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shiftinglefton Ask HN: What are you working on?

Have you heard of magic wormhole?

shiftinglefton Ask HN: What are you working on?

This is a great idea. I hope you can win many restaurants to join this endeavor.

shiftinglefton Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

I agree, that the current economic situation is likely much better for almost everyone in China.

I'm not so certain, however, that the previous failures can be directly attributed to central planning? It seems officials were too afraid to come forward about issues regarding food production, due to repercussions of admitting failure. But this might not be inherent to central planning: the authoritarian nature of the state, punishments for admitting failure and perverse incentives causing officials to report success likely were more direct precursors of this outcome.

I would love to hear other opinions on this.

shiftinglefton Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

Is there anyone who would like to explain their downvote?

shiftinglefton Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks

A probability should never be greater than 1.

After trying out B ≥ 2ⁿ distinct passwords, the probability of guessing the correct password is 1.

shiftinglefton Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

Which recent edits?

shiftinglefton Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

China is a capitalist state - its economy is based on corporate profit. If the word communism has any meaning it cannot apply to China.

I can't say for sure, whether China is fascist, as I don't know whether they are ultranationalist.

However, they definitely are authoritarian and are suppressing and murdering minorities or political opponents.

shiftinglefton Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

I'm pretty sure it's not my area, I just tell everyone I converse with to use signal and most of them do.

shiftinglefton Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

What gripes did you run into with Signal? Most of my friends (tech or non-tech) use Signal, so I'm really curious.

shiftinglefton Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

It does have a backup functionality, which unlike WhatsApp's doesn't store your messages unencrypted. It also doesn't force you to use a specific storage provider. If you want to have it synced, you can point your favorite sync client at it.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

Additionally, they've introduced an optional PIN which you can use to recover profile, contacts and settings when switching devices - without the need to setup sync yourself.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...