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white_devil

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    Comment #5954702

    PLEASE tell the world why it's so damn difficult to let non-US businesses use a payment service? We're dying to know. Is it because of bullshit regulations everywhere? Why has it t…

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    Comment #5927571

    It is a massive fucking bully.

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    Comment #5911247

    > I think google is one of the few companies who have been fighting for the privacy rights of users .. While happily shitting on their privacy behind their backs by giving a copy o…

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    Comment #5911237

    You are asserting that my assertion is false. It's just as convincing for me to then assert that your assertion that my assertion is false is false. > Google's legal brief filed ye…

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    Comment #5911208

    Did they benefit from fighting the creeping police state in 2009? -Apparently not, because they didn't. Do they benefit from fighting the creeping police state in 2013? -Apparently…

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    Comment #5904741

    I'm well aware that they're all just huge corporations going after their own interests. That's beside the point. You seemed to be commending Google on "taking the fight to the feds…

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    Comment #5904483

    > This is, I think, the only way for these tech giants to come out of this scandal better off than they went in -- to take a stand, and take the fight to the feds, hard. This is a …

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    Comment #5888185

    > I often drop $39 on random Ruby, JavaScript, or web design ebooks. I'm sure you do, but unlike me, you're rich . I practically never buy any books, but I'm interested in buying y…

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    Comment #5888143

    > Your comments have repeatedly attacked the credibility of whistleblowers, derided their claims as factually and technically impossible, and asserted that NSA statements about NSA…

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    Comment #5854399

    I doubt your choice of browser matters in that regard.

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    Comment #5844675

    So how do you plan to make money with this?

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    Comment #5842287

    > So, you'd feel more comfortable if the company threw in some rhetoric about morals and freedom that are, as assertions, impossible to verify, but would make people feel more warm…

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    Comment #5842258

    > Page is clearly and unambiguously denying that Google supplies any information to the government on a millions-of-users scale. Kind of like Mariano Rajoy insisted that Spain didn…

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    Comment #5826187

    > it says in fact that they "won't integrate". It seems to me that the burden of proof is on you with all these generalities Look no further than the recent events in Stockholm. Th…

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    Comment #5808624

    > I trust Google more to fight for privacy of my data against the government, than any of those organizations. Why? > The point is, Google as a company opposes giving the data, it …

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    Comment #5805926

    > May I ask why you have not doubled your rates? Because they're not going to go in and cause a huge increase in revenues like Patrick does.

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    Comment #5805609

    > Finance is like its own universe. The salaries for software are like nothing I've seen anywhere else. That's because Finance is not grounded in Reality. Destroying the world's ec…

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    Comment #5774880

    Is Workana only meant for people from the Americas?

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    Comment #5774392

    I'm not sure which side you're trying to discredit.

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    Comment #5774367

    > There is this idea among hackers that you should be able to trust Google, etc, to keep information private from the government. But that's not what privacy means in the context o…

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    Comment #5772603

    > Or are they being used to protect the financial system itself from us? Posing this question suggests you've already arrived at the answer ("yes").

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    Comment #5767076

    As much as I hate Facebook, it wasn't Facebook encouraging rape. It was whoever posted that picture, if even him. "Hate speech" is a non-issue. Everyone is free to ignore ideas the…

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    Comment #5767048

    This is late, but do you remember how he got his mailing list off of HN? -He started an interesting experiment about starting a business from scratch, and planning to reach X thous…

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    Comment #5767022

    > It's called democracy. It works pretty well in most countries. Oh? How's Obama's "Change You Can Believe In" working out for you so far?

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    Comment #5767006

    Getting the fuck out was a smart move. You did the right thing, don't worry about clueless sheeple bleating about how leaving "doesn't help". It does. It helps you , and possibly y…