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The 2.2 specs are better, with exception of RAM which is equivalent. I've never had any performance issues surfing, watching videos, or using apps. I couldn't recommend this phone enough. The review over at ars was good and that's what put it in my radar.

I recently bought a Nokia 2.2, which in in the Android One program. Two main reasons: a removable battery and OS updates for two years and security for 3. At this point, there's very little difference between the hardware of flagships and commodity, especially considering the real-world use of smartphones. I mean, is anyone compiling programs on these things or doing anything particularly intensive? Not really. So given the choice between a $1000 phone and a $140 one, I choose the latter because in 2019 your really paying for the software.

Since Android 9, I really enjoy Android. It feels like a totally different experience with things like split screen, gesture nav, and smart replies. The Android team is doing a great job as of late. I look forward to getting this update. I hope we get to a point where the OEMs stop being the gate keepers of our phone's OSs and these devices become more like laptops, in the sense of being able to run whatever we want.

Google Graham Hancock. He does a bunch of research concerning ice age civilizations I'm the Americas. Really interested work.

I guess it depends on what you're using your VPN for, but I prefer to run my own VPN on a vps. I use vultr and pay $5/mo. I also get to host a collabra server for my nextcloud setup on the same server so it just makes economic sense to use a vps rather than paying $5/mo (or more) to just get a VPN and also not have control of my data.

Nope. There's no single algorithm that will lead to General intelligence. As long as the apex of our ML techniques is parameter optimization via gradient decent, there will be no critical mass point. Currently, it's possible for someone to take a modular approach to general intelligence. And someone may very well be working on that and will spring such a system on the world but because each subsystem is only as good as the state of the art, and if the systems were that good the developers would try to capitalize on such a system immediately rather than waiting for all the other subsystems to surpass the state of the art, we would have some warning that the field was advancing; hence no surprise general intelligence.

A gigantic "no thanks" to vhemt.org. Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'm gonna pick that up.

To reframe the common argument against banning guns: when u ban encryption, only criminals, computer geeks, and mathematicians will have encryption.

May I ask, how much time have you spent I'm China?

As long as the code isn't abstracted more han 1 or two layers deep, it's commented in places where the control flow isn't that intuitive, and follows best practices for whatever the kids of languages is, it doesn't matter if it's home spun. Just being "home grown" is not synonymous with bad software. At the end of the day, just using frameworks are no guarantee that the code is readable and maintainable. Usually by the time someone is looking at your code to rewrite or update it, what seemed like an awesome choice of framework at the time can end up being a nightmare to parse as documentation has dried up, forums that were the sole source of knowledge are offline, and now your once amazing code is just garbage to the poor coder trying to make sense of the random abstractions of the framework.

Social media is a cancer on humanity. It is not benign, as many people still assume. Almost every time the medium is studied, the results show it makes people less happy, susceptible to propaganda, and generally shittier people. I've got an idea, if you really want to keep up with people set up an email list. Or just realize that you don't actually want to keep in touch, as evidenced by the fact that you never actually bother to call the people you claim to want to stay in contact with.

Tcl TV's can send the sound over WiFi to a phone. I can listen to TV via my phone, hear clearly, and nobody farther than 5 feet can hear a thing. It's a solved problem.

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Thanks for the advice

This was a great read and got me interested in learning more about the Sikh religion. Does anyone have some advice for a westerner interested in starting to learn about the religion?

Am I supposed to celebrate the spending of untold billions on an unnecessary weapon of death while my Bridges and roads crumble, my health care system sucks and absolutely nothing is being done about, or to prepare for, climate change?? I'm not impressed

We're not talking decades so I don't think he was being unreasonable. Most people would expect a product that has been kept in a box in climate controlled conditions to, you know, not fall apart after a couple years. Get off your high horse.

Was rv'ing in utah and Google maps tried to take me through some field via a dirt road in the middle of the night.

Shoes were never engineered to be collectables. After a couple years the glue fails and your "investment" is worthless. I had a friend who was really into this and he had a huge collection. Needless to say he was pretty pissed when he opened the boxes and found his shoes falling apart.

I have two. The main reason I love them is I can leave them on all the time using very little power. Our would be surprised how much u can supercharge your home network by having always-on Linux boxes on it.

One runs nextcloud and serves as a nas. I use freeddns to give my nextcloud instance a legit URL for free. I use letsencrypt to host my cloud over https, again for free. The other runs emulationstation, deluge (torrent) which only runs when the box is connected to a VPN running on a vps, and serves up my movies and shows via minidlna.

I've also got some cool chron jobs that backup important stuff ((encrypted of course) to Google cloud and do some other things. I also serve up a keepass password database via webdav and do some neat stuff regarding keeping my keyfile separate fr my internet facing box but I won't get into exactly how that works.

I hesitate to spend time refuting you because it's pretty clear you don't have a great grasp of the pros and construction of cryptography-systems, but here goes...

>Elections should be independently administered

The key word is "should." Your statement here shows that you either didn't read the paper at all or did and failed to grasp the most basic premise of the entire proposal; using the system elections are not administered by any party. Questions are posed and the system administers the vote collection and tabulating without human assistance or intervention.

>Wishful thinking

Not at all. The tamper resistance is mathematically proven. Unless an adversary controlled 51% of the network hashing power, it's impossible to change history. Of course the voter's client could be compromised but there are measures to get around such issues.

>Irrelevant.

I was responding to your original question of what does this do that paper can't. Now it seems you've moved the goal posts in order to argue with a strawman.

Look, I'm not a "crypto can solve everything" kinda guy, but it seems to me that if there's one area where blockchain tech shines it's in reliably collecting and retaining distributed information in an adversarial environment. That's exactly what voting is so I actually see this proposal as one of the few uses of crypto that's only argument for existence isnt "because distributed."

Lots of ways. The votes are tabulated by a computer as they come in so results are instant. The totals cannot be changed or otherwise tampered with. There are no conflicts of interest in administering the election like what happen in Georgia with one candidate also being the secretary of state.

So you don't think this system provides any unique capabilities? I'm not aware of any other way to do some of the things proposed in the paper.

I'm surprised there isn't a discussion of the Goodenough lithium glass battery [0]. The fact that I haven't read about replication or a failure to replicate is really weird to me given how world-changing such a technology would be if it were proven to be viable.

0: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/26/the-solid-state-lithium...

It seems pretty solid but I'm skeptical that you could ever get regular ppl to be able to use and understand a crypto-system like this.

Lots of regular users have issues with limited space with which to download new apps. Of installing a new app means having to get rid of one I use, then your all just doesn't get installed. Stop building apps that could work as websites. It's not 2012 anymore.

>how American history shook out along racial lines.

Your comment is contradictory. On the one hand you say that crime, who is undesirable, and culture ate incidental and have nothing to do with race and then in this sentence you acknowledge that American history was largely determined by race, although you use very passive language as though that "shaking out" was some benign, incidental process instead of the cruel and brutal system it was.

I suspect many people will happily give up such a convenience if it means they won't have their cars stolen so easily.

And apparently what we had 10 years ago was better as people couldn't steal your car without touching it.

I disagree. A physical switch on the key itself which opened a circuit to the decryption key would mean the key would need to physically be in the possession of the driver.

I find it curious that there isn't any analysis suspecting the BTC crash to the breaking of the USDT peg. It started a couple weeks ago and now USDT is routinely trading at a discount relative to $1.

There were a ton of articles in 2017 speculating that the bubble was being directly inflated by USDT printing and when the peg broke BTC would crash[0]. Now that those things have happened - silence.

[0]: http://fortune.com/2017/12/05/bitcoin-btc-price-usd-tether-l...