I’m waiting for them to add the isEvenSteven() method. Then I can integrate this with my escrow smart contract.

This is wonderful. I’d love to see this integrated into Jira and my own personal project manager (OmniFocus). Even if I could import and export TaskPaper that would be super handy.

> I see nothing similar with the gaming platforms.

How can you say that? I can’t run home brew games on an Xbox due to intentional locking down of the device by Microsoft forcing me to buy games they bless to be on their platform.

But some how these companies get a pass but Apple gets constantly blasted for this practice?

For the record, you should be able to do these things. But that is somewhat of a naive view of the world.

The referenced articles seem to only focus on the US-China relationship. What about the impact it will have between the US and the rest of the world? Will other countries be less apt to purchase US goods from abroad?

I don’t think it is very fair the Chinese can ship very cheaply to the rest of the world but this seems like a heavy handed approach.

It used to go in the other direction. This treaty was beneficial for the US in the past.

Care to elaborate? I would love to see some real plans to change my mindset on where the U.S. is heading.

This is probably considered off, so message me

At some point the bureaucratocracy is going to get top heavy. Already the economy is showing signs of being anemic. Common strategy by bureaucrats for curing anemia is top-down investment, which means stealing from the poor (via inflation) to water the privileged. It's inevitable.

I looked into Tiddlywiki before but it seemed too involved to maintain easily and overkill for my use case. I have recently found https://www.notebooksapp.com/ and am in the process of converting all my desperate notes and documents into it using the internal linking to create my own kind of wiki.

Everything is plain text, has markdown support, apps on most platforms, ability to automate things for everyday use, and easier to use overall.

Also I just can’t stand the idea of “tiddlers”.

Although I kinda love the idea of desperate notes and documents, I think you probably meant "disparate."

What does that have to do with the fact that driving is an activity that carries the risk of death? Necessity is not part of the discussion.

Why do you think it isn’t? People do necessary things because they have to. People do desirable things because they want to. The risk of death can make a difference on whether you choose to do the desirable things, but you don’t have a choice about the necessary things.

How could they prove intent? Fudge the code twice then the third time wipe it and play dumb.

The court need only point to the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code.

I mean, I get LE and the justice system is given a lot of crap for being behind the times, but cmon now. This is slam dunk tier legal argumentation here.

I'm not even a lawyer and I'm pretty sure I could convince a judge on that point. If they issue a warrant for something, and you do something to what the warrant was issued for, you tampered with evidence. This is heavily frowned upon. Especially in the middle of a court room, right in front of a judge.

If you want to send a message via civil disobedience, all power to you.Just understand, you're still going to have to deal with the consequences.

I don't like it any more hand anyone else here, bit until you can sell a legislature on changing a bunch of this, in court is the absolute LAST place you want to make a stand on it. Judges are going to go with the least amount of reinterpretation to keep the system and Law Enforcement trucking.

Law is made by legislatures. It's just the way it is.

> the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code.

Are we now assuming PKI is fundamentally broken or that one were dumb enough to download an apk from a plain http site?

I'm not going to address the rest of the comment as I don't feel like it, but they'd have to know in the first place.

I certainly care. Is this open source, how can I help?

Glad to hear it! I'm undecided re open source, two reasons: I wouldn't mind trying to sell it and take a chance at the 'indie developer' dream, and also managing a community project i think is beyond me.