achingtooth

1. Maintain our independence from the crown 2. Maintain our hegemony

He asked a question and I answered. He never asked how much experience.

My point was never that journalism is not unbiased, I was pointing out that Mozilla has a leftist bias.

"Water is wet, and pointing that out brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion." That's most of the comments on HN, the only reason I browse this place is because the rest of the internet is even worse.

I'm not in college, I live as a digital nomad in Eastern Europe. My parents wanted me to go down the traditional path so they made me talk to various companies/agencies to make sure I didn't want to get a normal job and go to school before I left. Your post made me even more glad I didn't go down the traditional path though.

People in this thread are talking about how they wouldn't trust the NSA at all. I went to a presentation and talked with people from the NSA before and at face value they seemed like a silicon valley tech company. In their presentation they talked about how they were interested in open source, diversity, big data, artificial intelligence, and all the other buzzwords. They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were doing was helping people. I know what they've done (and continue to do) but it's strange being able to attach a face to an action. You're more likely to believe them and buy what they are saying. I suppose the best thing to do is check over their code and accept it if everything looks good. They probably are being genuine.

As a an extra piece of information that I found interesting, they were pushing the diversity stuff hard. Everyone that gave the presentation were women (and they weren't low level people), they had an African-American person that worked there talk about how inclusive it was, they talked about how they're super accepting of LGBTQ+ people, and on and on. The tech stuff was for like 5 minutes, then the rest was on diversity (at a tech presentation, looking for recruits). I'm not exaggerating.