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icomefromredditon Our Approach to Privacy

I don't trust Apple. It's a matter of trust, so I have nothing else to say, just I can't trust Apple.

icomefromredditon Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing consent (1992) [video]

“ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. „

Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

icomefromredditon Tech firms aren't biggest users of H-1B visas

A dishonest analysis: There are more tech firms than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

> Thousands of other companies accounted for the remaining 557,062 labor filings.

And most of them are IT firms.

icomefromredditon Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan

> “What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist

> dictator?” asks technology investor Justin Kan in the New Yorker

> story. “Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape

> hatch is pretty high.”

Classic Peter.

I have just remembered a book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Nail Strauss

icomefromredditon [dead]

Talk about virtue signalling.

icomefromredditon Ask HN: What Are the Best Podcasts about Computer Science and Programming?

The Indian Startup Show. I don't know if I's allowed to link it. I'm from Bangladesh, but I listen many Indian shows and watch Mexican soap operas through VPN.

icomefromredditon Is functional programming overtaking the IT industry?

No.

icomefromredditon That Old Phone Trump Uses for Twitter Could Be an Opening to Security Threats

From the article:

> Could be... could be... but it’s unclear... could be... if...if... he could--- It is unclear... could be... could...

So, we don't if Trump keep his old device, but we will pretend he keep his old device.

icomefromredditon Ask HN: Can someone explain this pg tweet to me?

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

icomefromredditon [dead]

And what about screaming at "nazis"? (https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/823261320669757440)

icomefromredditon After 1 minute on my modem (2016)

Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org/):

> Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

> Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

I'm from Bangladesh, my connection is ~256 kbps and my pc is slow (256 RAM and 1.6 ghz), if not by privoxy, i couldn't browse internet.

icomefromredditon I Didn't Get Hired to Google

Is sad and cringe:

https://twitter.com/GoogleyAsHeck

icomefromredditon I Didn't Get Hired to Google

> "This is my multi-month study plan for going from web developer (self-taught, no CS degree)..."

No CS degree and no CS background. I wonder why he wasn't chosen (and why HN dismiss Google interviews as silly games...).

icomefromredditon Google Interview University: I Didn’t Get Hired. Here’s Why

Saved You a Click. I quote:

> Why didn’t I get hired?

       >> I don’t know why.

icomefromredditon Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (2009)

> A psychologist probes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

icomefromredditon Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016?

1. Industrial Society and Its Future. Ted Kaczynski, 1995 (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-societ...).

icomefromredditon Ask HN: Can I exclude Trump supporters in my open source license?

It would not be an free software.

> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all > (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, > including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby > mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

    Theo de Raadt cvs@openbsd.org mailing list, May 29, 2001

> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree.

    Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)

Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)

icomefromredditon Fake Book With Connections To “Dark Enlightenment” Movement Found On Stack 12

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:

> See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana.

> Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.

icomefromredditon Stephen Hawking: This is the most dangerous time for our planet

> We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species, but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past month. To learn above all a measure of humility.

We're doomed.

icomefromredditon Stallman’s Law

Interesting. Sounds very Kaczynski to me:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...

icomefromredditon Researchers: Artificial Sweeteners Prevent Weight Loss

"Researchers..." "...expert says" "A growing body of evidence..." "How Russia hacked the election" and other ambiguities :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Forms

icomefromredditon Inside a Fake News Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’

'Fake News' took our jobs!

icomefromredditon Whose Fake News Gets a Pass? NYT Advocates Internet Censorship

Follow the money.

icomefromredditon How World War III Could Begin in Latvia

Foreign Policy and his fake news.

icomefromredditon Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking fears

Alex Halderman is not 100% legit, he's an activist pushing an agenda, HIS agenda, now aligned with his beliefs and political preferences.

icomefromredditon Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

Or a class conflict, once they become conscious, class-conscious.

icomefromredditon The Personal Is Political, the Political Is Personal

From OP, on reddit:

> Until today, I’ve never shared anything particularly personal online, but in the wake of the election, I feel like I can no longer stay silent. I finally worked up the nerve to write publicly about sexual assault, tying my recent experiences to Trump's election. I look forward to your feedback and comments! I also shared this on the MensLib subreddit, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the positivity of men's responses.

> We all have a little bit of Trump within us, whether that’s a bit of narcissism, arrogance, aggressiveness, greed, stubbornness, impatience, impulsivity, bullying, poor listening skills, or implicit or explicit bias.

icomefromredditon Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

Wikileaks is propaganda, NPR is not:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/19/490515026/i...

Edit. Another source (of many):

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/13/politics/russia-us-electio...

icomefromredditon Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

A Russian hacker (or a state-sponsored team of hackers).

icomefromredditon Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

A self-sustaining civilization of robots. Humans are gone, but generations and generations of robots evolve and, eventually, incorporating organic compounds, they become cyborgs.