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This is sweet. However, Google, Facebook, Apple and others could do a whole lot more to pique interest of the general population in areas of space exploration and spatial phenomeno…

Obama on spying accusations leveled by European nations: We should stipulate that every intelligence service — not just ours, but every European intelligence service, every Asian i…

Are you done with your troll walk? Don't let the door hit you on your way out, moron. Centimillionaire http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

Third, public transportation is generally valued more highly here than in other places for a variety of reasons. If various professionals employed by the state were paid in accorda…

Removed from everything in the post, it has to be said the piece is terribly composed. Not as terrible as some of the other recent posts (and related comments) I've seen on HN; it …

As an Austrian, NATO was never there to protect us. America was admired for setting an example as a great nation where people can live freely. What, in the civilized lands of Stieg…

Let's not get overboard. Europe (alongside EVERY nation that has a respectably digital-ready telecommunications network) spies on it's peoples. It's almost a mark of a nation's jet…

This has got to be 1) a decoy outfit whose entire purpose is meant to deflect criticism from China and Russia - who are in all likelihood the biggest receiving parties of American …

Perhaps its time to heed the advice of the illustrious Christine Lagarde: “Il faut cesser de penser et se retrousser les manches.” (Roughly translated: "We must stop thinking and r…

"And then there is France. In the realms of cultural, diplomatic, linguistic or economic policies, the French have long and eloquently insisted on their nation's "exceptionalism." …

Agreed. It should have read: "The arc of human progress is an illusory one" or "The arc of human progress - as defined by the narrow parameters of decreasing number of recorded hum…

Animals with highly developed brains never simply accept their fates. After all, they understand that if they manipulate nature in certain ways, at least some parts of their fate c…

The areas of composite art you mention hardly have a fraction of the sweeping brushstroke of influence and the ability to impress upon society, certain mores and affectations that …

I'd love to pick up a book that deals with this issue: why and when painters - and more generally artists - have come to adopt this anti-technological outlook. Was it a fear that t…

Perhaps I haven't followed you to a T. What specific problems or arguments in philosophy are not easily illustratable, using plain language? I do understand that some thoughts and …

This is Bill Clinton speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security …

This is Bill Clinton - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security Leaks and Snowden. "I don't see any altern…

What did you expect here, other than being down-voted, for making some sense or offering an alternate view of things? You are speaking to the "Me Me Me Generation" as Joel Stein pu…

I was referring to the fact that had they wanted they could have scuttled his efforts even before he arranged to speak to Greenwald and Poitras. If the NSA or BAH were to submit th…

Let's not get cute here. If the United States wanted him extracted (on the way to Hong Kong) or worse, killed during his sojourn in HK, Snowden would have already faced a fate seve…

I have heard this sentiment echoed by others - several industry insiders included - before. If this is indeed true that the sales and marketing honchos are exclusively running larg…

President Obama on the NSA when interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlThTTJgKYo&t=26m40s (Link takes you to about the 26th minute mark where…

I do not wish (or expect) for Snowden to be sentenced with capital punishment if he were to turn himself in. However any attorney or advocacy organization will find it extremely ar…

What about Bradley Manning? That's as pristinely analogous a case as it gets to Snowden's, with diametrically opposed approaches the actors took to pursue their causes. Source: htt…

Did Daniel Ellsberg bolt for a communist nation, sympathetic to his views after releasing the Pentagon papers? No, he turned himself in. Snowden wants all the glory and none of the…