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by tpxl 2y ago
The market going belly up with prices falling off a cliff would be just about the best thing to happen to young families in the last decade, financially.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Employers do this with wages. They pool all their wage data then refuse to pay more than their oracle suggests.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Free-form text like Reddit posts contains a whole load of PII. Since there is absolutely no regard for what goes into a LLM, naturally, they also contain this PII.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Locks protect the user, captcha protects the company.
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by tpxl 2y ago
A script kiddie downloads a script that does it for them. The hard work of solving captchas automatically was already done, for free (linked in this very thread).
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by tpxl 2y ago
Captcha is nothing like a lock. It's a little guy that gives you a run around before you get to insert your key. It does very little to stop the bad actors (if there's a payday at the other end of the runaround, they'll do it
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by tpxl 2y ago
> You are allowed to buy third party auto parts They're working damn hard to prevent that with signing.
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by tpxl 2y ago
> As a product manager of a SaaS Enterprise application, I value data to improve the product. You can gather about 100% of useful data for improving SaaS Enterprise applications without selling out every single one of your users to Googl
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by tpxl 2y ago
I try to avoid having a printer, but I have a kid and kids want coloring books and need printed homework assignments.
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by tpxl 3y ago
> which is worse: not getting cash into the economy or having to try to claw back fraudulent dispersals? There isn’t an easy answer to this. There is an easy answer to this that was obvious from the start. Give people money instead of bu
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by tpxl 3y ago
> the devices as sold and authorized to be on the road (or in patients' hospital rooms) don't get modified in dangerous ways What use is preventing dangerous modifications, when unmodified devices contain critical safety bugs,
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by tpxl 3y ago
Perhaps if malicious countries are engaging in cybercrime in your country, you should disconnect them from your countries internet/phone connections. This would get them to behave right quick or suffer the effects of sanctions. It ain&
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by tpxl 3y ago
I'm 97% certain one of these days a judge is going to set a precedent that allows this by going "welp, it would cost too much to untangle this mess, so we'll just allow it".
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by tpxl 3y ago
I would rather have governments punish criminals operating phishing sites, C2 and botnets, since, you know, it's _illegal_.
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by tpxl 3y ago
Anything specific you like besides changing icons that didn't need to be changed (to worse icons nonetheless), removing text that didn't need to be removed and lower information density in general?
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by tpxl 3y ago
> When I buy something, I expect me to own it Well there's your problem, you never bought the thing. They use the language like 'buy' and 'sell', but in reality you're renting. This should be illegal IMO.
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by tpxl 3y ago
I'm sorry, 170k$ is a low salary?
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by tpxl 3y ago
Triple-A is a designation given to games published by big studios.
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by tpxl 3y ago
FWIW, Dave The Diver has been published by Nexon which is AAA.
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by tpxl 3y ago
> If that's even a thing. You'll be happy to learn IEE 802.11bf standardized wifi sensing granular enough to do gesture detection. When that becomes ubiquitous in ISP provided routers, your friendly neighbourhood police will be
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by tpxl 3y ago
Tax deductions for single employed people, married couples and married couples with children, without capital gains, are stupid simple and also cover the majority of the population.
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by tpxl 3y ago
Apple has control over which apps they allow. Even with alternate payment methods they can still enforce 1 click cancel, they just don't want to because money.
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by tpxl 3y ago
Are you looking at b2b sites perhaps? Afaik, in Germany, you can show b2b prices without VAT.
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by tpxl 3y ago
YCombinator has business in Europe and thus is within reach of European legislation.
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by tpxl 3y ago
1 and 4 have an incentive not to keep your data, munch it into AI/ML, sell it to advertisers, governments, anyone who asks. 2 and 3 have absolutely no incentive not to lose your data. When was the last time any company got seriously hu
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by tpxl 3y ago
> But that also requires an O(n) walk through the input... Compressing requires an O(n) walk through the input either way.
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by tpxl 3y ago
> At least AGPL etc are well understood Is AGPL well understood? I thought people were still arguing whether you have to open source your whole company if you dare change a single line of AGPL code.
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by tpxl 3y ago
> Assuming they don't reproduce large sections of copyrighted works They do (or did). They showed the text around the search term, around a page or so, which made it possible to reconstruct the whole book without that much effort.
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by tpxl 3y ago
> They're already doing something (invisible as it may be). They can definitely do a better job. But without companies such as Telesign, fraud losses would far, far worse. Until banks accept that they got defrauded, not you, whateve
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by tpxl 3y ago
The classic "doing the right thing takes resources, so we'll do the wrong thing".

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