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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, and that's the major issue with Signal/Telegram. They also have to pay the operational costs at the end of the day. Apple's services can be ad free because they hide the cost in the cost of phone but that is extremely a
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by actuator 6y ago
This is blowing up quite big now and I have managed to shift a lot of my friends to Signal now, I wonder if WhatsApp will go back on its decision. As we stand now even Signal is not safe because of the business model. I wonder what's t
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, Apple definitely deserves a lot of praise on these chips. They are not even incremental improvements but drastic ones which will probably change the landscape completely. Like AWS was working on their own ARM chips, they now have a be
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by actuator 6y ago
The IG thing was just in response to the WhatsApp thing. But you are right, no point overthinking and complicating it. I will upgrade to a dual sim phone and use the other sim for new stranger communication. Though I think a lot of people d
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by actuator 6y ago
It seems so amazing to me that Microsoft saw the ARM opportunity with Windows RT, released 8 years back but somehow managed to not succeed with a stellar ARM laptop story. Maybe Qualcomm is more to blame here for never progressing as well a
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by actuator 6y ago
But more to lose now and countries would readily welcome the top performers.
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by actuator 6y ago
Does the security council thing even matter honestly? Like even if PLA marches on Taiwan now and US doesn't want to get in the war, what difference can security council make which otherwise would not have been possible outside security
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by actuator 6y ago
The Hong Kong episode might not upset people in PRC as they are being brought under same laws as people in PRC. Top entrepreneurs/researchers/engineers can buy HK activists being malicious or they can be just indifferent to them a
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by actuator 6y ago
Yes, and everyone gets the message that even if successful and immense value generator for PRC, you can't expect to be safe for saying even non political stuff. This will just cause a chilling effect, there are plenty of brilliant Chin
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by actuator 6y ago
I really doubt something bad will happen to him even if he is under CCP custody. CCP can't be that stupid that they let a successful entrepreneur with an amazing story and global appeal go missing. Because if he really disappears it wi
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by actuator 6y ago
It does show you are texting with a business account which might just seem weird to the other person. If they didn't find not having IG shady before, I am sure they will now.
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by actuator 6y ago
I think the problem of going outside prevalent apps like Text/iMessage/WhatsApp is that not everyone will have the less prevalent ones. Few people have Telegram, Signal seems like a very niche tech/journalist thing.
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by actuator 6y ago
I need to upgrade my Pixel 2 to a dual sim phone too. I think this seems like the easiest way. Not sure how WhatsApp etc support dual sim though.
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by actuator 6y ago
This doesn't seem like something which is of concern but on a tangential note, I wanted to check how you guys maintain your phone number privacy. Consider the cases: - I absolutely hate giving phone number to new ecommerce sites as it
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by actuator 6y ago
This is patently false. I have friends who have worked years developing solutions for doing ad effectiveness comparisons. They are A/B tests in most cases but some methodologies require a lot of sophistication because of problems trac
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by actuator 6y ago
Not really, as far as I know even their best plane J-20 uses Russian engines. They were planning to replace it with a domestically developed engine but I am not sure if that is done yet. The domestic engine was developed from either French
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by actuator 6y ago
PRC's economy is quite capitalistic. They do have important sectors like banking under government control though.
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by actuator 6y ago
Has someone here picked a musical instrument seriously for the first time in their 20s and managed to self learn? If yes, it would be helpful if you could point to resources that were helpful to you and any daily practice schedule you follo
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by actuator 6y ago
Has Apple been poaching significant self driving talent to attempt self driving version of the electric car? Based on their consumer electronics past, Apple would probably nail the design and get the hardware mostly right. For self driving
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by actuator 6y ago
As much as I would want small players to succeed. Email is one of the spaces where it just doesn't make much sense to trust the small guy.
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by actuator 6y ago
Google Apps version of Gmail or the Microsoft equivalent? You can use your own domain and I don't think data there is used for ads. I am really scared to put my trust in a small provider from a data security and availability view. Secu
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by actuator 6y ago
Why? Rather than hoping for regulation on data use and other negative social media effects which should fix issues with social media companies including Facebook; why hope for a downfall of a particular company. It is not like the thing tha
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by actuator 6y ago
Isn't this about perception which anyone being surveyed will have.
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by actuator 6y ago
Aren't RSUs granted like regular stocks are? Say, I join a public company. If they say they will pay me 500k USD worth of stocks, it generally means that I get 500k/(average share price of month, share price on stock offer date et
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by actuator 6y ago
Only the ones who join now. I am sure the pre IPO employees are more than happy.
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by actuator 6y ago
The way I read their comment, they meant that even though Sony doesn't use the term studio headphones, they probably might be as good as whatever Apple is claiming the sound quality to be. The doubt was on the marketing term and the wo
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by actuator 6y ago
I have XM2's and they are still running perfect. Coming from Bose, I love both sound and ANC. As long as this series exist, I am not sure I can even look at these.
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by actuator 6y ago
Well, it is not like the old media/old media style companies love FB, that they would not spin it this way. Ironically, they are guilty of some of the same things they accuse FB of.
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by actuator 6y ago
Argument in bad taste. You probably wouldn't get to use an iPhone today if antitrust hadn't reeled in Microsoft. Remember, MS bundling IE is nothing compared to the tightly coupled ecosystems of today.
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by actuator 6y ago
I can understand Snowflake, Zoom etc. They benefited from things going remote and more software eating the world. AirBnB didn't benefit in any way. It just seems insane that we will see such a pop in their stock price. Or am I missing

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