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Lithuanian here, can confirm. Quite scared of Russia, for (what I hope are) understandable reasons.

States have and will routinely harass and otherwise dampen the efforts of activists, dissidents, even journalists. I think examples of that are easy to find. Furthermore, they can'…

The problem is, you're not making a transactional choice. You're not just choosing the internet for you, you're affecting the internet for everyone. I also think assuming that you …

People that are politically interesting (for states and others) have obvious reasons to protect their privacy. You need politically interesting people to fight for your rights. You…

Protonmail doesn't have pop/imap/external app use. I've heard it's coming in the following months. It's great apart from that, but this is a fairly big negative if you want to use …

Sounds like the image we should move away from, so it gets better for everyone. While I don't disagree with your previous point, I think part of the reason for OWS to do this might…

I don't disagree with your general point, but I'm curious, why would having a privacy-focused app be embarassing? I'm curious what kind of attitude you have for it, or what you exp…

This comment says it's unavailable on iOS and Chrome, but there on Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12689695 I can back up that Chrome point, unless it has been added …

IM. Signal is, IMO, the most secure one that anyone's likely to convince non-nerds to use.

Of course it's better elsewhere. Many companies are not under US authority. Many provide better security features. Many are not known for having terrible security, or the biggest b…

Considering the way they claim to minimize the metadata stored, I wouldn't expect them to store encrypted message content after it is delivered to the client. It'd be difficult to …

Significantly more; OWS in this blog post are claiming to keep the very bare minimum. Whatsapp and Facebook, meanwhile, are sharing data to improve ads - surely they share much mor…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) Check the metadata portion. One thing to note, this isn't surprising at all. All of the centralized IM servers can do this and, usua…

The problem is, I don't think you can say that it's a form of a giving up, or a fundemental weakening of power. We are creating absurd amounts of information compared to before. Ju…

I don't know about willingness. There's one way to back up your point though. Philosophers learn to apply rigor in very broad situations, getting used to usisng it everywhere. Math…

Just my general experience with it when talking to young people and seeing their expression online etc. At least when it comes to the hard sciences, they may not have the patience …

Indeed. With regards to science, it seems like at least young people respect it, so we're going to have progress in that sense. Unfortunately, philosophy doesn't produce life-chang…

As for movies, I think it's about what makes a good plot rather than what expresses the common ideology. A benevolent AI-god won't exactly make for an exciting movie, nor will just…

People like trusting their intuitions. In many cases, they trust them so much they even deny that there's an argument to be made about their content - especially if people surround…

>I didn't say science said anything about conscious. Well you did say: >If this "consciousness" stuff actually interacted with the physical world, then we would, in principle, be a…

There's all kinds of ideas about the word the Greeks used for this, eudaimonia. The translation has shifted, and they tend to not even call it happiness anymore. The new translatio…

If you're talking about studies in psychology and why they perceive happiness as such, it's because they're not philosophers. They're merely trying to learn things about something …

And all that empirical stuff doesn't matter when it comes to the actual theorem. The proof does. As is the case with tons of math that don't have empirical evidence. That's why it'…

The author clearly worried about many of the same issues affecting his own democracy, and wrote about it too. It's not just a parody of totalitarianism if the author describes the …