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Having failed multiple interviews with Google and other companies mentioned in this post, it really drives home the huge difference between Haseeb's work ethic and mine. If I had p…

They're both representative forms of government with adversarial systems of law. Though CaptainZapp's reply was low-signal, snarky, and redundant with her/his down vote, it did ins…

Given that the entities suppressing that freedom are powerful minorities, I think the statement still holds. "Everyone" is a colloquialism meaning "most reasonable people" in this …

That is absurd; prosecutions decline to pursue cases all the time. Look at the enormous change in U.S. police prosecutions in the last couple of years due to public pressure. I ser…

I think it's good to discuss HN social norms when it's appropriate. Your comment added to the discussion.

To be fair to Le Roux, he switched to the methamphetamine/cocaine trade after his holdings in Hong Kong were seized. It's possible I misinterpreted the article, but it appeared to …

There is logic but is certainly not uniformly applied!

Do towers record past telemetry data? Assuming they do, the granularity of knowing that a particular tower handled a phone ping is comparatively useless. A guessed location (stored…

That's incredibly expensive to build.

I don't agree with whoever downvoted your post; it contributes to the discussion. > The NSA itself knows very well that if the gizmos they provide aren't usable What isn't usable a…

If you re-read that portion of the article, the State Department rep used that phrase to paraphrase the NSA's response. That was not the actual response; nobody who wants to keep t…

The Secretary of State has a full-featured security detail [1]. While on foreign missions, this includes a motorcade with armored vehicles (flown in by DSS beforehand), surveillanc…

Instead of linking, could you just say what you intend to say?

Could you flesh your idea a bit more? I don't relish digging through that meandering blog post from a random author.

No, I read it right. It's American public debt they hold. They don't have 1 trillion dollars in cash sitting in a vault. They are holding U.S. Treasury bonds. And again, I don't un…

Those are strange metrics of success you chose: number of cars produced annually, amount of public debt held. I'd have gone with GDP, military strength, set of advantageous allianc…

Since the prevalent opinion on HN appears to be against contracts of adhesion, a request for sources is an expected request when presenting the minority opinion. Rejecting the offe…

> We already covered this in the link above: the 5th Amendment covers passcodes, not fingerprints. No, it is you who is not understanding schrodinger's assertion. The secret knowle…

The overlap between punch cards and other formats was decades. "During the 1960s, the punched card was gradually replaced as the primary means for data storage by magnetic tape, as…

What are these "weird formats" that keep getting referenced here? LZH? ARC? PKZIP? WordPerfect? Filesystems formatted in FAT16? All of these formats are still very much readable. S…

Agreed. The current system is controversial because there is a dichotomy between what entrenched residents and newcomers pay to that government. I assert it's a problem with a non-…

If you use profit/#employees, then you're double-counting. The employees' salaries are already taken out of profit. That's why it's not fully disingenuous to consider revenue inste…

This will have to be ratified by the Senate, DoC will not be in charge of policing this. This agreement was made at the request of senators. Under the U.S. Constitution, all foreig…

You have a significant misunderstanding of the mechanics of this treaty, FISA, and EO12333. This treaty: it must be ratified by Congress in order for it to be considered accepted b…

This is precisely what happened; CISA was an afterthought in his letter to Time . The crux of his argument is that he wanted to reduce the size of government by 15%. http://time.co…