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by xienze 1y ago
I don’t think banks are deliberately trying to avoid using TOTP, it’s just that they have to cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, the kind for which anything computer-related is basically black magic. SMS is an easy target beca
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by xienze 1y ago
> The point is returning to those levels means abandoning Baltimore, Houston, much of Los Angeles and most of Miami and multi-trillion dollar projects to protect San Francisco, New York and Boston. Here’s my problem with all this stuff.
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by xienze 1y ago
But... he could easily do both. This is why I have such a hard time taking anything said about climate change seriously from the likes of Gore, Gates, and celebrities. They don’t practice what they preach. And it’s not like we’re talking ab
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by xienze 1y ago
> He was all pissed and storming out and said "I bet it was the democrats that make us do that!". If your story is actually true, that man is somehow oblivious to the fact that Democrats are the ones always bringing up the “it’
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by xienze 1y ago
You’d be wrong. It’s coming from the same crowd that claims showing a driver’s license or some other form of ID in order to vote is racist.
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by xienze 1y ago
Sure, they could. But given that the average consumer really doesn’t care that much about picture quality (DVD _still_ outsells Blu-ray for example), why would they bother? Increased storage and bandwidth costs, for what exactly? To cater t
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by xienze 1y ago
> The high end of the frequency spectrum is always very washy, reminiscent of the days of 128kbps mp3s. I have a feeling that’s by design. Firstly for computation purposes, secondly to avoid someone making a studio-quality deepfake song.
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by xienze 1y ago
Completely irrelevant and unfounded. I was responding to this: > Ah yes, one piece of free speech justifies deleting the entire station.
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by xienze 1y ago
They’re like any public institution when funding is cut. Before cuts: “really folks, the public funding we receive is barely anything at all, why even bother, it’s a rounding error in the big scheme of things.” During cuts: “WHAT ARE YOU DO
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by xienze 1y ago
I suppose you’d feel the same if Fox News said J6 was a legitimate political protest, right.
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by xienze 1y ago
Well the comedian said it, case closed.
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by xienze 1y ago
> I think this is to avoid using more charged political terms that are actaully more accurate like fascist, authoritarian, dictator Because those words have been overused to the point of no one caring anymore. For those too young to reme
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by xienze 1y ago
No. The parent was saying that only a portion of China’s 15% would fall off entirely. Meanwhile we have reports that the ports have become ghost towns due to tariffs. Doesn’t that then imply that China’s exports to the US have effectively h
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by xienze 1y ago
Bit pedantic there, aren't you? I suppose as long as a single factory is still open in the US we're doing just fine, it's not zero, right?
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by xienze 1y ago
> gross dollars So, not inflation adjusted. Also doesn't capture the mix of what's being produced, i.e., a shift towards only manufacturing high value items versus being more broadly diversified and manufacturing things along a
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by xienze 1y ago
> Second, the US is ~15% of China's exports and a lot of those exports will continue even with tariffs. But I was told the ports were empty and the shelves would be bare. That implies almost all of that 15% being shut down, doesn’t
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by xienze 1y ago
> I've now been around long enough to remember people saying this 10-20 years ago. Seems to be plenty of manufacturing still happening. “Plenty” but still less overall than 10-20 years ago, 30, 40, 50 years ago. There’s a quite clea
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by xienze 1y ago
Googling says 27 tax jurisdictions in the EU versus over 13000 in the US. Again, not quite as simple as you're making it out to be. And for what? Making the checkout process slightly more convenient for people who lack the mental abili
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by xienze 1y ago
> You never been to LAX if you don't immediately act with a sigh of relief over a direct train route. It's an potential 90 minute+ commute and another 90 minute TSA process for a 90 minute flight. Dreadful. So your estimate is
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by xienze 1y ago
But do they have the same kind of state and local sales tax rules that we do? Again, _you can't know the price to display if you don't know where exactly in the country the package is going_. It is not possible to display the &quo
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by xienze 1y ago
> I wonder if they keep this after Trump's gone, especially for countries whose tariffs were high before Trump. I as a customer would prefer they did. They won't. It's clearly meant to target Trump specifically. It's
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by xienze 1y ago
There's a slight difference between having one tax rate at the country level and having numerous differing state and local sales tax rates. You don't even know what to charge the customer until you know their exact location.
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by xienze 1y ago
LOL I bet in 2010 if someone said that by 2025 the project would be grossly over budget and only have a short segment between nowhere and nowhere to show for 17 years of work you’d have called that propaganda by axe-grinding losers (paid of
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by xienze 2y ago
How do you declare which voice should be used for a particular speaker? And can it created a cloned speaker voice from a sample?
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by xienze 2y ago
> When I was growing up, those were what was harming children at an industrial scale. Have you ever considered that maybe people were right about all that stuff? The problem so many people have is they either aren't forward thinking
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by xienze 2y ago
Ah my mistake, I missed that this was referencing the Republican primaries here. Forgive me, the whole "Harris wasn't elected because Americans are misogynists" trope has been repeated so often I had that burned into my brain
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by xienze 2y ago
And this is why Democrats lost. Why admit and address that perhaps they ran a candidate that was deeply unpopular, even within her own party, when they could just instead blame the “misogynistic Republican” boogeyman.
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by xienze 2y ago
Democrat voters didn’t want anything to do with her during the 2020 primaries and didn’t turn out as much for her in 2024 as they did for Biden in 2020, so who are the real misogynists here?
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by xienze 2y ago
Both things can be true. The AI support bot might have been trained to respond with “yup that’s the new policy”, but the unexpected shitstorm that erupted might have caused the company to backpedal by saying “official policy? Ha ha, no of c
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by xienze 2y ago
Sure. The point is, don't bother letting the apps themselves do TLS termination. Too much work that's better handled by something else.

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