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cite a single comment where somebody has said "they are making this up to go to war"

> "they're making this up to go to war"

literally nobody has said that, all that most people have said is that if you're going to accuse another nation of an act of "cyberwar" at least provide proof. Is that too much to ask?

or,

4. the NSA has nothing to do with this and the FBI are incompetant

Criticism? Don't flatter yourself. A prerequisite for criticism is being informed, and you not only have little clue to what I or Tim Cook believe, but you have mischaracterized Christianity, Islam and all monotheism - 3.6 billion people and their views stereotyped broadly.

I don't have answers for myself, so i'm not going to pretend to have answers for 50% of the world population. I'm certainly not going to assess their beliefs on the basis that what I might believe is somehow more correct than what anyone else believes.

Intelectual or theological superiority combined with moral authority is what leads to intolerance and hate. I'd rather somebody believe in the easter bunny or pray to Kim Kardashian 5 times a day and be tolerant of others than be closer to my own agnostic view and attempt force it on others because they are more correct.

It doesn't surprise me that you also make an assumption about what I believe, considering you sprayed a dozen comments of bile about what Tim Cook believes based on almost nothing.

How about you drop the faux intellectual superiority and just accept what others choose to believe - be it their religious beliefs, political or sexual orientation?

That is the very definition of tolerance - and, ironically, the exact thing that Cook standing up for.

> They are certainly converging ever closer to the truth.

What the pope said last week isn't a new position - the Catholic church and evolution have never been in conflict. There was no position for a long time while Catholic scientists worked on evolution, but it was formally accepted in 1950, which in terms of the Catholic church moving on an issue is pretty quick.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but your ignorance of religion and monotheism is astounding. Reading your comments it is very apparent that you take any mention of a belief in God to mean a follower of the American branch of reformist protestant Christianity with biblical literalism.

That is a very broad brush, as the fundamentalists literalists are a tiny part of Christianity and of broader monotheism. They make up about a quarter of American Christians, which is a much higher proportion than any other country in the world.

A lot of people associate that branch of Christianity with all monotheism simply because they tend to be noisy and dominate political issues. You'll rarely find that view outside of the USA, and of the overall global monotheist population the literalists are a tiny percentage.

The biggest critics of the literalists and their views are in fact other Christians. Even the Catholic church, which itself is a conservative branch of Christianity - accepts evolution, the age of the universe and other dominant issues associated with fundamentalist Christians in the USA such as the rights of homosexuals.

To associate all Christians or monotheists as meaning fundamentalist is no different to the bigots and wackos who believe that all Muslims are Salafist jihadi. Tim mentioned nothing more than a belief in God, it is a huge and unsubstantiated leap to conclude from his single word that he is a fundamentalist literalist.

There would be a lot more tolerance in this world if people who hated at least understood what it was they were hating. I see your views as being as ignorant and fundamentalist as the very views you disagree with.

You're at that stage of new technology adoption of where you think you know enough to criticize an idea but don't know enough to answer your own questions. Give it a few more hours of experience.

so Gox were also leaking passport scans?

Petty factionalism within Open Source where if you don't support the latest views of the GNU committee and Dear Leader then you are against open source (which is ridiculous). Largest dispute has been a lot of GPL projects that won't move to v3 since there are a lot of problems with it.

Not even worth replying to, in my opinion.

I know them as much as the comment above me knows Kanye. Being an asshole is a public persona, and each of those people has been called or referred to as an asshole.

edit: and there are plenty of anecdotal "Kanye is a nice guy when you meet him" stories as well. Evel Knievel sued Kanye and described him as 'vulgar an offensive', after they met he said "I thought he was a wonderful guy and a gentleman":

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-11-27-ka...

unlike Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison ..

i'm actually struggling to think of an idolized figure in tech who isn't an "asshole".

edit: put "asshole" in quotes, which gets my point across better

If you want to remain anonymous, a virtual machine is your only option.

Oh, the irony.

I read it as a response to the line:

> that same exact logic would also justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq...

and it argued that justifying the Iraq war is on a different scale, not comparable in either death toll or long-term effects to what has taken place thus far in the Arab Spring.

what makes you think they aren't doing just that? they could start shipping them out and make a profit on the machines just as the difficulty rate picks up and there is more profit to be made in selling miners rather than mining.

> I'm not sure any of this is "damning" really.

How about the part where he was in another state on the night she says he raped her?

Or the part where she left a comment on Gawker stating that he has been previously charged with rape and went to trial but got off because he knew the judge

Or the part where she deleted evidence on Facebook?

Or the part where she told Gawker that she hadn't been in contact with him since the rape but he shows a large number of messages in a pattern of obsession

Or the part where every other person who is familiar with the two of them denies even seeing a hint of abuse

Or the part where she has previously made a false accusation, of being pregnant, in order to get him to respond to her

Actually, did you read the post? This is as damming as you can get when defending yourself from a false rape accusation.

I can't imagine what else somebody in that situation could do. He is lucky he was able to track down all this information online, otherwise we could have seen an innocent man convicted.

This woman is unreliable. She also accused Arrington of hacking into Robert Scoble's Facebook account and posting as him to defend Arrington. We should have seen through this at that point, that it had to come to this is an indictment of our culture and the willingness of a few to take advantage of an unstable woman to promote their own self interest.

This was done in Australia and they were caught. 90% of drug seizures are a result of intelligence gathering rather than search.

I listened to a talk from the former head of a customs agency who admitted that search alone is useless in stopping the flow of contraband. He described it as searching for a needle in a haystack in a haystack.

The intelligence turns out to be a good method. It is difficult to import multiple kilograms of a drug into a major city and not make noise about it. First you have the concern of anybody in the lower end of the pyramid being caught, and second there is the competition who are usually more than happy to rat you out to get rid of you.

I'm willing to bet that even the case of the professor in OP was a result of intelligence. There are two common ways couriers are caught in South America:

* the first is that they are turned in by the organization that has sent them. As part of police corruption and keeping locals out of prisons they setup foreigners.

* the second is signature detection. It turns out that a lot of organizations use the same types of suitcases. I bet it was the type of suitcase he was carrying that prompted them to search.

It is going to be interesting when this gets to discovery, and we find out what Heroku were saying internally this entire time about the issue. There are bound to be internal emails that discuss this issue and what to do (or not to do) about it. For this reason I can see this being settled. Perhaps refunds and an apology.

pretty funny to read your elitis tirade there considering that a lot of these blogs are also startups with founders, CEO's, employees, investors etc.

what the hell.. this thread is certainly being derailed very quickly.

discredit the facts in the story, not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever

P3P is based on trust. If Facebook and Google don't want to support it then they should ignore it rather than subvert it.

on-site or remote?

you are definitely right about the 'not taken seriously' part - it is a good tip for those starting out

I tried but could not. If a moderator with super-powers is reading this, could you please add the poll URL to the OP?

The other way of approaching this may be to pivot it towards a general discussion on the state of the market in different sectors, regions, etc.

For eg. I know that atm iOS developers based in San Francisco or the valley can charge out around $1500 per day.

I also know that on-site web development work in Australia (Sydney) can fetch $150+

These are both from friends of mine who are experienced developers and who can work and complete a project on their own.

I also learnt today that the discount on working remotely can be large in some instances. (30%)

Interesting takeaways to get from other HN members would be what areas are hot at the moment (for eg. javascript web app dev), where the market is hot, how clients are being found, etc.

I am getting back into the market after a few years of fulltime employment and taking time off, so I am trying to get as much information as possible in order to get back up to speed.

Good point. I just created a poll:

http://gopollgo.com/what-is-your-hourly-freelance-consulting...

I travel between Australia and Thailand. I will be raising my rates with the next quote I do. I have only been back in freelance work for a few weeks now.

I emailed friends and former co-workers. I have never used any of the freelancing sites, but from what I understand it is difficult to charge higher rates as you are starting out.

There is a lot of work out there at the moment. I got back into consulting work as a freelancer two weeks ago and filled up my schedule within a couple of days after sending a single email to 5 or 6 contacts.

I am working on backend Python, frontend Javascript (Backbone, etc.) and general startup product consulting. Charging $700 per day (which I think is low, but I wanted to accept some work), based in Asia and clients in the USA (West Coast)

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