Well ... With all due respect. The primary incentive for a man in nightlife is girls. The guy on the right most likely didn't get much of a chance in that area. The guy on the left might enjoy sober nightlife quite a lot. Girls prefer sober men.
Good point - one might choose one's peers based on the desired feedback - the end result wouldn't be more healthy than adapting oneself to the feedback of a static peer group.
69 points and growing - but nobody has anything to say about it. at the end of the day this is anyway just yet another post about how you can actually do something practically relevant with Haskell :D
How about this: "PHP Game Server". Nobody would care because PHP is just one of those stupid languages mostly known for being (merely) useful ;)
It's a recurring theme in science that the more we know the more we become aware how little we actually understand.
But the brain and it's embedding in the rest of the body and environment raises this phenomenon to a new level.
I think to some extent it shows that considering something to a certain restricted level as true until falsified is a valid approach. Because a lot of the things science is uncovering about our mental capabilities has been postulated for thousands of years by means of introspection and meditation.
Huh? Apple and MS have a record of communicating in sharing data with US government - plus as companies providing closed source software they are likely to introduce backdoors ... also something you might have heard of since Snowden.
NSA only knows then that somebody with that phone number is using Signal ... so what?
They would find out anyway b/c your packets are sniffed on a regular basis and so they know your phone is communicating with the Signal server and maybe the packets itself are characteristic.
So in my humble opinion this criticism is irrelevant.
> I tend to repeat the 'central server' and 'a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity' criticism.
Your phone number is not your identity in Signal. If you change SIM cards then your friends won't notice and the app works as before.
Signal is based on asym encryption - your private key effectively encodes your identity in combination with your public key.
> And only if the first client is Android?
There is no point in dwelling on that. Android and its syblings are the only potentially secure popular smartphone OSs. Apple and Microsoft OSs are fundamentally flawed in that regard.
I think the identity is connected to what key pair you control / what private key you have on your phone.
F.x. I installed a while ago Signal on my phone and recently went to another country where I used a different SIM card (hence a different phone number) and I could still use my Signal app as usual.
Signal uses asymmetrical encryption - your private key is very well able to prove your identity - I'm pretty sure the concept "identity" in Signal is built on that technology. But for contacting people - well - what else would you suggest?!
Well, I rest my case - kudos to you.
Of course, you as a business owner do make money from your business, so just donating privately remains a valid option.