which was the point of the original article and I assume is the poin
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by trestles 13y ago
If terrorism were 1000 times worse than it is in the US it would not justify this activity In light of the fact that the Patriot Act allows this, you are a naive person - it's no big deal but just acknowledge the reality. The compariso
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by trestles 13y ago
You're talking about public pronouncements being the same as PRISM which shows you just don't really get what this article is about. If you say you're going to do something in a public forum, then you have to live with the co
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by trestles 13y ago
Would be interested to hear more but that's not at all what PRISM is about which is what my original posting was. There are plenty of news media sources that would like publicize those types of abuses and I suggest that they pursue tha
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by trestles 13y ago
I'm not sure what your point is; the story is about PRISM and privacy not about writing jokes on public forums. Local authorities do stupid stuff sometimes.
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by trestles 13y ago
You realize that the excample you provide has absolutely nothing to do with what the article is about, PRISM, or my post. A chat board is PUBLIC which is the exact opposite of what PRISM is supposed to be.
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by trestles 13y ago
Major can of worms lol. Are you arguing that your concern is that the gov is going to change the record if it decides it doesn't like you and then imprison you? How about a bank creating fictitious > 10k deposits that they'd ha
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by trestles 13y ago
You don't get the irony of the Madison quote? Re 'your' data, the problem is that it all exists in the private sector already and IS GROWING in the private sector much more quickly. What do you the big data bandwagon is? I&#x
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by trestles 13y ago
That wasn't a very well-written article. First off, the anachronism of quoting James Madison to discuss internet privacy. Did you know that James Madison also owned slaves? Is the author condoning slavery? Second off, the intrusions he
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by trestles 15y ago
decent service I've heard - good purchase