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I'm sorry, but you ban accounts for having a contrarian view point? Please point out the rule that I've violated: I've not called anyone names, and your own comments dating back years state that you're not opposed to profanity (though I use it quite sparingly).

The only possible violation is that my view is negative, but I think in each case it is at the minimum a reasonable and necessary opinion.

Are you mad because I think OP has an entitlement issue? Sorry, but it's a completely VALID viewpoint, and if you're silencing valid viewpoints, then your site has a bias problem.

I legitimately can't up vote this enough. What kind of shitty society do we live in where making an insane amount of money isn't good enough?!?

What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

Your question was about Snowden leaks being relevant to domestic policy, which THEY WERE. Asked and answered.

My support or lack-thereof is of no consequence to the discussion

First off, do you have any idea how insulting it is to tell someone with a disorder that they're "confused" about it? Kindly go fuck yourself.

Secondly, you're an idiot.

Aspergers is a specific form of HFA/Autism, not the other way around. Not all people suffering from Autism have Aspergers, but all people suffering from Aspergers have Autism.

It'd be like saying "thumb" is less specific than "finger", which is plainly stupid.

So again, shut the fuck up. Stop speaking for a group of people you have ZERO RIGHT to speak for.

Revelations that the Government spies on it's own citizens without oversight and probably while violating the 4th amendment doesn't have to do with domestic policy? I'm fairly positive that the argument "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ everyone does it" is WHOLLY INSUFFICIENT.

if you go to court for a speeding ticket, you know what happens when you claim "everyone was doing it"? You'll get laughed at by the judge.

Secondly, if you actually read the documents (and your comments seem to suggest you haven't), a great deal has to do with operations within US borders. Sounds an awful lot like "domestic" policy.

The ONLY reason they have hurt the US is because the US is acting immorally (that is, without morals) when it comes to both domestic & foreign intelligence.

There's a super simple way not to get hurt by leaks like this: STOP doing STUPID/ILLEGAL/IMMORAL shit.

There's a saying:

"You don't have to keep track of anything if you always tell the truth".

I can't remember who said it, but it's absolutely true.

Don't misunderstand me, I get the importance of intelligence work, but there's a right way and wrong way to do things, and for a long time now the NSA has been doing it wrong.

As someone who was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in my teens, please shut up. It's not offensive to anyone if it's not being used as a derogatory term.

Please stop advocating for less-descriptive language.

Are you seriously confused at the difference between JavaScript performance in the browser and native code?

Yes, native code by definition runs faster than javascript in the browser. Orders of magnitude faster.

Databinding in the browser also wasn't designed in, there's no direct support. AngularJS is a wrapper around a ton of functionality.

If an API is built to support that natively, it will fly. Period.

It's also something iOS and OS X have had FOR YEARS. no one can complain about those being poor performers.

If you research the names listed in the byline, 2 are businessmen, one is a legislator, and the other is a corporate attorney.

Those people wouldn't be biased AT ALL /sarcasm

So much hand-waivy unsound logic too.

      this blog post showed that blacks and Hispanics 
      were no more likely to use payday loans than whites
      who were experiencing the same financial problems

Yeah, okay, the comparison should be demographic overall, meaning black/hispanic vs white, not "white people experiencing financial problems". Suggesting that they all have "financial problems" in common doesn't wipe away the racial issues.

Yours is a common misconception, but atheism is absolutely a belief system.

"I don't believe in god" is not the same as "I believe god doesn't exist".

The latter statement is of atheists. As an agnostic, I think agnosticism is the only actual "lack" of a belief system, since I don't hold a belief either way (for/against god's existence).

First off, it's incredibly arrogant to say you pray for people to "find the right path", and incredibly disrespectful. That's completely disrespectful. Not to mention the insult to atheists, it's completely ridiculous.

Please tell the VC that you don't want their money, since obviously you're too proud to to business.

Maybe it's because people in the US would get charged foreign-transaction fees? (probably twice, once from their originating bank, and another by stripe)

Not to mention I don't see how any of the claims you make can be substantiated. How exactly do you determine a modem from a fridge if both use the same 120V source? Even if you could determine device class, how can you narrow it down to actual device-type?

Maybe it's because the "rewards" are obscenely expensive? 17 dollars for a circuit-testing screwdriver? I can get one at lowes for less than $5.

Finally, maybe it doesn't have "viral" potential in the US. We already have power-monitoring devices that you can run on your home network, and the number of people in the US who actually use one is minimal.

Uh, I understood what they were trying to say, I'm stating that they were shitty at actually saying it.

If someone expects me to shell out a subscription for their articles, the absolute least they should do is make sure the writing is above a 5th grade level.

I didn't say the subject was bad, I said the writing sucked.

The excerpt I quoted was isolated like a paragraph, but I don't remember a paragraph being 2 poorly written sentences.

How would I have worded it? For one I would have presented one side of the entire story, and then an opposing view-point (i.e. the view point of Theranos execs), instead of "person a said x. person y said x'".

I guess I'm sorry I'd prefer writing hidden behind a pay wall to be a little more elegant than what an 8 year old could write.