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None of these are a reason to not to also have a different number that you can publish publicly without giving someone your phone number. You can have your phone number for everyon…

You sound like people defending PGP when everyone knew there were major downsides and usability issues. How can keeping phone numbers as the only option be more important than ever…

I've learned the hard, or at least slow, way that this discussion is mostly futile. All I can say is that a large part of the world doesn't use phone numbers like that anymore. One…

As far as I know one of the arguments for defunding the police is that the police is used as a way for those with the ability to change things to externalize the consequences of th…

> Which non-Western countries are competing on creativity? They aren't, that's the point. Countries like China, Japan and South Korea are very good at pulling everyone in the same …

It's more like the endgame. 1. Western companies moves production of components to China. 2. Chinese companies becomes good enough to produce their own products. 3. Western compani…

Most of the inherent cost of a startup is salaries (offices usually second). Most of salaries goes for paying for housing (with market rate and education usually being the other ma…

I would say it is true but more the entire environment. ~15 years ago in Sweden it was relatively easy to become middle class. It was for its time accessible and affordable to have…