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by sprafa 10y ago
I've heard Signal has US Government backing, which makes me scared for an NSA backdoor. Any idea about this?
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Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm?
52 points by sprafa 10y ago|86 comments
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by sprafa 10y ago
France has intervened multiple times in Africa, so their armed forces are at least operationally ready to do something like Russia's invasion of Georgia. Outside of France I fear it's mostly paper tigers, even the UK. France is cl
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by sprafa 10y ago
True. Whatever happened there was a major fuck up. And Bill Clinton was right all along - the campaign had no message whatsoever.
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by sprafa 10y ago
Trump got debate questions as well. See Megan Kelly. Yes Hillary blew the election. In the end Colin Powell was right - whatever she did right she ruined with hubris
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by sprafa 10y ago
Some of Trump's statements made more sense, others were more exciting, many of them were just lies, as I suspect we are about to find out. But yes charisma is often the ability to persuade, and persuasion passes through exaggeration, b
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by sprafa 10y ago
Many people have said the same thing before only to find themselves in a hopeless situation.
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by sprafa 10y ago
Europe is too divided, Russia will most likely rule over Europe. Look out for a Russia backed victory of Le Pen in France and AfD in Germany. If that happens the reorganisation will be total.
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by sprafa 10y ago
It seems like I can't reply to your other comment. Just wanted to thank you for discussion and wish you a nice day. This was very very good and I appreciate you taking the time to write all that. Thanks
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by sprafa 10y ago
Alright that's new to me. I was under the impression that real wages were falling, not stagnating. Still, most of the population is stagnated, but the top 1% are getting an increasing share of economic growth: That graph shows an incre
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by sprafa 10y ago
Working in the film industry and this is both true and untrue, depending on the situation. It's very hard to estimate. But yes CGI can make certain productions a lot cheaper, while a lot of films also have a ton of CGI work for superfl
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by sprafa 10y ago
I also would never defend the current educational system in America (clearly a case of poor government and excessive intervention). What I was saying is that American businesses used to see investment in education of American citizens as es
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by sprafa 10y ago
Also, have you seen Pickety ? My understanding of his work is that the majority of the population is seeing their real earning power collapse while the top 10% or so of the population in developed countries is reaping most of the growth. So
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by sprafa 10y ago
I am absolutely honest about that. Those weird vocal people weren't born that way - they became disenchanted with a system that has failed them and failed to make their lives better. If political radicals are the only ones who propose
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by sprafa 10y ago
You might know more Graeber than I do, but from what I remember his point is only that historically there's been a very wide variety of systems and many of them are far more interesting then the hypotheticals economists have been advan
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by sprafa 10y ago
Ok you bring up a whole bunch of things and I agree with most of it. Our conclusions are different in the sense that it seems like you've accepted the human costs of this system. Is it really worth having millions of people in unemploy
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by sprafa 10y ago
International waters are still subject to the rule of law of "states" that exist on land. Unless you plan to live your whole life on sea you have to dock somewhere. Also these people are only respecting the rules they have already
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by sprafa 10y ago
If appearances are to be trusted, Magic Leap is not doing a DK1. Considering the hundreds of people they've hired and their partners (Disney, ILM, Weta) They are launching with applications already, a bit like a games console more than
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by sprafa 10y ago
Magic Leap was always in Florida? They are known for that. Even Devine, their chief games guy, talks about not wanting to move to Florida years ago when it was a tiny company.
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by sprafa 10y ago
I'm familiar the automation argument. Still the latest studies have placed the loss of jobs to outsourcing in the millions. I also think the automation argument has another flaw and a very simple one. By tracking jobs that have been ou
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by sprafa 10y ago
Also, this is very good. This is what I come to HN for. Good to awesome discussions between smart people. I wouldn't say subsidies are a good thing, that's not what I'm saying at all. I do believe that market forces exist and
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by sprafa 10y ago
Is there any example of property rights existing without the monopoly of force by a government ?
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by sprafa 10y ago
Markets and governments are necessarily linked. So even though you might "think" you are no good at painting houses, because you can't compete with foreign labor, actually what's happening is that their government has fi
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by sprafa 10y ago
Hm. The japanese miracle is a bit separate from the rest of the Asian miracle. It was artificially engineered by America to establish a counter to Chinese/USSR/North Korean growing influence in the region, through a sort of Asian
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by sprafa 10y ago
You should look at Jonathan Goldsmith's appearance on Charlie Rose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmOkaKh3-s Free Trade is not always good, and he correctly predicts that the global movement of capital will disrupt
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The bizarre tale of President Nixon and his Basic Income bill(thecorrespondent.com)
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by sprafa 10y ago
Ok, so I'm super interested in what you said here. How can Ileatn more about the Framers consideration of direct democracy v
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by sprafa 10y ago
It's not revolutionary and yes the design of elementary is highly opinionated. I personally got used to it quickly and understand why they removed it
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by sprafa 10y ago
It's a refinement of the old MacOS though. I agree it's very similar, but even as a designer I feel like you don't have the reinvent the wheel, and that MacOS did find a lot of saner solutions to most problems on desktop. The
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by sprafa 10y ago
Morality is always there, or should be. Picketty has shown that our understandings of the Market as anything conducive to a stable society were a fiction caused by recent history.

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