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  • In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN

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  • Yeah. And before this the world didn't only consist of USA but we hinged these conversations on USA. I was commenting in that context.

  • In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN

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  • The number of times I have used TikTok in my life is the integer just below 1.

    (And now I am getting a sense of what that "other kind" of echo chamber these platforms are becoming as opposed to that kind of echo chamber Twitter etc are)

    I mean the damn thing is banned here.

  • In the race to attract the world’s smartest minds, China is gaining on the US | CNN

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  • This is relevant for immigrants who are trying to escape poverty, almost with no future in their own countries either for their personal or professional aspirations. I am not a China fan, but when you look at countries around the world, many of which are very poor and underdeveloped but with lots of brilliant, hard-working people with dreams and potential, they would rather go to a place where they have at least some stability, predicted living and working conditions, and a future, rather than to a place where one doesn't know whether the potential future mayor of New York City, born and brought up in the USA and hence of course a citizen who happens to be the son of a world-famous filmmaker and a well-known academic, will actually be deported or not. I mean that's a real possibility at this point - let that sink in. (I am not even going for more extreme examples)

    I wish things were better, and I wish we didn't live in a world where China, yes, China – of all the countries, might become a viable alternative for people from the developing or underdeveloped world compared to the USA.

  • Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy

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  • No, I am afraid it's not. Just because it has a clear one pricing doesn't make it cheaper. One barely buys a VPN for one or just seven months or so.

  • Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy

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  • I would assume that they mean 'VPN not for anonymity' when they say that. I agree with you though.

  • Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy

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  • The thing is that 10 min search results in - trust all of them, trust none of them. A lot of folks also have affordability issues. So that makes this issue even more complex. When they turn a bit more "respected" forums they are told to "self host" or are given recommendations that they already knew of but couldn't afford. So the problem lives on. All this lead to shady and heavy marketing VPNs come to the front.

  • Is Signal messaging really private?

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  • With the phone number, no; and since there's no Signal usage without a phone number, well…. Also, I think somewhere on their website (or some place) they talked about burner phones as if it's a universal phenomena.

    Signal has felt "out of place" to me. Odd. It doesn't fit in, doesn't make sense if I think a bit farther about it.

    I hope something decentralised comes out of Signal protocol minus the need for a phone number.

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • Because on every occasion – at least in the case of Signal – they tried to switch, it was a far inferior experience for them, and the leadership behind the app/service took such puritanical decisions that it became evident that the ideology was more important than the people those tools were supposed to help/protect. I don't even bother asking my friends now. In fact, now, for me as well, those (Signal, Matrix, etc.) are just things collecting dust on my spare phone.