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by willseth 2y ago
The novelty is that the server processing the phone number can perform the lookup without actually knowing the phone number or whether it matched.
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by willseth 2y ago
The original Apple Maps app!
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by willseth 2y ago
My point was that the idea of anti-steering in retail is old and the idea of "gatekeepers" is new. Apple isn't unique. They are behaving exactly how you would expect if a regulator suddenly tries to stop them from doing somet
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by willseth 2y ago
> "You can get this cheaper on website, but will no longer be able to cancel via App Store" This seems like a reasonable compromise. Allow Apple to tell you what you won't get if you leave their store, but otherwise let co
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by willseth 2y ago
Nothing you describe is anti-consumer. Counterfeit or poor quality replacement parts from third parties harm Apple customers. All those efforts improve the reliability of repair service for users and deter criminals and counterfeiters. The
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by willseth 2y ago
Bona fide purchaser is a rare exception that seems like it would never apply to stolen iPhone parts.
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by willseth 2y ago
This is pretty vague. You claim there would be “differences” if it were actually about theft deterrence and that it accomplishes “a ton of other goals” but don’t give an example. The problem with most of the theories about Apple having ulte
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by willseth 2y ago
You can have a right in principle but companies must actively take measures to make parts and documentation available for it to actually be possible to avail yourself of that right. The big deal is over which purposes and to what degree go
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by willseth 2y ago
What do you believe then?
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by willseth 2y ago
Not sure what fair and square means wrt buying stolen property. In most cases you would lose possession of it, in some cases you’re actually criminally liable.
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by willseth 2y ago
When I upgrade my iPhone I will buy this immediately. It's unclear if you already support this, but I would love an option to automatically bake graded footage back down to HEVC. I will never edit most of the video I take, I just want
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by willseth 2y ago
You wouldn’t cite Reddit as a positive example of successfully using Python to run a large scale, high traffic application?
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by willseth 2y ago
I guess Instagram, Threads, Reddit, Uber, and Spotify aren’t serious long term applications.
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by willseth 3y ago
I mean, time series data is different from generic tabular data, so obviously there are impedance differences that are reflected in the query languages. I can see how some people might feel more at home using something even more like SQL, b
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by willseth 3y ago
That’s what LogQL is, which is already in Loki. This is a new feature.
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by willseth 3y ago
> Real competitive markets can actually behave like idealized commodity markets, Sure sometimes, but transaction processing markets are not that simple. They are 2 sided markets, i.e. both the merchant and the merchant's customer ar
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by willseth 3y ago
1. You're missing the very important detail that there are multiple combined fees, and you are trying to compare a rebate for one of those fees to the combined fees. 2. Commodity markets literally are an oversimplification. 3. You are
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by willseth 3y ago
You're making a huge assumption that their markup is the same for credit card transactions! You're also making broad oversimplified assumptions about the what merchants do in response to transaction fees. Multiple implausible thin
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by willseth 3y ago
> That's just the interchange fee, not what merchants are actually paying. What you pay Stripe is for the combination of interchange fees + Stripe's own service fees. The Stripe service component of the fee would be charged r
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by willseth 3y ago
> If the average fee is 3% and the high-end customer is getting 2% back ... You're not picking realistic numbers. The fees range from around 1.5% to ~3%, and the 2.5%-3%+ fees are limited to ~10% of customers. An average fee of 3% d
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by willseth 3y ago
Right, but the interesting part of TFA is about how the rates paid by merchants are higher for the top 10% of cards. Your example assumes the same rate paid by everyone. Because only a small portion of transactions incur the high rate/
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by willseth 3y ago
No, it's taking the merchants' money and giving you back part of it. How much do merchants eat it vs passing on the cost? I don't think that's an easy question to answer and probably varies a lot by merchant type and pro
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by willseth 3y ago
Almost, but dejavu doesn't search nearest-neighbors. It searches for exact matches, so its robustness is essentially based on oversampling. Nearest neighbor search might be a way to achieve similar robustness with fewer fingerprints -
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by willseth 3y ago
Oh, no, it's not for the whole song. For each song, you take N samples, each sample gets converted into a fingerprint, and all of the fingerprints are stored in a database. Then when you query, you perform the same sample-to-fingerprin
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by willseth 3y ago
Last I checked Dejavu doesn't use LSH or any approximations. It simply queries for exact matches, "aligns" them, and determines if there is enough signal from the noise to consider it a match.
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by willseth 3y ago
No, you're making assumptions about what "secured" means in this context and clearly have no understanding of how any of it actually works. None of what you wrote makes sense.
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by willseth 3y ago
> Doesn't that depend on who the developer is? Sure, the amount risk probably varies, but you are talking about going from a Marketplace that implements some level of app review to no-review. It's more risk. > Many of them a
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by willseth 3y ago
> There is no reason for the security measures to be more onerous for the competing thing if they were sufficient for Apple's thing, unless the purpose of the security measures is to prevent competition. Web Distribution means Apple
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by willseth 3y ago
It's not my interpretation, self-proclaimed humble person. Educated people have been discussing this ad nauseam for months. I would not-humbly suggest you actually read up on topics before breathlessly dismissing them deep down an HN c
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by willseth 3y ago
The comment literally says "It's not about security like they've been lying about", when the opposite is actually true. They were implying that Web Distribution was a way to get around security of a Marketplace, which is

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