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Let's say I sent up a key "foo" to get the value "bar", and I did this again and again. Will either "foo" or "bar" be encrypted to the same ciphertext again and again? Or is there …

I'm adding to your comment and not trying to argue (unless you want to!): There's no distinction between the public and the government. The government is made up by the public. And…

Really great list. Thank you. Some of these I wasn't even aware of. I've been using Session for about a year. A year ago it definitely had some missed messages and I was about to d…

Capitalized, yes. It should also have air quotes. "Effective Altruism" is more appropriate in this case.

One solution to this is to become an oracle at your company. Any time someone (namely someone higher in the company who is responsible for your pay) has a question, no matter how m…

For all the bigger companies I've worked with that have infinite war chests and rely heavily on user data and analytics, the question is always why shouldn't a specific metric be t…

Well, yea. Living things and organizations have incentives. The implication I gleaned from your original comment was that Google's incentive to avoid bad press on HN for its App St…

Google is a vast, schizophrenic organization. They're big enough that they have different teams and internal politics fighting each other all the time. It's not a unified conscious…

Google does some pretty surprising levels of static analysis of compiled source, particularly surrounding their API usage. There's a few examples I've run into but the first that p…

I dismissed it all very early on but for other reasons. I took one look at the BTC whitepaper way back, saw that every transaction and wallet was completely public, and immediately…

I would continue easily dismantling your points but you're like a boomer railing against the Internet in the early 90s. It's bad according to your value system so other people shou…

Ah c'mon gimme something better to chew on, this argument is cake to dismantle. (1) You don't use Monero to buy breakfast. It's for large money transfers so at least compare it to …

Monero and other less well-known currencies solve all of that. You can say it's bad or useless for other reasons. But my direct experience with dozens of P2P transfers, outside exc…

Money is the goal of the individual Cogs in the machine. Control is the goal of the machine itself, which uses money to incentivize (power) its Cogs. If you're a Big Tech company y…

Yup. My hypothesis is unambiguously verifiable, and I've verified it to my own satisfaction through my personal experiences. Your hypothesis is not unambiguously verifiable, only s…

Again, you're assuming they don't have surrogates. This is still an assumption. The miscommunication here is that you think I'm a conspiracy theorist or something, and I think you'…

We're both making the same number of assumptions. The difference is that yours is in the negative and mine is in the positive. Your example about the risk of someone leaking to the…

The even more simpler explanation is that it's both.

Fellow DERO holder I see. ;)

Another possibility is they want to keep eyes off tech that people would go to in droves if they outright banned it. They want to avoid the Streisand effect. Part of that play is i…

They've coded for 10 or 20 years, and now just sit back and design interfaces, write specs, evaluate technologies, mentor juniors, do code review, and of course the ultimate mind b…

Very nice! I hope to soon get to the point where I need this. I'm bookmarking this.

Cool idea, I can see how this would be useful once you're dealing with more than a few invoices per month. For those like me that do indeed only send out a few a month, I've found …

Agreed with the vibe of other comments here. It's hard not to come off snobby, and the market won't allow such snobbery forever, but for now the reality is that a senior engineer i…

Nice, quick implementation. It's cool that it's all client side. People have pointed out the weaknesses as far as non-crushes brute forcing the answer but still this is interesting…