rattlesnakedave

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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
As a consumer, this doesn't really hurt me. I get good products for cheap delivered in two days or less. I don't see how the FTC is helping me here.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
At least with credit cards you have some form of recourse. ACH/Debit cards you're totally hosed.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
They shouldn't be able to set arbitrary fees on different payment methods. They should also not be allowed to advertise an "autopay discount" if they price discriminate different payment methods. It should be a "give us
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
> It enables the US to weaken other countries by draining away their intellectual capacity Are you implying that if they don't emigrate they'll be properly utilized in a way that is a threat to the US's current hegemony? I
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
This has not been my experience. Paying for admission to museums/sporting events I apple pay from safari on my phone then am presented with a QR or a pass to add to my apple wallet. It's really nice and I much prefer it to standin
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
Code is law. The issuer of tokens backing rwas should be able to figure this out and reissue.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
I'm not sure the Sam Kinison approach scales. We need cheaper cleaner energy. Growing food locally just shuffles the variables around for marginal emissions benefit with massive hits to scalability.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
Lens Protocol, some DID stuff like disco.xyz, there are a few that gate access to interesting communities (more than just "here's a jpg"), I think benddao.xyz will be good for borrowing against IP (defined as NFTs). All still
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
Who is this, and why do so many people care they got burned by an (even at the time) obviously overhyped NFT project? There's nothing of substance here. Certainly nothing technically compelling enough to warrant the HN front page.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
There are plenty of legitimate web3 and defi projects out there. The ethereum network, on-chain real world assets like USDC, protocols like Uniswap and AAVE, interesting stuff happening in the DID space. This blog post just reads like someo
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
I'm always incredibly skeptical of any set of tweaks that is supposed to take off-the-shelf software and make it more private (how?) or secure (from what?). I'm sure some of these tweaks do that, but can't help but think they
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
.zip is not an inherent security risk.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
Yes
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
Judging by the amount of infosec dorks I’ve seen kvetching on twitter over .zip, it’s probably blocking less popular TLDs.
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
> We're engineers, we could implement location tracking in a way that only the user being tracked has access to it. Google could store it in the cloud but encrypted with a key Google has no access to. Many other features that people
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
You're leaving out the critical part where the VP of whatever signed off on the press release, then moved on while the feature was implemented as described in the release .
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
> Location History: Location History is a Google account setting that is off by default, and for those that turn it on, we provide simple controls like auto-delete so users can easily delete parts, or all, of their data at any time. Some
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
> The user shouldn't have to understand how technology works, or have a grasp about how hard the problem is. They enabled location tracking, and got mad when their location was tracked. You can really only do so much from the produc
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
To use many of the snapchat filters (specifically ones that have info about the weather, the city you're in, etc.) you have to have your location services enabled, at least while using the app. These are pretty popular, so most people
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by rattlesnakedave 3y ago
No
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
You get to decide what fork you run.
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
Infinitely divisible
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
What have they produced since 1940?
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
It depends on what you mean by "smaller." At the majority of smaller companies, it's just CRUD app stuff, probably in C#, with significantly less freedom (often beholden to very non technical middle management).
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
Ah you’re only scratching the surface. It’s really the “big fork” doing all of the damage.
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
you need some ego. otherwise you won't know where to point your fork to eat.
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
Yes, this is crap, and not useful on modern systems. The only reason many claim to not think so is because they’ve been forced to figure it out, and now want others to as well.
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
Hopefully in a secure location.
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
For the uninitiated: https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurit... Chaumian mints are gaining some popularity in the bitcoin world: https://fedimint.org/
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by rattlesnakedave 4y ago
Bold claim

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