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Maybe "One Place" would have been better. I saw the article title and I thought it was a new smartphone or something

I'm sure they'll fix that soon

In my case it's not a hobby. I actually hate wasting time and money on these kind of things. But on the other side I'm legitimately scared about what's happening with all my digital information. It could be paranoia because of all the privacy movement and the recent scandals but it's not worth the risk when you have very easy to setup tools to improve your privacy like that ones you mentioned in your last paragraph which is exactly what I'm currently using (+ DDG for searching).

Could be, but what if the requirements you're missing are supposedly essential for the job? Some jobs say you need to know X programming language. What if you're a good programmer but haven't worked with that particular language? Should you bother to apply?

At least they didn't just think of killing them like here in Chile.

I would say yes. The service was available but it was even more chaotic because of all the inconsistencies.

I've been wanting to read this book but there's not a digital version yet. I wonder if it's to avoid pirate copies everywhere.

Actually you are the one that started your argument by making assumptions.

Not a fallacy if you do your research properly before choosing a VPN.

Technology Review from MIT so I can read it on my Kindle

Playing blitz/bullet can become a bit addictive. Probably a small dopamine hit every time you win.

I think it would require significant architectural changes. As far as I know, the replication and consensus protocol are just too slow.

Use a VPN client, don't allow location, files or contacts access to applications you don't trust, look for alternatives to software you don't trust.

A lot of potentially good sites with coding challenges have that problem. You want to improve your coding skills in some language and you end up spending 90% of the time solving a math puzzle and writing 5 lines of code.