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This is YC we're talking about. They'd fund payday loans with organs as collateral for African orphans if they could. Seriously, they have NO scruples.

(And yes, I know where I am.)


That sounds like honest business compared to getting paid by the government to circumvent the laws that prevent the state from spying on it's own citizens at scale.

Yes. Therefore, for Y Combinator, this is a success story.

Which is all a great deal of people in America care about, yes.

They could also care about mass surveillance.

They do. The political and economic environment (edit: in the US) is currently supporting the idea that mass surveillance is an extremely lucrative investment opportunity.



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