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by bmarquez 9y ago
Yes. This is all over HN and Reddit, but when I try to introduce my friends to Signal (or encryption in general), they shrug and say they have nothing to hide. Hate to say it, but the general public needs Kim Kardashian or some tastemaker t
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by bmarquez 9y ago
I find WhatsApp is ubiquitous among my international friends, but my American friends who joined Facebook in college don't have it. Anecdotal data, of course.
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by bmarquez 9y ago
Opening up iMessage to Android users would definitely reduce Facebook's collection of user data, since friends wouldn't be compelled to use FB Messenger. But yeah it's not in his business model.
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by bmarquez 9y ago
I never understood why people who can use self-hosted wordpress and domain names would decide to give up control and put content on Medium. The stories featured on the front page seem a bit of an ideological bubble (I doubt any conservative
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by bmarquez 9y ago
AOL Instant Messenger (which was super popular at the time) had this format. You could choose your own screen name, maybe he wanted 02 instead of 01 for whatever reason.
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by bmarquez 9y ago
One company I would like to nominate as naughty is Newegg. I hadn't ordered from them in years, and asked to delete or disable my account. They can keep their old invoices in the system if they want for legal reasons but I didn't
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by bmarquez 9y ago
> there has been a near-100% shared liberal mentality, that has only exploded post-Trump This is mainly because anyone who doesn't share that liberal mentality has learned to keep their mouths shut or risk their career.