dmw1

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by dmw1 5y ago
I would strongly disagree that sex is how most people quench their need for physical touch. Not being able to hug my grandparents during the pandemic took a big emotional toll on me. I pet my dog, hug my kids and shake hands with my friends
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by dmw1 5y ago
Seems to me that the ubiquity of such greetings across all cultures would imply that you're the exception here, no?
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by dmw1 5y ago
I don't see the contradiction. These are orthogonal issues. Apple protects customer privacy from app authors through strong access controls and permissions model. Side-loaded apps would benefit from all of these protections just the sa
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by dmw1 5y ago
The way I see it, perhaps I can get some marginal privacy benefits from another provider, however I'd be compromising on security. I am of the opinion that Google have the best security in the industry, have the best incentives, most i
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by dmw1 5y ago
It's interesting you say that, because for me personally, security is one of the main benefits of a Google account. If this is the main motivation here then I would look into Google's advanced protection program that allows you to
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by dmw1 5y ago
To a degree but it has an upper bound of income. Unless people are going to start taking on mortgages to pay their rent.
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by dmw1 5y ago
So I actually use this as my daily driver, but I think it illustrates the point quite well. The only way to meaningfully secure a GNU/Linux desktop is to run multiple instances of it through a type-1 hypervisor. For a mobile device, a
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by dmw1 5y ago
I would argue this is the exact opposite of what we want to do. The primary cause of this problem is the conventional desktop OS which has no meaningful security model. IOS and Android have the correct approach to mitigate this, strong sand
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by dmw1 5y ago
This isn't something you can reasonably protect against and I don't even see this as a purely technical problem. Even if you could verify Signal, what about the OS being compromised, the phone being lost or a shoulder surfer readi
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by dmw1 5y ago
Got this question at a FAANG company. Interviewer was absolutely not satisfied with linear solution and wanted it solved in log(m + n) There's a huge meta-game around these questions that you pick up after practicing them enough. Even