Don't be fooled by the rain of downvotes that some comments are getting: the HN crowd is incredibly biased towards hyped stuff and CV-driven development.
I worked in FAANGS where simplicity really mattered over hype.
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I worked in FAANGS where simplicity really mattered over hype.
There is plenty wrong. Even Adam Smith's purely theoretical concept of "free market" requires buyers and sellers to be purely rational actors and be fully and correctly informed.
Advertising has one goal: making customers less rational and more biased towards a given product.
Good. That's why the quality is so high.
It's another a measure of the ever increasing inequality in some countries.
Such topic that certainly impacts the life of people commenting on HN.
People write articles to provide information. Reader read the article and learn.
It's implied here:
"I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally."
...by putting that sentence out alone without clarifying the context.
> psychological pathways
> unfairly reify
Are you feeling ok?
99% of people believe that he single-handedly invented the press with movable type. Ask around.
No: being really broke can cause a lot of anxiety that can lead to irrational behavior.
But often a person has to choose between homelessness and crime and picks the latter as a rational choice, given the alternative.
So please don't assume poor = "crazy" = criminal, it's a bit unkind.
Often I found more difficult to understand English written by native speakers than by others because of that.
You can easily ask the OS what layout is being used or even ask the user.
No. There's no definition of what they map to.
That's why we need USERS to be able to scale the ranges of brightness and contrast.
My environment changes during the day. I want to be the one in control of my screen, not some random website.
What's even worse - almost all Epub readers don't do proper sandboxing.
Maybe on paper or as long as you are lucky.
In most EU countries such stories of police abuse are way, way less common.
Including things like unwarranted searches, seizing money with no good reason, swatting, aggressive questioning.
This is a very dishonest framing.
If Signal /was/ federated it would be a strong hint that the server code stays the same.
And even if it's not the same, people would be able to run their own trusted servers.
That means hard-forking the old server and client and maintain them as an independent project forever.
That's what's stopping me and many other people from creating a community and federated version.
Wrong. Publishing the server sources allow people to create a parallel and independent service.
You should because any successful centralized messenger is one update away from becoming entirely closed source.
If Signal will reach say a billion users it will be able to do that without significant userbase loss, due to network effect.
> safety characteristics, which as stated are apparently ensured by the client regardless of what the server does
In reality, the contact social graph and the frequency and pattern of messages between users is leaked.
Any global observer can do a correlation attack thanks to the centralized servers (and absence of onion routing).
Hollywood is widely caricatured outside of the US for its disconnect from reality. Flat characters, childish good VS baddies dichotomies, bombastic action movies...
There is overwhelming scientific evidence that (mentally healthy) humans are pretty capable of empathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
> They motivate their selfish actions, to others but also to themselves (Motivated Reasoning) with noble sounding arguments
You are claiming that selfishness is the only driver but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning goes both ways.
Besides, why do you refer to people as "they"? Are you a bot?
Everything you describe is about capitalism: putting profit before any other priority.
https://sysdig.com/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-curl-bash/
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
These attacks can be mounted on the network side.
Also you can inadvertently execute data from a benign captive portal or a server error page and so on.