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by mikeash 7y ago
You could always allow users to provide their real email address later on so they can establish ownership directly.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Right, there’s nothing the developers can do to avoid this. Because it’s the users making the choice. They choose to give Apple this power, or not. You are essentially arguing that they will choose incorrectly, and that developers should be
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not like scientists actually believe it’s useless. Maybe some did for a little while, but it didn’t last long. There’s tons of research into what it does. Saying modern science is broken because a few people briefly thought some DNA se
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by mikeash 7y ago
Do I understand this correctly that information about the crime is protected, but information about information about the crime is not? This doesn’t sound right. For example, what’s the difference between being compelled to give up your pas
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not true in that this is not mandatory. Users are free to provide a non-private or even a non-Apple email. Apple only has as much control as your users give them. If you think that’s bad, maybe you should consider why those users don’t
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by mikeash 7y ago
Only if the customer wants them to be. If the customer wants to give you their real email address, they are free to do so. If they choose not to give that to you, but you want to contact them anyway because you think you know their desire
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by mikeash 7y ago
The comment I replied to claimed that the Fifth only protects you from testifying at trial. You said a coerced confession would be inadmissible, implying it’s still legal to do so, it just couldn’t be used as evidence.
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by mikeash 7y ago
You said that “being a witness” means testifying at trial. Now you’re saying it’s not? Very confusing. Why wouldn’t I call the IT guy a witness if he’s providing access to information relevant to your prosecution?
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by mikeash 7y ago
But the police can still force you to confess and tell them where all the bodies are buried?
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by mikeash 7y ago
One dude insisting on one safety measure being added to a catastrophically stupid and unsafe design, while being resisted by everyone else, is very much within the realm of “relaxed safety.” In fact, I’d say that’s a rather mild and underst
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by mikeash 7y ago
Can you be forced to provide a physical key? They’ll break the door down if they have to.
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by mikeash 7y ago
No, but as far as I know you won’t be prosecuted for refusing entry. The police will just force their way in. Strong crypto means the police can’t force their way in. But that doesn’t mean they should sprout new rights to force people to he
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by mikeash 7y ago
The Fifth only applies during a trial? So the police can coerce a confession and it’s all above-board?
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by mikeash 7y ago
The warrant that required his passcode seems like a clear Fifth Amendment violation.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Avoiding scams requires being people-savvy. Tech-savvy is unrelated.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not luck that made it happen there. It happened in the USSR because that same authoritarian state couldn’t be bothered to build safe reactors.
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by mikeash 7y ago
CO2 is at record highs and still increasing. Every month should be a record high.
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by mikeash 7y ago
“Informed” and “motivated to vote” don’t correlate well. I’d even argue that they might be negatively correlated; the people most fanatical about voting are the same people who get their news from extremely biased and inaccurate sources. Ma
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by mikeash 7y ago
And once again, serious crimes are committed and nobody suffers any serious consequences. I’m also curious, what is “the company itself” other than its employees? What part of a company is capable of knowing things besides the people in it?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Is the company not responsible for the actions of its employees? If so, are the responsible employees going to jail?
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by mikeash 7y ago
So they falsified records with intent to deceive law enforcement twice ? Seems pretty bad.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Airbus and Boeing have been flying fully fly-by-wire airliners for decades. It works just fine.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Whether you’ve paid back your debts previously.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Through the power of extreme sarcasm.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Fortunately, there’s no reason to ever expect that defaults would be correlated. There’s just no phenomenon that could cause it.
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by mikeash 7y ago
And it’s really tiny. Lots of serious poisons would be harmless at that dose.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Credit ratings are an attempt to turn weird moral tests into a concrete number, and they have a massive effect on one’s ability to get a mortgage. It wouldn’t be at all surprising for a bank to try to account for factors the credit score mi
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by mikeash 7y ago
All they have to do is bundle these mortgages together with safer ones and sell the resulting bundle as a security. The market will accurately assess the risk of the combined product and set prices accordingly. Because of the way this sprea
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by mikeash 7y ago
Racism is a hell of a drug.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m talking from the perspective of the country the refugees are trying to enter. If a million refugees are headed your way and you don’t want to let them in, you can close the border and enact strict immigration controls and you’re fine. S

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