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What problem does Julia solve again?

honestly, since this is in translation, a word like "petty" raises numerous issues for negative connotations that might not be in original.

Very few people care about the issues raised by the author. From a practical pov, I think the best way to create something like this would be from some prebuild community that migh…

Kinda an obvious post; the name dropping of schools is a bit obnoxious in my opinion esp since the current highest valued private company is run by a UCLA dropout - something Suste…

I agree there is not a great difference in the places I am mostly (SF and LA) but I think Uber was smart to bring on a lot of cheap capital the past few years.

I could see see something like Uber electric cars / golf carts where driving distances are small such as Sun City in AZ. Baby steps. Can't have a death in an accident though.

I know a LOT of people who prefer Uber to self-driving. Expect that to be an emergent behavior once the cost of the driver is subtracted.

a bit of a strange argument. Twitter's salty environment is the nature of the beast in many ways. He seems to have some idealized nature of "how it should be" vs "how it is". Also,…

bradley manning used cd's and supposedly edward snowden has a bunch of usb drives. Solves a very reasonable problem

Why is a dot release on the homepage of hacker news? Not saying that to be snarky but is there any specific reason.

The problem is with Greenwald / Snowden - they needed to provide indisputable evidence regarding their most garish claims; or `direct access` to a representation of the evidence

Sounds like a new product; just integrate your pgp public key into your facebook profile or something. It'll be here in like a year or something. Geez, why the constant downvoting?…

Could you just PGP encrypt all your email?

These publicly traded companies lying? There's plenty of things that companies are legally obligated to lie about. See Boeing, Raytheon etc.... The fact that it is now a tech compa…

I agree - there was an egregious failure here and if it was due to somehting that could be fixed than it should be. Nobody is asking for a lynching or anything.

My point is that, if you perceive that the capabilities of PRISM are new and that the behavior that the NSA has engaged in for 10 years are new and you are outraged by it (which wa…

If terrorism were 1000 times worse than it is in the US it would not justify this activity In light of the fact that the Patriot Act allows this, you are a naive person - it's no b…

You're talking about public pronouncements being the same as PRISM which shows you just don't really get what this article is about. If you say you're going to do something in a pu…

Would be interested to hear more but that's not at all what PRISM is about which is what my original posting was. There are plenty of news media sources that would like publicize t…

I'm not sure what your point is; the story is about PRISM and privacy not about writing jokes on public forums. Local authorities do stupid stuff sometimes.

You realize that the excample you provide has absolutely nothing to do with what the article is about, PRISM, or my post. A chat board is PUBLIC which is the exact opposite of what…

Major can of worms lol. Are you arguing that your concern is that the gov is going to change the record if it decides it doesn't like you and then imprison you? How about a bank cr…

You don't get the irony of the Madison quote? Re 'your' data, the problem is that it all exists in the private sector already and IS GROWING in the private sector much more quickly…

That wasn't a very well-written article. First off, the anachronism of quoting James Madison to discuss internet privacy. Did you know that James Madison also owned slaves? Is the …