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by xvector 8mo ago
Agents are many things but they are definitely not "scams" - if you think this you've probably stubbornly avoided using Claude Code etc.
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by xvector 8mo ago
This reads like another low effort conspiratorial comment. WhatsApp has been reverse engineered extensively, they worked with Moxie's team to implement the same protocol as Signal, and you can freely inspect the client binaries yoursel
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by xvector 8mo ago
You seem to think the government wants your messages to be private and would "pass laws" to this effect. Methinks you put far too much faith in the government, at least from my understanding of the history of cybersecurity :)
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by xvector 8mo ago
This is a total misunderstanding of how E2EE works. I need to either enter my password or let the app access my iCloud Keychain to let it derive the backup encryption key. It's also well known that they worked with the Moxie's tea
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by xvector 8mo ago
Anyone blindly believing every random allegation is also a fool, especially when the app in question has been thoroughly reverse engineered and you can freely check for yourself that it's using the same protocol as Signal for encryptio
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by xvector 8mo ago
What even are these low effort, uninformed conspiratorial comments saturating the comment section? Sure, Meta can obviously read encrypted messages in certain scenarios: - you report a chat (you're just uploading the plaintext) - you t
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by xvector 8mo ago
Apple is sitting this whole thing out. Bizarre.
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by xvector 8mo ago
So drive at 0mph?
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by xvector 8mo ago
It does show up in background checks unfortunately, and it is considered.
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by xvector 8mo ago
Ralph didn't take months to notice! It was just nothing novel, so it didn't get much attention. All of the frontier labs were already doing this.
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by xvector 8mo ago
We should be angry about both situations but most people truly don't give a fuck about the latter. It is not just the Iran situation though. We make decisions all the time that result in immense amount of unnecessary suffering because
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by xvector 8mo ago
They executed every protestor that was arrested or in the hospital (estimated at ~28k.)
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by xvector 8mo ago
Tech hiring has shifted dramatically. It used to be people genuinely interested in, and passionate about technology. Top companies used to filter for this as well. Now it's just anyone that wants a big paycheck. And the culture shift i
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by xvector 9mo ago
It was always a branding issue. But it is not so easy to engineer consumer adoption unless you directly subvert consumer will (ie higher taxes on Coke, etc.)
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by xvector 9mo ago
I promise you that virtually no people care about avoiding American products that much. You are being idealistic, and are simply out of touch with the average person if you actually believe this. Virtually one will stop buying Coke. Virtual
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by xvector 9mo ago
It is interesting how downvoted you are for stating simple facts. Many people in the EU will just willfully bury their head in the sand when it comes to the impact of regulation on the economy. It's a night and day difference trying to
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by xvector 9mo ago
Seriously, the EU needs to actually make it possible to build successful businesses in the EU. Starting any business there is such a nightmare, it's no wonder everyone takes their ideas to the US.
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by xvector 9mo ago
If you totally remove Coke from the market, sure, but no one wants to drink a knockoff Coke, they want the actual thing.
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by xvector 9mo ago
That is in fact precisely the look investors want.
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by xvector 9mo ago
Could less physical labor lead to weaker bones or atrophied muscles leading to greater fall mortality? I did an Ozempic stint and noticed my bone density had decreased to the bottom 3 percentile for my age, and I lost muscle as well. It&#x2
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by xvector 9mo ago
Because my life does not run on envy. It does not bother me that Elon is $100B richer when global outcomes have improved dramatically as well. Comparison is the thief of joy. As long as conditions are materially improving, we are doing well
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by xvector 9mo ago
This is objectively false. You're telling me ASML isn't geopolitically important? That TSMC isn't geopolitically important? We are likely to enter a war for the latter within the next decade.
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by xvector 9mo ago
Whataboutism. What do you expect Cloudflare to do about the US imposing extraterritorial laws? How is that in any way relevant to their dilemma at hand?
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by xvector 9mo ago
Why shouldn't they resort to strongarming? Italy literally wants to blacklist IPs at whim for the entire planet. Cloudflare CEO is 100% in the right to strongarm them. Who do these people even think they are, to censor the planet'
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by xvector 9mo ago
"Fallout risk" and "dangerous waste risk" are such non-issues that have been so absurdly elevated in the public perception that the fear of them has caused far more deaths than the risks themselves.
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by xvector 9mo ago
Yes of course.
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by xvector 9mo ago
Wealth inequality doesn't cause this kind of despair. We have the greatest wealth inequality in history, but also the objectively best quality of life in history by most metrics (extreme poverty, hunger, starvation, death from disease,
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by xvector 9mo ago
You can make better. But there's a reason non-ad-supported businesses barely ever work out.
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by xvector 9mo ago
Companies are not obligated to provide you with services for free. You are free to solely use non ad supported services.
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by xvector 9mo ago
[1] is supposedly debunked: https://pawisoon.medium.com/debunked-the-truth-about-mediaan... > the network traffic sent and received by mediaanalysisd was found to be empty and appears to be a bug. I say "supposedly

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