| 1. | | OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again (sivers.org) |
| 578 points by revorad on Dec 9, 2013 | 63 comments |
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| 2. | | Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list (ritholtz.com) |
| 447 points by marojejian on Dec 9, 2013 | 134 comments |
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| 3. | | Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013 (theguardian.com) |
| 427 points by r0h1n on Dec 9, 2013 | 89 comments |
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| 4. | | President Obama calls on every American to learn code (youtube.com) |
| 356 points by bbayer on Dec 9, 2013 | 426 comments |
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| 5. | | Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014 (archive.org) |
| 286 points by blhack on Dec 9, 2013 | 27 comments |
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| 6. | | Your location history (maps.google.com) |
| 284 points by znowi on Dec 9, 2013 | 157 comments |
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| 7. | | The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 250 points by rnyman on Dec 9, 2013 | 90 comments |
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| 8. | | Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive site (github.com/guardian) |
| 237 points by danso on Dec 9, 2013 | 49 comments |
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| 9. | | Facebook's AI lab (facebook.com) |
| 238 points by vkhuc on Dec 9, 2013 | 91 comments |
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| 10. | | I Spent A Month Living In A Romanian Sexcam Studio (vice.com) |
| 203 points by tchalla on Dec 9, 2013 | 185 comments |
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| 12. | | Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming (theguardian.com) |
| 202 points by r0h1n on Dec 9, 2013 | 123 comments |
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| 13. | | 'The Mother of All Demos' Is 45 Years Old, Doesn't Look a Day Over 25 (theatlantic.com) |
| 199 points by steveklabnik on Dec 9, 2013 | 59 comments |
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| 14. | | NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws (theguardian.com) |
| 196 points by Cbasedlifeform on Dec 9, 2013 | 62 comments |
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| 15. | | Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life (nytimes.com) |
| 195 points by brie22 on Dec 9, 2013 | 159 comments |
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| 16. | | The main trick in machine learning (edinburghhacklab.com) |
| 183 points by tlarkworthy on Dec 9, 2013 | 71 comments |
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| 17. | | Vagrant 1.4 (vagrantup.com) |
| 169 points by bpierre on Dec 9, 2013 | 61 comments |
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| 18. | | Today's Google Doodle: Grace Hopper (google.com) |
| 156 points by sheetjs on Dec 9, 2013 | 72 comments |
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| 19. | | Lightpack – Ambient backlight for your displays (lightpack.tv) |
| 152 points by Skovy on Dec 9, 2013 | 43 comments |
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| 20. | | TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users (whispersystems.org) |
| 146 points by makepanic on Dec 9, 2013 | 66 comments |
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| 21. | | Learn to code like it's 1996 (defmacro.org) |
| 140 points by coffeemug on Dec 9, 2013 | 57 comments |
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| 22. | | Absurdly High Valuations (42floors.com) |
| 135 points by jaf12duke on Dec 9, 2013 | 81 comments |
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| 23. | | Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission (sfgate.com) |
| 136 points by slapshot on Dec 9, 2013 | 172 comments |
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| 24. | | Apache Kafka 0.8.0 released (apache.org) |
| 131 points by mumrah on Dec 9, 2013 | 51 comments |
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| 25. | | Apple Tells Gliph to Remove App's Bitcoin Transfer Function (coindesk.com) |
| 129 points by dcawrey on Dec 9, 2013 | 96 comments |
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| 26. | | Employee Retention (samaltman.com) |
| 125 points by mlinsey on Dec 9, 2013 | 90 comments |
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| 27. | | The Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From The Dead (wired.com) |
| 129 points by JoshTv on Dec 9, 2013 | 50 comments |
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| 28. | | CheapAir accepts Bitcoin (cheapair.com) |
| 122 points by mrb on Dec 9, 2013 | 98 comments |
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| 29. | | Free Mathematics Books (e-booksdirectory.com) |
| 122 points by georgecmu on Dec 9, 2013 | 34 comments |
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| 30. | | What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow? (2006) (fourmilab.ch) |
| 119 points by ColinWright on Dec 9, 2013 | 23 comments |
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If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.
The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.
Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.