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by crusty 4y ago
In THIS case the article mentions she reports feeling lucky she discovered it before leaving the park. But that's pure coincidence, and I otherwise fully agree with your sentiment.
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by crusty 4y ago
Edit: the 'gold medal' emoji for stripped from "getting a * from the president"
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by crusty 4y ago
>Let's consider the alternative of a world where AirTags didn't exist: The stalker probably would have followed her around for 2 hours, and she likely wouldn't have found out until a physical confrontation. With gymnastics
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by crusty 4y ago
Does TrackerDetect for Android operate proactively or do you have to\can you manually scan? I've tried AirGuard available on F-Droid. I'm a bit surprised at how this situation hasn't been made into the demonstration example o
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by crusty 4y ago
Chromebooks have a similar 'unlock with phone' feature but add that the phone must be unlocked - basically utilizing the biometrics of the phone to unlock the computer regardless of biometric hardware presence. It also uses a pret
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by crusty 4y ago
>EU Voice provides EU institutions, bodies and agencies with privacy-friendly microblogging accounts that they typically use for the purposes of press and public relations activities. I wonder if this usage specification is in anticipati
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by crusty 5y ago
The NYTimes mobile app has a section at the very bottom of the scroll with 5(+1) games. The +1 is for the crossword puzzle, which is included in mini form whole the full chonker requires its own subscription. I image they are going to give
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by crusty 5y ago
So how do you really feel about monetizing recreational lifestyle activities on social media? A couple things. OP is specifically referring to how people make money while sailing (non-commercially) indefinitely, not hobbyists who presumably
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by crusty 5y ago
"When did we decide that this should have a low barrier to entry..." That's not the argument I took away from that. Poster includes a summation, "it's complex" and is noting that simply adding regulation that o
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by crusty 5y ago
"There's a big difference between making it up and having a hunch from reading a bit" - this is the laughable part, because they state a number in the article, so clearly a BIT of reading was the most that was done. Ha. If yo
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by crusty 5y ago
If YOU were an Amazon executive in a role that had influence over the program and wanted to keep our advance your position. The comment author here is voicing the inner monologue of one of these people, not one of the other 99.999+% of peop
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by crusty 5y ago
I think your description of modern buildings faking classical ones actually meshes with the author's. If the fake shutters were sized correctly such that we could picture them covering the windows when closed, they would be more palata
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by crusty 5y ago
This just doesn't fit the evidence. I've wanted Freakonomics or similar to cover this for a decade but haven't really seen/heard seen anything... If getting into top (TOP!) universities correlated with education/apt
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by crusty 5y ago
> "Unfortunately, I don't think the paper provides any information on how training in different academic subjects correlates with vaccine hesitancy—a PhD can be in molecular biology just as much as it can be in comparative lin
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by crusty 5y ago
User complains that all of a sudden they can only get Netflix originals from home. Netflix suggests they call their ISP and ask why their IP is associated with proxy/vpn activity. The assumption of the article seems to be that Netflix
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by crusty 5y ago
So what is your point then? Is it that Apple's punch in the gut here, while bad/wrong, is beyond criticism or outage because if you use Google, you'll get a slap to the face? Or is it that Apple actually isn't doing any
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by crusty 5y ago
Oh, I like this USPS analogy but I'll clean it up. Google photos and chat are like a USPS that only stores and transmits post cards. It's understood by the creator/sender that anyone who has access to them can read them. Appl
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by crusty 5y ago
I was just going to mention customer service reps, who traditionally would have worked out of call centers and been subject to restrictions to make it more difficult for them to steal customer data (with the side 'benefit' of micr
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by crusty 5y ago
Question... How is this a $2M startup? They raised $2M but wouldn't that have been on a higher valuation. I feel like the norm is to report the "$N startup" with the valuation, not the finding round haul. And that's stil
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by crusty 5y ago
Or maybe ^that^ with a business model requiring it to be operated as a heartless, profiteering vulture for success. That's usually where my mind goes when I read "Uber" - not as succinct as Evilcorp but whatever.
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by crusty 5y ago
My experience with this differential leads me to believe the train stems largely from caution and expectations. A small child has zero degree of caution. An older person knows they don't know and worries that ignorance will somehow bre
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by crusty 5y ago
I kind of wish I wasn't contributing to the topic tangent/hijack, but whatever... Hawaii's interisland flights probably most closely resemble this air travel experience. Aside from Sunday & Friday fares that have a $30 pr
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by crusty 5y ago
> "I recall a certain person being hesitant to send US tax dollars there because of corruption concerns." I think you meant IIRC, but the C is the problem. That certain person had no problem with corruption in Ukraine, it was j
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by crusty 5y ago
Other comments point to the scheme using the asset purchased with stolen money as collateral for a loan that the bank is left with in a much depreciated state. That would make the ongoing extraction of profits is irrelevant. My alternate se
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by crusty 5y ago
I would love to see dollar values or ratios and the timing on this type of scheme. If they pay $80 million in "cash" for a steel plant and then turn around and ask a legitimate bank for a loan with the plant as collateral, how muc
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by crusty 5y ago
I wish there were more details on the kind of money they were able to pull out of this scheme. All of the dollar values in the article refer to the amounts stolen in Ukraine, moved through she'll companies, and used to purchase propert
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by crusty 5y ago
It seems like this scheme was unraveling before Trump came into office. If it hadn't been, Trump may have proved to be good for him, in driving renewed optimism for domestic steel production and simultaneously stripping regulatory bodi
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by crusty 6y ago
"That infrastructure will reach end-of-life all around the same time." ... Not including the shoddy construction that seems to reach end-of-life almost immediately. *I am not claiming that all Chinese construction is shoddy, but a
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by crusty 6y ago
And THIS is why the flu vaccine is still grown in eggs. It has a long history of working. For something as high-stakes as a vaccine or global financial exchange, the alternative needs so demonstrate not only superior efficacy but establish
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by crusty 6y ago
Wouldn't the spirit of librem here suggest the solution would just be to make and distribute an open VPN app on iOS and tell your librem one subscribers to install it and have an easy and secure method of downloading a file with your

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