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by newaccount74 2y ago
Users also need other users to be honest about their location. Consider a dating app; you want to meet real people who live in your area, not a fraudster pretending to live just a few blocks away. Or a delivery driver: You want them to actu
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by newaccount74 2y ago
There are a lot of legitimate use cases that require reliable location data. I mentioned a few that I could think of in a sibling comment, but I'm sure there are more. Maybe you can come up with a use case for accurate location data yo
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Well, legislators managed to abolish roaming fees within the EU, so maybe they'll manage to fix caller ID too.
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Ride hailing apps rely on the fact that both customers and drivers phones don't lie about their location. Mapping companies rely on the fact that their crowdsourced data is reliable. Emergency services rely on the fact that phones shar
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by newaccount74 2y ago
These scumbags shouldn't be able to have a fake ID, which is exactly what legislators in the US and the EU are currently trying to end.
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Having a smartphone provide a hard to fake location is a pretty valuable feature. A lot of businesses depend on the fact that location data is hard to fake. Consider caller ID - legislators around the world are working on making it harder t
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by newaccount74 2y ago
> Prosecute the bad people for the bad thing they did in the first place How do you expect to do that, without following the money? If someone shows up with a suitcase full of money, it's extremely unlikely that they earned this mon
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I think it's a misleading argument because it compares things that aren't alike. On the one hand, we have management telling workers to use safety equipment that basically everyone agrees is necessary. That has nothing to do with
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Telling people to wear a harness is not "covering every edge case so that everything grinds to a halt". It's just ensuring that the bare minimum is being done to prevent workplace deaths.
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by newaccount74 2y ago
It also stops smart people from doing stupid things.
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Sorry, I think I wasn't clear. I meant to contradict the statement "You can't reasonably claim ..." with "You can [reasonably claim]". What I am saying is that it is extremely unlikely that people would donate
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by newaccount74 2y ago
You can. There are a lot of open source projects that solicit donations, and if you talk to the developers you will find out that practically none of them get donations that would support even a single developer. The only thing that seems t
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I think it's curious that there are two models driving OS and browser development at the moment: 1) Google's model. They try to control all the ways that people discover goods and services, and then sell ads to the providers of se
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I don't think the price is the problem. People spend a lot on hobbies (it amazes me how many people ride 5000-10000€ road bikes). It's obviously too expensive that everyone buys one, but there are still lots of people who could af
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Have you ever worked as a first responder and seen the stupid things people do? There's a straight road, almost no traffic, and someone still manages to hit an oncoming car because they feel that they really need to overtake that slow
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Even in that situation, hitting the brakes and aborting the overtake maneuver is the safer option. With ABS ubiquitous, even hard braking should leave your car maneuverable. If you push on the accelerator, you are just increasing the risk,
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Every macOS release breaks a few things, but to be honest it's not much of an issue. Here are some recent things that required code changes from developers: - disabling user interaction when trying to request items from the keychain -
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Pretty sure your brain will quickly associate the gentle sound of the display switching with the dreadful feeling that something went wrong...
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by newaccount74 2y ago
A big corp can't give in because then they would have to install proper exhaust filtration and monitoring which would probably cost 10s of millions of dollars and require a lot of additional staff that would have to know what Apple is
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by newaccount74 2y ago
> the question whether machines can hold copyright is decisively shut and closed That's just a small part of the question. Some of the questions we still need answers for are: 1) If ChatGPT produces an answer that is very similar to
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by newaccount74 2y ago
In Austria, 2k/mo before taxes is roughly what you earn as a part-time employee filling shelves at the supermarket [1]. [1]: Typical supermarket job in Austria: https://jobs.aldi-hofer.com/hofer-karriere-at/job&#x2
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by newaccount74 2y ago
That sounds somewhat feasible, but are there enough of those hackathons around? Can you take part in 20-50 hackathons a year? Most hackathons also require some kind of preparation, I doubt you can just show up, work for 15 hours, and collec
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Can't really compare a salary to bounties. With a salary, you can rely on the income. If you have irregular income, you need to plan for a lot more since you'll always have slow months with no income, or customers that don't
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by newaccount74 2y ago
Can you elaborate? Who are these people? What kind of bounties do these people go after? Do they work on lots of small bounties or focus on a few big bounties? Do you personally know these people or are you just talking about the security r
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I always wonder if there is anyone making a living of bounties? I've once considered it, but the public bounties that I could find were so laughably low that I just saw no way to make it work. <$500 for a bug that would take at leas
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by newaccount74 2y ago
The fundamental problem with increasing prices is that you create an opportunity for competitors. If Photoshop would cost 5€ a month, then everyone would buy it because it is the best. If Photoshop costs 50€ a month, they make more money, b
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I'm not an electrical engineer, but I am pretty sure that every cable that moves should be made from stranded wires. Stranded wires last longer when bent repeatedly. Solid wires are used for fixed installation (eg. inside walls). Any c
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by newaccount74 2y ago
I strongly disagree with you. The only reason that users prefer snippets is because websites hide the info you are looking for. The problem is that the top ranked search results are ad-infested SEO crap. If the top ranked website were actua
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by newaccount74 2y ago
It would be a lot better if Google just prioritised concise websites. If Google preferred websites that cut the fluff, then website operators would have an incentive to make useful websites, and Google wouldn't have as much of an incen
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by newaccount74 2y ago
This is already a problem. Content farms have realised that adding "in $current_year" to their headlines helps traffic. It's frustrating when you start reading and realise the content is two years out of date.

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