helpfulanon

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by helpfulanon 5y ago
Your ego is a huge problem.
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by helpfulanon 5y ago
I'm fascinated that you were able to interview and in a few cases get hired by companies with a massively high bar and sophisticated screening. Someone let you in the door because they saw something in you. They wanted to give you a sh
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by helpfulanon 5y ago
My teenage nephew got a RAT malware, that someone used to record him watching porn. Then they used that to blackmail him, saying that they would report him to the FBI for watching porn as minor or something. I believe looking for crypto as
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by helpfulanon 6y ago
I had this same issue for years, had seen doctors and a psychologist. Was tested and learned I had ADHD. Meds, coping strategies and general self-awareness helped in a big way. But I also had this specific issue on certain days lingering ev
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by helpfulanon 8y ago
I know this will be an unpopular comment, but I've had a long-held theory that past lives / reincarnation is a real phenomenon with a biological mechanism that is as-yet unknown. The theory being that trauma at time of death is so
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Fun fact - the "border zone" in which your 4th amendment rights are suspended and you are subject to search, is 100 miles wide and overlaps where the majority of Americans live and work https://www.aclu.org/other&#
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
So, for a casual traveler who may have a phone with conversations peppered with unfavorable political views throughout - what is the best security hygiene in this situation? Anyone have tips or tricks that average people can use, things tha
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
In addition to the EFF Security Self Defense ( https://ssd.eff.org/ ) I've also seen this circulated: https://securityinabox.org/en/ Personally I don't think these resources go far enough, and
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
You can troll your way into a civil war, but you can't troll your way out of it.
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
The pendulum swings both ways, and right now it is swinging faster and harder than ever before in this country. When it swings back, in a tsunami of the unrelenting rage and profound hatred for the other side, there will be blood. That is t
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
You make a noble point, but it will not change anything at this stage. I am human. As are all of us. My well of empathy for Trump's people has gone completely bone dry. I am past the tipping point. They elected an egotistical reality T
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
I'd like to find some software to help me manipulate the world order without being detected. Any cool projects I should look into?
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
I really truly do not care at all about the sensitivities of Trump supporters at this point.
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Trump's base right now are people who have never met an Iranian, and would probably be quite happy to see your coworkers sent to Guantanamo. Trump's policies will stand because his base stands by them, and because the GOP rank-and
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
What's more worrisome is how fervently anti-science the new administration is. Academics may eventually be persecuted in the US across the board - as they are already at the EPA, USDA etc - and regardless of citizenship. I firmly belie
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Interestingly I had my moment of clarity when I realized my Circle of Control can be far larger than what I had believed it to be. Most humans believe in your viewpoint, but the truth is power is gained from groups. We are all simply a node
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
I am surprised by the sheer volume of tech professionals who have been responding to this article today by unapologetically reinforcing it's primary position. The idea that the industry should have no accountability for it's actio
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
The "foreign intrusion" angle is a red herring. In my opinion, the assumption that a foreign hack would be the most likely vector for vote manipulation, which is being played up in tech circles, is the best evidence that the vote
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Why does it have to be a foreign government hacking? An election tech worker or contractor with an agenda, could easily achieve the same results without having to go to the great lengths of breaking into the network using malware etc.
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Many of the social media manipulation techniques used to spread disinformation right now, are things I experimented with in the early days of social media that I proudly discussed in public forums widely and were reproduced by others... I f
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
I've become beyond paranoid, there is clearly some secret IRC channel where the alt-right that are too sophisticated for 4chan are coordinating. The pile-on in HN has become like an intellectualized version of Facebook comments at this
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
You're trying to normalize it throwaway account. I know what this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Based on the tone of comments around here lately, I'm getting the sense that HN has been populated by closeted alt-right for a while now.
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A White House position could cost Peter Thiel more than he’s willing to give up(theverge.com)
8 points by helpfulanon 10y ago|0 comments
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Very happy to see some progress being made. I've been very disturbed by the rise of coordinated hate group activities like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/1...
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No, Facebook, 'Diversity' Doesn’t Explain Your Support of Thiel(wired.com)
3 points by helpfulanon 10y ago|2 comments
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
Sure there is. Posting an article that was contrived by hate groups, is hate speech. Convincing someone to commit suicide because of their sexual orientation, political views, is hate speech. It's not that hard
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Ask HN: Why are Twitter and Facebook so poor at moderating hate speech?
8 points by helpfulanon 10y ago|12 comments
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
So true too. A long long time ago I was actually involved with Adbusters.. later on, in between stints of automating knowledge workers out of existence, I worked to help engineer some of the viral marketing techniques that were weaponized i
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by helpfulanon 10y ago
And sure, Facebook and Twitter played a part in this information aspect certainly. But companies like Salesforce that automate people out of work, these companies have zero accountability for the people who get laid off when eliminated with

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