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Andre607

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    Comment #19241921

    > But when you're a lone reporter, 12 or not, the legal costs related to defending yourself against even a bogus charge can be considerable. Well, yes. This is true not just for in…

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    > he is correct that giving false information to an officer who asks you where you are going -- even if they don't have a good reason for asking and if it would be within your righ…

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    > But Hilde Lysiak, the editor of the Orange Street News, is the real deal. In 2016, when she was just nine years old, she broke the story of a homicide in her hometown of Selinsgr…

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    Comment #19240258

    Please re-read my first comment, as I feel like we are talking past each other. You are talking about generalized surveillance; I presented a specific example of how this particula…

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    Comment #19238891

    I interpreted your reply to be that this camera is intended for entertainment, not surveillance purposes. My response was to point out that entertainment-purposed equipment can and…

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    Comment #19236815

    > these aren’t a surveillance tool if the airlines wanted to have security cameras they would’ve installed them already The fact that it may be designed as an entertainment system …

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    Comment #19236475

    > American Airlines spokesperson Ross Feinstein confirmed to BuzzFeed News that cameras are present on some of the airlines’ in-flight entertainment systems, but said “they have ne…

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    Comment #19235186

    Thank you for taking the time to respond; this is insightful and informative.

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    Comment #19233492

    I know we have lots of FB employees at HN. I would be genuinely curious to hear, via throwaway accounts if need be, about how FB staff rationalise things like this happening. Do yo…

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    Comment #19231407

    David Orr has been flinging the same mud at Bukowski and Bukowski's posthumous publications for years now. He's been using the same exact jabs and barbs for more than a dozen years…

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    Comment #19192664

    Reminds me of how when due to the Allied embargo Coca-Cola couldn't be made in Nazi-era Germany, so Coca-Cola GmbH developed Fanta: https://www.thelocal.de/20170523/fanta-how-the-n…

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    Comment #19128464

    Does anyone else find these kinds of Twitter threads incredibly hard to follow? It's very difficult to contextualize and adapt to reading these short incremental bursts of text or …

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    Comment #19124355

    Surprised the article (or the comments here), don't mention earlier efforts to tear down court paywalls, such as Aaron Swartz's scraping of 2.7 million documents from PACER: https:…

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    Comment #19119815

    > I wonder what motivated the article's author to redact the scammer's email address. This is good practice to prevent the possibility of revictimization in case the actual motive …

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    Comment #19119705

    > Vice's view of politics is always like a naive high school kid who hasn't ever had a real job or read a single book on economics. Which probably accurately describes their (large…

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    Comment #19119570

    > We need u2f U2F is not immune to phishing attacks, at least not if backup codes are being used: https://youtu.be/rPTI9e-9tBE?t=936

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    Comment #19119547

    > One interesting side note relates to the person driving these attacks, or at the least the author of the Facebook landing page - they linked it to their actual Facebook account, …

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