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by dheera 8mo ago
> We need to know if the email being sent by an agent is supposed to be sent and if an agent is actually supposed to be making that transaction on my behalf. etc At the same time, let's not let the perfect be the enemy of good. If y
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by dheera 8mo ago
Ehhh most peoples' bank accounts don't get compromised by someone getting a hold of their phone long enough to hack their bootloader. Not to mention Android deletes all your apps and cache if you go from locked to unlocked, and yo
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by dheera 8mo ago
I won't miss the days I had to take a full day of meetings from my car in the Amazon parking lot because there weren't enough meeting rooms onsite, but the badge swipes at the main entrance in-between meetings were needed to not b
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by dheera 8mo ago
Because a person doesn't need to carry 3 phones, but they could be 2 security cameras and 1 phone instead?
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I just want Google to remove that SafetyNet crap. Banks don't need to know if I unlocked my bootloader. I can't even use the Waymo app either.
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by dheera 8mo ago
> So you can still inject <h1> or <br><br><br>... etc into your username Are we taking out all the fun of the web? I absolutely loved the <marquee> names people had in the early days of Facebook, it was all
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by dheera 8mo ago
Bloatware existed as soon as JavaScript became good enough to write apps in it. Text boxes are now drawn with nested DIV hells created by polyfills and layers of React crepe cake and not a simple drawRect call to draw the text box
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by dheera 8mo ago
I highly encourage you to go visit farms sooner rather than later, especially during the rainy seasons and winter when farmers are really at work preparing for the next season. The kind of conditions robots need to deal with in that environ
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by dheera 8mo ago
My education didn't touch upon it but I've been grilled on it multiple times in interviews. I learned about them after the first time I got grilled and rejected. Sucks to be the first company that grilled me about it, thanks for t
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by dheera 8mo ago
2FA and Google SafetyNet are two completely different things. Your banking app can implement 2FA without SafetyNet.
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by dheera 8mo ago
I haven't had issues with the mobile apps of 3 of the most major US brokerages. They run fine on rooted phone. They do everything I'd want a bank to do anyway. Ditch your bank if they have issues. If their retention department ask
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by dheera 8mo ago
These kind of breaches are why I'm against KYC's current implementation. If the government wants to know who I am, that's fine, I'm not here to fight law. I however don't think it should be necessary to tell banks a
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by dheera 8mo ago
That's all income, call it income. Also make taking out a loan against an uncashedout gain a taxable event.
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by dheera 8mo ago
> Not everything is about money. It is when researchers can't make enough money to eat and live, which is an actual reality in the US right now. Researchers at top institutions often make less than Uber drivers. There are other coun
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by dheera 8mo ago
> The United States has a federal system That doesn't prevent there being a single point of collection and distribution.
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Humans also have limited context. For LLMs it's mostly a question of pipeline engineering to pack the context and system prompt with the most relevant information, and allow tool use to properly understand the rest of the codebase. If
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by dheera 8mo ago
Yeah it depends on what the system is. Lots of systems can tolerate a lot more downtime than the armchair VPs want them to have. If people don't access to Instagram for 6 hours, the world won't end. Gmail or AWS S3 is a different
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by dheera 8mo ago
Time translation symmetry implies energy conservation, but time translation symmetry is only an empirical observation on a local scale and has not been shown to be true on a global universe scale.
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by dheera 8mo ago
Protons (and mass and energy) could also potentially be created. If this happens, the heat death could be avoided. Conservation of mass and energy is an empirical observation, there is no theoretical basis for it. We just don't know an
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by dheera 8mo ago
FB knows your eBay, for that matter. When I search for something on eBay I get ads on FB for it. Even if they are not merged, corporations can share your data behind the scenes and you are forced to unilaterally, without negotiation, accept
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by dheera 8mo ago
Most of what you describe were the late 1990s/early 2000s, not the days of NCSA Mosaic. Also > distracting animated banner ads These were characteristic of the late 90s, but were way easier to block back then. Just put "0.0.0
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by dheera 8mo ago
The problem with today's society is you walk into a hospital bleeding and they make you sign an ultimatum. Legally this should be treated as signing under duress and invalidated. If someone's life or well-being depends on it, and
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by dheera 8mo ago
> Would we still get web browsers? Yes, just that they would not run millions of lines of JavaScript for some social media tracking algorithm, newsletter signup, GDPR popup, newsletter popup, ad popup, etc. and you'd probably just b
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by dheera 8mo ago
If I see a cookie banner I often bounce. You'd have much better retention rates if you don't cover up the content the viewer is trying to view. How would you like it if I shoved a banner in your face the moment you walked into a s
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by dheera 8mo ago
> We value your privacy > We use cookies and other technologies to store and access personal data on your device Evidently you don't value privacy.
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by dheera 8mo ago
Not everyone has their pick of employers, especially during mass layoffs. I arguably joined the most ethical of the offers I actually got at the time. If you're against me joining an employer, maybe send me an alternative offer and the
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by dheera 8mo ago
What about bloc vs block
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> we are fucked if there's many people that fit your description The reality is 95% of people, especially outside the HN community, fit that description, that's why I wrote it. The number of people in the greater world who woul
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by dheera 8mo ago
> Wealth Working at Amazon isn't wealth. Wealth is not having to work in order to live. > Learn to live on lentils I'd rather not be vitamin deficient, even if it means being subservient to the king. Guarantee me health, f
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by dheera 8mo ago
Huh? Another dose of reality: I need to pay rent, pay medical bills, eat, and survive. As long as I'm dependent on an income to do that, I do whatever the employer wants as long as it's legal. When I'm financially free, I&#x2

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