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Your ego is a huge problem.

I'm fascinated that you were able to interview and in a few cases get hired by companies with a massively high bar and sophisticated screening. Someone let you in the door because …

My teenage nephew got a RAT malware, that someone used to record him watching porn. Then they used that to blackmail him, saying that they would report him to the FBI for watching …

I had this same issue for years, had seen doctors and a psychologist. Was tested and learned I had ADHD. Meds, coping strategies and general self-awareness helped in a big way. But…

I know this will be an unpopular comment, but I've had a long-held theory that past lives / reincarnation is a real phenomenon with a biological mechanism that is as-yet unknown. T…

Fun fact - the "border zone" in which your 4th amendment rights are suspended and you are subject to search, is 100 miles wide and overlaps where the majority of Americans live and…

So, for a casual traveler who may have a phone with conversations peppered with unfavorable political views throughout - what is the best security hygiene in this situation? Anyone…

In addition to the EFF Security Self Defense ( https://ssd.eff.org/ ) I've also seen this circulated: https://securityinabox.org/en/ Personally I don't think these resources go far…

You can troll your way into a civil war, but you can't troll your way out of it.

The pendulum swings both ways, and right now it is swinging faster and harder than ever before in this country. When it swings back, in a tsunami of the unrelenting rage and profou…

You make a noble point, but it will not change anything at this stage. I am human. As are all of us. My well of empathy for Trump's people has gone completely bone dry. I am past t…

I'd like to find some software to help me manipulate the world order without being detected. Any cool projects I should look into?

I really truly do not care at all about the sensitivities of Trump supporters at this point.

Trump's base right now are people who have never met an Iranian, and would probably be quite happy to see your coworkers sent to Guantanamo. Trump's policies will stand because his…

What's more worrisome is how fervently anti-science the new administration is. Academics may eventually be persecuted in the US across the board - as they are already at the EPA, U…

Interestingly I had my moment of clarity when I realized my Circle of Control can be far larger than what I had believed it to be. Most humans believe in your viewpoint, but the tr…

I am surprised by the sheer volume of tech professionals who have been responding to this article today by unapologetically reinforcing it's primary position. The idea that the ind…

The "foreign intrusion" angle is a red herring. In my opinion, the assumption that a foreign hack would be the most likely vector for vote manipulation, which is being played up in…

Why does it have to be a foreign government hacking? An election tech worker or contractor with an agenda, could easily achieve the same results without having to go to the great l…

Many of the social media manipulation techniques used to spread disinformation right now, are things I experimented with in the early days of social media that I proudly discussed …

I've become beyond paranoid, there is clearly some secret IRC channel where the alt-right that are too sophisticated for 4chan are coordinating. The pile-on in HN has become like a…

You're trying to normalize it throwaway account. I know what this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Based on the tone of comments around here lately, I'm getting the sense that HN has been populated by closeted alt-right for a while now.