It's not gambling if you have information that most of the world doesn't have.
3,094 karma · joined January 19, 2015
I'm not going to download an app to order food from your restaurant. I'm not going to download an app to operate an appliance. I'm not going to download an app to get a discount on a beverage at your convenience store.
I don't care about your stupid rewards system for trying to get a reasonable price on overpriced items. I'm not downloading an app for it.
There are many people who download every app they do business with without hesitation. It's crazy. I can't imagine how many apps these people have on their phones.
People just seem to want to complain because it doesn't look like any of their favorite languages and they aren't familiar with functional languages. At this point, I can't imagine using any other language in place of Nix. The code would have so much noise and be much harder to read.
Displays last a long time. Eventually the computer will become outdated especially if companies can just remotely load viruses like this onto them. I just connect my computer to my TV and that's the only input I ever use. Full control. The "smart" part of "smart" TVs is idiotic.
If you use a third party library, when you require something, you have no idea what "modules" or other values it creates polluting the global namespace. This at least assigns those values to a local variable where they can be accessed and doesn't make them global.
That said, I'm not a fan of ruby and all the workarounds to try to make it like a more sane language that it isn't.
There's nothing more infuriating than going to click undo and the toast disappears.
First, I can't find any documentation explaining the rate limits. Just his tweet. Is this a rolling limit? Where do I see how many posts I've allegedly read? Do replies count as posts? Also, you can't go back and re-read the tweets that counted toward your limit.
His tweets are getting over 20,000 replies. That means that if posts count, even if you paid for your account you still can't read all the replies for a single tweet. This also worsens the experience for existing paid users because the whole point of posting something is so that your followers see it. And if he's trying to get new paid users, why would anyone pay to get a far worse experience than they were just getting for free yesterday?
To add to the absurdity, the error you get is "Something went wrong. Try reloading." And once you hit the rate limit you can't even view the Twitter Support account or your own profile. You can however still see Tweets in your notifications.
On top of that, this isn't how you handle bots/AI. That's not the purpose of rate limiting. Wrong tool for the job. This is incompetence no matter how you look at it. None of this makes any sense.
Oh wait, that's what you said.
> If terrorists or child abusers or other criminals use the app, or one like it, to coordinate activities or share child sexual abuse imagery behind impenetrable closed doors, that’s a shame — but privacy is all that matters.
Using the classic "think of the children" and "OMG, terrorism!" arguments is always what these people use to scare people into accepting authoritarianism. So uncreative.
> One should always worry when a person or an organization places one value above all. [...] unwavering support of one principle to rule them all is morally dangerous.
This guy is just making stuff up. Does anyone actually think like this? He then providers the worst argument of all time:
> What’s more, the company’s proposition that if anyone has access to data, then many unauthorized people probably will have access to that data is false.
> There are some people who have access to the nuclear launch codes, but “Mission Impossible” movies aside, we’re not particularly worried about a slippery slope leading to lots of unauthorized people having access to those codes.
How does nuclear launch codes even compare to people's personal data? You have to get clearance and all kinds of things for that. Nothing like that exists for private companies holding your data. Has this genius not heard of the Twitter Files or the other countless examples of the government abusing its power?
> I am drawing attention to Signal, but there’s a bigger issue here: Small groups of technologists are developing and deploying applications of their technologies for explicitly ideological reasons, with those ideologies baked into the technologies.
He only wants large corporations being in control of technology so the government can more easily illegally spy on people. So ridiculous.
> But Signal embeds within itself a rather extreme conception of privacy
Privacy is now extreme?
> If one of the complaints about Big Tech and Big Government is that they are insufficiently accountable for their misdeeds, can we not levy the same critique against the technologists?
Because big government and big tech are the ones in power right now. They're the ones breaking the law. If you find out that "technologists" are breaking the law then go after them for real crimes instead of thought crimes. Stop punching down.
> They are a small group of people who govern these powerful tools, and they are not accountable in the way that, say, a democratically elected government is.
He's saying only elected officials should get to choose what software exists. And the Signal developers are accountable, they're accountable to the law.
> Whether law enforcement should tap our phones on the condition that a warrant is obtained is, at the very least, worthy of public discussion. Signal has unilaterally decided for us all.
This is so absurd. They made an app and didn't break any laws. We don't need public discussion for if you're allowed to make an app.
Law enforcement is still free to do they same things they were doing before. The can infiltrate groups just like they did before the modern era. I don't have to give up my freedom just to make their jobs easier.
The intelligence community missed a lot of clues right at their finger tips that could have prevented 9/11. Do you think biometric tracking would have prevented 9/11? Because it sure sounds like it.