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If you think you are safer from the NSA because a server is located outside the US, I've got some bad news for you: outside of the US, the NSA can do whatever they want as the US C…

Owning the domain makes for great email address portability. If I hadn't read so many of your comments here over the years, I probably wouldn't suggest this, but I think a good str…

If most people you email with use Gmail, what's the point of an "encrypted email" provider? Why not just use PGP and stay with your current provider? Thunderbird+enigmail is the wa…

Well, given the question asked, we need to be clear that the legality of downloading copyrighted content varies by country. Also, the DMCA[0] has been around for 21 years, so it's …

The distinction being made that I see is that a CEO of an organization has different expectations placed upon them than any other employee. So, this home vs. work separation makes …

>Amazon beating Walmart Let's not get carried away here. In the most recent quarter, Walmart had revenues of $123B vs Amazon's $38B. Walmart still has time to figure out the ecomme…

The guy is a pathological liar, there is not one proposal I've seen that would, "restrict the rights of gay people" or "ban all Muslims."

As a 20+ year listener of NPR (and Terry Gross), I always thought Gross was the best interviewer without a doubt. About 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a Howard Stern interview and wa…

The idea, I believe, is building camaraderie among your users as they teach each other how to use it. IMO, Snapchat should be the easiest to decentralize and federate b/c the ephem…

I don't think I'd throw away remote opportunities if they are available.

Many prominent and respected HNers have laid out the case for why Telegram has security issues. If you use the search function at the bottom, you will easily find these issues rais…

HN is a news aggregator. A blog is short for web-log: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog These words have meaning, and your idea of a 'blog' is even worse than those people that do…

Wal-Mart's Q1 revenue was $117.5B vs. Amazon's $35.7B ought to put that into perspective.

I like the BBQ at KT's out on 75th (good while on a bike ride). There is also good BBQ in 'downtown' Louisville that is owned and operated by Texans.

Sushi Zamai on Spruce St. in Boulder is also good (or it was 10 years ago). My understanding at that time was Sushi Den and Zamai shared the same cargo plane for their daily fish d…

>In theory MusicBrainz already has metrics What does "in theory" mean here? Do those tables exist in whole or some part? Is this a matter of indexing an existing data set or hoping…

While not religious, the reasons look similar to gangs in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_States#Rea...

In the US, civil asset forfeiture laws are state specific. Wikipedia has a good break down by state if you're interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit…

Occam's Razor says this is a simplistic view. It causes more divisiveness and demotes discussion to ad hominem attacks.

Couching the discussion as a la carte channels instead of a la carte shows is some kind of jedi mind trick by studio execs. Apple Season Pass should be like $3/season, not $5/episo…

It's not clear that you understand the majority of the ~36K MCD restaurants are franchised, so the employees do not work for MCD, they work for small local franchisees businesses. …

Is there an actual argument against my claim from someone with better biblical knowledge?

>I didn't exactly invent a feudal power structure from whole-cloth, here. No doubt. You did posit it as the alternative, however. Mentioning the idea that some people are ok with i…

>nothing about modern society involve choices that only affect the people right around you This is covered by tort law. If you can prove damages, you can have your grievances addre…

>When your communities...are full of "entrenched" families/clans—groups of people who, for reasons of proximity or tradition, just won't move no matter how bad things get This is a…