dead_phish

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by dead_phish 13y ago
Thank you. I was a little disturbed by how quickly this turned to "you're an ass for not thinking this way." I expected disagreement, but not, well, so much rage.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
I would argue other wise, on two counts. What I said was that I have no sympathy for him biting the hand that feeds. Second, I think that the situation has been vastly over complicated by attempts to colour matters as some sort of grand mor
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Well, yes I am a dick, but I also think the situation is more nuanced than 'rah rah free Snowden'.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
If he wanted to do the right thing, he should have gone to his Congressman, or the oversight arm of the NSA (it does exist, regardless of how inefficient it seems to be). I'm stuck in the odd position of thinking both Snowden and the g
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by dead_phish 13y ago
I have very little sympathy for his monetary plight. He made his bed, let him sleep in it. Or rather, when your giant paycheck comes from the government, maybe torquing off that government in the most flamboyant way possible isn't the
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by dead_phish 13y ago
I would argue it's less 'good' design and more that design is a secondary, or ever tertiary concern - which, from an engineering standpoint, it is.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Look at Western design/font choices - Helvetica. Helvetica everywhere.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Japan's engineering prowess - very distinct from any sort of design prowess. Look at the classic example of Honda and Toyota, two great engineering companies who succeeded in spite of their design. The early Toyotas were derided as ugl
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Well, one of Japan's coders. Matz was kind of revolutionary.
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Sudo /bin/bash vs sudo -i(unix.stackexchange.com)
2 points by dead_phish 13y ago|0 comments
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USA FREEDOM Act Aims to Amend Excesses of NSA Data Collection(sensenbrenner.house.gov)
5 points by dead_phish 13y ago|2 comments
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by dead_phish 13y ago
How did you incorporate data from Washington DC into this? I can almost guarantee that the reason Maryland has such a high rate on the HIV/AIDS chart is because of the District, and its outlying areas (Prince George's County, Anac
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by dead_phish 13y ago
One day, when I have Karma.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
If you go back through his archives (which took more time than I thought it would) you find a FAQ post about an essay concerning alleged sexual discrimination in his wife's tenure hearing [1] (it's referenced here [2]). Both claim
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Not to be US-centric, but it would be interesting to see the breakdown between East and West Coasts of the United States.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
I was mostly on board with this, until I saw Crypto-Cat front and center on their 'new projects' page. If anything, it's a step backwards for cryptography. Saying that you're secure and can be trusted, when the underlyin
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by dead_phish 13y ago
Given the way we treat the productive, the non-corporate, and the individual, I'm surprised things haven't boiled over already.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
...and not use that camera for anything other than posts made with that identity.
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by dead_phish 13y ago
JK Rowling's dox was a result of a member of the publishing house's solicitors telling his wife, who then told a close friend who provided the initial leak on twitter, which gave the newspaper breaking the story enough to go on to