>Criticizing legitimate American counter-terrorism and counter espionage and suggesting that it's equivalent to China's suppression of thought of its citizens
This is infuriating. I'm sure China would claim their censorship is "counter-terrorism" or some equivalent nonsense. What the US is doing has nothing to do with terrorism which is why they're catching other crimes (mostly drug related) instead of actual terrorists.
It's frustrating that even on HN there are people who buy into all the eroding of rights in the name of "protecting freedom". The danger the terrorists presented wasn't even that big. They must have been shocked when they saw what they were able to make us do to ourselves.
I know I'm not in the majority on this site, but I personally hate web apps. I hate how they look, I hate hearing about how they will replace native.
Personally, I'd like to see native app front ends backed by REST web services that have a cheesy default "web" front end that will work but also tells you how much more powerful the native client is.
Do people really want an OS to be nothing more than "the thing that opens the web browser"? Further, as long as the programming language of web apps has to be or compile to Javascript I'm against it. If it's going to be a platform then it should have a language neutral VM that we can all target. At least give me that.
I don't know if "designed by committee" is fair. Plus, a big problem with committee design has been people trying to avoid costing themselves anymore than absolutely necessary no matter what that meant for everyone else (e.g. Common Lisp).
Startups have been resistant to this so far by following pg's advice of simply ignoring patents until you're big enough to matter. If things keep going as they are though the ecosystem could seriously be disrupted. If that ever happens it could be disastrous for SV and possibly the US in general as it seems there can only be one true startup hub, once you lose it it's probably gone.
It seems that no matter how many famous people have their accounts hacked by security questions, idiots will keep using them. Personally I always select a random question from the list and just paste my password there again.
Yes it is. He's committed no crime against the US at all so why do they want him? They can't charge him for anything so it's pretty clear he won't be getting a fair trial or any at all.
That's just it, he committed no crime against the US. He might be tried for treason if American but he isn't. This is why they wouldn't want to extradite him via any official channels but rather use Sweden's "temporary surrender" clause to get him extradited with no trial or oversight at all.
You're stance is utterly insane. A person said something people find offensive, so he had to go to jail. What happens when speaking out against corruption in government becomes "offensive"?
There is some danger in letting stupid people say stupid things but the alternative is vastly more dangerous.
Maybe he's a photographer and not a programmer? I can also open the hood on my car but I'd rather pay someone. I really don't want to know anymore than I absolutely have to because I might be tempted to waste time on it "saving money".
Given how big the upside could be (10 million people buying your book?), one almost has to do something like this to prevent the imagination running wild and having a massive let down later on.
What do you mean with this? Do you mean work as a consultant? Start your own business? Contracting may not be the best but it's vastly better than being a permanent employee in the common case (e.g. obviously not so good if the company you consult for turns out to be the next google, but that's highly unlikely).
Actually, unlike your post his blog post did provide something valuable: it informs others in his/her situation that they don't have to just take this.
People accepting these kinds of demands pushes rates down for everyone (game theory), so there is value in trying to get people not to do that.
The massive difference between the Internet and space (at least in my current opinion) is that the internet represents instant communication and it didn't take long to figure out how that can make money. Space on the other hand, what opportunities does it provide? Putting things in orbit, that's good. Maybe mining asteroids, but then what? Perhaps better solar power collection or something, but what potential profits would lie in colonizing mars, for example? Trying to travel outside of our solar system?
I'm not an anti-capitalist, I just find that often when it comes to capitalism we tend to have "I've got a hammer" syndrome. It's not the best solution for every possible problem.
Nonsense. It has nothing what so ever to do with science. All the analysis depends on rules that all the other players also know. If someone went in and changed some fundamental entry in their rule book (e.g. "testing from the bottom") the rules that the stocks themselves seem to follow would change overnight.
You're being overly sensitive. He didn't say something bad about your mother, he pointed out what was wrong with a thing, a product and IMO he was mostly right.
Personally my view is the exact opposite. Privatizing space travel will never bring us to the stars. It will get us into orbit for very high fees but e.g. deep space exploration? Too expensive, too low likelyhood of payoff. But for the really long term survival of humanity, it's a must.
This is infuriating. I'm sure China would claim their censorship is "counter-terrorism" or some equivalent nonsense. What the US is doing has nothing to do with terrorism which is why they're catching other crimes (mostly drug related) instead of actual terrorists.
It's frustrating that even on HN there are people who buy into all the eroding of rights in the name of "protecting freedom". The danger the terrorists presented wasn't even that big. They must have been shocked when they saw what they were able to make us do to ourselves.