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by pemulis 7y ago
LinkedIn needs to work on pervasive phishing and identity theft. I recently found out about an account that copied my profile photo, name, and CV information and used that to connect to 500+ people at my company and elsewhere, using my repu
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by pemulis 7y ago
Here's the study I was thinking about. "Local newspapers hold their governments accountable. We examine the effect of local newspaper closures on public finance for local governments. Following a newspaper closure, we find munic
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by pemulis 7y ago
The first newspapers were expensive niche publications that provided businesspeople, politicians, and other elites with the information they needed. Mass market newspapers (and ultimately the mass market news industry) relied on advertising
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by pemulis 7y ago
BayLeaks partnered with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, before it went under. My co-founder was a long-time San Francisco journalist and I was able to collaborate with her on several stories and get introductions to journalists and editors
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by pemulis 7y ago
I majored in creative writing, but the MFA career path looked like a pyramid scheme, so I switched to web development. After working in the field for several years, I started running the technical side of a local leaks platform called BayLe
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by pemulis 13y ago
I just pinged you on Twitter, @jdshutt. I know a lawyer who specializes in tax law and is very interested in cryptocurrencies. If you want to get in touch with her, you can reach me at john.d.shutt@gmail.com and I'll send her e-mail. I
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Shame on Feinstein Coalition(shameonfeinstein.org)
12 points by pemulis 13y ago|2 comments
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Thoughts on Cypherpunks 2.0(zyan.scripts.mit.edu)
2 points by pemulis 13y ago|0 comments
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Managing Against the Machine(medium.com)
2 points by pemulis 13y ago|0 comments
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by pemulis 13y ago
Would adding up the number of rape threats directed against his critics count as a measurement?
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by pemulis 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Hi, HN! I'm a full-stack web developer, looking to take on interesting freelance projects. I enjoy using Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, SASS, RSpec, and CoffeeScript/jQuery, but I always t
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by pemulis 13y ago
The two most obvious culprits would be: 1) People trying to make the price of bitcoins drop, so that they can buy low and sell high. (This possibility is called out in the article.) 2. Criminals trying to extract a ransom from Mt. Gox, whic
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The Tragedy of Aaron Swartz(newyorker.com)
33 points by pemulis 14y ago|1 comments
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Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April(blog.archive.org)
60 points by pemulis 14y ago|34 comments
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by pemulis 14y ago
You also have to think about tracking on the readers' side of things. If you read something on Facebook or Google+, you can count on that being tracked and added to that system's profile of you. If you read something on a blog, and block th
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Amazon Wins Patent for Reselling Used Digital Content(paidcontent.org)
2 points by pemulis 14y ago|0 comments
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by pemulis 14y ago
The distortion around his contribution to RSS is strongest in mainstream news articles written by people who don't really understand the history. When you read pieces by people in technology, activist, and art circles, especially people who
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by pemulis 14y ago
Which again makes me wonder why the tech world has been a week of adulation of Aaron Swartz, whose two greatest accomplishments (if you follow the lede of every story about him) were that he was pushed on the Reddit founders by PG after hi
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by pemulis 14y ago
If he was advocate for more open access to government records, why is it surprising that he would be concerned about the Aaron Swartz case? I agree that this letter could be seen as part a larger battle between Republicans and the Obama DoJ
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by pemulis 14y ago
The Internet Archive, probably. They have a long-term view toward preserving Internet content, and the resources to support permanent memorials would be negligible for them. It would be similar to a university library preserving the papers
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by pemulis 14y ago
But in the case of Darrell Issa, we have a Congressman who, A) Worked with Aaron Swartz to fight SOPA, B) Sits on the House Judiciary Committee, and C) Has a history of hauling the Justice Department before Congress. Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Re
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by pemulis 14y ago
If you want a legislative response, now is the time to write to your representatives. The EFF has an easy tool to send the appropriate people a message: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KE... The prefilled text is
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by pemulis 14y ago
Here's what I wrote: Dear Representative Polis, Two days ago, as I'm sure you are aware, brilliant programmer, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. At the time of his death, he was being threatened with a 35-year federal pri
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Can We Get Congress to Investigate Aaron Swartz's Prosecution?
21 points by pemulis 14y ago|2 comments
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by pemulis 14y ago
> And it seems like keeping teachers well paid and happy is the best use of the money. Is there any evidence that this is the best way to improve schools? Honestly curious.
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by pemulis 14y ago
I was confused by the extended metaphor, too, until I saw the notice at the bottom that the author is writing a book about how to think like Sherlock Holmes. It's useful when reading this kind of essay to find out what the author is selling
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by pemulis 14y ago
> The current trend is for computing power to get smaller and cheaper, rather than getting more computing power. I think it's a mistake to compare specific devices from different eras, like a 2007 desktop and a 2012 desktop. In order to
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by pemulis 14y ago
Twitter is great for five things: Links to long reads, breaking news, short-form comedy, status updates, and contacting interesting strangers. Most people start using Twitter for just one of those five things and discover the other ones lat
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by pemulis 14y ago
> The company appears to present itself as a DMCA remover on the website yesitis.org but lists no address. Considering the many mistakes made by the firm, one has to wonder whether their “under penalty of perjury” statement that they r
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by pemulis 14y ago
They haven't won many heads-up elections, but they have won a few.[1] They're also pulling significant percentages in Germany, and close to a full percent in a few other countries. They're active in 40 at the moment. They're hardly a major

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