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stevenggon Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

The best podcast in the universe.

stevenggon Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

No Agenda Show http://www.noagendashow.com/

stevenggon High-speed railways are revolutionizing trade in Eurasia

Pepe Escobar is great he blogs here http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Escobar.html

stevenggon Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots

anyone else sick of seeing pay walled links on the front page of HN?

stevenggon The Pierre Omidyar Insurgency

http://pando.com/2014/10/28/taibbi-takes-time-out-from-first...

stevenggon The FBI Can Bypass Encryption [pdf]

If you listen to James Comey talk https://www.noagendaplayer.com/listen/656/44-52 he sounds like a crazy person. "Dount of smart thinking"

stevenggon Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future

Sounds more like the FCC wants to regulate the internet

stevenggon Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?

This sort of thing is standard secret service wave blank paper to gain entry

http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/newschannel-5-investiga...

stevenggon SEC Proceeding against Athena Capital Research [pdf]

Leah McGrath Goodman is not a reliable source for news edit: someone changed link from newsweek story

stevenggon X-37B plane can stay in space for years, power source?

the guy who took this picture gave a talk 30c3 he takes pictures of military instantiations Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_...

stevenggon Facebook plots first steps into healthcare

Great now facebook can monetize more of my private data, just what I have been waiting for.

stevenggon How Jack Ma Went from Being a Poor School Teacher to Founding Alibaba

corporate pr never fails to make the front page on hn now days, 63 votes 7 hours 1 comment.

stevenggon Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads

maybe its not the best idea to have a business model based on misclicks.

stevenggon Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone

Moxie also made a sailing documentary that is good called hold fast http://vimeo.com/15351476

stevenggon Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Streaming

talk netflix gave at NYCBSDCon NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4

stevenggon Blackphone BP1 Now Available

Have they released the source code yet?

stevenggon SecureDrop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU grugq talking about opsec

stevenggon Nest is acquiring Dropcam

so if google owns nest and nest nad owns dropcam if you have a dropcam and the NSA wants to come blackbag your house can they delete the video off the cloudhosting warnetlessly?

stevenggon Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace

http://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-al...

stevenggon Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands

The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse is a term for internet criminals, or the imagery of internet criminals.

A play on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it refers to types of criminals who use the internet to facilitate crime and consequently jeopardize the rights of honest internet users. There does not appear to be an exact definition for who the Horsemen are, but they are usually described as terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime. Other sources use slightly different descriptions but generally refer to the same types of criminals. The term was coined by Timothy C. May in 1988, who referred to them as "child pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc."[1] when discussing the reasons for limited civilian use of cryptography tools. Among the most famous of these is in the Cypherpunk FAQ,[2] which states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyps...

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Authors@Google: David Graeber, DEBT: The First 5,000 Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs

stevenggon 2048 Numberwang

This has just turned into a meme clogging up hn

stevenggon Edward Snowden SXSW live stream

video of the event?

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why is this on HN?

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i'm not really sure why this is on HN

stevenggon Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement