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by xondono 5y ago
It’s adding options to developers, not necessarily to users. The Apple and Google payment systems were in effect a market driven standards, now we’ll have a soup of systems on a race to the bottom on a very sensitive part of the ecosystem.
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by xondono 5y ago
By outlawing what a lot of consumers considered a very useful feature, and that is limiting the choices of developers. Developers may not like it, but there’s a value in restrictions, especially in something as sensitive as payments. With
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by xondono 5y ago
In the end it was bound to happen, consumers always lose to special interests, even if app devs don’t want to admit they are one.
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by xondono 5y ago
Except that there’s an incentive to force users into using other services. If the choice is left to developers, each developer will choose what suits him best.
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by xondono 5y ago
What? Google and Apple are giving them devs access to something they built. That is not a tax. “Taxation is theft” is a very simple concept. If I don’t pay my taxes, people with guns come to my house, even if I don’t use public services.
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by xondono 5y ago
You do need to own a house to suffer the consequences of bad zoning policies, if owning prices go up, rent goes up as well. Not to mention that when owning prices are high, there’s a bigger incentive for local governments to use every oppor
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by xondono 5y ago
I don't understand what is innovative or new about this, and I'm highly dubious of the quoted numbers. "33% more efficient" is repeated in several company documents and videos, but I can't find the baseline for that
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by xondono 5y ago
It's not unique to MRIs, but it's one of the niche applications where this happens. Working in certain environments (IIRC >2T) requires special training, that include things like "slow walking", since moving too fast
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by xondono 5y ago
> This stuff gets measured all the time, also for equipment that is to be used in aerospace and hospitals... They only measure dynamic magnetic fields (i.e. electromagnetic fields). There are essentially no regulatory limits in static
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by xondono 5y ago
For anyone interested in following some of the themes of this article, I always recommend Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education.
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by xondono 5y ago
> Our legal system does not collapse as soon as it is tasked with determining which harm is more important to prevent. No, it just sucks at drawing lines and harms thousands if not millions of innocent bystanders.
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by xondono 5y ago
The problem with this argument is that you can use it to also ban tobacco, and alcohol, and sugar, and red meat, and then you can move to things like sports, and start banning bungee jumping and rock climbing,… There’s no obvious way to dra
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by xondono 5y ago
> One of many reasons I pay Google to host my email rather than use a free Gmail - when you are generating a non-negligible revenue stream suddenly companies' willingness to answer emails and pick up phones increases. If you think t
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by xondono 5y ago
While I see the possibility of someone at the insurance company being the “motivated party” to fudge with the data, I agree that it’s difficult to see how one would do about it if one does not know what the researchers would look at. And if
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by xondono 5y ago
If you think those two are equivalent you are out of your mind.
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by xondono 5y ago
“Decent controlled study” might be a little of a stretch for something that’s basically self reported and has effect sizes this small (<20%).
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by xondono 5y ago
> As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX LaTex is really powerful when you get to a certain point, but unless you’ve tinkered with it until you reach that point, it’s a PITA. To me the number 1 advantage
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by xondono 5y ago
Minimalism is a weird thing. Pretty much no one would consider my home minimalist, with my whole living room to the brim with lego and spaceship posters and plants and flowers, but I would buy them a new if they weren’t there, and there’s n
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by xondono 5y ago
Because discovering a “new bias”, like discovering new market failures, is an instant path to book authorship and possibly the nobel. A lot of them could frankly be considered versions of the same bias, or combinations of some of them. Othe
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by xondono 5y ago
> Virginia Tech researchers led by Dr. Wang have collected a number of publicly available password datasets from the Internet in January 2017. The datasets were obtained from various online forums and data archives. It looks like they ju
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by xondono 5y ago
> I would be fine with this in some circumstances. Maybe it’s just a matter of difference of criteria, but I would certainly not be fine with this. You have a lot of ways to prevent this from happening, and it only opens an attack surf
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by xondono 5y ago
> Actually a sensitive product is exactly where this does NOT make sense. The idea that anyone except a tiny infinitesimal minority of all people should self host is ridiculous. Even a lot of people with IT jobs have not enough time or k
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by xondono 5y ago
> That said, people arguing that lastpass is better then 1password, given that lastpass has access to your passwords Don’t get me wrong, I hate Lastpass with an unprecedented rage for something that should be a simple utility (I’m forced
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by xondono 5y ago
-Multiplaform support -Password sharing There’s some nice “sanity checks” on all passwords, manual or generated, like reused password warnings and by default it checks your logins at haveibeenpwned, which is a nice to have.
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by xondono 5y ago
I honestly have 0 problems with this. They’ve gone over and beyond to support old licences far longer than it could be expected, and a password manager is the kind of sensitive and ubiquitous product for which SaS actually makes sense. Anyo
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by xondono 5y ago
If their router login page has been indexed, then the user most likely don’t know what they are doing. It’s fine to expose router configuration (although it’s not ideal), but if you know that you are doing, you’ll at least place it behind
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by xondono 5y ago
That’s the point of GP. It’s not true, but it sounds reasonable .
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Given how most spanish companies work, more than likely.
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And my point is that the only way to provide visibility over what is being looked without distributing the material would be to implement some type of ZKP
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by xondono 5y ago
Yes, that’s great, but that’s not how kids work, especially 13yo..

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