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by tool 12y ago
"Places online where you can expect privacy: Facebook" I'd rather be spied upon by NSA any day over Facebook. Atleast then I know how my information is being used. But oh right, NSA doesn't have a website where you can s
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by tool 12y ago
Rather make a petition to stop people with no real technological skillsets glorifying themselves as "hacker" every chance they get. Be it on HN, their own blogs or facebook. Making wordpress themes isn't hacking, no matter ho
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by tool 13y ago
Wood for me too, I guess all those summer jobs at construction left something behind.
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by tool 13y ago
> I don't think many realize what they've sacrificed because they value it so little. Exactly. Also, most people don't tend to question authority figures. That's what facebook has become for web 2.0 or whatever you wa
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by tool 13y ago
Says mister "hey check out my blog with a picture of my face on it!".
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by tool 13y ago
More women than men? Gender equality has been achieved.
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by tool 13y ago
How can anyone in this day and age seriously write an article like this, when programming is cooler than it ever was. Wherever I look related to tech nowadays, it's always a very social, well spoken and trimmed young man in his late tw
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by tool 13y ago
I'm exactly in the same boat as you and this really stresses me out. With WhatsApp I finally felt like I could stay in touch with people easily and "casually" without being on Facebook, it has became a big part of my daily ro
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by tool 13y ago
Great, the only way I was able to stay in contact with people without using facebook is gone. Cancer.
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by tool 13y ago
I wonder how facebook is going to monetize this. Selling likes to a charity organization?
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by tool 13y ago
From the FB comments: "Jamil Elie Bou Kheir hello from hacker news. thoughtful article! i think it's not the mere intelligence, beauty, or wealth…" Caused me to cringe, now not only calling yourself a hacker is a commodity, b
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by tool 13y ago
I'd be happier if your weekly subscription field overlay didn't take 1/3 of my iPhones screen.
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by tool 13y ago
Every time I see anything related to this bullshit campaign it ruins my entire day. Such a bunch of fucking hypocrites. People with no understanding of internet and/or privacy, pretending to care about privacy.
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by tool 13y ago
And people still seriously think that taking anonymity away from the internet is a good thing. I don't know what sickens me more, the american legal system or modern internet filled with people that have absolutely no understand of pri
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by tool 13y ago
Downright tacky.
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by tool 13y ago
"One explanation for this could be money laundering." Reminds me of something a few months or so back (in 4chan/g/) when Samsung had some sort of a campaign that gave it's users free android market credits. I don&#x
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by tool 13y ago
My father got me a subscription for a computer magazine (finnish Mikrobitti) as a part of it you got an email account some space on their servers /~username/ and a 56k modem connection. He helped me do some fiddling around on Fron
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by tool 13y ago
How else would they make money?
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by tool 13y ago
I used to be very fascinated by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman a group that produced many of 80's pop hits and didn't think that there would be a "more modern" equivalent that co
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by tool 13y ago
So using a website for showing off and glorifying your every day life doesn't make you a tool? Don't even try to fly that 'socializing' bullshit, I can see your sushi eating pictures even with my eyes closed. Combine the