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I'm bored; lets go deeper. Why think the man who does not exist exists? why not assume pando made him up, and made the whole story up? The story isn't so implausible that people wo…

I'm cautious about your Latvia story - its sounds to me like the bike was worried about fraud. Thats pretty common - about half the times I go to the US, I have to ring up the bank…

I can't help but feel that if someone deletes their comment, its polite to respect their wishes and keep the comment deleted.

To me, this comment is the essence of hacker news. Guy goes around the world. Guy visits tons of dangerous places and miles of border paperwork. One presumes he did a ton of resear…

drive by comment: I don't know what you mean to imply by Oakland (!?!?), but... I took the amtrak south from Oakland, and I was shocked by the level of poverty thats visible from t…

Hah. I recall antispam companies doing the same thing - once they got big enough, they demanded money from major mail exchanges. I'm sure companies paid out rather than risk long l…

"The .doc file format was also obfuscated,... it was effectively a dump of the in-memory data structures .... It's hard to imagine a corporation as large and [usually] competently-…

I agree with your post generally, but has Snowden said anything about CAs? I did expect to hear that at least one has signed anything the NSA put in front of them, but I don't reca…

I'm a employee of a large tech company that's being parodied here, and I found this really disconcerting. The scenes with the boss and HR are completely different to my experience.…

Shrug. The article is mostly a tale of two, uh, causes of excitement. It doesn't make a sweeping claim about getting rid of anything. "continually reduced its nuclear stockpile, or…

Can you recommend some books on the topic?

Your comment amuses. On the one hand, its possible that the CIA folks in the article are offering bad advice, either knowingly or unknowingly. For example, I imagine that the CIA h…

I see the other pattern - the forgiveness guy grows a rep as the guy who broke stuff, while the "ask permission" guy often finds out people say "yes". The end result is people are …

Not the OP, but this theme (Germany as economic powerhouse, Germany having a large population, Germany being more organized, than say, Russia) is the main theme in Brendan Simms's …

First thing you might be missing: there are probably a pile of folks on hacker news who don't have money. Students. People who have invested their life savings in their startup. Pe…

The article implies that amazon somehow got the law changed, and therefore it only covers reading devices, not laptops etc. I dislike its tone. Before, no electronics of any kind. …

https://plus.google.com/103382935642834907366/posts/XRekvZgd... is a Chrome developer talking about cache metrics within chrome. He claims the cache is capped at 320MB. Now the gra…

I work there as a engineer. The engineers sit in another office around the corner.

I really liked this post. His experience - there are folk talking on mailing lists, there are folk actually doing stuff, and the two groups rarely overlap - matches mine. The conce…

I found this a pretty interesting read. hackerish reasons: - The scale of the fraud. This guy is making up a race on the internet. complete with other runners, their profiles and s…

I work there. Its been four and a lot years. I don't work in mountain view, though. working hours: I average 40h a week. Which is what all the studies say is optimal. The key perk …

I hate this cartoon. it leads real name requirements on sites, in the hope of removing anonymity. This hurts all sorts of groups (see the google+ real names saga for a long list) b…

I suspect that as a result of some out of court settlement with Intellectual Ventures, people are asked to invest. I also suspect that the best lawyers in the world - and apple and…