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Precisely my point. This is localized catastrophe. For us, it has less effect than car accident happening to our neighbor.

Because the people who died were poor, this accident adds net positive emotional entertainment value to the life of typical consumer.

To put things into context. 1.3 million people die and 50 million people are injured in car accidents every year.

Nature disasters are just side show in human life at this point.

Apple has more subtle canary. Yours is totally obvious.

The court will consider intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary and has no other function, the case is clear.

Your canary has clearly only one purpose: revealing the warrant while thinking you are smartass and get away with it.

The court will take into account intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary, it can be seen as violation of gag order.

1. You don't get it integrated with your applications like browser, email software, text editor or spreadsheet by default. This leads to network effect in reverse. if you are only person to use it within your circles, signing and encrypting data and messages you send to others can't be done.

2. Encryption is extra risk for your data. If you lose the keys, you lose the data. People are bad at backing up their data, why they would be better at managing their keys? Being sloppy with your keys means that somebody can impersonate you with more credibility (what if banks would accepting PGP singed orders in email)

3. Value from widely used PGP happens mostly in society level. Encrypting any particular piece of data has negative expected value in most cases.

4. Using PGP requires understanding the basic concepts and using it well is not that easy (lots of pest practices). People don't know any of this stuff. Even public and private key is far out concept for most people.

Mikko is on fire :)

Sweden has acquired much more wealth since 60's than before. Something like 600 times more.

If you look at multiple indexes that rank countries by competitiveness, low corruption and infrastructure, Sweden and other Nordic countries are usually in top 10.

If you think countries as companies, they would be like business parks. You can compete with low price or good infrastructure. Sweden is Google of countries. It provides highly educated people, good infrastructure, safety and low corruption with higher price. This will inevitability drive out low margin industries that rely on cheap labour but it will be good environment for high- and middle-tech companies.

This is solving the problem in the wrong place. The proper way for OS is to treat filenames as binary sequences like Linux does and have no problems.

The problems that arise elsewhere should be solved elsewhere.

Still not profitable. It's good idea for Nokia to get out. MS has the money to burn.

Many.

Here is multiple lists with sources:

http://investorhome.com/predicted.htm

There was long main article in the Economist about housing bubble few years before the bubble bursted. I remember reading it and being somewhat worried because arguments were convincing. I then forgot it because it was not in other news.

It would be nice to find it again. The issue in question had picture of green? man/gigant weighted down with heavy weights.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

No shit sherlock. US has been in liquidity trap half a decade. There is need for inflation or it turns into decade.

or rsync into zfs filesystem with snapshots.

Urban planning is an issue, but not the size of the country.

They are technologically related but you can't address them in same ethical framework.

For one thing, I think classical spying between governments is just good thing. Knowing what other sovereign actors do and think without filters removes suspicion. Government officials getting spied on just shows incompetence from those go spied and they should up their game. I think security agencies in many countries will now update their policies and get funding for doing so. It's also better understood outside intelligence communities that everyone outside Five Eye countries is considered outsider.

Also. Mass surveillance of citizens is very different from targeted surveillance of small number of suspects. Mass surveillance changes the power balance in democracy. Targeted surveillance of select number of people fits into normal intelligence work.

There are several different things going on and people seem to mix them together.

1. Governments spying other governments and foreign companies.

2. Government mass surveillance of their citizens, and citizens of other countries if possible.

3. Government using the Internet to target some small subset of their citizens.

His assistants, adjutant most certainly have.

Low self esteem is build in youth. He came from very weird family. Jack was ignored and his father favored Joe who was groomed to become the president.

You have graph from last 3 months in the site and you claim that "We've been correct about 60% of the time." Getting it 10% better than coin toss in upwards trending market is not that hard.

In this case they have only one Twitter account but they delete old posts and start over.

Predicted market correct last 5 days in row https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6535057

One way to put things in perspective is to compare against predictor that always chooses the most frequent label (higher in this case).

dynofuz made 14 predictions, 13 correct (at least they claim so) and their predictor agrees with majority label predictor 10/14 = 71% of the time. The difference is just 3 correct predictions.

correction: 13 predictions, 10/13 = 77% same as majority label predictor.

I must wonder why don't Merkel use phones like CryptoPhone.

http://www.cryptophone.de/en/background/cryptophone-technolo...

JFK sex affairs would be typical cases of sexual narcissism to overcompensate for low self-esteem and an inability to experience true intimacy.

But citizens are not forced to spy on their friends, like these companies are.

Common Lisp can be separated into core of 25 or so core operators and rest could be considered as library.

I think CL is in a way more operating system like than most other Lisps and would make good base for operating system. You can load and unload stuff, clean the system, etc.

Five Eyes countries (US, CA, UK, NZ, AU) have very deep intelligence cooperation and sharing agreements. I don't think NZ is particularly good choice for this reason.

As far as I know, US citizens can't be ordered to violate laws when they operate in foreign countries. If they receive compliance letter requesting them to use foreign company with servers located in that country to break those laws, they can point out that it's outside US jurisdiction.

For mobile applications Windows has been constantly behind Android and iOS. One part of Nokia's problems was that MS could not deliver drivers for new hardware. For example, Nokia could not move to high resolution screens because Windows could not handle them. Being constantly 6-12 months behind because software is not up to dates was devastating.