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by macksd 5y ago
Not that it's any consolation, but it's definitely not a flaw unique to Britain. I think this is just increasingly the universal norm in our society. Mainstream news in the US is, as I'm sure you know, also pretty much entire
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by macksd 5y ago
Oh you're thinking of Air Force One.
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by macksd 5y ago
That's great if the server that sends the encryption keys is actually the server you think you're talking to.
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by macksd 5y ago
The web page must be served from somewhere, even if the server it came from really wasn't involved in file transfers. It would be nice to have HTTPS for the client to rule out MITM attacks or the like.
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by macksd 5y ago
This is how I feel. I'm all for encouraging potential victims to take reasonable precautions, but especially when the system could be fixed if a few people tried, it eventually gets tiresome. I've been given free "credit moni
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by macksd 5y ago
But then we're back to people needing to purchase new items to accommodate sudden changes in lifestyle where it just didn't make any sense since the last major advance in technology / the last pandemic. Sure, we know we need
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by macksd 5y ago
I know several in person. I'm probably right of center and definitely live in a predominantly right area. They put it on their IG stories and they bring it up in person. Without cutting them off socially, not really sure how I can avoi
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by macksd 5y ago
> lacked a fear of consequences of being wrong This is interesting. It used to be that some of the people we're discussing, let's use flat-earthers as an example, were just really, really committed to their idea. It was their w
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by macksd 5y ago
No I wasn't under the impression it was a rule with legal penalties attached, but I mostly hear this as "can you confirm the last 4 numbers to verify your identity". It's a pretty clear cut case of using it for authentic
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by macksd 5y ago
I've been asked for it by my health insurance companies, providers, and when donating blood. On the latter I saw they had a policy of issuing a different ID number to you on request, but it was a royal pain in the ass and a supervisor
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by macksd 5y ago
Yes. It even used to say on the card "not to be used for identification", but various agencies at all levels of government ask for it all the time.
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah that's fair, and I've seen that. I think the key is authenticity. As others have mentioned sometimes it's just a firehose of good things happening to other people. I've also seen a friend speak candidly about their
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by macksd 5y ago
As a side note, I'm a little saddened when I see friends apologize for their posts. There's such a reaction to "influencer culture" that people feel like foodgrams and humblebrags are a terrible thing, and in excess they
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by macksd 5y ago
If you believe that everyone smart values the same things as you, sure.
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by macksd 5y ago
In addition to smileysteve's comments, I'd also question the idea that the US is the #1 system in the world. By some metrics? Yes. By other metrics? No. It seems to be a subjective argument thrown around with about as much basis b
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by macksd 5y ago
The same reason the US can spend what it did on the war in Aghanistan and still end up with the Taliban taking control of Kabul as they're on their way out. Total incompetence, no decent end game, and human nature in people that they j
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by macksd 5y ago
How would it be different from the monoclonal antibody treatments already available?
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by macksd 5y ago
I certainly think the same argument applies, FWIW - I don't think Apple is being reasonable if they ban people from services for fixing their own devices or other people's devices. Not sure if you were implying I would feel differ
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by macksd 5y ago
Burning down Facebook? What on Earth are you talking about? It makes it easier for users to remove their own accounts across multiple services. It's a common interface to features the social networks themselves provide. This is the opp
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by macksd 5y ago
Different people on the Internet will say different things. You can't really assign one collective motive to everything on the Internet and then say it's hypocritical.
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by macksd 5y ago
And your own social network will fail because of network effects. If Facebook can be as terrible as they have been and retain their users, it's really because of their users that they're being propped up with a successful business
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by macksd 5y ago
Same as with an IRA, though, it's intended for retirement savings and there are penalties for early withdrawal. The issue here (right or wrong) is self-directed IRAs being effectively usable for things other than growth investments.
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by macksd 5y ago
>> Its not. No and that's really my point - we have this heavily regulated mix of public and private that I don't think anyone fully understands, makes it a nightmare for consumers, gives a heavy advantage to existing player
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by macksd 5y ago
I feel a great frustration by those who argue against healthcare reform in the US, because most of the arguments against a socialized system resonate with me, but they also seem to be arguments against the current system. I would be conce
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by macksd 5y ago
Are you possibly referring to something that isn't automatic detection of hardware features? I've been on Linux laptops for 13 years but almost always on something shipped by the vendor, and I've never had these problems of g
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by macksd 5y ago
There actually was a legal challenge against this, and right before a deadline to respond the TSA clarified it's current policy: https://www.aclu.org/cases/bierfeldt-v-napolitano?redirect=c... So if it happens, yo
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by macksd 5y ago
You are perhaps right about what is implied here. But I have noticed the same trend outside of the media in general. There's currently an uproar in my town and I've seen 3 or 4 very outspoken people, including hearing it on a radi
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by macksd 5y ago
To the dead comment that wrote "If you're a man and don't understand what I'm talking about above, then expect to be blindsided by your family after career changes": as if this thread didn't start by implying a
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by macksd 5y ago
It's all down to the specific brand. Outsourced to Ping? Ok. Outsourced to some identity SaaS I never heard of that just closed their series B? Pass. But then obviously I'd expect Microsoft to own their own identity story, and if
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by macksd 5y ago
I remember an instance on HN maybe 9 years ago or so where the treasurer of a third-party on the US was detained at the airport and questioned about the amount of cash he was carrying. Probably seems reasonable, as I would imagine most peop

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