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by henearkr 6y ago
They are actually bad, with a risk of chronic latent infection that could extend to deeper in the brain, and also a strongly suspected link with the (still unknown) cause of Alzheimer's.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Moderation is still irrelevant. You don't solve the problem you refer to with moderation, you solve it by privacy laws and their enforcement, because publishing the contact details of somebody without their consent is a crime. The prob
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by henearkr 6y ago
They could have prioritized the dev (or scheduled the release/deployment): 1/ integrate some Tor-like system, and 2/ the amateur proxies feature Actually they can still do it, by deactivating and putting the amateur proxies f
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by henearkr 6y ago
Group feature is already present and is a different thing than Telegram's channels or Facebook's groups. On Signal it is a group of your contacts, so it remains private conversation. There is nothing publicly said, and it is not o
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by henearkr 6y ago
I doubt that this will ever be an issue, because Signal is a messaging application, on which censoring/moderation is thus irrelevant. It's not a social network (contrary to e.g. Telegram which has tons of SNS features). Let's
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by henearkr 6y ago
The whole point is that, in countries in which Signal is forbidden, the mere fact to connect to it can lead to big troubles. However I acknowledge that the problem solved here by Signal team is orthogonal to the one of hidding the users.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yes, indeed, I'm baffled that the people from Signal who dismiss these critics think that the only people possibly "endangered" are the proxy owners. It does not cross their mind that the users are immediately endangered too.
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by henearkr 6y ago
The damage probably extends to all age categories, too.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yeah, I know. But at least it addresses one more issue than the current state of the art ^^
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by henearkr 6y ago
One solution is to store frozen bodies in a lava tube on the Moon or Mars. Then the company can go bankrupt and that would have no effect.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Like other comments I think the author addressed the wrong market. Essentially he developped a tool to facilitate meta-analyses, both building them and then presenting the results. So, his customers should have been people who usually are i
732.
by henearkr 6y ago
Same, I did not know Skrillex but I dislike this style. On the other hand I love Fonik, for example. I love even more Deadmau5, E.T.H, ...
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by henearkr 6y ago
I hope the company Flo Health gets definitively banned from the Google Play store. They just show off how little they understand their business and the principles of medical confidentiality.
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by henearkr 6y ago
[edited] Indeed it is far from straightforward that merely doing a video call suffices to check the keys. Signal is famously using a special protocol for secure key sharing through the server, which I have not studied. But as said by anothe
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by henearkr 6y ago
It will, because it will prove (or give you a lot of confidence) that the agent who sent you their public key is your legit correspondent. This uses the fact that the client on each side is open source and inspectable, so that each side kno
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by henearkr 6y ago
Not if the keys are generated by the client. Signal also offers to label contacts for which you could verify the authenticity by another way. Doing a video call with the contact can be a simple way to clear doubts, even if it is not a prope
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by henearkr 6y ago
In the case where there are still Borrelia bacteria you're true, but if it can be checked that the intruders have vanished (which is the case in most cases of difficult to treat CLD or CF) then it should not pose any problem. In the ca
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by henearkr 6y ago
Thanks, but I read the article, and my enthusiasm is justified. Because thus vitamin D would be a great solution against autoimmune diseases, among which are a lot of the cases under the umbrella Chronic Lyme Disease (it is supposed that th
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by henearkr 6y ago
This potential role of vitamin D is very exciting!
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by henearkr 6y ago
Sorry if I was a wee bit harsh in my comment. If these patients get a diagnostic, even if it is not Lyme, I am sure that would help them very much. It is true that the medicine is more than often not yet capable of giving satisfying diagnos
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by henearkr 6y ago
People are not making up illness for the fun of it. Their ailments are very real and they have a cause. Malingering exists, but the profile of the chronic Lyme patients you speak about is not at all the one of persons in need of being nurse
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by henearkr 6y ago
Some serious theories to explain chronic Lyme precisely suggest that it is an autoimmune reaction caused by the bacteria biofilm proteins. That would explain both why the chronic Lyme can persist even after the bacteria have seemingly been
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by henearkr 6y ago
If chronic Lyme illness is caused by lingering bacteria hidding in the body's tissues, the real way to eliminate any doubts about alternate causes is precisely to get a Lyme vaccine. Then, if the symptoms persist, we could easily deduc
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by henearkr 6y ago
For this reason, I use autossh. I recommend it.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Maybe use a reputation score, because becoming rich stealing books is going to need a lot of books (especially as pocket books are very cheap), and so scammers would very quickly lose their stars.
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by henearkr 6y ago
I think that all your objections boil down to "instant gratification does not harness the brain's reward system as a motivation to achieve difficult things and improve general intellectual/physical/social abilities"
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by henearkr 6y ago
Sorry to arrive late in this discussion... You can give a try to transhumanism. It does not promise anything, but it hints at the possibility to defeat finiteness either by biological/medical or technological progress, going through a
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by henearkr 6y ago
And what do you think about people who develop their own AI anime girlfriend? Even sharing their work as free software libraries? In your wording it only looks like it is the exploitation of people by businessmen selling the happiness as a
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by henearkr 6y ago
On what basis? And, I'm not personally building any of this, it just already exists, and some people are enjoying it. Heck, it is even being developed and hacked by the users themselves, when it is hackable, like in this very HN post.
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by henearkr 6y ago
I think this relates to the concept of viscosity for a gas.

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