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by robjan 6y ago
The only disadvantage is that Signal reveals the phone number of other group participants. Of course everyone could use burner numbers but, in practice, that's not very likely.
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by robjan 6y ago
Doesn't it make more sense to have a WhatsApp backup file to Signal backup file converter rather than forking the whole app. This fork would end up being a significant maintenance overhead for something that could be done more simply.
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by robjan 6y ago
Lack of marketing/branding and UX that's harder for less technically inclined people to understand. The majority of people want to be able to install the app, enter their phone number then see which of their contacts are using the
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by robjan 6y ago
If you're doing that, it may be good for the API to be an abstraction over the existing protocols rather than creating a new protocol as well. That way you get the simplification and interoperability with the existing fediverse.
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by robjan 6y ago
From what I understand the messages are stored in the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain
606.
by robjan 6y ago
Think it should be logarithmic (n log(n)) or polynomial (n^2)
607.
by robjan 6y ago
It doesn't need to compete but without competing it's even less likely to cause a mass exodus from WhatsApp.
608.
by robjan 6y ago
It's better to post the original URL rather than a shortened one. HN can deal with long URLs
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by robjan 6y ago
It's the other way around. In general Gmail, Microsoft etc are whitelisted by other people because they are trusted to deal with spammers using their platforms. Whether they are actually more trustworthy is another matter.
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by robjan 6y ago
Mastodon instances with a couple of hundred users can easily cost $100. It's definitely not running on pennies, just that there are a lot of individual people footing smaller bills.
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by robjan 6y ago
The free alternatives are paid for with your data. The whole point of signal is that they don't have your data. Nobody is forcing you to pay for it.
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by robjan 6y ago
They have tens of millions of users and a single large donation won't keep them running forever
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by robjan 6y ago
The business model is unsustainable and relies on constantly growing the userbase since there is no recurring revenue.
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by robjan 6y ago
There is more metadata with Matrix but the privacy and security of message content is good. I find the UX a bit clunky because it's kind of trying to combine bits of a instant messenger with something like slack.
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by robjan 6y ago
Gold has practical and decorative uses
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by robjan 6y ago
People who are willing to pay to remove ads are usually the more valuable eyes.
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by robjan 6y ago
From the article it would appear that anyone with a computer science background and a decent amount of experience as an engineer should pass the technical test without the need to spend the whole month revising. If you don't have a com
618.
by robjan 6y ago
It's not possible to mine bitcoin on Mars without the network forking since half the time Mars is far enough that it can't communicate with Earth within the block time of 10 minutes. As soon as Earth and Mars come within 10 minute
619.
by robjan 6y ago
N8n.io is not open source. It even says so on the landing page. Edit: the article has since been updated
620.
by robjan 6y ago
In the UK, at least, if a transaction paid with a credit card is between £100 - £30k and the merchant becomes unable / unwilling to render the goods / services, you get the full amount back under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit
621.
by robjan 6y ago
Does it also add fake "trusted and used by" sections in the generated landing pages?
622.
by robjan 6y ago
If that were the reason for Bitcoin peaking then Bitcoin would be correlated with other stores of value, such as gold. Since they aren't correlated either gold is massively underpriced right now or this run on Bitcoin is for another re
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by robjan 6y ago
In my experience as a hiring manager, Hackerrank is useless now. There are too many cram schools which teach you how to pass a hacker rank test and many junior developers will beat the crap out of seniors just because they know how to game
624.
by robjan 6y ago
The only thing I can think of is writing a blog if that's of interest to you. If you use wordpress of blogspot you can use their app to write drafts then edit whatever you wrote on a desktop.
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by robjan 6y ago
Migration from where? If all developed countries are below replacement birth rate the only solution is to remove skilled workers from developing countries which ultimately damages their economies.
626.
by robjan 6y ago
You made 80k in dividends or appreciation in the value of your stocks? The latter is not usually considered as "income".
627.
by robjan 6y ago
It's too early to know right now. We can see that there has clearly been a lot of damage caused by Brexit but it may bring on more opportunities in the future depending on how regulations and relationships with other nations develop.
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by robjan 6y ago
Don't think it's a shill but it's definitely not a ShowHN since it's not OP's creation
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by robjan 6y ago
It's the Y Combinator corporate colour
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by robjan 6y ago
It's very hard to assess automatically (and therefore cheaply) since "engineering skill" is largely qualitative rather than quantitative.

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