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> If a cop is arrested under accusation of dealing drugs on the side, it doesn't suddenly send a chill through the law enforcement community that works to take down drug dealers. H…

This is a crazy list. 1. IPhone is closed source and any kind of rootkit can be installed by Apple/NSA secret court system. I suggest not using a smartphone if you are serious abou…

I lived in Soviet Union as well during the collapse. I think there is a lot of propaganda from the west that makes you think it wasn't Gorbachev's fault. People were happy, had chi…

Didn't know this. Thanks.

Interesting. Thanks. Wasn't aware

I don't disagree with US not having freedom, but I don't think the nordic countries should be up there either. For example, you can't publish news in Sweden/Finland/Germany that ca…

As someone who has never been to Korea, I don't understand why this chaebol structure is bad. Korea has one of the best R&D stories worldwide, one of the most innovative places in …

Sure, but telegram doesn't even have a secret chat feature on desktop client. I can't believe there still isn't a single usable e2e mobile + desktop chat client that won't drain yo…

I like it, but what about all the tracking? Things like this: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/80 Then there is the fact that the client acts as a browser that fetche…

Is anyone so incapable that they would not know how to enable the secure features? Most people don't care about secret chat. This is for people who care. Granted, they don't have s…

Same as every other app including Signal. For the record, not advocating using Telegram over Signal.

I had depression from doing poorly in graduate school. I felt inadequate and useless. You can call it temporary sadness, but I constantly contemplated suicide and nothing helped. N…

I think this is just an old law from 1700s. They probably wouldn't have written it this way nowadays.

There are a lot of US movies that go the other way - praising the US military/portraying conflicts in good vs evil way. Example is Battle Los Angeles (2011) and American Sniper (20…

Surprisingly, in the UK it is illegal to do that to a king/queen. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a3_3_1-2s8... From wiki: According to the law in force, it is tr…

Sure. Like Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates and Ukraine. When all of those have negative stories about them I'm sold.

Al Jazeera is anti-Israel and Anti-Russia for the most part because of Qatar's foreign policy interests. BBC is anti-Russia, but more neutral on other issues.