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by mwint 4y ago
Why do you think the raw health data is getting sucked off your device? That would be totally off brand for them. Apple does have a separate opt-in “Research” program to facilitate this kind of thing.
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by mwint 4y ago
The first sentence of the abstract is truly bizarre. It’s like they’re apologizing in advance for insulting the sacred cow: > Vaccination is a cornerstone in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. However, …
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by mwint 4y ago
Isn’t that just “I got the wrong item”? The “item” you ordered was “8-pack of widgets”, you got “1-pack of widgets”, so it’s the wrong item.
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by mwint 4y ago
There have been ~2B iPhones made. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. Not even an order of magnitude.
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by mwint 4y ago
Heh, I could make an argument for Papa John’s being an anti-healthcare website.
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by mwint 4y ago
> the eSIM is "stuck" in your phone if it physically breaks Wait, does this happen?
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by mwint 4y ago
If people are buying a placebo drug, and the placebo effect is making them feel better… mission accomplished?
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by mwint 4y ago
There’s also downsides if you own land that a billboard could be put on; your land will be less valuable. Possibly balanced out by general property value increases due to there being no billboards, but I kind of doubt it.
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by mwint 4y ago
Apple should ban the EU, that’d straighten this mess out pretty quick.
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by mwint 4y ago
I’m kind of hoping they ship an EU Edition phone that is a normal phone, but with a dongle welded into the lightning port. The dongle should have the phone numbers of those who passed this law etched into it. Just let me keep my Lightning p
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by mwint 4y ago
Velocity is relevant.
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by mwint 4y ago
In a perfect TDD world, you could write a test for the bug and let bisect figure out where the bug first appeared and when it was fixed. Hard to do, but when I was at a big company they had something similar.
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by mwint 4y ago
Yes, they’re regularly using recovered fairings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_fairing_recovery_prog...
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by mwint 4y ago
Probably staff would secure it somewhere else while he wasn’t there.
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by mwint 4y ago
I wonder how unique this is amongst other rich people, or if it sounds bad to us because we know the full story.
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by mwint 4y ago
One decimates American savings accounts, one doesn’t.
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by mwint 4y ago
I’m sure Home Depot and others have numbers on how much sales drop (or don’t?) when they add these locks. I’d love to see those numbers. And maybe for some people there’s an opposite effect! “Lock == valuable -> buy”
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by mwint 4y ago
I think someone needs to point out that 20% is a very different number than many people were sold a vaccine under. How did we drop so far from the 90+% “effectiveness” claims at the beginning? Feels like there needs to be a massive postmo
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by mwint 4y ago
I’d guess the biggest risk increase is from having a heart that needs a pacemaker in the first place. The pacemaker itself probably isn’t designed for lightning strikes, but it probably is designed to survive hits from a defibrillator. I’d
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by mwint 4y ago
The disagreement on the “devalue” thing is probably one of semantics: I value the employee as a fellow human, but I don’t think the job of cashier is providing any value to me. The existence of “cashier” as a job is an impediment to my goal
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by mwint 4y ago
> devaluing the service employee that helps resolve your self-checkout issues? Certainly I don’t devalue the employee, but I don’t value the work they do. This is mostly irritation at not being allowed to just fix my own issues. > the
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by mwint 4y ago
Today, it seems cashiers mostly exist to fix the self checkout machine when it decides it doesn’t like me anymore. Perhaps we’re in a transition period between the legacy system - cashiers a handling one customer at a time, which is not pro
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by mwint 4y ago
> but we should impose a moral standard in lieu of a legal one I agree with you, but these moral obligations tend to get enshrined in law eventually (or quickly! See Covid)
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by mwint 4y ago
I mean, who doesn’t compete with Wipro?
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by mwint 4y ago
There was some kerfluffle a while back where Tesla fixed some mundane thing in an OTA, something like a radio volume bug, without filing a recall, and the NTSB got all irritated. They said something like “all changes are fixing defects, so
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by mwint 4y ago
> If there’s something tangible that can be done to reduce that death count, I’m all for it. If we just put everyone in jail, there would be many fewer DUI deaths. Yeah, it’d come at the cost of some liberty, but apparently that’s no big
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by mwint 4y ago
The slope we’ve slid down so far has been very slippery indeed.
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by mwint 4y ago
Is there any way I can contact you? I have an aspirational semi-related project.
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by mwint 4y ago
Is there any evidence the other way? I know, proving a negative, but I’d argue the null hypothesis here is “pumping money into the economy causes the economy to have more money”
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by mwint 4y ago
Couldn’t an adversary replace the screen in my phone with one that records the contents of what it displays? And/or tap locations. Modern keylogger. My guess is Apple started doing all this pairing stuff due to some security threat the

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