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by mikeash 7y ago
It won’t prevent an attacker from logging in as you at the moment, but it will prevent them from using stolen credentials later on.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It doesn’t much matter to me whether it’s badly targeted or untargeted. At the end of the day the result is the same: they pour all this effort into abusive tracking and then it doesn’t even achieve the result that’s supposed to be the reas
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by mikeash 7y ago
I completely disagree with this notion that there is this tension between being good at getting a project off the ground and being kind, gentle, and good at teamwork. That’s what all this pushback over “10x engineers” is about. It’s not pus
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by mikeash 7y ago
This seems to be really common thinking, too. It seems to go like this. A lot of programmers are weird. They don’t get along well with people. They keep weird hours. They dislike social norms. This part is true, although far from universal.
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by mikeash 7y ago
People got very upset about Equifax, it’s just that there’s approximately nothing we can do about them. Our choice is for Equifax to have all our info, or refrain from partitipating in the modern financial system.
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by mikeash 7y ago
What is the difference between “people don’t care about privacy” and “people value Facebook highly, wouldn’t pay much of anything for an ad-free, privacy conscious version of Facebook, and are making a conscious assessment that their privac
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by mikeash 7y ago
The trouble is, what happens when the summary is inaccurate or incomplete? If the summary takes precedence in that case, then the full ToS is meaningless and can be omitted, so you could simplify this to a rule requiring ToSs to be under 20
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by mikeash 7y ago
This still lines up exactly with what I’m saying. Defending your privacy means you need to stop and ponder these things. People don’t know that they need to do this. You don’t need to read the terms. You “just” need to assume nefarious inte
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by mikeash 7y ago
That falls under the second option. Being capable of defending your privacy means understanding that you shouldn’t willingly give your personal info to random apps.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s always hilarious to look at ads and try to figure out why they think I’m the right audience for them. Facebook keeps showing me ads for a cup with a hidden compartment for alcohol in the lid, and for various gun safes. Apparently they’
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by mikeash 7y ago
We keep harping on about privacy, and then shit like this happens. There are two possible conclusions to draw. One is that the general public actually doesn’t care about privacy at all. It’s a niche concern. The other is that the general pu
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not ideal, but most iOS apps that take images will accept pasted images. You can avoid giving them photos access, and instead copy/paste from the Photos app.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s actually the website owners and Googbook tracking you. The headline may be incomplete but it’s not inaccurate. And “porn site operators track how you use their sites” is pretty mundane. Pretty much everyone knows that sites can track
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m pretty sure everyone expects them to cancel these orders. The reason this is getting so much attention is because they actually honored the price, at least for some customers. Nobody forced them to do that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
How do you know it’s blind?
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by mikeash 7y ago
No, it comes from personal experience with Tesla’s other cars. Note that the listed range comes from a standardized EPA test cycle. It’s more thorough than just cruising at 65MPH but the end result appears to approximate that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Just look at all the videos of idiots spinning out and ramming spectators while leaving Cars and Coffee. You’d never be able to achieve that sort of loss of control in a Tesla.
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by mikeash 7y ago
There are tradeoffs around capacity, power, and longevity. I suspect Volkswagen doesn’t care if the battery in their prototype racer is trashed after a year, so they can push it hard.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Space is no problem. Make the floor a bit thicker, done. Look at how much space the battery takes up in other Teslas... if you can find it. Added weight is not desirable but it’s not a dealbreaker.
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by mikeash 7y ago
You probably achieve the stated range at ~65MPH. Range decreases approximately with the square of the speed, so range at top speed would be around 16 times lower.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Probably in the glove compartment.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Range is easy: just add more battery. It’s expensive, but this is an expensive car.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, a larger battery pack can provide more power. You can see this at work in Tesla’s lineup already: the longer range variants also have better acceleration.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I suspect those are categorized under "trespassers" although I'm not entirely sure if that would be the case for a suicide in a station.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It's also a descriptive observation that they can afford to pay more without destroying the company. Whether they should is a separate question I haven't even attempted to address.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don't think so for buses. The line I used is labeled "Bus occupants." The train data is less clear. It's described as "Train accidents" so it could potentially be more general, but grade crossings and trespas
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s passing the buck to companies that do a pretty good job avoiding smog and produce a lot of electricity with no emissions at all.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I am saying that they could use some of their approximately $10^10 yearly profits to pay people better. How would that cause them to lose money?
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by mikeash 7y ago
That includes all of those. You can find a detailed breakdown here if you want to see: https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2019-02-01-Average-New-Car-Prices-...
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m not sure if I care about people’s intuition on this. Measuring by hour is plainly stupid. If people really do evaluate it that way, it’s an interesting bit of psychology, but irrelevant to actual safety.

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