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by vinay427 6y ago
I looked at /e/ extensively before buying a new phone and ultimately settled on GrapheneOS. I'd much prefer the de-Googling to be combined with a focus on security, where Google has admittedly done some important work for And
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by vinay427 6y ago
This makes sense, although it clearly isn't enough to induce HN-like moderation. Surely there are professional moderators on similar platforms such as Reddit (besides just their volunteer subreddit moderators), and there are certainly
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by vinay427 6y ago
I wouldn't exactly consider the left in India, or most of the west for that matter, "left" of the American left. This is true on some dimensions but certainly not many others, at least speaking as someone who has lived in bot
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by vinay427 6y ago
Admittedly it's been a while since I've been on a jail broken iPhone, but AFAIK custom ROM support is almost completely missing from iPhones. The jailbreaking ecosystem there is more comparable to Xposed tweaks and root access on
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by vinay427 6y ago
It's still a far fry from "no better," in my view. There's an ecosystem of Android software for these environments. For instance, LineageOS, as the typical first target, was unofficially ported to the Note 9 Snapdragon s
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by vinay427 6y ago
At least where I've voted in the US, there are rarely only two viable choices for a state or national legislature position. Some states resolve this using primaries for D/R candidates, and a few use stricter runoffs where there ar
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by vinay427 6y ago
The context is Switzerland. In Switzerland, and much of Europe (except the UK, CZ, and several other countries), current ID is required to get a mobile phone number. Even on a postpaid plan after proving identity, anyone with indefinite res
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by vinay427 6y ago
With respect, and this is coming from just another measly user so take it with a grain of salt and feel free to disagree: I think your comment would be a lot more effective (and just as meaningful) without such an inflammatory tone in the f
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by vinay427 6y ago
I would suspect the EU to be complicit, not a victim, considering their companies (e.g. Ericsson and Nokia) stand to benefit as the US-proposed alternatives.
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Most legacy carriers globally have ended up with some of both Boeing and Airbus. Just anecdotally (and I expect this doesn't hold statistically), I don't even notice a difference in manufacturer distribution between these US and E
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I live in Switzerland. There are a few key differences. 1. The scale of population difference between the most and least populous full cantons (that have equal representation in the Ständerat) is somewhat lower than CA versus WY, and they&#
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by vinay427 6y ago
> compared to, say, French, or even Swedish. I'm not sure the "even" is actually appropriate here. Both Swedish and French (along with probably every other Western European Indo-European language) are among the easiest for
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by vinay427 6y ago
> There are S-Bahn stations in Switzerland with 10 times the daily riders of BART that are nothing more than a signpost and a place to stand. Do you mean a specific BART station? The average total BART daily ridership (400k weekday, 100k
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by vinay427 6y ago
Something as (conceptually) simple as verified boot is lacking on PMOS. I think the PinePhone has obvious uses, which is why I have one, but for security I think hardened versions of something like Android which has been studied are a bette
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by vinay427 6y ago
The problem is this is generally a tradeoff between security and privacy, at least for now. You should trust the NSA and affiliates, but you also shouldn't assume hardware is secure just because it didn't include an exploit. Look
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by vinay427 6y ago
This is a security vs. privacy distinction. I think you both are responding to different things. Look at something like GrapheneOS for a decent glance into the value of security efforts by Google and the open-source community. Unfortunately
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by vinay427 6y ago
This doesn't even need to be a specifically anti-US thing. I think countries should generally not trust other countries that don't have a strong and nearly binding interest in their stability, security, prosperity, etc. In a close
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by vinay427 6y ago
> in real life I will not accept being called a murderer. What do you mean by not accepting it? You're welcome to disagree with the classification, of course. That's how we start a hearty discussion on values, morals, politics,
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Calling the other side "murderers" goes beyond "stating a legitimate political or moral view". Can you explain your reasoning for this? More specifically, if one only considers certain types of X to qualify as X, do
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by vinay427 6y ago
> Vegans describing other people as murderers. Well, this is literally true if you consider non-human lives. The danger I see is then not listening to and interacting with these non-vegans to develop a more nuanced perspective of the peo
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by vinay427 6y ago
I took the train a few years ago. It most definitely existed then, and still appears to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(train)
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by vinay427 6y ago
The train exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(train) They're close to building a commuter train to replace the Amtrak for daily services that are hopefully more punctual by avoiding Chicago.
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by vinay427 6y ago
The Amtrak Wolverine still runs AFAIK. I used it a few years ago. They're close to building a dedicated commuter train. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(train)
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by vinay427 6y ago
I really hope you've checked your water for lead if you live anywhere in the US or Canada, by that standard. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead... https://apnews.com/
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> Certainly there is some threshold, considering that we didn't shut down society in the past for the tiny percentage of bubbleboys with no immune system. Well, thankfully we haven't done this today either. This virus appears t
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by vinay427 6y ago
And yet there's a price on it. ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897311
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by vinay427 6y ago
Southern Ontario (assuming you mean GTA and SW Ontario) is a bit milder than most of Michigan. Detroit is usually a degree or two colder than Toronto in the winter months, for instance, and it's warmer than most of the state.
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> most countries at least from my experience allow private copying Most countries in the west allow it in the American sense. Only a very limited few countries allow it in the sense of Spain and Switzerland.
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This is definitely not true for me or most anyone I talk to. In fact, I was incredibly glad when my university created an agreement with Zoom, and am now often the one asked to create the meeting when communicating with friends and family (
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by vinay427 6y ago
Sort of off-topic, but for digital detox I've found that a phone that doesn't at least support WhatsApp, Signal, and a few other Android apps would be useless as a phone for me. I can't remember the last time I've used m

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