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by p49k 9y ago
Apparently, they are ramping up because they’re working, unfortunately: millions of dollars have been scammed from mostly older Chinese immigrants over the past few months as a result of these calls.
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by p49k 9y ago
Maybe that’s part of the technique to trip up Google’s spam filters, as Google might have assumed that spammers would never bcc the sender and thus treat such mails as more likely to be legitimate.
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by p49k 9y ago
> to know that my stuff isn't gonna be held ransom over some contrived baloney Like accidentally changing the name on a kindle to “baba”? https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/5gvgdl/using_a_am
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by p49k 9y ago
When Americans are not allowed to criticize their own government without fearing retribution, you can put them in the same group as the other two. Until then, you’re being absurd.
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by p49k 9y ago
Does XMPP support seamless E2E encryption?
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by p49k 9y ago
They have a monopoly in many areas of the US.
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by p49k 9y ago
It’s pretty trivial to spoof caller ID though; there is basically zero security that prevents it from happening and many apps that make it easy.
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by p49k 9y ago
You could always opt out of the white pages. Not the case here.
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by p49k 9y ago
They are already much better members of the tech community than most car manufacturers. I have to make an appointment with my dealer and leave my car there for a few hours if I want a map update for my navigation system and I have to pay an
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by p49k 9y ago
An effective delta-based update strategy requires planning and implementation that anticipates such a system; otherwise you’re going to end up with diffs that are not significantly smaller than the original files.
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by p49k 9y ago
While you’re not wrong, it’s not necessarily under Tesla’s control if they can do so (do they build and manage their own map data files?) and even if it was, managing an update that supports delta patches is its own headache that comes with
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by p49k 9y ago
GMail supposedly downloads, caches and proxies all images to prevent tracking: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail...
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by p49k 9y ago
> I have yet to see any publisher who is actually changing what they are doing. Every single media site that I visit is still loading tons of 3rd party trackers. They are still not asking people for consent... I’m pretty sure the reason
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by p49k 9y ago
While I don’t disagree, I wonder how much harm we should allow our own citizens to endure in terms of the abuse of their data while we wait for someone else’s experiment to conclude.
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by p49k 9y ago
The biggest feature for me that no one has replicated is the ability to create events with extremely customizable privacy preferences in which you know people will get the invite, even if they’ve changed phone numbers (in other words, some
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by p49k 9y ago
Has anyone seen a product that was functional, polished, and enjoyable to use that would be capable of replacing Facebook? I haven't. Diaspora, Mastodon, Ello are the only things that I can think of, and none of them come close to matc
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by p49k 9y ago
This actually sounds reasonable; most other messaging programs do the same in order to provide previews, thumbnail images, scan for malicious links or spam, etc.
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by p49k 9y ago
This article is a dupe of another on the front page which does essentially say that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750976
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by p49k 9y ago
He got downvoted because he has no understanding of how expensive it is to build a network of public wi-fi hotspots, and compared it to sticking his router beside his window and sharing his home broadband connection. Literally everything ab
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by p49k 9y ago
But my point is that if we implement a policy to rollback but otherwise not punish executives who sell stock right before an event like this (notwithstanding any actual other crimes related to insider trading that could be prosecuted separa
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by p49k 9y ago
You're again missing the entire point of this conversation. Yes, the evidence was clear in the case of the CIO, and everything worked as it should in the case of that one person. But as craigc noted, three other executives managed to s
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by p49k 9y ago
This entire thread is focused on the one situation where the stock price doesn't take care of it: When an employee sells their stock before a major price drop in a way that it's unclear if the employee knew about the reason behi
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by p49k 9y ago
The study you’re referencing on not being able to distinguish white and red wine was performed on undergraduate college students, not wine tasting experts.
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by p49k 9y ago
To zero out someone’s gains in this situation, as suggested by the parent poster in cases where no proof exists, would simply be a regulation to hold one financially responsible for his/her company’s actions. Guilt or innocence doesn’t
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by p49k 9y ago
> Compelling evidence The thing is that the evidence is not compelling at all. It relies on sketchy cell phone evidence and the witness of a guy who told three entirely different versions of his story. The cell phone evidence is so bad t
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by p49k 9y ago
I don’t think he’s innocent, I think there’s not enough info, and people are being intellectually lazy in proclaiming him guilty. It’s a common and dangerous trend in the US and I think it’s one of the reasons why so many innocent people ar
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by p49k 9y ago
His fingerprints were on a map in her car. He was her boyfriend, so it’s no surprise that some of his fingerprints would be there. It has no actual connection to anything related to the murder. I spent some time looking into this case as we
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by p49k 9y ago
There was no physical evidence in the case.
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by p49k 9y ago
Good summary/explanation of this drama here: https://np.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/87myd2/sam_harris...
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by p49k 9y ago
In other words, he was uncomfortable about someone using his personal information for advertising purposes.

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