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Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by tl on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:46PM (#22230679)
My response is Condoleezza Rice [1] followed by Prism [2] followed by hysterical laughter.

[1] http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

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Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by dang on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:36PM (#22231055)
> bashing Dropbox is HN-suicide

That's not true, and why would you go to the trouble of making a footnote about a six-year-old thread yet skip providing the link? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069

grellas' comment has 270+ replies, and HN's software currently paginates threads at 250 comments. That is purely for performance reasons, and I can't wait to be able to turn it off. If you go to the subsequent pages, there are many other top-level comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7566069&p=4

grellas' comment is at the top because the ranking algorithm put it there; many of his comments have gotten upvoted heavily over the years. Moderators didn't do any of that.

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Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by asveikau on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:03PM (#22231950)
People here don't like to hear things that smell like politics, but the Condi Rice thing is a big deal. Excuse my bluntness, but she was one of the public faces of thousands of preventable deaths in Iraq. To have no problem with this I think has so something to do with what people mean when they say many in tech have basic ethics problems.
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