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jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Really? You're a seasoned follower of Hacker News and you don't know who Lawrence Lessig is and what he's done?

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Clearly, I've offended you. But I don't know why?

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Okay then. Call me crazy. I tried to reach out to you across the chasm of differing ideologies. Is this all you've got? No comprende?

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Thank you for saying this. You are brave and beautiful.

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

You call me a scold and accuse me of scapegoating. You claim that "no actions of any commenters here lead to Aaron's death" and imply that Aaron should have been able to survive the onslaught of financial ruin and the prospect of years in prison along with having his compatriots on Hacker News tell him to fuck off. Clearly, you have no compassion for Aaron's plight. But I do. You live in the same world with me and we are all in this together whether you like it or not.

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Thank you. You give me hope.

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

Is that all you are objecting to? The spelling of Aaron's name? Fixed by the way. I fixed Heymann's spelling too.

jhart3333on The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'

You need to atone for your actions regarding Aaron Swartz sir. When I first arrived at Hacker News I happened upon a thread where Aaron was asking for help from his compatriots, his fellow hackers. What he got was a sharp stick in the eye. The top voted comment was by a fellow who had been an active and helpful participant in this forum wherein he called Aaron out for not covering his own expenses for his defense. We now know that Aaron had already spent his fortune defending himself from a prosecutor out of control, Stephen Heymann, and was literally broke. This is apparently standard procedure for the Justice Department: threaten defendants with financial ruin and many years in jail to get a plea. As a result they boast a rate of 90% pleading guilty in federal cases. Thus effectively removing one of the most cherished protections of our civil liberties: trial by a jury of your peers. You sir, shut down every thread in that post in which someone even suggested that Aaron might be in trouble. The fellow who posted the top comment on that thread decided to abstain from taking part this discussion forum following Aaron's suicide. You, however, did not. You carried on commenting and defending the very behavior of the Justice Department which, along with your actions, lead to Aaron's death.

jhart3333on Bitcoin is back: Price quietly jumps 80%

>> There is still no incentive to get paid in BTC

How about no chargebacks? That seems to be a pretty big issue for anyone doing business on the internet.

jhart3333on Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers

Thanks for speaking for me. Actually I would rather speak for myself. Try citing a study or some statistics next time.

jhart3333on Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?

I've looked through your comments on this post and did not find anything that looked like an explanation or refutation of Lewis' claims that HFT were front running. Maybe I missed it or you were talking about another post. Why don't you create a blog post? That way you can point people to it and you won't have keep repeating yourself.

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jhart3333on Good Samaritan Backfire

>> But there's also the fact that American cities are war zones.

That's an opinion claiming to be a fact.

jhart3333on Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

It's cheap until you have to grab a bunch of stuff back all at once. Then they have you by the short hairs.

jhart3333on Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley

I'm sticking with strike. "mass resignation and everyone loses their jobs" just doesn't have the same ring.

jhart3333on Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley

You mean everyone quit together? That's called a strike.

jhart3333on DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods

They use the internet to collect the data.

jhart3333on On being the right size (1928)

Dinosaurs were not cold blooded as it turns out. They live on today as birds.

jhart3333on Metadata Equals Surveillance

What I am saying is that you are accusing Schneier of setting up a straw man when in fact you and he have a difference of opinion. This is not a straw man. He left nothing out of his assertion. However you did. Care to respond to what I actually said?

jhart3333on Metadata Equals Surveillance

Not really. It is usually used as a deceptive argument by one person. This is what you implied by leaving out all the people who supported his assertion.

jhart3333on Metadata Equals Surveillance

forgot to insert sarcasm tags

jhart3333on Metadata Equals Surveillance

"Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden's cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people -- including President Obama -- discounted the seriousness of the NSA's actions by saying that it's just metadata."

You left out the part where he knocks it down with 9 different articles from various credible sources on the VERY NEXT LINE. Who is trying to deceive people here?

jhart3333on Metadata Equals Surveillance

In case you forgot. Corporations ARE people.

jhart3333on Trampolines in JavaScript

Thank you for your thoughtful and informative comment. This is what I read HN for.

jhart3333on The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf]

from Slashdot: "...I'm a co-founder of AntiPolygraph.org (we suggest using Tor to access the site)..."

jhart3333on The NSA is Commandeering the Internet

For me, it's not that The Atlantic is held in disdain but that Schneier is held in high esteem.

jhart3333on Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'

bowlofpetunias' observation: "You are in a very small bubble. The rest of us 99.9% see it clearly." Look at some of the other comments in this thread. The entire rest of the world is talking about Snowden and the bad US behavior that he revealed.

jhart3333on Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'

I don't see your point. It's not an argument, it's an observation: "outside of your bubble, the rest of us see this clearly". Pretty much the opposite of what you are objecting to.

jhart3333on Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data

They kidnapped his dog.

jhart3333on U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

This used to go by another name: it was called a jury.

jhart3333on NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

Occam's Razor? Really? No question of trust enters your mind?