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by donkeyd 5y ago
How I love Apple's new 'App privacy' cards. The app you recommended seems to have pretty decent privacy practices, there doesn't seem to be tracking outside of the app, nor tracking for advertising. This is rare in fitne
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I see you're looking at this mostly from a business value perspective and I guess in the end that's what it all comes down to, but I feel there is so much more value added than just "less drivers needed." The cost of I2V
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> All bitcoin transactions use the blockchain. Depends on how you define bitcoin transaction. The majority of BTC <> USD transactions (or any other currency) has no involvement of the blockchain at all. They happen purely within th
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I think the only reason right now, is that the people asking these questions are not the same people investing in and being vocal proponents of these protocols. If I look at my own circle, the people who are vocal proponents of crypto are a
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> People use cryptocurrency today to trade and to transfer value. Do they though? I recently did the math and people mostly seem to use crypto markets for what you described. Only about 10% of Bitcoin transactions actually have any block
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> If you believe Telegram's numbers I have a hard time believing anything from Telegram because of the owner. But that number does seem feasible. > People did leave WhatsApp I don't think people joining Telegram directly lea
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I don't think these changes at Apple will ruin your use case at all. From what I've read, will load images privately, which means it'll probably hide IP (as they've mentioned) and details about browser etc. It'll st
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Who said anything about volunteering? Did you just want to post some more negativity?
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Maybe the problem is that legally, you can't just bust open a door if someone says: "my phone was stolen and is now in this location". Because especially in buildings, the location isn't always accurate, for example. Als
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> in order to focus on cyber crimes That's the thing, I don't focus on cyber crimes, I focus on regular crime. There's always a digital aspect in crimes these days. I can't tell you what you can join in the US, howeve
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by donkeyd 5y ago
How about 5000? This then becomes a useless discussion of where, between 0 and infinity I will deem it a dark pattern or not. I don't know, but I do consider infinity with the purpose of keeping people engaged a 'dark pattern&#x27
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by donkeyd 5y ago
The $50 was an example, not a benchmark for when police does investigate. Like I said, there are more criminals than LEOs and this general hateful attitude towards LEOs doesn't really make people want to do that job. So if people want
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Man, this shit is depressing to read as someone who just joined LE and sees mostly people who really want to help victims.
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So I recently started working in LE as an IT specialist. The biggest issue is that there's more criminals than there are LEOs/detectives. So often you have to choose between working a physical crime or a digital one. If someone ge
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> Infinite scroll isn't a trick. It gives the user precisely what they indicated they want: more content. I actually added a source that says that infinite scroll can be considered a prevalent dark pattern. I think this will become
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> Infinite scroll is not on the list. I you want a discussion of semantics then... Wikipedia defines dark patterns as: "A dark pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things". Infin
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Alcoholics want booze, but many of them wake up every day thinking today they won't drink anything, but they still do. Infinite scroll is a dark pattern in the way it gives you something your addicted brain wants, and therefore you thi
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Thanks, this is exactly the point I was trying to make!
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I have the same feeling. Elon despises the SEC and he might have found a way to mess with them by playing with a mostly unregulated market. Edit: Also, his name was used a lot by crypto scammers on Twitter and nothing was ever done about th
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> replace bitcoin Replace Bitcoin as a speculative asset? Because I don't really see Bitcoin as anything else. Just to clarify why, according to Coinmarketcap, trade volume for june 1st was about $35B. The transaction volume on the
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I was doing the opposite of the previous commenter. There's of course a lot of options in the middle. The previous commenter just presented it like it's easy to just become your own boss. My point was that it isn't and yours
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by donkeyd 5y ago
Have the business fail after putting all of your money in it, lose house, lose self-respect, burn out, go back to working for 100k a year (or less because you have nothing to show for the last couple of years). Everyone always assumes that
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by donkeyd 5y ago
> don't forget automation which seems to be looming closer and closer as time goes on. Theoretically, this results in fewer jobs for the non FI-ed people to compete for This has been the consensus since the assembly line was invente
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by donkeyd 5y ago
In my opinion, the emergence of FIRE mostly has to do with influencers selling the idea of FIRE on social media. These people show themselves chilling with a laptop on some Thai beach and tell you that you can do the same thing if you just
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by donkeyd 5y ago
This is a thing, at least in the Netherlands. Especially if you order from smaller shops. I hardly ever do that, but it really does happen.
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> Obviously b/c you more or less do not return stuff in JP Not so obvious to me. Could you elaborate on what you mean here, sounds intriguing.
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You're right. That doesn't mean that some shops won't ask and expect an answer though. So even though you're legally not required to do so, you'll have to go through an argument about that with the shop, which is an
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by donkeyd 5y ago
I thought this was an interesting article to share, since the original news about this supposed deepfake got quite some attention internationally and reached front page here. Apparently, one doesn't need technology to fool politicians.
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No, Dutch MPs did not have a call with a deepfake (Dutch article)(volkskrant.nl)
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by donkeyd 5y ago
It definitely is. Either that, or it's incredibly short-sighted. That comparison ignores the actual value add of Facebook and the fact that people are using it. Most BTC trades happen off blockchain and are powered by the servers of th

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