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Tinder Embraces Encryption (theverge.com)
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has managed to get Tinder to encrypt the photos sent between its servers and its app. The 69-year-old Senator wrote a letter to Tinder back in February requesting that the company encrypt photos. They apparently already implemented the feature, but "waited to write back to Wyden until it also adjust a separate security feature that makes all swipe data the same size," reports The Verge. "The size of the swipe data was used by security researchers to differentiate actions from one another. That change wasn't implemented until June 19th."
Actually encryption does exactly that every day, all day. It is sad, but alas no longer uncommon, to see such a pathetically ignorant post on Slashdot.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Apparently, birth rates shrink if two factors come together: 1) Child mortality rates sink so you can expect with high probability that your own children will grow up. 2) You don't have to rely solely on your own family members if you reach a high age.
Birth rates shrink everywhere, also in so called Third World countries. The only places that see high birthrates right now are country with very long civil wars going on, like Afghanistan or Congo, both which have civil wars which date back to the 1970ies.
If you want high birth rates back, it's easy: Destroy any pension schemes and cut all medical support to pregnant woman and young children.
"Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has managed to get Tinder to encrypt..."
No, he didn't. Tinder's letter said they started encrypting on Feb 6. Wyden's letter asking they encrypt was dated Feb 14.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
And why would we need to sustain a population? This is no value per se. And if we want less pensions, people have to work longer until retirement.
Birth rates shrink everywhere, also in so called Third World countries. The only places that see high birthrates right now are country with very long civil wars going on, like Afghanistan or Congo, both which have civil wars which date back to the 1970ies.
Not only those places, birth rates are also very much a cultural thing and countries like Nigeria still have a birth rate of 5.5 kids/woman even though the GDP/capita has been growing quite a bit because that must become the new normal. I also think you forgot a 3) Women have their own education, career and life rather than be child-bearing/raising housewives married away at 15. Obviously if you dedicate 50% of your economic/leisure potential to raising kids you can have your own soccer team. While in the western world most consider popping out a couple when they're 30. The funny part is that certain people go crazy over immigrants with like crazy high birth numbers while at the same same time wailing that the natives aren't producing enough children. Like, they want more children but not those children. Otherwise we could trivially fix this by simply giving more benefits to those who'll take on the "job" of having kids until supply meets demand.
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