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Comment · 7 years ago
I find the UI good but not worth that much of a cut. Maybe this is for people who can't roll their own solution.
Comment · 7 years ago
Pretty shocking, thanks for such a detailed analysis
Comment · 7 years ago
Moving in the direction of an everything app, like WeChat?

I was horrified at this news at first, but WeChat isn't too terrifying, and they're far more ubiquitous.

I just hope the social network aspect of Facebook (and Instagram) continues to shrivel.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm stunned that Samsung tab a survey about socks to launch a new washing machine
Comment · 7 years ago
Pretty valuable reading, I feel like social theory should be more widely taught somehow
Comment · 7 years ago
I wonder what happened to Telegram's currency
Comment · 7 years ago
If the base of their site was served from an auto updated base, there's no reason why it couldn't be pretty much as secure as a platform.

Say it's a frontend over a Docker image that gets updated upstream for security issues, and the server has a Cron job that keeps it up to date.

Why couldn't that work?

I know there's some centralisation around the Docker image, but that could be open source or provided by someone like Mozilla or Apache or WordPress who we can trust.

And there's no reason why the user couldn't choose from a whole ecosystem of image providers with a simple enough UI

Comment · 7 years ago
Knocking it out of the park, Mozilla, keep it up.

Getting more people on Firefox would do the tech world so much good, diversifying who controls what in the web.

Comment · 7 years ago
Love the concept for the site, and love the interactive charts
Comment · 7 years ago
The tax might increase income but imagine the effect on the costs to the health system!

At least in a European country where health costs are socialised. Not sure how much they're socialised in the United States.

Comment · 7 years ago
The author makes the point that a standard is required.

I've heard of various implementations like kramdown and redcarpet behaving differently, so it seems that that is the case.

Comment · 7 years ago
Sneaky because now you don't know what server a web page is coming from?

Because yes that's true, although cryptography it's maybe half true.

Comment · 7 years ago
It also puts a _lot_ of work on the publisher to implement these changes. Again.

(Unless you're using CloudFlare)

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