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Wow, that's brilliant. Wonder what the effect on advertising agencies, TV, etc was.

You can agree with whatever you want; any such claims are inherently flimsy. No matter who you are, you are one person. I don't care, Philip. Nobody cares what you take seriously o…

Obviously not; if only a third of American supported their own revolution, how fringe do you think he was in Britain? I'm going with 'extremely'.

Ask HN: What are we doing here, guys? We're just going to submit anything anti-NSA, no matter how shit it is? >Do you think that, as a society, the United States has become a baske…

>If it had not been for the acquiescence of engineers who took part in the creation of PRISM, XKeyscore, etc. we... well, we would not have PRISM, XKeyscore, etc. Oh, come on, man.…

Goddamn butterflies

>In short, skin-in-the-game evolves out of artificial systems "Skin-in-the-____"

Hmm. I'll have to do something about that. Thanks for the perspective.

>I'm a little surprised there is no mention of their definition [for 'ethical']. No you're not. ;) If they define it, people can/will disagree with it. If they don't, they can't/wo…

Exactly, exactly. If you see this-- I'm replying late-- lend me an ear: This analysis itself and the curious overwhelmingly positive response by HN and especially Reddit, as measur…

1. Great product. Fantastic product. 2. Love the design. B+/A- from an unreasonable grader who hates every website he sees. The blue-green-blue content flow is especially smart. Th…

Why? Their opinions are irrelevant. It's not nice of me to say, but it's true. People only ever come around after the fact. Sitting around advocating positions in hopes of furtheri…

Not a 'challenge': Are you or aren't you describing the whole of non-medical, non-moon landing human technological progress? (Yes, 'progress' is a loaded word, but depending on you…

Ha. In one higher-level class (juniors and seniors), an older prof asked the class whether most students these days were religious. Response: "If we were when we started this major…

FWIW, though American, I studied German lit. as well, and I don't see it either. Line for line, my reaction mirrors yours.