petestream

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by petestream 4y ago
None of these are a reason to not to also have a different number that you can publish publicly without giving someone your phone number. You can have your phone number for everyone in your phone book and a one way derived or random number
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by petestream 4y ago
You sound like people defending PGP when everyone knew there were major downsides and usability issues. How can keeping phone numbers as the only option be more important than everyone being able to publish "Signal:39475638" on so
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by petestream 4y ago
I've learned the hard, or at least slow, way that this discussion is mostly futile. All I can say is that a large part of the world doesn't use phone numbers like that anymore. One of the major benefits of messaging services is th
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by petestream 4y ago
As far as I know one of the arguments for defunding the police is that the police is used as a way for those with the ability to change things to externalize the consequences of their actions. When for example a lack of housing leads to an
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by petestream 4y ago
> Which non-Western countries are competing on creativity? They aren't, that's the point. Countries like China, Japan and South Korea are very good at pulling everyone in the same direction by following rules, having hierarchie
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by petestream 4y ago
It's more like the endgame. 1. Western companies moves production of components to China. 2. Chinese companies becomes good enough to produce their own products. 3. Western companies starts rebranding Chinese products. 4. Chinese comp
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by petestream 4y ago
Most of the inherent cost of a startup is salaries (offices usually second). Most of salaries goes for paying for housing (with market rate and education usually being the other major costs). Say you have two startup environment. One where
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by petestream 4y ago
I would say it is true but more the entire environment. ~15 years ago in Sweden it was relatively easy to become middle class. It was for its time accessible and affordable to have things like education, housing and a family. At the same ti