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No need to apologize for giving your opinion. I have strong feelings on accessibility and security, perhaps a bit too strong. Others may rank design or "a fast development pipeline…

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Interesting. The "new terrorist tool used in the Paris attacks, encryption" is far from new, and that story has revolved around the Playstation network (which the media told us was…

I think this kind of research is rather unethical and farcical. Like the previous research, where they came to the conclusion that Putin was an autist, based solely on Youtube vide…

Absolute and utter FUD article, with zero basis in science and all the markings of another self-fulfilling social research trick. Of to Google "Are all The New York Times articles …

Do note that this is the most basic of SEO: Actually having the search engine access your content, so it can index it. It is, and has been, a far cry from actual optimization: Givi…

Not serious, or maybe ha-ha-only-serious. See: http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/ai.text The AI field has been a prolific source of hokey new terminology ... AI is about the same a…

> citing unidentified “European officials” That was the Belgium minister. > It was not clear whether the encryption was part of widely used communications tools, like WhatsApp, whi…

Without any proof for or against, it is interesting to view this attack as a state-sponsored PSYOP.

I am sorry for all posts in this thread (including this one). Imagine being PG and reading 200+ negative replies to a blog post you did. I could have reasoned in line with Graham a…

If feel the addition: "C" the applicants you're looking at have roughly equal distribution of ability. makes the reasoning more tautological/weak. If we take two dart boards (one f…

PG: Assumption: There is no fundamental difference between a female and a male founder for achieving start-up success (average rates and variance/distribution of rates is the same)…

Ok, that's solved. Now let's speculate on the current cultural weapons, that the Russians can't keep up with, but that the Americans use to keep cultural dominance: - The entire en…

I think you got downvoted not so much because HN believes in conspiracy theories, but because the lizard people remark was a bit of a rude put-down. I very much like Microsoft too,…

You may be interested in this older documentary: https://youtu.be/DfsK6DuNhnc?t=2208 about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. The psychologists claim that they can predict who…

Most users will (rightly so) view this as an OS upgrade, not as an update. You already gave MS permission to provide you with security updates. You did not give MS permission to up…

This would run afoul of the European 'cookie law' (the name is a bit of a misnomer as it applies to more than just cookies). In short: Microsoft needs express permission to store/m…

That is a major difference between these two languages. Python: There should be one, and only one, preferable way to do things. Though this may not be obvious at first. R: Every au…

As this is framed more as the results of a policy change, there are some things to consider when banning weed: - Street sales to tourists and foreigners exploded. Small-time dealer…

It's a game of numbers. Even if the response rate to spam email is like 0.00001%, it is still economically viable to send out 10 million spam emails. Scammer groups that have survi…

It is not racism. Racism is the attitude/belief that one race is superior to another race. Also military veteran is not a race. It is discrimination. Discrimination is having appli…