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Part of the 24 hr marketing response team?

Seriously, I've never met a real person who didn't feel screwed by the planned obsolescence and painfully staggered hardware updates that lag behind the curve. Apple's beginning ideals != to the Apple of today.

Yeah, I just don't understand capitalists that actively fight against capitalizing on clear opportunities. I would have just opened a store down the street or something.

Why am I not surprised. Funnily enough, I work in the same building as the EPA, and they advertise their LEED cert. SMH

It feels weird using Google now and knowing that I'm just training their AI. Frankly, I don't particularly want that to move any faster than it already is. One less user won't make that much difference, no, but I do think that supporting Firefox makes a great antithesis to Google's forces.

If they don't all die of lung cancer from the massive pollution they deal with.

It's weird, and hate to be that guy, but is it significant that all of the people who did this appear to be Chinese? Springer lists all of the articles and authors.

Convenient that PR timing for Uber as well.

My instinct is that Uber fed this story to the Economist to try and counter their recently bad PR

Misleading how?

It goes into specific details that only someone who is linked into these events would be able to describe and recognize. Someone like Assange, before he was exiled. Of course most of these people aren't open about these kinds of things either. I'm very interested in how large tech companies are wielding their power politically, because they get to bypass borders governments cannot. We've seen this with multinational corporations for a very long time of course, but nothing with the capabilities like Google-when practically everyone is living with a smartphone in their pocket at all times, with all the data, big and small, that creates. I think despite his biases, Assange does a great job at capturing how this is currently evolving.

I will make sure to check in with you over the coming months and years to assure you I'm real :)

Yeah, I've been browsing hacker news for about 3 years actually, but never felt an impulse to comment until now. Helps that I've entered a more political period of my life recently.

In the top 3 most insightful pieces of journalism I have read in 2016. Whatever your opinion on Julian Assange, this is a fascinating look into details of how power structures are evolving in the 21st century. Makes me think the government has a much tighter pulse on what's going on than I had previously thought. Perhaps part of the trick is they want you to think they're idiots.