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I don't trust Apple. It's a matter of trust, so I have nothing else to say, just I can't trust Apple.

“ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. „

Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

A dishonest analysis: There are more tech firms than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

> Thousands of other companies accounted for the remaining 557,062 labor filings.

And most of them are IT firms.

> “What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist

> dictator?” asks technology investor Justin Kan in the New Yorker

> story. “Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape

> hatch is pretty high.”

Classic Peter.

I have just remembered a book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Nail Strauss

Talk about virtue signalling.

The Indian Startup Show. I don't know if I's allowed to link it. I'm from Bangladesh, but I listen many Indian shows and watch Mexican soap operas through VPN.

No.

From the article:

> Could be... could be... but it’s unclear... could be... if...if... he could--- It is unclear... could be... could...

So, we don't if Trump keep his old device, but we will pretend he keep his old device.

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

And what about screaming at "nazis"? (https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/823261320669757440)

Privoxy (https://www.privoxy.org/):

> Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

> Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

I'm from Bangladesh, my connection is ~256 kbps and my pc is slow (256 RAM and 1.6 ghz), if not by privoxy, i couldn't browse internet.

Is sad and cringe:

https://twitter.com/GoogleyAsHeck

> "This is my multi-month study plan for going from web developer (self-taught, no CS degree)..."

No CS degree and no CS background. I wonder why he wasn't chosen (and why HN dismiss Google interviews as silly games...).

Saved You a Click. I quote:

> Why didn’t I get hired?

       >> I don’t know why.

> A psychologist probes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science

1. Industrial Society and Its Future. Ted Kaczynski, 1995 (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fc-industrial-societ...).

It would not be an free software.

> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all > (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, > including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby > mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

    Theo de Raadt [email protected] mailing list, May 29, 2001

> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:“The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree.

    Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)

Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole:

> See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana.

> Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.

> We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species, but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past month. To learn above all a measure of humility.

We're doomed.

Interesting. Sounds very Kaczynski to me:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...

"Researchers..." "...expert says" "A growing body of evidence..." "How Russia hacked the election" and other ambiguities :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Forms

'Fake News' took our jobs!

Follow the money.

Foreign Policy and his fake news.

Alex Halderman is not 100% legit, he's an activist pushing an agenda, HIS agenda, now aligned with his beliefs and political preferences.