vasilipupkin

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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
I disagree with your logic. If the goal is to further the goals of open society and freedom, the worst way to do it is to deliver US Govt secrets to Putin's KGB ( or FSB as they call it now ). What is the net effect of this action?
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
I stand by what I said even after the downvote :) I don't like what NSA is doing and I applaud Snowden for exposing their activities. However, people like Putin is why we have to have the NSA in the first place
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
Snowden had me until he traveled to Russia with 4 laptops full of NSA secrets. I mean no matter how bad NSA is, Putin is 1000 times worse
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
Perl isn't dead, I use it every day for important stuff. But it is true, people younger than say 32 are not very likely to know Perl well, most of them prefer python
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
"no analyst can operate freely" would contradict Snowden's assertion that he personally could target anyone
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
I am curious: Suppose this is true and NSA analysts have the technical capability to access enormous amount of information with no authorization. But if they do do that, agains the law and the rules and their actions are recorded in the s
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
It is always easy to shit on someone else's product. But it's still a net benefit, in a pile of shit they may find a gold nugget of a comment or a suggestion.
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
"A doctor trained in India is no less qualified than a doctor trained in the US" Perhaps you are correct, but I doubt this assertion. U.S. graduate schools are generally the best in the world, I am not sure why that should be any
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by vasilipupkin 13y ago
Because if the company is spending that potential profit on something that will increase its future value - you as an investor will get a piece of that increase in the future
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by vasilipupkin 14y ago
Investor converting into the round at a discount is really an investor in the previous round, So both Dave and Fred are right The round should have one price for everyone to make it clean and simple But earlier investors converting should b