white_devil

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by white_devil 13y ago
PLEASE tell the world why it's so damn difficult to let non-US businesses use a payment service? We're dying to know. Is it because of bullshit regulations everywhere? Why has it taken you forever to set up shop in a couple
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by white_devil 13y ago
It is a massive fucking bully.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> I think google is one of the few companies who have been fighting for the privacy rights of users .. While happily shitting on their privacy behind their backs by giving a copy of all their communications to the NSA? -That kind of &quo
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by white_devil 13y ago
You are asserting that my assertion is false. It's just as convincing for me to then assert that your assertion that my assertion is false is false. > Google's legal brief filed yesterday cites the "PRISM" flap, and
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by white_devil 13y ago
Did they benefit from fighting the creeping police state in 2009? -Apparently not, because they didn't. Do they benefit from fighting the creeping police state in 2013? -Apparently not, because they didn't - at least until there w
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by white_devil 13y ago
I'm well aware that they're all just huge corporations going after their own interests. That's beside the point. You seemed to be commending Google on "taking the fight to the feds, hard" , and I just wanted to poi
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by white_devil 13y ago
> This is, I think, the only way for these tech giants to come out of this scandal better off than they went in -- to take a stand, and take the fight to the feds, hard. This is a PR-stunt, nothing more. Google could have "challenge
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by white_devil 13y ago
> I often drop $39 on random Ruby, JavaScript, or web design ebooks. I'm sure you do, but unlike me, you're rich . I practically never buy any books, but I'm interested in buying your guides. When I first saw the $50, I
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by white_devil 13y ago
> Your comments have repeatedly attacked the credibility of whistleblowers, derided their claims as factually and technically impossible, and asserted that NSA statements about NSA capabilities are wrong. I'm glad I'm not the o
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by white_devil 13y ago
I doubt your choice of browser matters in that regard.
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by white_devil 13y ago
So how do you plan to make money with this?
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by white_devil 13y ago
> So, you'd feel more comfortable if the company threw in some rhetoric about morals and freedom that are, as assertions, impossible to verify, but would make people feel more warm and fuzzy? But when their impossible-to-verify ass
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by white_devil 13y ago
> Page is clearly and unambiguously denying that Google supplies any information to the government on a millions-of-users scale. Kind of like Mariano Rajoy insisted that Spain didn't need a bailout?
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by white_devil 13y ago
> it says in fact that they "won't integrate". It seems to me that the burden of proof is on you with all these generalities Look no further than the recent events in Stockholm. This guy might be a bit extreme, but he does have a point.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> I trust Google more to fight for privacy of my data against the government, than any of those organizations. Why? > The point is, Google as a company opposes giving the data, it fights it tooth and nail. It does not have a policy
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by white_devil 13y ago
> May I ask why you have not doubled your rates? Because they're not going to go in and cause a huge increase in revenues like Patrick does.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> Finance is like its own universe. The salaries for software are like nothing I've seen anywhere else. That's because Finance is not grounded in Reality. Destroying the world's economies and the wealth of us little folks everywhere is
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by white_devil 13y ago
Is Workana only meant for people from the Americas?
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by white_devil 13y ago
I'm not sure which side you're trying to discredit.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> There is this idea among hackers that you should be able to trust Google, etc, to keep information private from the government. But that's not what privacy means in the context of the 4th amendment. Do you think it's appropriate to ev
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by white_devil 13y ago
> Or are they being used to protect the financial system itself from us? Posing this question suggests you've already arrived at the answer ("yes").
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by white_devil 13y ago
As much as I hate Facebook, it wasn't Facebook encouraging rape. It was whoever posted that picture, if even him. "Hate speech" is a non-issue. Everyone is free to ignore ideas they don't agree with, or perhaps even debate them. But it's
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by white_devil 13y ago
This is late, but do you remember how he got his mailing list off of HN? -He started an interesting experiment about starting a business from scratch, and planning to reach X thousand dollars of income per month in only a few months. "The
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by white_devil 13y ago
> It's called democracy. It works pretty well in most countries. Oh? How's Obama's "Change You Can Believe In" working out for you so far?
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by white_devil 13y ago
Getting the fuck out was a smart move. You did the right thing, don't worry about clueless sheeple bleating about how leaving "doesn't help". It does. It helps you , and possibly your family too.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> You don't get to define what is private for me or what privacy means for me No, but I'm sure most people see privacy in a roughly similar way. You want control over what people know about you and your life, and control over who know
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by white_devil 13y ago
> the SEO industry is full of so much bullshit I have come to expect a lot of hate by association alone So you don't think HN's view on SEO is unduly negative then, after all?
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by white_devil 13y ago
> I am OK with paying with my information. To be more accurate, you're paying with your privacy . Of course, "information" does sound more pleasant.
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by white_devil 13y ago
Yes, that would be the one. The fact that it was opt-in is not relevant to him using it way too aggressively.
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by white_devil 13y ago
I've found it annoying how he's milking his mailing list (that he got off of HN publicity) for all it's worth. He used to hit us with a sales pitch basically every day, now it's only every 5 - 9 days or so.

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