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811.
by jfoster 5y ago
It's not clear to me that Apple are always willing to work with law enforcement, even when their customers are indisputably criminal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
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by jfoster 5y ago
Every device has its own characteristics. AirTag: Very economical (no monthly fee), 1 year battery life, no line-of-sight required, easily purchased without attracting attention or providing an address, unguaranteed data freshness, size of
813.
by jfoster 5y ago
Those measures don't sound like they'll be very effective if an AirTag is planted on the underside of a vehicle.
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by jfoster 5y ago
What would stop them from creating an Android app to notify users if an AirTag seems to be travelling with them?
815.
by jfoster 5y ago
Why is there a shortage rather than a price hike, similar to what would happen with fuel? Long term contracts?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Yeah, a lot of it might not be politically or culturally possible. As far as I can tell, it was always technically possible to have very good automated contact tracing, though.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Are you sure? My take on why mass market contact tracing didn't pan out was that it was insufficiently implemented/used. If it were on every phone and on by default, perhaps even mandated, would it still not have worked? I know th
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by jfoster 6y ago
On the face of it, McDonald's corp should also be harmed by this. It makes their customers less successful through higher costs & lower sales, and it tarnishes their brand when a customer of their customers is unable to purchase an
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by jfoster 6y ago
Perhaps Apple should begin explicitly telling consumers for how long they think it's reasonable to expect the content to be there.
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by jfoster 6y ago
What's the safer alternative?
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by jfoster 6y ago
My take on it is that the government may think that under an elimination strategy any community transmission events would be perceived as failures. The other possibility might be that earlier on in the pandemic they may have thought that a
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by jfoster 6y ago
That's what I mean. So make it very expensive to run them on your service and the coin miners will go elsewhere.
823.
by jfoster 6y ago
You could also just address it through your rate table by appropriately pricing for intense workloads, couldn't you?
824.
by jfoster 6y ago
This model sounds a lot like songthaews in Thailand. Also brings to mind UberPool.
825.
by jfoster 6y ago
Interesting, isn't it? A lot more ads than there ever was on TV. More advertisers. Probably more viewers, paying more active attention. Much better targeting. Much cheaper content. The only thing that got a lot less efficient is the &q
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by jfoster 6y ago
1. Start with the 3 earliest known cases. 2. Review CCTV of their movements for the 14 days prior. 3. Find the commonality. If there's genuine interest in where it came from, I think the answer is certainly findable.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Autopilot there has been many, but none in FSD, which is what the article is about.
828.
by jfoster 6y ago
Have you ever used regular old cruise control? You still have to pay attention to what speed you should be moving at, and it makes it much easier for you to pay attention.
829.
by jfoster 6y ago
What do you mean by "promises"?
830.
by jfoster 6y ago
Every human with a license is a different & imperfect implementation of autonomy. The result is reflected in a figure known as "the road toll", a euphemism that allows us to think less about the huge amount of damage they caus
831.
by jfoster 6y ago
There's nothing stopping Safari having a less annoying implementation of notifications. They have full control of the experience.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think this would be a great way to bring some automation to some roads. Tesla/Boring almost did it when they were considering having electric sleds moving cars through Boring tunnels. If there's a schedule, pre-planned route, an
833.
by jfoster 6y ago
Meanwhile, humans are driving into pedestrians every minute of every day, but yes, get upset about what Tesla called their system...
834.
by jfoster 6y ago
Remember how dangerous the roads were when the car companies producing cars without gear shifts started calling their cars "automatic" as opposed to manual?
835.
by jfoster 6y ago
It's incredible that one of the biggest companies in the world can't manage to appropriately license their stuff. Apache 2.0 is also a strange license for anything that's not code, too; it refers to "source" and &qu
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by jfoster 6y ago
Well, it's a good thing it's under Apache 2.0, then. Maybe someone will convert/trace them as SVGs and sublicense them...
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by jfoster 6y ago
They can ask nicely, but I expect it will have very little bearing on how people use these. Determining how things get used is what licenses are for.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Are Google serious? Simultaneously pushing websites to be highly efficient (Core Web Vitals), at the same time as introducing the methods that can make them less efficient. Also, about these icons, they mention "please don’t try to sel
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by jfoster 6y ago
Also, with new types of fuel there is a a chicken-egg problem to be solved. Electric vehicles worked around the chicken-egg problem by having home charging (with fallback to power socket whilst travelling), and then chargers got built. Whic
840.
by jfoster 6y ago
So what's actually being purchased in a transaction? Post-purchase, how is it any different than simply turning up & using the land?

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