throwaway122916

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   by throwaway122916 9y ago

   > If a cop is arrested under accusation of dealing drugs on the side, it doesn't suddenly send a chill through the law enforcement community that works to take down drug dealers. How do you know that it doesn't? White hats are
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   This is a crazy list. 1. IPhone is closed source and any kind of rootkit can be installed by Apple/NSA secret court system. I suggest not using a smartphone if you are serious about security. 2. Good but difficult to anonymize 3. Good
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   I lived in Soviet Union as well during the collapse. I think there is a lot of propaganda from the west that makes you think it wasn't Gorbachev's fault. People were happy, had children and believed in their country and made progr
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   Didn't know this. Thanks.
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   Interesting. Thanks. Wasn't aware
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   I don't disagree with US not having freedom, but I don't think the nordic countries should be up there either. For example, you can't publish news in Sweden/Finland/Germany that can be interpreted as anti-feminist o
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   As someone who has never been to Korea, I don't understand why this chaebol structure is bad. Korea has one of the best R&D stories worldwide, one of the most innovative places in the world, one of the best life expectancies worldw
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   Sure, but telegram doesn't even have a secret chat feature on desktop client. I can't believe there still isn't a single usable e2e mobile + desktop chat client that won't drain your cell phone battery super quickly.
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   by throwaway122916 10y ago

   I like it, but what about all the tracking? Things like this: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/80 Then there is the fact that the client acts as a browser that fetches information from the web a
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    Is anyone so incapable that they would not know how to enable the secure features? Most people don't care about secret chat. This is for people who care. Granted, they don't have secret chat on Desktop which makes the whole app u
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    Same as every other app including Signal. For the record, not advocating using Telegram over Signal.
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    I had depression from doing poorly in graduate school. I felt inadequate and useless. You can call it temporary sadness, but I constantly contemplated suicide and nothing helped. No matter how much I studied, I still didn't get new con
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    I think this is just an old law from 1700s. They probably wouldn't have written it this way nowadays.
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    There are a lot of US movies that go the other way - praising the US military/portraying conflicts in good vs evil way. Example is Battle Los Angeles (2011) and American Sniper (2015). So such things are in effect "soft propaganda
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    Surprisingly, in the UK it is illegal to do that to a king/queen. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a3_3_1-2s8... From wiki: According to the law in force, it is treason felony to "compas
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    Sure. Like Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates and Ukraine. When all of those have negative stories about them I'm sold.
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    by throwaway122916 10y ago

    Al Jazeera is anti-Israel and Anti-Russia for the most part because of Qatar's foreign policy interests. BBC is anti-Russia, but more neutral on other issues.