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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The friends being blocked are people who want to make an app for you but don't want to pay a developer tax to Apple. The dodgy salespeople are the ones selling over-priced apps that ask for unnecessary permissions.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I wonder if there are copyright implications here. Do you own the copyright to the image that your phone takes of your face? What about the data that is created when you initially register your biometric? Also, when the unlock process is
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> How exactly does that work with end-to-end encryption? One way would be for Apple to offer a web API endpoint for companies that have signed an agreement with them (covering rate limits, server identification certificates, liability, e
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Even if the door manufacturer uses a heuristic which frequently prevents your friends from visiting, but does allow dodgy salespeople to try to squeeze money out of you?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If sites actually obeyed the GDPR (i.e. if national governments actually devoted enough resources to enforcing it) then all those banners would have a "Reject" button that is just as clickable as the "Accept" one. Hopefu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The other question is, will you be able to follow a Twitter user from Facebook, and send them a DM? I think the answer is "No", because that counts as social media interoperability rather than messenger interoperability, but I don
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> E-mail was an absolute disaster because there was no barrier to entry for someone who just wants to send unsolicited garbage to everyone. Email spam is possible because of the expectation that you can contact someone you've had no
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> How does Apple have a monopoly? They have monopoly power and control over app developers' access to iPhone users. If supermarkets offered a loyalty card program that made it physically impossible for you to shop at another super
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
At first I thought you had missed a word or two ("don't install anything unapproved by Apple"?), but then I decided this was deliberate as you're making a reference to Adam and Eve.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Or, looking at it another way, it will not cause Apple's loyal customers to switch to a competitor, but it might attract potential new customers.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> You already have that choice today: I can buy into the walled-garden, or go to Android and side-load to my heart's content. So if Google decided to force this policy onto Android phones, you would support the EU introducing this l
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's a good question, but I assume that anti-trust regulators will decide what is "reasonable" partly based on the number of users of your messaging app. Obviously there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem there, but
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I absolutely agree with you, but here's a hypothesis worth considering: What if we're building a society that is so complicated that it just isn't feasible for individuals to make informed decisions about important matters a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> They forgot the noscript/basic (x)html interoperability for the web. I agree that interoperability on the web should be protected at least as much as on mobile, since the web as a platform has the potential to be more open than th
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To give an example from a game more complicated than tic-tac-toe, it is known that the player who goes first in Connect 4 can always win with perfect play if (and only if) they play in the middle column on their first turn. The chess analog
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Prima facie the GCHQ Ghost Protocol only breaks the field model by dint of being invisible to the participants; one solution to this is obvious: the ghost should be made into a real and obvious full participant. Each and every chat – h
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I thought this was going to be about finding an off-by-one error and there were actually 100 red balloons, but that's probably a different system.
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> people have preferences with their views and overcoming them takes time. Isn't that equally true of nuclear energy? In fact more so, as renewables account for a growing share of global electricity production, while the share from
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That book was a helpful contribution to the debate when it was published in 2008, but by 2017 people were already pointing out[0] its obsolete assumptions about renewables, and there is now an open source collaborative effort to produce a m
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's true that "dysprosium" is not as familiar an element as "nickel". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosium_titanate
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a second grid worth of gas plants which we turn on once every two weeks What if it just requires keeping the existing plants around, and turning them on for 6 hours every 8 weeks, for example? Yes, that's not 100% renewable, but i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a senile man who can barely talk straight "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very g
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> sliding towards having much less available energy to fund their lifestyles. How does that look different from " needing much less energy to fund their lifestyles" (due to efficiency gains and out-sourcing)? The UK economy ha
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Well said, but it's interesting that you contrast "goods like food" with "shelter", suggesting that only the latter "is a necessity". That doesn't invalidate your point, but I think it requires a more
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> No biometrics or real names are required. Just a quick video that proves your humanity. Sounds good, but what's to stop someone building a face-print from the video, or deep-faking 100 different personas for themselves? I guess y
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The UK government last month approved his extradition to the US, prompting an appeal. Assange still has maybe a couple of levels of appeals left, but it's not clear he can delay the process until after the next presidential term s
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Mexican president's plea to Biden over Julian Assange as he renews asylum offer(sbs.com.au)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Okay, now do the Voynich Manuscript.
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(2020) I look forward to these prompts being used to test GPT-4 when it is released (next month?). Obviously there's the risk that it is trained on a dataset that includes the correct answers, but it shouldn't be too hard to come
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
In fact, if it has the ability Water Absorb , it heals 1⁄4 of its maximum HP when hit by a Water-type attack.

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