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Sorry, it's probably a bad culture fit. I'll leave.

Oh, I don't really think so, no, but it is conceivable. And I'd actually rather have people communicate what they believe to be true rather than what they think they can get away with.

When BLM is mentioned, I often see people criticize their methods, the underlying ideology of some members and their claims to truth. I have never seen anyone not care about black people being killed.

There is, of course, a possibility that I'm living in an opaque filter bubble and that the racist hordes are just outside. If I am, please pop that bubble and show me the truth.

What if it's true?

Thank you for actually replying instead of downvoting...and I'll admit, the scare quotes may have been a bit too much!

That said, the open letter plainly states "WhatsApp effectively protects people against mass surveillance."

How do they know? From this, and the entire tone of the letter, it looks to me like they're still implicitly trusting that WhatsApp does what it claims to do. I see absolutely no reason to do so, and am utterly baffled that top security experts do.

This entire conflict just seems completely absurd to me - why on earth are the 72 "experts" who signed the open letter so quick to trust WhatsApp without access to the source code?

It can even be solved without any extra UI elements - just have clicking the drag & drop element act as a regular file input.

Anecdotal experience with twitter's timeline suggests it's viewing time - and that they haven't considered that people are just spending more time finding the tweets they're looking for...

This isn't surprising at all. IQ is highly correlated with genetics (especially for older teens and adults), and the correlation between IQ and income is similarly strong.

There are also no places (at least not to my knowledge) where social status is completely decoupled from intelligence.

If intelligence matters at all to making money, the wealth + intelligence combo probably beats wealth on its own.

Unless, of course, intelligence is "bad" for the wealthy and "good" for the poor, but I doubt that's the case...

You don't really need socialism for proper health care. Almost all of the countries you're referring to are solidly capitalist economies.

Social democracy is not socialism.

Could you point me towards any examples of "good" socialism?

I played around with this, but had some trouble removing the audio stream from the MOV file using ffmpeg. There's a third data stream in the file, and ffmpeg doesn't know how to handle it, so it either gets removed or replaced with dummy data. The javascript framework seems to need this third stream to work, which is pretty annoying...

I'd love to do something with this, but without a simple (and preferably scriptable) way to remove the audio I probably won't...