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Older people are always a good target for any scams. With age their mental acuity drops and they also have diminishing importance in society as sad as that sounds. They are not just easier but also safer targets for the scammers. Authoritie
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The people who are genuinely concerned about shoulder surfing probably slapped on a privacy filter anyway. They're no different from a screen protector. What the S26 Ultra can do is cool and super useful for the few people who need it,
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> What changed here is less the existence of the technique and more the instrumentation and persistence. The instrumentation from 13 years ago is perfectly capable of pulling this off technically. I won't go into the proof that &quo
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> Trevor Milton’s conviction for defrauding investors in truck company Nikola was wiped away Best justice money can buy. > He’s now raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying With his history building the "truck
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People should use their smarts and common sense to qualify statements. LLMs need a page of context, explanation and disclaimers so they maybe understand the meaning and intention. > calling a safe uncrackable because nobody showed up wit
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> But as software engineers, we know better. As users we should also know better. All too often software is used to remove functionality from your things, or add unwanted ones. Even just adding ads. It's used as bait and switch and
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In the very strict interpretation probably nothing is unhackable, just not hacked yet. But one should also be pragmatic about what "unhackable" means in context. Without the power of hindsight, a consumer device that stayed unhack
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That's not what I meant. If you eat extra "crap" (salt, sugar, fat, palm oil, coloring, additives, etc.) in one food you can't always balance it out with another food. It's not all like counting calories, only care
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> I get micronutrients from other sources Looks like agree that it's not great but you compensate elsewhere. If you chose the "hard way" of limiting your menu to vegan why not pick the options with less compromises? Even p
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No need to go further than dead center EU to see chargers where the cost has a time component, and an energy component, and even a (small) one time fee. Sometimes the charger is inside a paid parking, there that comes on top. These aren&#x2
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To put that in context, Wikipedia says about Carnegie: > he gave away around $350 million (equivalent to $6.9 billion in 2025 dollars), almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities Those famously "ric
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This truly is the best democracy money can buy. As long as money and/or favors change hands in exchange for getting favorable laws passed, it's just legalized bribery and buying off your own "democracy". And it snowballs
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I had the misfortune to make some medical professionals watch me go through this :).
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I’m putting the current medical definition aside, we’ve been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and who knows what the next centuries redefine. For the longest time in human history “clinical death” was almost always followed by perm
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Genetics probably play a big role in the necessary adaptations beyond a certain point.
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Interesting point. But I don’t think you must experience something to be afraid of it, even as a population. Nobody experienced the terror of a world ending nuclear war, large asteroid strike, or solar flare (alien invasion if you want to g
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Same thing that keeps me from letting my agent do the online talking for me. That is to say… nothing.
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I'm not telling you what can or cannot be done. I'm telling you that the example you chose to counter GP's "wild exaggeration" statement, was in itself an exaggeration. It doesn't make the point you think it
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Public discourse is a speed bump not an immovable barrier. The proof is in the state of things advancing in the same direction for the past few decades at least. Speed bumps are still valuable but not if you want to block the road. So publi
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I did this to FreeNow (the Uber competitor). No cat though. When they changed their “late fee” that I pay to the driver they if I’m late but nobody pays me if they’re late, and made it implicitly accepted, I emailed them my conditions and s
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Yeah, “implicit agreement” isn’t a real agreement.
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Every contract has that, either party can exit the contract under normal conditions. You can cancel your Netflix subscription with a short notice period. They can do the same. They use the notice period as grace period for you to accept the
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The workaround is that each change is a new contract. If you don’t accept the changes the existing contract ends and that’s it. But the power is mostly with the provider, you need it more than it needs you, so you will want the new contract
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But the “initial” T&C allows them to cancel your contract unless there’s a minimum contractual period. They can take that opportunity to force you into a deal change. The change is that now just using the service is considered consent.
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AMD has to fight both Intel and Nvidia in the market. It chose to take on Intel and clearly it was a wise decision. You can’t win if you fight every battle at once against much stronger opponents. And don’t get me started on the valuation o
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If we’re being pragmatic, it solves enough problems that you could still call it an undisputed win for stability.
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> Awesome. Now you have a system where every blog entry, every Facebook post needs a lawyer consultation. The alternative is that "just to be safe" you'll mark your entire site as needing age (identity, stool sample, whate
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This article proactively saves you the time and effort to reduce. It is really just that. Man realizes his object fits on shelf.
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I keep rereading your comment and every time I understand that you think the problem isn’t that the girls were underage but that “Western democracies” needlessly criminalize this when they could be more like Russia or Muslim nations where y
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They repeatedly compare to Intel and AMD cores though, which are x86. If they’re worth a mention, then so are some of the other ARM consumer desktop chips on the market regardless of who designed them. Apple was one of the closest ARM chips

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