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Huh, that's interesting.

I guess this also varies tremendously by region. WhatsApp completely dominates non-work communication in Argentina; we don't use SMS, nor phone calls, and FB is pretty much is second place.

AFAIK, in the US people actually use SMS a lot, and I'm sure it's a bit different everywhere else.

More on topic though; you can use Messenger without an FB account and still find people by username.

Yeah, Netflix is a monopoly, or almost a monopoly.

Amazon Prime is basically US-only. HBO gets hired during GoT season and then dumped.

Meanwhile, the majority of the people out there have Netflix. We even see ads on the streets and all over the place, while the other two competitors are still inexistent.

Actually, you can even have the Messenger app with no Facebook account. Just sign in with your phone number, and it'll pick up acquaintances from your contact book (much like WhatsApp). You can still search for other people, but don't need an FB account.

> The voters elected a Republican government

Not the majority though, as far as I understand, they won even though they don't have a majority of the voters, just a majority of the districts. Or something along those lines which simply confuses (and amazes) us non-US residents.

I'm also a bit impressed / curious about how much power the President has; he appoints FCC the chairman, and that chairman ends up taking these sort of decisions? Sounds a lot like something that the legislative branch should pick up, not [transitively] the executive one.

Or am I missing something?

If I want to donate $1 per month to somebody, cashing out $20 in advance is quite a bit -- it'd probably discourage a lot of people, since the initial investment is too much.

Authentication in Skype is awful. At one point, for reasons beyond me, I ended up having two accounts:

* One account required me to log in with a username, and was associated with my main email address. * The other account required me to log in with my main email address.

In a way, they were both related to the same email, but different accounts. This shouldn't even have been possible, but it seems that one was an old MS account, and the other was an old Skype account. My roster ended up being split half and half between the two.

Wow, this is amazing. I've seen kids being told off for NOT having a mobile phone on them at school so they could reach their parents in case of urgency.

It's amazing how mindsets can be so different in different places (and I'm saying all this with no tone of judgement).

Yet, do many people use the standalone Shazam app, rather than the Siri integration?

On iOS, Shazam is usually used through Siri (it's beyond me why anyone would download the standalone app).

I wonder if the connection is made straight from the iPhone to shazam, or Apple actually proxies this.

My uncapped 100Mbps link costs me 0.7% of my monthly salary.

The plan you mention, is about 11% of the average salary in India.

Even though it's cheaper in absolute terms, it's still more expensive in relative terms.

I actually saw this mentioned in a recent UX talk by google: the salary differences end up making internet a lot more expensive for the locals in India, Indonesia, etc, to the point where some apps actually show how much they'd use (eg: Youtube shows the size of a video before downloading).

People still micro-manage they available data because of how expensive it feels to them.

They also consulted with original authors about their intentions, rather than pain over what they'd done blindly.

It's never sent to the server; the key is derived from your passphrase, so it's never sent anywhere.

It's still possible for a sophisticated MITM to replace the JS code so that is DOES send the key somewhere.

That argument is really sound. In India. It doesn't really apply in developed countries where internet access is already present (or accessible to the majority).

Actually, Pipfiles are more akin to the two supported mechanisms, requirements.txt is not always used with version pinning