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Comment Re:Who wants this ? (Score 1) 92

The Samsung Galaxy S5 had all the perks, waterproof, ir transmitter, card slot, dual sim (in EU the single sim version was sold), headset jack (no, it doesn't mean the device can't be waterproof), removable battery. Stellar GPS performance, long battery life, hi res display. Oh, and pocketable. And not more expensive than other flagships.

Comment Re:They need to say it (Score 1) 62

It means *any* country that Signal has their CA stored in can compromise all Signal communications.

I don't get it, sorry. My crypto is rusty, but I did learn how to crack the knapsack algorithm and how triple DES works back in the 90s from the information theory professor at uni, who was on some USA blacklist according to his US peers...

Anyway, if I check the public key of a Signal contact and find it to match and vice versa, then how any server of Signal in any place being taken over by whichever government or other player is irrelevant, they'll never be able to decrypt our conversation, yet you claim they can. I just don't see how. Care to enlighten me? Or am I misinterpreting what I just quoted? Thanks.

Comment Re:AI is the new .com (Score 1) 38

If you offer me 1 promille of the sand in a shoebox for 10$ and I buy it, the market value of the sand in your shoebox is 10k$, but the value in total may not be that. Same for stocks, the total market value is based on price of the last stock sold. So I don't think your pen comparison is fitting. I do realise that you understand how stocks work and that for you, the market value meaning is clear. For those to whom it's not, the pen comparison may be confusing. How about a car comparison?

Comment Re:Bitcoin is still early (Score 1) 300

For starters, more fiat money can be created out of thin air as per the whims of suits

If you believe this, up to you. There is a reason fiat currencies are called regulated and bitcoin and co defi. Decentralised or rather deregulated finance. The rest of your views stand or collapse based on that.

Yes, money is typically generated out of thin air, but there are rules to the how and how much. To be precise, it's in exchange of an IOU. And indeed the 2008 crash showed that the system is far from ideal. To claim that bitcoin is the solution is, on the other hand, very daring IMHO.

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