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DNC could have gone open source at anytime.

They choose not to.


These are private emails. Why don't you go 'open source' with your email account?


I doubt WikiLeaks wants them. Know how to make a Gmail account public?

Maybe I could crowd source people to clean up all the spam?


Well, you probably don't want it continually open, because then you can't use it for authentication?

If you did want it public, you could probably set up an ifttt recipe to post them all somewhere?

Oh, alternate idea: set up a thing to forward all the emails to e.g. a tumblr "email to post" address?

Something like that.

Edit: wait I think ifttt calls them "applets" now instead of recipes?


Private emails... From political parties, public representatives and lobbyists. These are VERY PUBLIC people. IMO, these people should not enjoy having a private life in the first place, because, as the Podesta emails show, they end up using their political career as a way to get more money and power, NOT to serve the People.


Just as I was sending something to Katie Couric, too.


Clearly, knowing the "local" time of your friend's wakening is critical.


Sarcasm is an excellent genre for short texts.


The end of the article states that everything it discussed prior is only part of a "toy". It is known that the toy being studied does not fully correspond to our universe.


Think of coming up with one of these theories like writing a complicated computer program. Sometimes the whole task is too big to even think about, it you sort of understand one part of it, so you work on getting that part sorted out as best you can, and hope you can somehow figure out the rest of the program later, and it'll be useful.


If the sources were reliable, it wouldn't be slander.


Also a strong case for large punitive damages.

Lyft puts out a carrot and then fucks you for profit?

No jury will put up with that (neither will Lyft's settlement team).


It doesn't matter when the company contradicts their fine print.

Seriously, did you look at the screenshots?


Doesn't "If they want it you should build it" already assume "if you build it they will come"?

If you don't think they will come, why are you doing it?


The key point here is that you need to have contact/communication with the “they” (either they already contacted you, or you need to put a lot of work into marketing to them). Otherwise “they” are going to ignore you.


Because somebody has offered you a fat stack of cash to do it?

My company does all kinds of shit that we wouldn't necessarily ever think to do if we were dogfooding it for ourselves, but customers have requests, and once in a while, they're even good ideas that are worth building into the product. The best is when they agree to pay extra for that custom development.


Those points should be given airtime as they are destroyed in public and the responsible parties brought to justice.

Censorship is never the answer.


Known falsehoods do not deserve airtime. This is not about censorship.


Known falsehoods are facts that should be reported.


Every minute spent reporting that "X said Y but there is no evidence for this" repeats the lie and is a minute taken away from presenting legitimate information.


>"X said Y but there is no evidence for this"

That is not a known falsehood. It is just speculation.


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