pivnicek

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by pivnicek 12y ago
Right there in the 1st amendment. Backed up by the supreme court in the right for group memberships not to be revealed. You have the right to anonymously assemble and associate with a political group. I hope you don't lose it.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
There was a whole popular culture movement back then. I don't see that now, sadly.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
That font is garbage, hard to read, it's like they'd been downvoted on HN. Please end the light text trend, let us read.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
With Bitcoin, fraud may be temporarily outside the law; but with JPMC and HNBC, fraud is built into the law.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
A great project. RIP AS. HOPE and BUILD HOPE. Thank you.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Self discipline has no relation to generation. It's a human condition problem. This method seems to have some merit and may be a tool that can help people suffering from depression climb themselves out. I look forward to trying it.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Canadian immigration controls can be just as bad, though you may get water. Like someone said above, it's all about people having power over others with zero accountability.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse? They don't provide methodology, or any decent description of categorization; this infographic is worse than useless, it obviously has an agenda.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse. No other way to explain it. Doesn't help that they don't give a description of the categories, or methodology
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by pivnicek 13y ago
One imagines that this is the reason Lavabit shut its doors.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
This train wreck keeps getting avoided by the community, but the choo bloody choo is pulling in at the station with a big bomb that has already gone off, but people are just slow to notice. Snowden killed the USA-centric internet. Let&#x27
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Hackers for Government Hire(libertyblitzkrieg.com)
2 points by pivnicek 13y ago|0 comments
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by pivnicek 13y ago
This is a great idea. Own your phone. Right now, the phones we have feel like they are the corporation's phone and not ours. I love this idea, and hope that they get enough interest to make a splash.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
The American people simply haven't had the misfortune of living under a totalitarian regime. That said, right now they should be earnestly listening to those who have; but sadly they seem to be brushing those views aside with thinking
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Indeed, I came across a last_day_of_the_month SQL implementation today that I showed my colleague who's instinct was that it was shit, but upon closer inspection, it seems quite clever.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Never understood why we needed a boolean type, myself. What is wrong with 1 and 0?
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by pivnicek 13y ago
What really is the difference you are achieving? Are you going to redefine zero?
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by pivnicek 13y ago
My first encounter, and it would have hit the nail on the head, if I'd bother to spend the 3 weeks developing it.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Every place has their pros and cons. Eastern Europe feels quite free in the context of daily living, but graft and corruption seem to be the mo of the powers that be.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
In other news, prostitution legalized.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Does anyone know what kind of encryption was used on those drives that were taken from Miranda at Heathrow? Is it feasible to break that in this little time? That seems to be the angle here, that that info was on those drives. At least t
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An Open Letter to My Former NSA Colleagues(slate.com)
106 points by pivnicek 13y ago|20 comments
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by pivnicek 13y ago
The important question regarding this whole mess is where are the equivalent of the Swiss banks for data?
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but the Guardian US, a subsidiary american company broke the story, and the reporter is an American citizen. Nothing really foreign there.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
If you allow your government to declare war on indefinite objects and actions you allow your government to declare permanent war. This is fucking dangerous.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
This deserves discussion. The parallels are striking and all but undeniable. <edited for clarity> I suppose the question business owners have to ask themselves is, do they feel that their country is at war in dire enough straights th
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by pivnicek 13y ago
We got this warrant to search your house because we've already searched your house.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
I'm not sure if a digital universe would necessarily equate to a knowable universe. My main point of disagreement with the philosophy would lie in the ultimate weakness inherent to a digital explanation: the infinite points in between.
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by pivnicek 13y ago
Well, the problem is that you can't have a "guilty people only" filter on a data trawling system. You have no idea who the guilty people are, that is why you are trawling the data. So, I guess what you have to ask yourself,
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by pivnicek 13y ago
> The collection of information of data of innocent people, people with no probable cause they are committing crimes or without a warrant, is not OK. Aye, there's the rub. The collection of the trawl data invariably will uncover so

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