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by hiq 6y ago
Phone number hashes are reversible because the space is too small.
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by hiq 6y ago
Sure, I was mostly comparing Signal to proprietary centralized messengers here, not to FOSS decentralized messengers. Indeed they could do better.
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by hiq 6y ago
> Really though, why is end-to-end encryption the one thing that should disqualify a system? Because security as an afterthought is known to fail.
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by hiq 6y ago
Signal is still an improvement over other non-federated messengers in that it's open-source, so you actually can try to improve the situation, although it's notoriously difficult. As an example of more platform support: https:&#x
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by hiq 6y ago
> Has it, though? I don't think we are any step closer now to dropping email than we were 25 years ago. I think OP meant that there's been a significant decrease in usage. In my case I can definitely relate to this for personal
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by hiq 6y ago
The point is that you would realize much sooner, since it's real theft, not copying.
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by hiq 6y ago
As commenters hinted at in a previous thread, the price is a measure of the combination of demand and supply. The mechanics of Bitcoin only address the supply side. OP hinted at the demand side: if a new cryptocurrency were to become more p
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by hiq 6y ago
Did you have ublock origin installed on Firefox? I feel that most people complaining about slow browsers have no blocker installed.
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by hiq 6y ago
> I think most people who read news regularly can agree that nearly 100% of the news about China these days are negative, and never anything positive. That's only relevant if you compare it to other topics and there's a discrep
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by hiq 6y ago
> I don't expect more details from the government. And yet you trust them to do the right thing. I think that's where most of the disagreement comes from. A politician in the Western world who would try to avoid transparency wo
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by hiq 6y ago
> But you have to understand it's much more difficult to prove something you didn't do instead of something you did Do you think the authorities could be more transparent about what is happening in these regions?
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by hiq 6y ago
I'd add this one to the list: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4x7v/most-dystopian-place-...
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by hiq 6y ago
EU / Switzerland, so I've never experienced this. I thought it was due to SEPA preventing such fees, but that doesn't seem to be the case if I read this section correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si
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by hiq 6y ago
The deal breaker for me is the fee for bank transfers, something I've never paid for before.
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by hiq 6y ago
> it seems you can avoid the Swiss draft if you don't live there I think you can apply for an exemption especially if were already subject to the military draft of your country of origin. You might also be exempt if you just gain ci
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by hiq 6y ago
As a German, why did you get Croatian citizenship for your kids? For sentimental reasons, or were there practical advantages as well?
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by hiq 6y ago
I think OP was talking about a possible market bubble, not Bitcoin.
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by hiq 6y ago
> a constantly increasing amount of people wishing to use them I find this hard to believe, at least not to the extent you're implying. People don't actually use Bitcoins that much, they mostly speculate on it. Bitcoin was crea
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by hiq 6y ago
> instead of prices coming crashing down, prices stay stagnant or grow slowly, while earnings grow quickly Do you have a link where I could read more about this? As a layman I fail to understand how this would work, and I couldn't f
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by hiq 6y ago
You're saying that email, text messages and phone calls don't work as well as WhatsApp for small businesses? I wouldn't have expected that, so I'm curious if you have examples to share.
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by hiq 6y ago
> for Facebook being a good platform That's not what OP claimed. OP claimed: > FB is far and above every other attention based ad platform (in effectiveness, transparency, scale, etc.) So OP didn't say FB was good in absolut
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by hiq 6y ago
> You can also say that for JavaScript, and see how successful TypeScript is. I'm not sure that's what you meant, but interoperability between C and Rust does seem to be a selling point of Rust (like TS and JS), and allows C co
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I don't use Robolectric (2017)(philosophicalhacker.com)
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by hiq 6y ago
One source I've found about the long-term effects: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/hero... "Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure and physiology of the brain, creatin
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by hiq 6y ago
The feature in question matters. I don't see how you would fit async / the GIL in a beginner course. But if pattern matching is seen as idiomatic for basic code, then it should and will be introduced to beginners. For instance the
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by hiq 6y ago
You listed > async model > GIL > scoping rules > decorators but these are not relevant for a beginner in programming, which is I think what advocates refer to. Python makes it easy to read files, do something with the content an
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by hiq 6y ago
I tend to downvote lazy arguments or loaded questions which can be easily answered in 10 seconds by looking them up and have regularly appeared on HN, devoid of new content. It's fine not to know something, but the threshold to comment
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by hiq 6y ago
> not dismiss downvoted comments but independently read them and form your own opinion You can say that about pretty much any speech, but in this age of unlimited information available to you, you need heuristics if you want to make the
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by hiq 6y ago
It might not only be incivility but also lower SNR (people replying to each other with the same rehashed arguments) which makes the whole thread less interesting for everyone, including passive readers
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by hiq 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! Did you have performance benefits using PostgreSQL out of the box, or did you have to tune specific settings? How much effort did you have to spend to do this migration?

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