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by gojomo 5y ago
On the one hand, this seems to prioritize... • a dependency on a central exchange whose failure, or compromise, harms users; & • vigorous enforcement of taxes – & potentially other onerous regulatory limitations That may make it les
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by gojomo 5y ago
Perhaps, but how is that relevant to a discussion of the destructiveness of Apple's power & policies? Does it excuse them somehow? Are you sure App Store dynamics don't, overall, increase the power of the worst social platform
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by gojomo 5y ago
Yes, developers wanted more. There were (at least) two paths possible: native apps, & upgrading web capabilities. It's good some effort was plowed into both, at different timescales! But currently, the App Store's monopoly&#x2
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by gojomo 5y ago
Where did I say "the world hasn't progressed since then"? That's a hallucinatory misreading & misrepresentation of my comment. But also: those successes are attributable to mobile apps in general, not Apple's se
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by gojomo 5y ago
Whataboutism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism ) is pretty boring unless we were specifically trying to create a ranked list of the worst things. Also, without an explanation of why "in your opinion"
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by gojomo 5y ago
I'm personally sympathetic to Graham's points in this 2009 piece. He was prescient about the "bummer" it is to be stuck in a monopolist's monoculture. But Apple's growth in market value since – from $175B at th
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by gojomo 5y ago
Indeed, ~patio11 has glossed over the distinction between ‘definitely reversible’ & ‘possibly recoverable’ here - which can be a salient difference.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Correct, except for some brief delusional pumps, it's always done badly. In the same period that Twitter is -10.4% from its IPO, the S&P500 is +150%. The NASDAQ composite is +260%. And the destruction wraught by Twitter Inc goes
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by gojomo 5y ago
Why do you have ad hominem rather than sources? Why is your first thought creating hoaxes for pay rather than collecting honest testimony? Why is your go-to source “PRC census data” rather than any evidence of actual freedoms to live withou
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by gojomo 5y ago
I think if that were true you'd have supplied reliable sources documenting it. Escapees report differently, & fear retaliation against their remaining family: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive&#
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by gojomo 5y ago
Still, without any specific alleged falsehood, a libel defense need not be very expensive. And lawsuits bring more attention to the allegations. If you were preparing a suit for pure harassment/SLAPP purposes, what sections of this rep
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by gojomo 5y ago
You can read Marlinspike's 2017 description of an approach they were then rolling out – & AFAIK still use – at: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ Note it relies on SGX for privacy. (Anyth
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by gojomo 5y ago
Do you have a reliable source to support that assertion? Can we go there and freely discuss the situation with residents, without minders nearby? Can they freely practice their relgion? Can they leave? Can they choose not to have regime loy
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by gojomo 5y ago
Yes, if you "break SGX", Signal's contact-intersection-privacy guarantees fall. Are you confident that SGX is unbroken?
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by gojomo 5y ago
> AFAIK, it prompts at first, maybe a few times, but then stops. It's been re-prompting me for years. If there's a time it stops, I haven't found it. > I am not sure how Signal backups work or that user contacts, encryp
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by gojomo 5y ago
You'd have to have a childlike naivete about figurative-cartoon communication to believe those cartoons "suggest" athletes, in their sportwear, are committing atrocities in Olympic-event-like tableaus. Perhaps living under a
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by gojomo 5y ago
Well, I don't know the reputation of 'occupythefed.substack.com' from a long-history of reporting. What they purport to be valid images, & interpretations, of "government documents" may or may not be. If & w
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by gojomo 5y ago
They're expressive metaphorical cartoons from a critic of the CPC regime. Everyone knows Chinese athletes themselves aren't committing atrocities during the games. On the other hand, an actual Chinese state official tweeted a phot
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by gojomo 5y ago
Because the app constantly prompts for contact-list access, Signal's software-on-device definitely has the contact list. And, that software regularly re-sends that encrypted list to Signal's servers' SGX enclaves for their co
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by gojomo 5y ago
What statement or two in this writeup could be proven false in a libel suit?
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by gojomo 5y ago
Seems available via free registration, as well.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Indeed, it could be interesting to make a heatmap based on explicit responses, then another based on HN's internal IP logs (w/ the clunky geo IP deductions that can be made from that), to see if there's any areas of large div
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by gojomo 5y ago
A useful poll! But the very-literal should be reminded: the linguistic mechanisms of synechdoche & metonymy often result in a fuzzy use of parts, or regions, or emblematic examples, or associated items to mean some other closely-related
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by gojomo 5y ago
That wasn’t the only justification! The hope was also that by preventing such ‘overwhelming’, net lives would be saved – whether just by keeping those other non-COVID medical services available, or also by delaying COVID cases to later wh
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by gojomo 5y ago
Hexle's definitely got more replayable-value for casual players, & a valuable contribution to painting-in the whole possibility-space. But, it has a lot of competition for such casual-player-hours! I personally still like Bytle bet
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by gojomo 5y ago
Twitter's biggest external spam problems are: • abuse of @-replies • unsolicitied DMs …which both grow with account size (& other forms of prominence, & certain topic-areas), so your anecdotal testimony that it's not in y
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by gojomo 5y ago
BRB, preparing my YC S22 application: "BugBakeSale" "We're bug bounties for America's school districts: HackerOne for the K12 market. The product is free if you let our corporate partners, who also fund the bounties
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by gojomo 5y ago
You did, indeed, lose your first playthrough - but none of your guesses were marked wrongly.
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by gojomo 5y ago
OTOH, doing dumb (but consistent/logical) things with players' input could enhance a metalesson about how computers often misunderstand intent, or common overflow/format/etc bugs. With such a simple core game, figuring-o
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by gojomo 5y ago
Back at ya, with respect to Bytle.

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