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mishmash

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    Comment #3565242

    > How do you intend to handle this situation with every other app you, and presumably your wife, have ever downloaded? Not sure yet. Path is actually the first (and will certainly …

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    Comment #3565198

    > What are you talking about? Do you expect them to perform complex data analysis to figure out that certain contacts are young children, and then explicitly ask permission to shar…

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    Comment #3564927

    Because asking for advice from those wiser than oneself clearly makes one a moron.

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    Comment #3564920

    To get perspective, actually. Most lawyers are wicked smart and it sucks you aren't in a position to have such a valuable resource available in your own life. HTH.

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    Comment #3564910

    One of my kids has special needs. This means he rides a certain bus and goes to a certain school. It would be trivial to uniquely identify him for the rest of his LIFE with only th…

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    Comment #3564888

    > I'm unclear on why them having the information you cited First of all, my wife and I actually read and attempted to analyze Path's Terms and Privacy Policy before joining. They d…

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    Comment #3564131

    Your comment seems trollishly silly, but... the internet and residential electricity are also both inventions of the 20th century - I guess we could destroy those too without bothe…

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    Comment #3564114

    I've just: 1) saved their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use 2) requested a complete deletion of our family's account 3) requested deletion of any/all stored information 4) considerin…

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    Comment #3563362

    It would be nice to go a single week without seeing how utterly complete the notion of privacy has been destroyed.

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    Comment #3550530

    Cool, I didn't know that (started late 90s here) but that wasn't what this person attempting to do. Apparently she had asked for the source from another dev's script and saw someth…

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    Comment #3550441

    >Am I insane for being completely satisfied with $80,000/yr to do really cool multithreaded programming work on some seriously beefy hardware? (Midwest area.) In 10 years of midwes…

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    Comment #3524456

    > Anyone have any ideas on how to get the IP blocks of MPAA member companies? It's been tried before. Maintaining the list is very difficult for the exact same reasons that would h…

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    Comment #3522828

    Great commercial and easily relatable. Just yesterday I was looking for shirts at a top3 US retailer and encountered something I'd never seen before: - there were six rows (shelfs)…

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    Comment #3521419

    # or $ gives the reader an indication of what type of account should execute the command.

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    Comment #2800858

    Thanks to everyone involved!

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    Comment #2793681

    Instead of hockey stick growth, would this be like light pole growth? ;)

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    Comment #2763846

    Both of your examples are of people who are and were extremely well known both before and outside of GitHub.

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    Comment #2756423

    Same here. Our turn-around is usually two days. We routinely get the "we've received" emails but our next ones won't ship for 1-3 days after that. It's annoying considering the "un…

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    Comment #2748532

    Nice to see, thanks.

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    Comment #2738641

    > hover Hover apparently stores your password in plaintext, as discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727123 .

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    Comment #2730966

    Hm that's an interesting feature, thanks.

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    Comment #2728192

    Thanks. Gandi seems to be the forerunner in the other thread too.

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    Ask HN: Registrars for the Paranoid (July 2011)

    After seeing the Hover thread[1], wondering what everyone would judge to be the most secure non-scumbaggy registrar in general? 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727123

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    Comment #2727751

    After some positive research, I just purchased two domains from Hover. This is unacceptable however and I will be moving them away. What registrar would anyone say is the most secu…

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    Comment #2720791

    >..I don’t really know how Apple should do it differently. My preference would be to just stuff the other 3GB on the recovery partition.