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You don't need to be a high level executive to not want to broadcast your location and identity in realtime for anyone to see. This isn't about your choices with mobile devices, th…

And the founder of whatsapp is bitter about what Facebook did to it, and is funding signal now. And Moxie is no fan of Facebook either. These aren't some random kids and a VC.

That does not seem to account for most political and social issues that you can't do much for alone, but millions of people together can bring positive change with little individua…

If we really want higher prices, how about we at least get more features for it. Such as built-in privacy protection. Or how about we restructure the whole relationship so that wil…

The current situation is sustained by a small minority of users generating the majority of the clicks. That was true before adblock became a thing too. As long as adblock is not pr…

> What part of ruby or java has anything morally or technically even approaching the concept, use case, or meaning of implicits? Dependency injection for implicit params, for one? …

Scala's version is epoch.major.minor, not major.minor.patch. I though 2.12.(x+1) is generally binary compatible with 2.12.x. Or at least I personally never ran into that issue with…

Is there an equivalent to "small claims court" in Colombia where you don't need a lawyer if you're willing to do your own research? Maybe threaten to take them to that court for di…

Hey, nice! What kind of components are you using? Engine, batteries, etc.? Did you pick those yourself, or borrow the design from an existing system like the e-help for hang glider…

FPTP might be the worst, but IRV is a close second. Just like FPTP it gives significant artificial advantage to a certain kind of party. Specifically, IRV tends to elect a party th…

I would say ram-air inflation of parafoil wings is very different – it's dynamic, not static like a bladder pre-inflated with a pump. This Inflatoplane is more of a precursor to mo…

Powered paragliders fit the bill, but still require infrastructure like some open space for launching / landing.

There is no such thing as a megacorp's indifference to increasing their profits and achieving their strategic goals. You can't plausibly claim indifference when Google's business p…

The sanctions came from liberal nations, to state the obvious. An external enemy, as far as Russians are concerned. The same countries never sanctioned USA over any of its similarl…

> Russia's liberty deprivation is beginning to show itself - again - in their economic regression (eg falling incomes for 5-6 years) and general stagnation. Let's be fair, the last…

I think it's less about the difficulty of manual changes and more about the cost to verify that all of the changes actually work. Dynamic typing on the language side, and a less th…

I make (web app) components with only minimal regard for cross project reusability. I don't add any features to them that I don't need for the current project, but I do try to keep…

In your original comment the second sentence is obviously reading as justification for your first sentence and for safety concerns mentioned by both parent and grandparent comments…

You don't "necessarily" believe, but provide an argument and a link to justify that belief (however ineffectively)? Have enough courage to own the ideas you propagate, this is path…