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by lvs 5y ago
You know, you're getting downvoted a lot, but there's a sense in which I agree in part and disagree in part. On the disagreement side, what is the purpose of being caught up in this exuberance for something widely considered to be
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by lvs 5y ago
I think it's easy to guess patterns because people all use one of a small number of simple patterns. Everyone uses the geometrical equivalent of hunter2 or 123456, but they irrationally think it's more secure because it's a p
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by lvs 5y ago
Pattern unlock. Incredibly insecure.
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by lvs 5y ago
Unless someone wants to leak internal information, there is no such thing in either case, as far as we know. These services are almost certainly contracted to third parties.
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by lvs 5y ago
If you follow the types of anecdotes posted on reddit of the trials and tribulations of Fi users seeking customer support for device replacement, empty phone shipments, etc., this report comes as absolutely no surprise. They are contracting
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by lvs 5y ago
Total surveillance should not be making these decisions for the citizenry. You can have better ambulances without total surveillance and population control. It's hard to get more dystopian cyberpunk than a car that sometimes won't
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by lvs 5y ago
It's called consumer protection, and it's weaker in the US than many other advanced countries.
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by lvs 5y ago
> I am not a lawyer ... This will only make the regulator look foolish. Look in a mirror. Evading the regulator would require exiting the UK market entirely.
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by lvs 5y ago
> making money by selling something useful. This one weird trick venture capitalists hate!
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by lvs 5y ago
Hype, marketing, and devoid of recognizable scientific content.
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by lvs 5y ago
I think it's fair to say that at least 75% of Android phones currently in consumer hands will never receive another security update.
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by lvs 5y ago
Agree, but I would widen this critique quite far into Twitter and social media in general. The motivation to promulgate information, factual or otherwise, on social media is attention-seeking, not truth-seeking. The method is sticky because
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by lvs 5y ago
There is such a thing as bad philosophy. By example, it's philosophy produced by narcissists thoroughly unaware and uninterested in any aspect of the canon of philosophy that predates them.
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by lvs 5y ago
TJ's is big enough they should sue these people.
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by lvs 5y ago
Then Roku and Amazon are the ones doing the data collection. There's no escaping it.
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by lvs 5y ago
I was surprised there was no mention of Windows Telemetry and the myriad dark patterns like forced updates introduced in Windows 10. That was the end of the road for me with Microsoft.
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by lvs 5y ago
Not sure if it's been mentioned in here yet, but the biggest annoyance was Mom picking up the phone to make a call and disconnecting you. It was rare to have more than one or two phone lines in the average household, so being online co
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by lvs 5y ago
It's more of a haven asset. It doesn't make sense as a payment system, and it hasn't in a decade really succeded in that role. It has accumulated a lot of capital, however, that might otherwise have gone into other haven asse
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by lvs 5y ago
This is a low quality link to something that has been covered in traditional news sources. It should be replaced with something like this: https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/jewish-employees-push-to-cancel...
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by lvs 5y ago
I'd like to see an analysis of how much institutional speculation is contributing to the market pricing exuberance in housing...
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by lvs 5y ago
Your bet is based on falsehoods, so it's quite fortunate you don't make these decisions for all of us. I'll take the other side of the bet any day.
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by lvs 5y ago
Yes, but in free markets. They are both dirty fuels, so this shouldn't be a free market decision. This is something we have to do collectively that the market participants won't choose to do on their own.
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by lvs 5y ago
Wait, so your contention is that a profession is defined by its worst practitioners? OK, in that case, software developers are all script kiddies.
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by lvs 5y ago
I don't think you understand what real journalists do. Bad ones might perhaps just "forward" an unchallenged claim as your uncle does on Facebook. Journalists and editors trained at journalism schools have a little more integ
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by lvs 5y ago
Consumer protection is weak in the US. In numerous cases of faulty products and negligent manufacturers, failures of regulatory agencies to intervene eventually escalates into class actions of victims, owners, or state AGs against manufactu
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by lvs 5y ago
This is another long discarded bit of snake oil. If there were genuine home remedies for Covid that you could buy at the grocery store, we'd have told you about it. It turns out there are only two: vaccines and masks. It's healthy
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by lvs 5y ago
Um, how do they do that? > All integrations were implemented in-house using the Texts Platform SDK. The SDK will be open sourced at a later date. Seems like a big nope.
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by lvs 5y ago
That's a false choice and a misframing. The problem is we are boosting production of dirty fuels to meet energy demand recovery.
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by lvs 5y ago
> Bacton Gas Terminal was getting ever closer to the cliff edge as the coast eroded That was a problem that was getting close to solving itself. Now I understand why so much effort was expended.
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by lvs 5y ago
The purpose of AMP was completely obvious, and you all consented to buying into it anyway for the traffic. It couldn't have been successful without your help!

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