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I think they were saying the opposite of that.

Can you provide a reputable source of that data?

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591759

A lot of the comments here remind me of the debate about student loan forgiveness. Some say, "Why should they have their loan forgiven when I had to pay mine?!" I know, these are t…

Exactly. Their personal anecdote about something that happened years ago doesn't reflect the reality that many Walmart and McDonalds employees rely on government assistance to surv…

It also might be more accurate to not refer to AIDS as a virus. It is a syndrome caused by HIV. HIV is the virus.

If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.

Because zero day vulnerabilities are usually patched when discovered by the vendor. They're completely different than an intentional backdoor.

The NSA has been caught lying before (see: the Snowden leaks) so I wouldn't trust them to be forthcoming about their industrial espionage, if they are engaging in it. Of course the…

I wouldn't say they are doing a bad job spying on people for that reason; I think it's more likely that the reason they are spying is not to help children/people but rather to stre…

> falafel you find in every salad bar in the US Off-topic, but I have never seen falafel in a salad bar in the US. Where are you finding these buffet falafel?