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by YeBanKo 5y ago
I think it is a recent change if you are in California. I used to have subscriptions to Economist and NYTimes. Both we very hard to manage and cancel.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
It is a personal story, is there any evidence that this is a rule? Like, maybe a research that compares costs and/or procedures rendered to terminally ill patients, doctors vs non-doctors. I also heard, that doctors themselves are horr
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
IMO, it’s more about education, rather than politics.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> should have some protection where the teacher is not harassed. It is called tenure. And it is available to all departments, as true research is by definition “edgy”. However, somehow tenure system nowadays encourages groupthink. The sh
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Midway while reading this it hit me: he is one of the co-authors from this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-... When I first read about their research I was actually w
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Banks still use text messages for two factor, not even an authentication app. And it’s been proven multiple times that stealing numbers is way easier than it should be. I don’t expect banks to migrate to WebAuthn any time soon.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
It does it for banks, that support it. Many don’t. I want to say that majority in the IS don’t.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Oh yeah, I remember this. I think LinkedIn did the same. They desperately wanted to find your connections. It was the times when Facebook used plain HTTP and everyone in coffee shop next to you could read your messages.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Didn’t Klarna have problems with fraud, because their security assumptions did not scale well outside of Sweden?
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
When will we stop seeing this vague click-baity titles? "new studies suggest" - not conclusive. "Protection increases in the weeks following a third dose, but it’s unclear how long the effect will last" "by more tha
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Once I learned that Mozilla was using Mullvad servers, my trust to Mullvad increased. Though, besides credibility I am not sure what other benefit Mozilla brings to the table by reselling it? Since they both use WireGuard protocol, client i
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Ask HN: Are you terrified of Plaid’s account verification approach?
56 points by YeBanKo 5y ago|24 comments
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> 'to either (a) buy Epic shares from Tencent to get more control over Epic', or '(b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic,'" the complaint said. Unless it is accompanied by some nefarious actions to force th
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Why limit it only to under-18s?
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
What is so half assed about passports as national ID system?
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> Apple however told Motherboard in an email that that version analyzed by users on GitHub is a generic version, and not the one final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection. Apple said that it also made the algorithm
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Passport and SSN are national ids. They are issued by the Federal government, so it is nation wide database. On top of that, states have their own ID systems. Typically there are 2 options: just a state ID or driver’s license, that serves a
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
We already have a national id system. It’s called a passport, a birth certificate, a DMV id or driver’s license, a social security number. Those are all national id systems.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
The linked article reads like a pure idolization. It’s like Bible, except written not more than a thousand years ago but now, and by fishermen, but by sw engineers, the message is the same though.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
https://archive.is/DmQwX
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> many of them have believed the platform’s timeline for development and implementation of it has been “too aggressive,” Publishers can't get used to the idea, that they don't own the conversion funnel anymore, without knobs an
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
> things like simple customer service become either insanely expensive or outright impossible This is true. It is hard to design a CS backend that user user friendly and privacy cognizant at the same time. However, the other issue is sti
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
It depends on the level of incompetence or negligence. There is a difference between premeditated murder and negligent homicide. But there must be a framework, that determines the punishment based on the impact and level of negligence. >
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Fully agree with everything, except the last paragraph. > It means using a free operating system that lets you install whatever software you want and remove any software you don’t. I don’t understand, how free can be scalable. I am ok to
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
I use facebook as an address book. When i need to get touch with someone I haven’t been talking recently, I open fb messenger and reach out. Then we can move it to a better form of communication. But it works. I don’t think I feed much info
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Because it does not give a shit about your privacy, equality, inclusion, misinformation.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
“Once the Picture Collection is relocated, its space in Room 100 will house administrators who were hired for educational outreach.” - inflation of administrative apparatus is a scourge of modern society. It is partially responsible for gro
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
If you are talking about cryptographic hashes, then yes. But perceptual hashes are design to be similar if the images are similar. I still have to read the tech paper, but most likely it uses some sort of perceptual hashing or AI recognitio
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Ironically, this happened with Apple recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878333 misapplication of face recognition.
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by YeBanKo 5y ago
Until this I was typically defaulting to Apple products for privacy reasons. This seems like a major issue to me. This is an ideal spy tool, disguised as an privacy-preserving feature. Any government of a country with a large enough market

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