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by moyta 10y ago
How is any of Square's performance surprising though? I would be surprised if they are able to be more successful than other ISOs in the payment processing industry, and at this point the little niche they had has been commoditized lik
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by moyta 10y ago
Hah, I've heard that stateside on many occasions, I think it may have been a line in Malcolm in the Middle at one point too.
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by moyta 10y ago
Damn, what country is that? Sounds like a very controlled, restrictive environment.
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by moyta 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, some funding is neccesary like paying farmers to let their land lay fallow for a year so it may regain nitrogen & nutrients, and quotas have helped us avoid food insecurity, but the current system needs broad re
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by moyta 10y ago
It was very disheartening, but perhaps I was already of a steel heart. I remember going out to Michigan days after caucusing for Bernie & watching him lose to Hillary, and there was such an intense resentment for what happened to Bernie
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by moyta 10y ago
Hah, that is highly unrealistic, tech "leaders" have much less power in California than they realize, and there isn't a sufficient critical mass to get anywhere near real independence movements like the Catalonian independenc
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by moyta 10y ago
Liberal areas are going to lose federal transit funding entirely, and research funding will be heavily curtailed. Don't expect any major public works to be federally funded, historically GWB and his father both eliminated most of this
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by moyta 10y ago
Is this news? My level of trust in CNN has been very low for at least 2 or 3 years, I forget which lie it was, but it seems like every time I go to a place showing CNN, if I fact check what they are saying, they are either skewing the story
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by moyta 10y ago
He definitely could do a better job explaining what he is trying to accomplish, but I pity the person who has to use the barcode scanner he suggested, when you go below the $100 price point and are looking for a new in box handheld scanner,
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by moyta 10y ago
Don't we give them massive subsidies? I ask since I know my family back east in Iowa does get a ton of federal money for farming, which was what inevitably ended up destroying farming in Mexico, where it isn't heavily subsidized a
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by moyta 10y ago
Too true, then to top it off the right to protest has been sharply curtailed and policed, preventing mass protests esque MLK, Silent Spring, etc. To top it all off, the media essentially created a candidate that would rile people up, then d
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by moyta 10y ago
Epic and the other big medical software providers have this market on lockdown. I do not see a path to this seriously challenging the major players any time soon in the US, even though it could be done. Additionally, the software dependenci
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by moyta 10y ago
This is what I've observed on T-Mobile, Centurylink and Comcast over the past month across two phones, it does allow me to backdate messages and send them later at least, so not a total loss. In regards to federation for Signal, what a
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by moyta 10y ago
It could be like email, except with libsignal as its base. Federation definitely drove email to be as big as it is today, and it has made server reliability a non-issue (your server holds the message until the other server is online). XMPP
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by moyta 10y ago
It is moderately condescending, but it is very handy to describe average technical competence and what to expect from said humans. Things need to be straightforward & familiar for normies (eg. Pokemon Go vs Ingress) and you can't e
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by moyta 10y ago
True, I assume they'll just ride that till the bitter end and then unhappily move to using nwjs instead of Chrome, and distribute it from their website instead (even though they seem highly opposed to that).
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by moyta 10y ago
At one point Signal had working backup & restore on Android, whereby you could keep your private keys and seamlessly move between phones, but they did away with that since a few users encountered bugs. I really wish they hadn't axe
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by moyta 10y ago
Say I run the server under my control, and I talk to other people on and off my server via XMPP. What is occuring is my laptop, phone & tablet are connecting back to my XMPP server, which then connects to those clients, thus not leaking
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by moyta 10y ago
If they'd use Opus I'd really appreciate it, hell, if I could even get interop, I have hacked together an app to pass the ZRTP codeword to my deskphone when Freeswitch terminates it and reencodes it as SRTP/TLS for it, since
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by moyta 10y ago
This is mostly fixed as of a few months ago, the desktop client also makes it as convenient as Facebook.
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by moyta 10y ago
Eh, Telegram looks more insecure [1] AFAICT. Sure, Signal will not stand up to high threat models due to hardware failings (backdoored baseband RTOS, missing dual backup RTC batteries for secure boot) and software failings (insecure Android
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by moyta 10y ago
Sure, I didn't look for an amazing article, just remember hearing about their homebrew "crypto" years ago and going eww. This might be slightly better: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/130559&#
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by moyta 10y ago
Yeah, pretty much. Its good enough that Whatsapp, Allo and many others paid chump change to license it ($1 mil each I heard) since its cheaper and better vetted than anything they'd develop internally.
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by moyta 10y ago
Is it still insecure? http://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-stop-using-telegram-right-...
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by moyta 10y ago
I experienced this with TextSecure over a year ago, but since then it has been smooth sailing outside of minor outages (10hrs a month), since the outages are less than the regional outages we've been experiencing on AT&T and T-Mobi
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by moyta 10y ago
Exactly why I like XMPP, it allows me to protect my metadata from leakage, if I could get normies to use it for more than a few weeks.
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by moyta 10y ago
Its not too bad, XMPP is very easy with a good client like Conversations. That being said it is not for normies, over the course of a year Signal will be used and appreciated by normies, normies using Conversations meanwhile will go perma o
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by moyta 10y ago
Related post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12899398
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by moyta 10y ago
Its great that the underlying Signal protocol is secure, my major worry is how do we get more people to use it, and how do we make it more reliable? As it stands right now, Signal is used exclusively by the moderately technically inclined,
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by moyta 10y ago
Too true, unless people take action to improve the environment around them, this planet will continue to degrade in health, and in the treatment of the people on it. We need to stop dumping crap into the ocean, air & environment in gene

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