Hear hear....may I ask what superior uber-race you descend from? Surely, us low-life dwellers are barely recognizeable from so high up. Btw, are you sure you get sufficient oxygen up there?

I agree that more often than not "modern design" is a certain indicator that I will hate the update. FF, Chrome, Gnome, GTK3, I am looking at you. Not everything is a tablet.

Having said that - if the screenshots of the new UI from the FOSDEM 2019 presentation (UI screenshots start on slide 20) are still accurate, however, this redesign looks quite okay.

My claim was that Telegram's backend servers are not open source, not that the messages are not encrypted on that platform. That is a different matter we cannot comment on and shows exactly the power of open source. We don't have to choose who to believe, as you put it.

But I agree the link was not optimal. Here is a better one, from Telegram itself: https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything

Signal is more secure.

It uses an open standard for encryption and encrypts all messages. Telegram runs its own encryption protocol and only end-to-end encrypts secret chats. Both apps are open-sourced but Telegram's backend is not.

Signal is recommended by Snowden & Bruce Schneier.

They didn't create it, they bought it (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109888284313557107). Like most of their major products, actually.

Why would this be a desirable outcome? If a group of people has an affinity for a particular task, we'd expect to see an over-representation of that group in a company that requires said task as part of its business. Different groups of people have slightly different interests. These differences get bigger at the tails of the distibution. It's completely okay to have more of a certain group if that is in line with their interests and everyone has equal opportunity to pursue their interests.

Right...unfortunately, this is the only valid assumption these days.

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions before we have heard from both sides and seen some evidence - in either direction. I know it is out of fashion to wait for facts these days - feel free to call old-fashioned.

Switzerland has been neutral since 1815, explicitly as a result of the conflicts you just mentioned.

Switzerland has not participated in a war since then, even though remaining completely impartial turned out to be difficult during times. During World War II, when completely surrounded by Germany and Mussolini's Italy in the south, the Swiss allowed cargo trains through the Alps despite there were rumors that these trains actually transported Jewish people from Italy to Germany.

Reminds me about an old joke about Allied Forces being allowed to overfly Swiss territory:

Swiss air control to allied aircraft: You are approaching Swiss territory. Switzerland is neutral. Turn around.
Allied aircraft: We know.
Swiss air control: Turn around immediately, or we will shoot.
Allied aircraft: We know.
The Swiss shoot.
Allied aircraft: You are shooting too low. We fly higher than that.
Swiss air control: We know.

It seems you forgot how Chrome started: in 2013 Google forked WebCore (WebKit), added a skin, and called it Chrome...

Yep. Tiny apartments in high-rise buildings cost between 500K and several million USD. Cost of raising a kid: 300K to the age of 20. Fruits seem to be made of gold, and at the moment, after the exceptionally long monsoon this summer, veggies are also crazy expensive.

The proposed amount won't do sh*t. But Governor Lee is not serous anyway - he is one of the likely contenders for the next presidential election and is simply catering to his base with statements like these.

Okay, fine.

By the way, did you volunteer as a test subject in early vaccine testing?

If not, who do you propose to do it then? Remember, it has to be done on living organisms that are genetically close to humans. So again: who should do it?

In other words, Uber should not complain about but rather be happy with the Coronavirus since fewer rides = smaller loss.

Do you have a Master's degree?
Yes, why?
Racist!

Unless you're a /. editor. Then you probably think adding '[sic]' every now and then sounds cool.