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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did

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    ourari
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    Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in ~comp, or even ~tech. Is it possible to add other tildes as tags as a way of cross-posting?

    Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in ~comp, or even ~tech. Is it possible to add other tildes as tags as a way of cross-posting?

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      cfabbro
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      Right now crossposting is rather pointless since the site is so small and most users are subscribed to every group. However in the future once the userbase and groups diversify more, one of the...

      Right now crossposting is rather pointless since the site is so small and most users are subscribed to every group. However in the future once the userbase and groups diversify more, one of the talked about ideas was to allow true crossposting, where instead of just duplicating a topic to other relevant groups, it would actually be mirrored across them with a shared comments section. How that will work in practice, who knows... but it's a neat idea worth exploring eventually, IMO.

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      1. ourari
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        A shared comment section is really interesting! Worlds colliding, popping the bubble and all that. On Reddit it's sometimes fun and sometimes disheartening to see radically different takes on...

        A shared comment section is really interesting! Worlds colliding, popping the bubble and all that. On Reddit it's sometimes fun and sometimes disheartening to see radically different takes on certain news stories. Example: When it became clear that Microsoft was turning Windows 10 into something less privacy-friendly than previous Windows versions, the r/privacy and r/technology communities cried foul, while r/windows, r/windows10 and r/microsoft shifted into a defensive mode, downvoting negative comments and most submission about the issue.

        It would have been better if those camps had been forced to interact with each other without being able to downvote each other. r/privacy would have had to ask themselves why some people didn't think this was a big problem and Team Windows would have had to ask themselves what this shift meant for people's privacy and security.

        With this in mind, it sounds like this idea has legs :)

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