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Upon browsing a few of these threads tonight, I've realized there is no worse reading than a bunch of tech enthusiasts armchairing about geopolitics. I'm out!

But JSON doesn't support comments which are pretty nice in a config file. You can do the ugly comment as property stuff, or strip them out, but you're getting away from the One Tru…

So which Uber driver is taking the calls to the poorer neighborhoods?

Higher education has become an export of the US. What's citizenship got to do with it?

So they picked the favorite in the final and missed the third place game. The singularity is almost here.

Uber drivers aren't invisible. It wouldn't take much effort to use the app to flag one down, note the license plate, and give them a nice little talking to. I doubt many part-timer…

If you're ever in Mountain View and walk by the Google campus around 4-4:30p, you can witness the vast network of Google buses picking up their colonist cargo ready for dispersal t…

So I'm waiting behind a soon-to-be (or not-so-soon) leaving car and some other jerk with an app pulls up and claims it's his spot because he "paid" for it? And I'm supposed to reco…

Gross. It's also GPLv3, that seems a bit restrictive for a class system.

And now thanks to Mr. Greenwald's reporting, citizens & elected officials, policy wonks & pundits, scholars & laymen alike, can all discuss actual facts instead of relying on grkvi…

You are correct, I've misunderstood this program and perhaps the parent post I was responding to. Oh well, can't win 'em all. This is in addition to the PRISM programs we've alread…

> Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. How do you know this is the case? In the diagram submitted within the article, the box highlighted wit…

The thread had a number of comments, some even insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594352 The post pointed to this Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmir…

HIPAA is no joke. Even if this company is technically in the clear, being associated with a controversy like this is enough to keep doctors from using the service. Makes me wonder …

Regarding the mainstream news cycle and from a PR perspective, you want bad news to come out late Friday to minimize exposure. The typical audience is ready for the weekend and pay…

Then does not saying racist things automatically make you not-racist? Or is there other criteria we need to apply before hanging the label? For example, do they believe the words c…

I noticed on my last trip that the TSA, at all airports involved, were more pushy this time about herding me through the machines, using similar words. I guess there was a new poli…

And what happens when these videos are leaked to the press, or some hair-brained politico wants to post them up on his mugshot website. Accountability is great, but so is innocent …

Sure, it's the belief that the rulers can create a rational society through technical means, and it's been the dominant idea of the past century. And time after time, their pet the…