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Comment by AndrewKemendo | Hacker News Reader

Oh boy. Being on the inside of Maven, I can't tell you how confused these Googlers are.

If you're not going to explain for the rest of us, what was the point of this comment?

To communicate that the people on the inside of Google who are making these protestations are grossly uninformed about the Google-Maven relationship.

Choose to believe me or not. My background is all out there for people to see.

When it comes to life-or-death questions, we should make informed decisions. "Just trust me" fundamentally lacks any valuable information that furthers the discussion. In addition, "just trust me" also endangers less clear thinking people to sway based on emotion instead of well-founded cold hard facts.

The reality of Defense/Intelligence is that you do have to just trust some of us.

The reality of being a citizen of the US is that the intel community doesn't make it easy to do so.

Your background isn't nearly as useful as the facts. You're the one who started this thread, but it's completely unsubstantiated. If people aren't going to believe Sundar Pichai (CEO) without evidence, why should anyone believe you?

R.I.P. your TS/SCI clearance. Identifying yourself as part of any project on the internet is quite possibly the #1 no-no, certainly the #1 internet no-no. In fact, this makes me wonder if you really know anything at all.

I call bullshit.

The fact that you are outing yourself (now and in your HN profile) is very unlike any other "spook" I know.

It's laughable that you say your " background is all out there for people to see".

it appears from linkedin that he was an AF intelligence officer.

being a military intelligence officer is not the same as, say, being a clandestine service officer. apparently, the AF even sees fit to give you "intelligence wings" to wear on your chest. there appear to be an awful lot of current and former intelligence officers who list their specialty and former duty stations in linkedin.

As you surely know, most people unfortunately do not follow the "gather data, then respond" model. Most stuff is unfortunately fact-free (or fact-freer than it should be)

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