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by ripb 12y ago
I want some of whatever their investors are smoking. Edit: Is it the smoke from all those dollar bills going up in those flames?
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by ripb 12y ago
I already acknowledged that I'm a virtual nobody to them. I just don't want to be a virtual somebody to them, even if it's just a raised XKeyScore rating.
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by ripb 12y ago
>Will you join me? I wonder how many people are genuinely afraid of raising their own profile in such a way. I'm not American, but I would certainly be partaking in any political action against the actions being discussed here. Alth
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by ripb 12y ago
>The war on terror, like all the metaphorical wars, is really a civil war. It needs to stop now. There's too much money at stake for those at the top for this to be stopped. Lucrative contracts for all their buddies whether it'
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by ripb 12y ago
>This is not about you. This is not about your data. This is about our society's collective ability to think and act for itself. Blanket acceptance of surveillance is a dangerous attitude and shockingly common. It's also about
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by ripb 12y ago
Is it just me or does there seem to be significantly more of a recode.net presence on HN at the moment? I hadn't heard of the site until recently and now I've seen a few fairly low-brow articles from it on the front page here in t
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by ripb 12y ago
For the company. Depending on how it is implemented, taking a cut of the first 2 years' salary could be very high risk. Intuitively there seems to be little to stop someone taking the education and then absconding abroad.
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by ripb 12y ago
I really like the innovative funding model, although intuitively it seems pretty high risk?
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by ripb 12y ago
>Or are attention spans so short and/or the agency so completely removed from the rule of law that we're going to let them get away with their crimes? If we're not even going to bother with the trial - acknowledging that w
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by ripb 12y ago
>to drum up more support for killing people an ocean away To drum up more support for pumping billions or trillions of dollars borrowed from America's descendants into the pockets of the US elite via the military industrial complex.
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by ripb 12y ago
I find it amazing that people seemingly don't know that Facebook tracks you across the web through those embedded Like buttons, and more amazing that many who do know don't seem to care.
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by ripb 12y ago
>It seems that for most people total calories are more important than the carbohydrate/fat-ratio. It's also relatively easier to track. It's easy to say "Well, I can consume about 2000 calories per day, this donut has
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by ripb 12y ago
>I think Twitter would have stopped these much earlier if they could. If Twitter clamped down on bots on the site/network it could end up revealing a very unflattering (to investors) picture of the sites true user traction. The site
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by ripb 12y ago
>If you are enabling a surveillance state, I think many people would consider that to be harmful to public welfare. I honestly do not know how those working for the NSA, GCHQ, etc. can live with themselves for the damage they're doi
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by ripb 12y ago
>It's not being thrown at the tech industry. It's people within the industry calling out the problem that we have. It's very telling that you think of the industry as a community under siege. Actually, the vast majority of
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by ripb 12y ago
It's such a shame that we have the lives of such smart people being sucked up by such a vacuous, socially value-less and damaging industry.
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by ripb 12y ago
There are more women than men in employment in the US, where is the daily articles on that? And the effort to tackle that? And the constant shaming of companies that employ more women than men? There are 1.4x the amount of women graduating
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by ripb 12y ago
Wages vs salary
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by ripb 12y ago
In the UK it's basically if you work for wages and/or in low skilled or manual labour.
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by ripb 12y ago
>Btw we are working class too, even with those fancy 6 figure salaries... No, we're not. We're the down trodden, continually squeezed middle or upper middle class depending on the cost of living where you are.
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by ripb 12y ago
Well SF is clearly saturated with people working in the tech industry. As we're seeing more and more on HN, there's a huge amount of people in the tech industry who are in it for reasons that do not include a passion for technolog
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by ripb 12y ago
It's quite likely that many of his choices regarding non-programming hobbies have been highly influenced by programmers/tech people around him in the workplace or outside it. He also likely has developed biases, not on socioeconom
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by ripb 12y ago
>(That's not to say that you should stay in an unfulfilling job forever - just that you should make hay while the sun is shining). I agree. I'm almost 30 myself and have been living quite extravagantly as you say. I'm hopi
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by ripb 12y ago
>Every life event he describes here is a movement to extremes out of frustration or anxiety from what he was currently doing. I'm sure there's much more to this story, but if anything, this is an example of how peace of mind ca
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by ripb 12y ago
Their taxes are theirs. It's through generosity that social programs are created and paid for through the general revenue. Although admittedly it has now backfired, as it's now easier to have children on welfare than it is for man
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by ripb 12y ago
What are you taking issue with? Keep in mind we're discussing the UK.
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by ripb 12y ago
You've hit the nail on the head, brainpan. >But we all just quit that notion before we start Don't forget we also denounce and ridicule anyone who tries to live outside the system we have constructed and rely on.
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by ripb 12y ago
>The middle class are damned if they do, damned if they don't by the author's argument. And yet if the middle class ask their representatives to scale back the very same social programs that provide the uber cool, uber cultural
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by ripb 12y ago
While I connect with and appreciate many of the points he has made, I have to say I'm getting pretty damn tired of the almost constant attack on the white middle class person from left-wing journalists. You are damned if you do and dam
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by ripb 12y ago
>it surprises me that it is popular on a forum relating to startups and technology The culture they discuss in the article is highly applicable to the home of the modern startup though - San Francisco.

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