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by zamnos 4y ago
It's not material to your post but the DPAN isn't detokenized, but is sent to the networks (Visa/MC) to be charged. Privacy.com serves the purposes of a per-merchant PAN (read: credit card number) online without having to use
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by zamnos 4y ago
Globally, an interesting question is what happens if you take a date to McDonald's. Living in America, that's gonna be the end of your date. Meanwhile, it depends on where in the rest of the globe you're talking about. There
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by zamnos 4y ago
KDE Connect works as well as airdrop between iOS and Desktop Linux and Android, and isn't a unintrospectable proprietary protocol. (Which is to say honestly it's spotty, but so is Airdrop. It's the underlying Bluetooth that&#
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by zamnos 4y ago
Vertical integration, including hardware production. Apple has the capital to buy Foxconn's and the rest of their supplier's exclusive output on the new process for years . Open source just doesn't have the money to compete
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by zamnos 4y ago
It should probably be noted that OpenAI is also seeking to trademark ChatGPT. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733261&caseType=SERIAL_... (Interestingly enough there's a Chinese ecig/vape company that also
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by zamnos 4y ago
GPT++ is going to have to be better than ChatGPT-3 before people in charge will trust it with such decisions. for a cynical take, it can't really be bribed in its current form, so if you simplistically see politicians a being corrupt,
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by zamnos 4y ago
Reflexively then, good comments are good, no matter what produced them. Or is a quality comment impugned by knowing it came from an LLM? Does it cheapen what it means to be human if other humans think highly of an LLMs attempts at English?
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by zamnos 4y ago
That one is expected, but rather than take a negative take on it, they are trumphs of capitalism - the Internet was supposed to get rid of middlemen and optimize selling, but instead it created whole new markets to more efficiently alloca
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by zamnos 4y ago
> Fashion, like movies is exactly the kind business you would expect to attain a global reach. Why is that so? Fashion is often local to the culture, with different cultures appreciating different, if not opposite things. Eg, tanned skin
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by zamnos 4y ago
Teledildonics is big business these days!
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by zamnos 4y ago
Assuming you didn't get paid 10% off of buying stocks and bonds, it incentivizes actually spending the money on something. Don't forget Tony's recruiting process - whatever your current salary, I'll double it if you come
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by zamnos 4y ago
They've been around just over C years, or since MCMXXII. Yeah I'd say so.
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by zamnos 4y ago
It turns out that the promised innovations never came, not without having to put in way more work training the brain than buyers of a toy wanted to put in. You can buy a Neurosky off eBay to play with for < $200 if you're really int
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by zamnos 4y ago
Likely this one, from 1998. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0960-1317/8/2/028... Unfortunately, Steven Hawking's muscular dystrophy affected his tongue as well so he was unable to us
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by zamnos 4y ago
It requires custom hardware to fit each user's mouth properly, and as a medical device, a doctor's note is required. Or at least way back when. The FDA may have moved on that, enabling this device this time around.
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by zamnos 4y ago
That depends if the 3D intraoral scan can be done by running an app and then putting your (open) mouth over the rear camera with the LED on, and moving it around until it beeps. Or if you have to go into a doctor's office to get it. T
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by zamnos 4y ago
> except 9p isn't encrypted, oops could you somehow mount or pipe the openssl library on top of the network interface via a helper program and then access it that way to encrypt it?
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by zamnos 4y ago
Lightning is a better physical connection than USB-C for phones. It's still reversible, but more importantly, it's more durable as there isn't a tongue inside to get broken. Before you reply saying that you've broken a l
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by zamnos 4y ago
You're right, but for $173mm in funding, you'd think you could build a product for external users that's at least feature parity with a "cooked up" internal project.
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by zamnos 4y ago
In this vein, I've got a Hammerspoon script so I can hit cmd-option-ctrl N, to make a new desktop with a fresh chrome window in it.
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by zamnos 4y ago
Contexts.app for a more traditional alt-tab.
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by zamnos 4y ago
spotlight also does simple math! so convenient.
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by zamnos 4y ago
> You mean all 20 lines of code needed for an animated widget? Sure... let's download a 500 line animation library and use 5% of its functionality. Oh good, I was worried you actually understood what it's like to be new and not
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by zamnos 4y ago
I didn't claim their cat was a business expense, but presented a scenario where it could be considered one. I don't see what their site has to do with my hypothetical.
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by zamnos 4y ago
The energy market in California is highly regulated and the prices consumers pay are fixed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and are designed to cover the utility's costs, plus a "reasonable" profit.
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by zamnos 4y ago
If the government is holding the gear for your show in customs, and is going to hold it for 3 months, but with a payment it can be released next week and your show can happen and you make a lot of money from ticket sales, that sounds very m
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by zamnos 4y ago
Help you keep in touch with friends? You may even have some of those yourself. The 1-to-many nature of the medium may be more efficient, and allowing for pictures (which are worth a thousand words) is also helpful. 4 hours of social media a
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by zamnos 4y ago
Piracy was the funniest part. Originally Apple claimed they needed to control the platform and sign binaries to prevent piracy. Then, someone realized that if the pirated app didn't need to be modified, then the pirates could reuse the
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by zamnos 4y ago
Does that work if some else has used that phone number to register an account already?
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by zamnos 4y ago
Orrrrr Signal could just fix their shit. Requiring phone numbers for this long is borderline suspicious.

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