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by olliej 3y ago
In general the legal mandatory insurance is to cover damage you cause to other cars. But many people have insurance for their vehicles to cover damage done where the culprit is uninsured, under insured, or simply can’t be found. Third part
902.
by olliej 3y ago
I know you’re saying it’s a fake example, but it seems perfectly reasonable as an equivalence. Especially when you discover that many super cars are actually using commodity components but then literally just charging 10x for them (I recall
903.
by olliej 3y ago
Yeah, so in the US that doesn't work. Most obviously for display, tv, or radio ads you cannot ensure correct taxes in the advertisement (this was a big eye opener when I first moved to the US). It also doesn't work for online sale
904.
by olliej 3y ago
A classic example in the US is sales tax. Those are taxes determined by the final sale price which can vary depending on state, county, or city. More importantly because those fees aren't controlled by the company doing the bait and sw
905.
by olliej 3y ago
Amber alerts and similar can be disabled.
906.
by olliej 3y ago
Mormonism and scientology both have castes, albeit in varying forms of "ranking". A person of a lower rank is always subservient to the higher ranked version, which is castes. There may be a degree of mobility between ranks, but m
907.
by olliej 3y ago
Uh, no it’s not? You can [and people do ] use family names as an effective proxy for caste, and if you’re planning on discriminating on caste that’s more than enough. The Dalit's (in the case of Cisco) are not all the same "villa
908.
by olliej 3y ago
> Source for this so called objective fact? This law came about after a case about caste discrimination against Cisco was dismissed. Or you can do some basic searches of twitter and mastodon for first hand accounts. > Even it true it
909.
by olliej 3y ago
> How do 'we' know that? This particular law came about in response to a suit against Cisco iirc in which a significant problem was "is caste discrimination illegal" that led to the case being dismissed. Or you could
910.
by olliej 3y ago
Don’t forget the scales :)
911.
by olliej 3y ago
Awwww
912.
by olliej 3y ago
I saw this headline and thought it would be yet another case of some tourist or similar vandalizing a site but it’s talking about election graffiti from the time.
913.
by olliej 3y ago
Well we know the discrimination happens, and currently is not prevented by courts. The harm to businesses, is that say you own a business and don't want to serve people of the wrong caste, now you can't. That's very damaging
914.
by olliej 3y ago
The whole point is that existing laws do not clearly do so: they aren't discriminating against gender, race, religion, politics, or any of the other examples Newsom pointed to. That this discrimination is occurring is not up for debate
915.
by olliej 3y ago
I mean there are plenty of caste based systems in many religions, perhaps of relevance to the US are Mormonism and Scientology which both have ranking systems that determine options for people in the religion (and who have tried to leave it
916.
by olliej 3y ago
What are you talking about? The whole point of caste based discrimination is that people are putting you, as you say, in a bucket and then discriminating on that basis. By having such discrimination be legal you ensure that such discriminat
917.
by olliej 3y ago
You mean the many documented examples of caste discrimination who have been unable to do anything because caste discrimination is legal?
918.
by olliej 3y ago
Not every html tag has a closing tag. "<br />" parsing is supported in html5 as recognizing self closing xml tags is necessary due to people publishing xhtml with an html mime type. But to be clear it's incorrect
919.
by olliej 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking? The annotations say "the bound of the pointer/array p is expression X", but if I subsequently do for (int i.....) { p[i]++; } you have to perform a bounds check unless you can prove
920.
by olliej 3y ago
The attack was apparently via PassKit - a separate process entirely, because messages is explicitly hardened (the whole "blastdoor" (tm) thing is to deal with that). I'm not sure what the actual passkit APIs look like but in
921.
by olliej 3y ago
Sorry I forgot the most recent musk idiocy. X was a stand in for any other functionally always on and receiving service, messaging platforms are the primary example. I'm actually now curious whether the various awful web notification s
922.
by olliej 3y ago
The camera is the thing that had me wanting the updates for a number of years, the year to year improvements were significant for all phones, but I feel we've had 5+ years of the high end phone cameras being basically "good enough
923.
by olliej 3y ago
I get that you're joking, but from the headline i assumed that they did mean physically unsafe - we all know lithium batteries have not 100% ideal failure modes, and I'm sure there are people on HN who remember the swelling laptop
924.
by olliej 3y ago
I think all the reports just say "iMessage" and don't specifically note sms vs iMessage specifically. It's entirely possible that there a carrier side restrictions on allowed image formats, and of course these attackers
925.
by olliej 3y ago
iMessage is a "perpetual source of security concerns" because it is a remotely triggerable target. That's it. If everyone is using message service X, then we'll start seeing more attacks on X. The exploits we've see
926.
by olliej 3y ago
from who's point of view? :D
927.
by olliej 3y ago
no because they've either only dealt with crappy software, or think a single mediocre piece of software is better if it's cross platform, and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong. I've also seen plenty of people who talk a
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by olliej 3y ago
"It looks like you're using an ad blocker" And it looks like you're spying on me. These sites need to stop pretending that there isn't a cost to their users.
929.
by olliej 3y ago
That only works if you don’t have targeted defunding of regulatory bodies - that’s what a lot of these come down to in many countries now. People vote for laws that protect them, then anti-actual-person politicians vote to defund the agenci
930.
by olliej 3y ago
I started electronics as a youngster with the Dick Smith's "Fun Way into Electronics" sets which were really great. They came with a board you could screw into to link components, etc and general introduction to everything in

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