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by xondono 6y ago
ATMs generally keep the money in locked boxes that are detachable. This boxes are designed for transport, and offer very little in terms of security. The blast pops the box out, then the box can be opened with regular worshop tools in a saf
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by xondono 6y ago
1) I can’t, that’s the point of a protection. When protections can be sidestepped, users are at risk. The warnings from Windows about risky software protect mostly no one, since most users learn that by clicking “Accept”, they get what they
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by xondono 6y ago
> Hell, in US even guns are sold in supermarkets so that kids can kill other kids at school and nobody stops them How well is that working for you? > The rhetoric of the "old parents that can't help themselves" is wrong
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by xondono 6y ago
I do PCB layout, which is way more like factorio. Still I enjoy the game a lot.
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by xondono 6y ago
I’ve seen a lot of comments similar to “I don’t understand how users can be in favor of this”. I’m not just in favor, I love that they do that. Yes, for the small percentage of the population that knows what’s doing (which nicely overlaps
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by xondono 6y ago
it has a permanently predictable rate of inflation It’s volatility would suggest otherwise. As many others have commented here an in other places, the fact that supply is predictable is not enough, demand is a factor too.
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by xondono 6y ago
Yes, and google has been observed several times to ignore the robots.txt file
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by xondono 6y ago
Well, I’ve never known any colloquial use of “network effects”, it’s quite the technical term with well defined meaning.
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by xondono 6y ago
I didn't, think of it this way: In the first experiment I can choose if I'd rather have online (59$) or print version(125$). Either way I'm risking the disappointment of taking the wrong choice, or I can choose online for 59$
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by xondono 6y ago
If you make me chose right now between online and print, I need to think which of those suits me better, will I read on my phone? Would I rather have the physical thing and have some rest time from the screens? If there’s an easy to pick of
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by xondono 6y ago
Maybe it's just me, but reflecting on old memories has shown me how unreliable the human memory is, so nowadays I just try to rely as little as possible in my own memory. I also find it takes a "computational" toll on my thin
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by xondono 6y ago
I've been very interested in the behavioural economics field in general, but for some reason I always find that Ariely tends to jump too fast to conclusions. Most of his experiments I read about have other explanations that fit the dat
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by xondono 6y ago
I was actually wondering if the font really looked similar to comic sans intentionally. I was already thinking "might that be a reason to why it's unconciously used a lot?"
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by xondono 6y ago
The problem is that most people aren't dyslexic. My first impresion of this is that it might be a good idea to add a button to my blog changing the fonts with this one for accessibility. Aside from the obvious cost to me (and limited b
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by xondono 6y ago
That’s one of the things I miss the most of driving through america. Being able to make your car honk from your remote is magic to someone like my that always forgets where the car was parked. I’ve tried to see if I could turn that featur
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by xondono 6y ago
But even that isn’t that clear either. Here in Spain the right wing has accepted and defended abortion (but they don’t want social security to pay for it), but it’s primarily the left that opposes sex work and surrogation. Why we’re still c
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by xondono 6y ago
While it seems quite absurd, most governments make this kinds of decisions. For instance, France has used similar tactics when rumors of Pepsi buying Danone came to light.
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by xondono 6y ago
I didn’t say you need to ban all tracking, in fact I’d love that Apple is doing this without regulators having to intervene. The dangers of cars are pretty obvious, the dangers of tracking are not. And I disagree that these are “low harm”,
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by xondono 6y ago
Targeted ads don’t only serve you with useful information, they serve you targeted anything . - For instance, if you are a decision maker in a company, buying targeted ads across platforms is an amazingly effective way of changing your opi
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by xondono 6y ago
Real online communities like specialty webs or youtube channels are a WAY better value compared to running fb ads
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by xondono 6y ago
Pretty much everyone that told me “I don’t care” changed their opinion when they saw the kind of tricks it allows knowledgeable people to do to them.
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by xondono 6y ago
I had an iphone 4, when it was time to upgrade, I saw the prices as too high, so I opted for a nexus 5. 6 months later I had already switched. It was supposed to be a highly polished Google phone, and yet it had very weird bugs. As an examp
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by xondono 6y ago
You can go to college in most countries in Europe even if you are a 40yo High school dropout for little money compared with US prices (2500€/year). The real difference is that in general you get what you pay for, and most college educa
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by xondono 6y ago
Am I the only one that can’t reach the “save and exit” privacy button on mobile? It’s hard for me to think that this is not intentional when the “Accept all” is usable but the alternative isn’t...
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by xondono 6y ago
They don’t use the calendar numbering, but I don’t really know why
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by xondono 6y ago
They don’t really need to. Nvidia will have to validate and launch all of it’s PCIe4 on Epyc/Ryzen processors, so it’s not like AMD won’t benefit from the Deep Learning hype
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by xondono 6y ago
Agreed, but there’s a lot to say about what’s the default and how you are supposed to opt-out. If Google is artificially inflating opt-out costs for the user, then that’s something to watch for.
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by xondono 6y ago
I’m hoping that at some point in the future that’s what password managers will become, client certificate managers.
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by xondono 6y ago
To me the most worrying is that while I intellectually know this is bad, emotionally it gets a solid “meh” from me. Google is desensitizing us to this kind of bad behavior, to the point that this sounds like it’s only half the story, or not
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by xondono 6y ago
A lot of comments here point out to some of the more obvious flaws of the article. To me what shocks me the most is that there isn’t even any discussion on “what is success”. The author apparently measures success just by net worth, which I

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