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by otalp 9y ago
Also they were very hard to get if you weren't in the few places where they were sold.
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by otalp 9y ago
>As a "minority" I just don't care what someone on the internet posts. It doesn't have power over me. Yeah but you have a President and his son, aides, etc. who use the subreddit and similar places on the internet to
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by otalp 9y ago
Yeah, it's essentially "People who want fewer brown people should not be called racist, bigoted etc. because wanting a permanent white majority is a respectable position to have" It's a position people have, and I don&#x
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by otalp 9y ago
>He put the failure down to seven factors: It didn’t target a profitable niche; The user experience was bad and priorities skewed; The devices were hard to get and didn’t deliver; Communication and marketing were rather chaotic and some
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by otalp 9y ago
> Sounds a bit like a private-label Tor. Aka: insecure Tor
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by otalp 9y ago
For the free version, the speed is "low". How low exactly? What does it limit download speed to? If it is good enough to stream videos, this might be truly disruptive. Good, free(without a data cap) and secure VPNs don't real
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by otalp 9y ago
>"It would be naive to think you can run an independent/secure cryptoapp based in the US." This seems to be a shot at WhatsApp and Signal, implying that they have loopholes that allow the FBI to snoop in. I'm not sure
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by otalp 9y ago
On laptops, it's a no-brainer for me(especially when unplugged) because it consumes far less battery. It is also pretty minimalist, and you can easily hide the tab bars so the only thing on your screen when you browse is the web page.
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by otalp 9y ago
Yup, Safari is far less taxing on the battery than Chrome or Firefox. I'd consider Firefox for desktop, but it has to be Safari on mobile devices.
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by otalp 9y ago
> We need to be yanked into 21St century. By a party whose sister organisation, the proto-fascist RSS is obsessed with taking India back to the the "glorious Hindu days" centuries ago?
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by otalp 9y ago
Subsidies are one thing, contracts are another form of support. Government contracts are what kept SpaceX afloat in 08, when they couldn't find private clients, and these contracts can be excess of 100 million.
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by otalp 9y ago
True that Musk is absolutely not an outlier. But you can't really use him as an example of a company doing all their innovation without any government help. I'd rather the government fund SpaceX and Tesla than Exxon anyway.
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by otalp 9y ago
Telegram is definitely the most feature-rich, customisable messaging app out there. The stuff you can do with it is amazing. Aside from having a true desktop client not dependant on your phone, I've set it up so that I receive my favou
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by otalp 9y ago
They've stated that they have enough cash from Durov's funding to last 4-5 years comfortably, and that if they ever need cash, they will introduce non-essential paid features.
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by otalp 9y ago
Without the NASA contract in 08, SpaceX would have gone down, according to Musk himself. It's true that they are increasingly less dependant on the government, and they hopefully reach a point soon where they are completely independent
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by otalp 9y ago
Interesting that he mentions Elon Musk when his companies are literally kept alive by billions in government subsidies and contracts. I don't like the binary view of "Give all power to corporations, with no government intervention
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by otalp 9y ago
He was clearly being sarcastic, I don't know how you can think that he was serious.
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by otalp 9y ago
There are individual vocal Corbyn and Sanders supporters- Owen Jones of the Guardian for example is possibly the only person in the entirety of the mainstream media to be an ardent Corbyn supporter, and his pro-Corbyn articles frequently hi
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by otalp 9y ago
They also have a top-notch sporting section with live coverage(if you're not American- they mostly cover soccer, tennis and F1), their mobile/ipad app is one of the best out there and their long reads essentially make them a nice
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by otalp 9y ago
The Intercept while not perfect, has a pro-privacy, pro-people stance and does great reporting about serious issues largely ignored by mainstream outlets, like drone strikes.
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by otalp 9y ago
What usually happens with their opinion pieces is that most of them are pretty uncontroversial and bland. But the ones that are silly, extreme and/or hypocritical are the ones that make it to the top precisely because they are so. Take
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by otalp 9y ago
The article: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/24/julian-assange... The reason their extreme bias shows: https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-
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by otalp 10y ago
>Terrorists are vulnerable people? Neither are elitists, it was a spoken interview and he means that 'terrorism' will be taken as the boogeyman to explain away stagnating wages, increasing inequality and all the problems that m
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by otalp 10y ago
Relevant paragraph: "In order to maintain his popularity, the Trump administration will have to try to find some means of rallying the support and changing the discourse from the policies that they are carrying out, which are basically
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Aaron Swartz on reading Noam Chomsky for the first time(alternet.org)
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by otalp 10y ago
One factor that is rarely mentioned in this conversation is that Drama helps Youtubers - a lot. Videos about 'Youtube in crisis' gets a whole lot of views, much more than the usual standard-fare videos. This doesn't only appl
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by otalp 10y ago
I'd say Snap is more likely if they expand beyond their app.
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by otalp 10y ago
Or more precisely, 90% of everything.
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by otalp 10y ago
Given the scarcity of life in the universe in general, and the alarming rate of extinction in nature - more than 99% of all living things to ever exist are extinct, it's one thing to say the universe was designed with a purpose. But yo
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by otalp 10y ago
+1 for The Design Of Everyday Things. Unlike perhaps other books in this thread, it literally changes the way you look at the world, or at least the objects around you.

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