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by concinds 4y ago
That includes fast, no-reboot, and invisible-to-the-user security patches, not improvements in features like Lockdown Mode.
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by concinds 4y ago
The Knights Templar were a religious organisation, but also a quasi-banking institution in Europe; they took and protected deposits of gold, and issued 'cheques' allowing, for example, travellers to deposit gold in London and spen
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by concinds 4y ago
> Google apps are going to be strongly accelerating Blink/Chrome hegemony Because they give the user choice? Again, this isn't just a problem with the "default browser settings pane". The first time an iOS user clicks
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by concinds 4y ago
This misses the problem. Countless, countless, countless iOS devs, even extremely high-profile ones like Marco Arment, can talk all day long about problems they've had with App Review and the capriciousness of the App Store. Tons of hi
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by concinds 4y ago
That's good. Choosing a default iOS browser is completely undiscoverable to average users, and unlike on Mac, can't be done within the browser itself. Try installing Chrome/Brave/Edge on iOS. They'll suggest setting
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by concinds 4y ago
The "Chrome's only dominant because Google's advertising it on their web properties and bundling it with Java's installer!" narrative is BS. Apple is heavily advertising Safari on sites like reddit since a few mon
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by concinds 4y ago
German politicians were discussing banning Telegram. With centralized monopoly App Stores, they easily can. With sideloading, they can't under current frameworks; and they're unlikely to mandate remote-uninstalls of "illegal
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by concinds 4y ago
1) Completely false for uBlock Origin; zero relationship 2) It's fully open-source so the above is verifiable 3) AdGuard and every single other (proprietary) adblocker for Mac and iOS includes content blockers, but also includes web ex
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by concinds 4y ago
> If Signal is forced to interoperate with e.g. WhatsApp, the end-to-end encryption of one or both will have to be compromised Wrong https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-...
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by concinds 4y ago
If you post nonsense replies you are just disincentivizing anyone thoughtful from posting here. To reply (though you were perfectly capable of this thought yourself): Obviously; but it gives us a frame to understand geopolitical behavior by
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by concinds 4y ago
Feel free to read Stratfor's site (I named an extension that allows full free access) or George Friedman's "The Next 100 Years" book. Stratfor employs many ex-US-intelligence-agency people who use the same geopolitical a
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by concinds 4y ago
Trade deficits are bad for an economy whose entire strength relies on exports. edit: Germany's exports are 48% of GDP for context. And this trade deficit reflects increased import costs, which will hurt businesses since Germany is poor
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by concinds 4y ago
This is deeply ideological, and wrong. You're using arguments levied at Trump years ago that applied to the US, a mostly services-based economy, and applying them to Germany. Except Germany is a manufacturing- and export-based economy.
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by concinds 4y ago
Note: that Jim Rickards testimony link is the only good one I've found. He was given little time in committee, and had to essentially rush through his points (reducing entire paragraphs or sometimes entire pages to a sentence); so if y
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by concinds 4y ago
This is plausible. Apple is blocking methods used by more aggressive/invasive ad networks (at the App Store policy level, the iOS level like with IDFA, and the Safari level with ITP), which makes using Apple's ad network more adva
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by concinds 4y ago
Yes; attachment-disorder screening for children is only a small (but essential) part of a functional system, and can't itself fix more deeply-rooted systemic dysfunctions.
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by concinds 4y ago
This is a complete misunderstanding of the problem. I invite you to read Taleb (I'm not trying to sound like a fanboy; but his ideas are literally the utterly common-sense conclusions you'll reach if you study complexity science a
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by concinds 4y ago
No you don't; but it would be a worthwhile investment due to the incredibly positive repercussions. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory#Crime See also a link between insecure attachment and a
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by concinds 4y ago
Be extremely careful believing in the "it's mostly genetics, nurture is a minor factor" stuff. Most of these studies have surprisingly bad (or at least naive) methodologies, of the "we don't know what we don't
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by concinds 4y ago
While more self-awareness and self-knowledge is always better, I think the main test for this should be "Ainsworth's Strange Situation". It's a test of your child's attachment style is; which is a good reflection of
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by concinds 4y ago
Sure, but disinvestments are not skin in the game. Terms like that should not be used colloquially where they don't apply. He has personal reasons to now oppose China, given the current anti-China sentiment and the fact that his progre
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by concinds 4y ago
What happened to the "stochastic terrorism" buzzword? Now it's good? BTW, I've seen several previous stories of FBI agents visiting homes for non-criminal tweets (similarly inflammatory to this but again with no actionab
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by concinds 4y ago
Re: France: They are military, and they've been patrolling the streets for years (10k soldiers). The stated aim is to help people feel safer from terrorism, and dissuade attackers.
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by concinds 4y ago
(First, I did not downvote) https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1531768589098921985 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1539219754338160641 I think the 2 tweets above make a good case
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by concinds 4y ago
> I would consider the opinion of people with skin in the game, and would value it over that of random others on the internet Soros has zero skin in the game. He expects Xi to no longer be in power by the end of the year; and will suffer
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by concinds 4y ago
George Soros isn't a foreign policy expert. Neither is he a philosopher: he egregiously misunderstood Popper's open society concept. Having rich people controlling government, corporate action, media, and NGOs (currently the cas
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by concinds 4y ago
Bullshit. That quote came from Baum in a 1994 interview of Ehrlichman. Baum was writing a book about the war on drugs, so why did the quote only come out in 2016? Why not put it in the book? > "because it did not fit the narrative s
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by concinds 4y ago
> Searching "lego stop motion" I get a non-checkmark channel in the 4th result: https://i.imgur.com/Dvds7ib.png I believe he was referring to politics-linked searched on YouTube. > Are you talking about all
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by concinds 4y ago
I tried so hard to find a YouTube video I found in 2020 (here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amUMV6xDqbo ) using YouTube search and Google search and couldn't. Using Bing, I find that video in minutes. Whether
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by concinds 4y ago
> Apple has absolutely no way to police content outside of the App Store Wrong and naive. They have no direct way. Plenty of indirect ways. > How did Apple ruin the Tumblr site? Taleb's minority rule. Also read tumblr insiders&#x

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