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by mthoms 5y ago
In regards to legal medications, how would the information those "patches" convey be useful without any context?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Exactly. Build up that muscle memory for when you have to actually pay for something so everything feels familiar.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Thanks for the well intentioned comment but not all kids are the same. Nor are their needs. I don’t want to get into my child’s details (special needs, learning disability, needs some apps for a special school that he attends) I’ve since c
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by mthoms 5y ago
The child has a learning disability and, as I already mentioned , is away at a (special) school for much of a year. Thus - I don't have immediate access to the phone. But thanks for your thoughtful and measured contribution.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I didn't need to cancel the card because they did refund the money (and cancel the subscription) after speaking with a few reps. I'll give them credit for that, but I feel like they use the fact that chargebacks are easy to make
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by mthoms 5y ago
Interesting. How do you manual approve App Store charges?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Good question - this was one of the details I left out of my comment because I ran out of time... The feature called (as you say) "Ask to buy" is not what the name implies. It's actually "Ask to download anything, includ
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by mthoms 5y ago
This site breaks my browser back button. I find that enormously frustrating.
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by mthoms 5y ago
There's another angle to the App Store scam: Family Sharing. Most people don't know this but the "Parent" (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can't see , let alone cancel, any subscriptions a mi
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by mthoms 5y ago
The apron is just the asphalt ("tarmac" for the British) area in front of the station.
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by mthoms 5y ago
>This kind of thinking will just lead to more misery than COVID its self. Lockdowns are causing poverty, drug addiction and suicides of young people. Its taking decades off their lives, unlike COVID which mostly is deadly to those in the
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by mthoms 5y ago
Your rights end when exercising them puts the health and safety of others at risk. Other people have rights, remember. It's always been that way. It's the reason gun ownership, driving, drinking, smoking and countless other activi
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by mthoms 5y ago
>Why does exercising your right have consequences? Exercising your rights is fine until doing so risks the health and safety of others. Other people have rights too.
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by mthoms 5y ago
People don't care about privacy, got it. No one is quitting Facebook, no one is de-Googling their lives, installing privacy extensions/apps and making purchases based on privacy issues. The worlds largest online companies increasi
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by mthoms 5y ago
So, the marketing is working and people are increasingly aware of privacy issues? In that case, would you say this statement: >don't tell me you believe privacy was at the usual consumers mind when they bought their devices... this
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by mthoms 5y ago
From https://www.sellcell.com/blog/apple-privacy-survey/ > A majority (72%) of iPhone & iPad users are aware of new privacy changes in recent software updates. When asked how well they understand Apple’s ne
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by mthoms 5y ago
9 days? Ha. It's been months (if not years ) of this user vehemently defending Apple, regardless of what the issue at hand is. The amount of time he or she has invested in sticking up for Apple is astronomical .
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by mthoms 5y ago
It’s very unclear who he’s referring to in saying the system has “auditability”. Be explicit Craig. Who gets to audit the source code and/or database exactly ? And how is that done?
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by mthoms 5y ago
Exactly . > “So there are multiple levels of auditability so you don‘t have to trust apple or countries even if Apple says yes“- Apple What auditability is he referring to? Who gets to audit the database and source code? Earlier, he slip
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by mthoms 5y ago
Extreme weather variations aren't good for crops. Consistency is.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I have a partially completed YC application — Once I came across the (required) age field I simply decided to not go any further. I appreciate that YC are upfront about age being important because it tells me two things: (1) I shouldn'
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by mthoms 5y ago
I found this just as fascinating as the ancient fish traps.
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by mthoms 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081883
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by mthoms 5y ago
This is plausible and exactly why I oppose this system. The only argument I made was against the claim that fully automated police dispatches will occur because of this system (in the west). Making outrageous, tinfoil hat level claims doe
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by mthoms 5y ago
Those prank SWAT calls are (a) from a human and (b) based on the assumption of IMMEDIATE risk of death/injury. Furthermore, (c) the CP scanning implementation itself requires human review. So no, under the proposed implementation
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by mthoms 5y ago
I don’t understand. If the government can just claim you had CP without proof, then they can just… do that? They don’t need Apples system. Especially since anything flagged by this system is manually reviewed by Apple. So, there would exis
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by mthoms 5y ago
I think you misunderstand the Center’s role in this. They review and categorize the images. They maintain the database and provide access to different organizations for the purpose of catching CP. Why wouldn’t they also generate the has
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by mthoms 5y ago
That's a different thread of comments. This one is about automated dispatching of SWAT teams.
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by mthoms 5y ago
You said the Covid vaccines contained heavy metals. You were corrected on that one simple fact. That's the limit of mine and the other commenters involvement. I'll say it again : Neither he, nor I, made any statement to you for&#
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by mthoms 5y ago
If you actually think there is going to be a fully automated system dispatching police SWAT teams throughout the US without a manual (or judicial) review then.... I really don't know what to tell you.

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