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snotrockets
·2년 전·discuss
Signal is one-to-one or many-to-many.

Telegram is mostly few-to-many.
snotrockets
·2년 전·discuss
Telegram isn't a messaging service. It's a social network with a messenger UI. Quite ingenious, if you'd ask me, but a social network and a private messenger can't really be reconciled into a single product.
snotrockets
·2년 전·discuss
Amazon, like any other big company, is a 1000 different small companies in a trenchcoat.

Same for the other FAANGs. Each has just as least as many meh engineers as it has great ones.
snotrockets
·4년 전·discuss
Security is not privacy though. If I had a piece of information that could kill, I would trust Google with safeguarding it. What I don't trust them, is not to use information they got. Or rather, I expect them to use it (but safeguard it from others, because that's how they make money: by being the only ones allowed access to private information).
snotrockets
·5년 전·discuss
The IRS doesn't make the rules, but enforces them.

Unlike a somewhat popular opinion on this website, the law isn't an algorithm, but a codification of societal norms, like that we all share the expanses of living in civilized society.

Yes, the TRANSFER of assets happens at time of sell or withdrawal, but the share taxes was painted such when we (the people, through legislation. Not the IRS!) decided that such share should be dedicated to society.

This isn't about letter of the law, and never was: it's being an asshole.
snotrockets
·5년 전·discuss
The gains over doing the same at a taxable accounts are not your money, but public funds (the taxes not paid on those).
snotrockets
·7년 전·discuss
Seems to be working for the New York Times – “The publisher blocked all open-exchange ad buying on its European pages, followed swiftly by behavioral targeting. Instead, NYT International focused on contextual and geographical targeting for programmatic guaranteed and private marketplace deals and has not seen ad revenues drop as a result“ (source: https://digiday.com/media/gumgumtest-new-york-times-gdpr-cut...)