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How the CIA made Google

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Tl;dr; the pentagon and intelligence community funds basic CS research, news at 11.

This is why I check the comments first, thanks!

Might want to read the article.

If you do this to read cynical dismals that don't sum up the content but kind of agree with your believes it should be ok.

The article is from 2015, and it's tinfoil hat claptrap. Not sure how this made it to the front page.

And your last comment was from a year ago and one of only three you've made...all of them being related to Google..

How deep does it go???!!

Damn it, blew my cover!

Thank you for this, subie.

The unaware can laugh all they want but the information war is real and HN is quite popular.

Hahahah, yeah that’s it mate. Hacker News is on the forefront of the infowars. This article is an absolute joke. The author has terrible reasoning skills. I’m glad to see that this has been flagged.

This is why I check all the comments first, thanks!

This breaks the HN guidelines, which ask to assume good faith and not insinuate astroturfing or shilling unless you have actual evidence. Please don't do this again.

No doubt nefarious actions are real but internet users have a far greater tendency to project it onto people who simply have a different view than they do. We all need to guard against this.

Endless reams about this at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if you or anyone want to understand this rule better.

I was only kidding! That being said, thanks for the warning I'll be more careful commenting in the future.

Who is pulling the strings!!!!

As a shortcut for those of us who don't have the time to really dig into this right now, could those of you have dug into it answer one question?

Is this credible and well sourced?

EDIT: Nevermind, it's an old article.

Surely, you could just wait until people have had time to read through it all and analyze it. By asking before it can reasonably even be read you're inviting half-baked responses.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12439826 (I'm sure there are others tho)

The article was originally published in 2015. It is reasonable to ask if anyone has read and investigated previously.

I read it. Very, very low signal to noise.

Lots of innuendo, with few specifics. Seems mostly credible -- well known or unsurprising information -- but whispered in hushed tones.

It all makes sense now lol

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