naravara

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by naravara 3y ago
Who verifies that the client on the other end of your line isn’t intercepting the messages after they’re decrypted?
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by naravara 3y ago
If the person on the other end is using a non-Apple client you cannot verify independently that their client isn’t peeping. It’s the client, not the servers. But also when it comes to managing the keys and syncing across devices it’s also t
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by naravara 3y ago
The touchy part is the end-to-end encryption. The whole point is that Apple is the trusted party there. As an iMessage user I don’t want my messages passing through who knows which other parties’ servers when I send messages to others. The
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by naravara 3y ago
Inevitable on a long enough timeline I’d say. It’s just a question of whether that’s a 5, 10, or 50 year deal.
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by naravara 3y ago
iMessage already works with SMS/RCS, which is low level enough that any messaging service could use it as a method to interoperate with anything else. What iMessage can’t do is translate a lot of the QOL and UI features, each client wi
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by naravara 3y ago
For now. Once AR/VR gains broader adoption you’re going to see another wave of new features and capabilities people will want. This will not only involve how people interact with them and stuff they do, but also underlying stuff like c
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by naravara 3y ago
People seem to have forgotten that AIM (and Google Talk) were not asynchronous. If you wanted to IM someone they had to be online at the same time you were. Neither of these protocols was particularly good at syncing across devices and work
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by naravara 3y ago
Honestly if you could plonk down a ton of money for a reliable appliance that’d be great but that’s usually not what money buys you now. Spending more usually results in fancier styling, nicer materials if you’re lucky, and a bunch of unnec
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by naravara 3y ago
It's legal to hunt them in Wyoming but not in Colorado. The wolves don't know this, so the hunters are able to lure them across the border so they can shoot them.
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by naravara 3y ago
Not being in or from the region, my impression from brief interactions with the lobbyists they send up to Washington has been that many of the ranchers are, themselves, trying to cosplay a Wild West fantasy. But this is probably largely ove
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by naravara 3y ago
The comment you're addressing seems like an ecosystem equivalent to what economists call the "lump of labor fallacy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy "Lump of biomass" fall
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by naravara 3y ago
It's not just the building of the fence, it's having to maintain it. Wolves are clever, they can figure out ways around. What's more is livestock need to graze, they can't stay in fenced enclosures at all times, nobody o
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by naravara 3y ago
> Users were perfectly happy when twitter, Facebook, tumblr, MySpace, and literally every other site was a reverse chronological feed. When those were reverse chronological feeds everyone and their mother wasn’t on these sites. They were
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by naravara 3y ago
I think you underestimate how ineptly run a lot of these highly-regulated, legacy industries actually are. They care, but in the way most people care about not being fat. They still can’t make the necessary lifestyle changes to do anything
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by naravara 3y ago
Someday soon we’ll just be able to sequence its genome and reconstruct it without needing to keep samples alive (and no longer have the risk with all the maintenance and security protocols that will entail). Of course however we store that
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by naravara 3y ago
A lot of teams with poor business operations seem to treat project, product, and program management as a generic blob of “help us be organized please” duties instead of specific jobs with specific operational missions.
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by naravara 3y ago
> But the problem of binary formats over the long term will persist and I am not sure there is much we can do about that. It doesn’t solve the problem, but you could perhaps mitigate it somewhat by having part of each unit of storage con
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by naravara 3y ago
There are very few generations old watchmakers who are both still around and servicing their vintage pieces. Generally, even if they are, they're charging an arm and a leg because they're going to have to custom machine the parts
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by naravara 3y ago
The problem is that the temperature you feel on your hand is not necessarily the temperature the chip is operating under. If your hand is warm that, ironically, means the heat is dissipating effectively. If it's not dissipating, then y
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by naravara 3y ago
The user was talking about internal group politics/drama. Not national electoral politics.
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by naravara 3y ago
You’re presuming Anglo political dynamics and cleavages onto a completely foreign culture here. The Indian right wing I wouldn’t characterize as “anti-welfare” at all.
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by naravara 3y ago
That’s a severe bit of historical revisionism from Europeans who tried to analogize it to the Protestant reformation. If anything Buddhists were probably more concertedly discriminatory towards lower castes and Hindu Brahmins were more like
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by naravara 3y ago
There was functionally no public education system available to most Indians until a decent bit after Independence, and even now most rural communities have atrocious schooling standards with chronically absentee teachers. India has been an
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by naravara 3y ago
I’ve long suspected part of the issue is the franchises not following properly cleaning and maintenance guidelines with them, leading to higher failure rates. I know McDonalds sells more ice cream than basically any other fast food place, i
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by naravara 3y ago
Even despite the fact that Amazon is a pile of crappy knock-offs and astroturfed reviews, it still manages to be better than the UX nightmare of actually trying to go through the companies' own websites directly to figure out what they
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by naravara 3y ago
You either transport the food or you transport the fertilizer, heavy equipment, water, and other inputs necessary to grow the food. And often to places that aren't well suited to it. Something's gonna have to be transported one wa
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by naravara 3y ago
It’s probably less the strength and more the fact that before contraception women would be pregnant a substantial amount of the time. Hard to be engaged in the world when you’re having to do a bunch of pre-scientific rituals to try and ensu
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by naravara 3y ago
Grant funding has gotten more and more focused on direct applicability to publishable findings or patentable research over time. Metrics rule everything around us. Which means researchers have to spend ever more time "proving" the
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by naravara 3y ago
There’s a podcast series called “Cabin” by The Relentless Picnic that does an excellent dive into Kaczynski’s manifesto, the relatable bits as well as his deficiencies, and contrasts it with Thoreau, ties it into some email they got from an
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by naravara 3y ago
> People reminisce of those rosy times where only a few select highly educated people were online but this is not going to be the case ever again. It doesn’t need to be. Forums can just be unfriendly to people who don’t meet the standard

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