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PINs seem like the wrong focus?

The first thing to know is that payment cards have two almost unrelated systems, named Authorization and Settlement. Authorization is about protecting the card company from crooked card holders by validating that the card holder authorized this transaction. It's optional, and it has some modern technologies like EMV (Europay/Mastercard/Visa the joint system known for the presence of a chip on your card) which could enable PIN verification if you wanted.

Settlement is the part that moves money from your account to a merchant's account, it's childishly simple and it is run almost entirely on the honour system like it was when it was invented last century. A merchant says card 1234 5678 9012 3456 was used to pay them $280, the card company either accepts that and moves $280 from the account associated with that card to the account for the merchant, or they refuse. The merchant can provide more information, but they don't have to and will usually get paid regardless.

The fancy modern technology for Authorization makes no difference to Settlement. If the bank receives a Settlement for a transaction supposedly made with a card you actually tossed into the mouth of an active volcano a month earlier, the only thing likely to stop that getting paid is if you call the bank and insist you made no such transaction, confident that the merchant doesn't have evidence to the contrary because duh, that card was destroyed a month ago.

Check your statements. Read every line item, dispute anything you don't recognise. Even if you use (for example) Apple Pay every single time, your bank is under no obligation to treat a $150 payment for scratch offs supposedly made with a mag stripe card on the far side of the country as suspicious and block it. They might, but they might not, that's on you.

The volume of fraud is driven by easy ways to steal a shared "secret" that should never have existed (a card number, the only thing truly needed for Settlement) and then use that to fraudulently obtain things of value. PINs don't really impact that, they're a defence against a much rarer crime - theft of the card. A pickpocket or burglar doesn't know your PIN. But pickpockets do not steal millions of cards at a time.

If you have a card, with a PIN, and you used that card, with a PIN, at Dickey's, there is every chance you're vulnerable as a result of this anyway. Do the crooks get your PIN? Nope. But chances are your priority wasn't keeping a four digit number secret but not losing your money.
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Yeah, I'm getting lots of CORS related errors for api.twitter.com using Firefox on Windows.
The problem is actually economical IMO; Fools don’t have a skin in the game, and don’t lose anything from having false beliefs. They would be perfectly capable of discerning the nonflatness of Earth if their lives depended on it.
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97% success is very bad when the number of satellite is so high that it causes space junk, yes. See here:
https://twitter.com/ProfHughLewis/status/1312021242900295688
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24794344
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Privacy changes yesterday: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/131645697504821248...

Could this be related?
Reminds me of back in the '90s when I tracked down the source of a users e-mail being blocked because it contained the word "specialist" and that word contains the boner pill name "cialis"...
The alternate assumption is that both sides are being hacked by a third party, but the third party only releases hacked info from one side...
More people working from home maybe have a small impact for local restaurant/pubs etc. but i doubt it will be significant enough to revive somewhere with a "non-existent" local community.

The reason food/drink service does so well around offices is that there are 1000s of people in multi-floor offices in one area. All within 5-20mins walk of good places to go.

An average town may have more people, but they are spread over miles in houses or flats. Unless you live right in the town centre the convenience of going out to eat/drink is just not the same.

Popping out after work with friends (or just colleagues) is convenient for everyone as well. At home you have to round up your mates and all agree on a time.
It is not just "some people are stupid", that is too small scale thinking. We are constantly assaulted by algorithms trained to manipulate people, trained off of millions of A/B tests and microinteractions, constantly being tweaked using real psychological research and real manipulation techniques. There are real weaknesses in the human mind, and we have to constantly be on guard to avoid them being exploited. For most people it is simply too much effort to go through life and read every comment as if it is trying to trick you. They just want entertainment, and that's totally fair.
This very release is supposed to sort the speed issues out. Hopefully it does, because that's been my only complaint.

If you otherwise liked it, it might be worth taking a second look.
You can also argue that Twilio+The Trade Desk makes total sense:

Enterprises could have a single point of truth (Segment) and target existing and potential customers via sms (Twilio), email (SendGrid) and digital ads (The Trade Desk).
> projector at the ground in front of a Tesla and it crosses into oncoming traffic

I don't understand why people come up with all these ridiculous "what if" ideas against autonomous cars as if it's anything new.

It's already exceedingly easy to foul up a human driver. Stand next to a freeway and hold up a stop sign. Drop a foam mannequin from a bridge over the road. Paint some bogus lane lines. Shine a laser at their face.

Any of the above will cause accidents with humans, and you'll be arrested and charged with a felony. Deliberate attempts to compromise autonomous car systems carrying humans inside should be treated no differently.
Not necessarily mandating LIDAR but at least mandating functional redundancy for self-driving / driving assistance. I'm guessing that won't happen until the deaths start piling up though.
Galaxy s3 has a removable battery, and it's thinner than most phones you get now.
Fully agree. I have a small business that spends 2k/y on Adwords, and support is an absolute joke. I have a significant stake in another that spends 50k/y, and support is the same - terrible. And it's even a challenge to get the bad support - you've got to hunt and jump through hoops to get to communicate with an actual human.

I've heard support is much better for GCP - but for me, the whole Google brand is tarnished, and because of my experiences with Adwords, I always choose Azure and/or AWS over GCP.
Yep. I’ve seen negative Glassdoor reviews disappear from a company I worked at a few years ago (I took screenshots as backup).

Scraping the site on a regular basis and taking screenshots is the only way to stop them from scrubbing the reviews.
Investigation status page: https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/wsxhhcv26r9n
Uh, yeah. Make your own website. Why does it have to be social?
I feel it's a stretch to call Dickey's a BBQ place given my experience of the food there. Maybe a roast-beef place.
What forum should he be outed in exactly?
Unresolved Incident: Investigating Irregularity with Twitter APIs
If you can't seem to send a tweet (like me) you're not alone it seems, see: https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/wsxhhcv26r9n
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"Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."
The consequences of free speech is another beast altogether to be sure.
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You can't control what people are interested in, what they want to know more about.
I remember people saying that of OS X when I bought my first Mac in 2002 -- my response "well, might as well enjoy a few years of not being targeted by malware while I can..."
One of the best pieces of advice I have taken recently is "stop using anger as entertainment" (you can substitute "incredulity", "smugness" or "schadenfreude" for "anger" to make it more applicable to the websites you listed).
> Some of my comments are grayed out because people are angry with Apple and like you, some people perceive me to be defending Apple, largely because I’m not joining in with the condemnation.

Quite the convenient narrative you have there.
No, it's because you make no sense and you are trying to defend the indefensible.
> Throughout most of history people have believed wildly incorrect things, yet civilization carries on.

Society has mostly been run by autocratic systems. If we are determined to make democracy work, conspiracy and anti-fact ideologies are existential threats.
I like the way Twitter is now, if you configure your settings correctly. You see all the top-level Tweets made by the users you follow. In chronological order. And nothing else. Of course, this includes retweets. If you don't want to see retweets from one of the users you follow, you can specifically disable retweets from that user.
So they are trying to emulate Yelp's business model now? Good luck to them.
You must have missed the DOJ filing against Yale last week. Removed in <30 minutes due to comments.
When radio came the first few decades were great, but soon more and more people started to broadcast and corrupting music started to harm society. People demanded that government and only government could artfully decide whom aught to be allowed to speak to the masses and censors cracked down on unlicensed radio. Several decades later however and the enthusiasm for radio censoring lost it appeal.

When television came we also had a few early decades where everything were great. There existed one or two stations, and that was it. Then suddenly a flood of people and companies started to use this new technology and harmful video nasty with violent and nude content started to hit society and people cried out once again for government to start censoring and determining whom aught to be allowed to speak to the masses. Several decades again and the enthusiasm for TV and movie censoring lost it charm.

Then Internet came and everything was fine the first few decades with only a few major websites like yahoo and myspace. Then 4chan and 8chan was created and quickly people want censoring again, but this time its not the government who should determine who aught to be allowed to speak to the masses but rather a handful of companies in charge of social networks and cloud services. This is where we are now. In a few decades, I predict the enthusiasm for Internet censorship will drop a bit as it done for all previous technologies that enables unregulated amplification of speech.
Everything nice in the US exists as a result of Americans' labor.
Hard to say if they downvoted for the joke, or they just stopped reading at "Indeed they do". I'll say I stopped reading until I saw the reply.
SMS would still appear in iOS native Messages app, and sync with Macs via Continuity.
Don't conflate 'religion' with 'arbitrary beliefs'.

Of course within religion there is going to be a lot of 'arbitrary belief', but that's not what it is essentially. 'Parables' etc. are a function of how it's communicated and propagated, ironically, for the 'dumber folks' who 'need something material to believe in' and for whom more abstract concepts don't provide solace.

Religion is a metaphysical perspective of existence, one based on spirituality from which we develop our humanity, morality etc. and none of that is irrational.

Our earliest civilizations often confounded civic norms, civil law, religion, faith, cultural history etc. into the same sphere, from that you get things like the Torah for example (i.e. 'The Law') which is like a legal code, moral code, civic code, national history rolled into one.

Since the Common Era (i.e. about Jesus' time) religion has developed into a more strictly moral and spiritual sphere, less so the core civic stuff, but it still lays at the foundation of all of our institutions ... especially ironically our University system, and partly medical systems depending where you're from.

Our current scientifically materialist 'belief' whereupon we are all merely bags of tiny particles, randomly interacting in accordance with a few 'known forces' - which almost by definition denies the very existence of things which we otherwise believe exist - like 'life', 'love', 'intelligence' etc. is a pretty bizarre bit of irrationality that we somehow don't bother ourselves much about.

Barack Obama along with the majority of our leaders of all kinds are religious and not in the Machiavellian 'fake' sense whereby he 'need to appear religious to get elected', so let's not write them off as idiots and contemplate maybe our crude and easy dismissal is too often misplaced.

Yes, ideological conformism and orthodoxy are going to appeal to certain groups, and that's nice point, but it would be confusing the issue.

And of course ... we all have some truly irrational beliefs.
the sentence immediately following the one you quoted asserts as much. are you agreeing or trying to make the same point with different words?
That's not how it works in reality, in reality a lot of gullible people who before internet would have spend their whole lives without hearing the "flat earth theory" now have access to internet and are quickly influenced by a lot of stupid theories because they are pretty bad at distinguishing bad ones from good ones; although just to be clear that is more a failure of the education system than anything else (e.g Japan has near 0 flat-earthers unlike America)
Classic. "Aspen, I show 1,942 knots."
yup, switched from Windows 3.1 to Slackware (1.2.8 kernel) in August 1995 because my machine was too slow to run Win95.

(and I've been using OS X on the desktop longer than both of those combined, at this point)
I too started the Internet in the 90s and I was post 20 then.

I also have seen "weaponized trolling" in the last ten years that seems to make the world a good deal worse. The way climate change denial has gotten legs from combination of the average person's poor thinking and the particular dynamics of electronic communication. I see bots on my FB feed activating now, pushing propaganda that makes me chuckle but certainly push some morons to actions.

Putting aside the point that Twitter/FB own the medium. Someone is going to manage any given medium. Is "throttling" censorship? Because the NY Post story never was made unavailable, it was just throttled, it just slowed down, slowed down enough that the rebuttal was made available at the same rate as the original story.

There are junctures where "free speech" can't really be a criteria - Oliver Wendel Holmes' "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is the epitome of such examples (and these can be misused, in fact Holmes' made his example to misuse it, justifying repression against those who oppose WWI). Is spread viral false news on the eve of an election in the "fire" or the "freedom" category? Honestly, throttling seems like a good compromise if we're looking for the simple free availability of information. But when information is the coordination, activation and/or manipulation of people at scale, talking about freedom stops meaning a lot.

Suppose there's a fire, and a hurricane, and an epidemic and an economic crisis and different things shouted will save some people and trample other people. What category is "shouting" "you don't need a mask, come shop before I go bankrupt"? Etc.
Incident status page: https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/wsxhhcv26r9n
Right, Oracle didn't renew the trademark, and then Cloudflare registered it.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-network-is-the-computer/
Stole the words out of my... keyboard.

Wait till people who love WFH say "You just need the proper setup".

Yes, I need a proper setup. An office, please.
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Except for the fact that section 230 argues they shouldnt be censoring anything. So they should be liable to be sued for doing things like this like any other publication.
Linux kernel ABI is stable as rock.

To answer your question, I'm talking about Linux userspace ABI - you can't rely on ABI of essential libraries, openssl for example. That's why docker was born back then.
Because you're spouting off about abolishing the police when a tiny fraction of people actually want to do that, much less elected officials. That any number of elected officials CONDONE rioting. It frustrates me to no end that people will hear one boogeyman then start talking about the end of civilization.
Sorry I just fail to understand the conservatives' values here. They will go to the supreme court to fight for their right not to sell cupcakes to gay people but then turn around and demand to control what twitter does with their servers.
Did they try the same with unwitting human drivers?
Even if that scenario is true, there is zero evidence to corroborate it, nor has there been any concluded official investigation into the matter. I don't think it's fair for Twitter to execute that portion of their policy based on assumption alone.
My understanding is that that only applies to software written by government employees. Put more rhetorically: if the government pays for Windows (which it does), does that mean you can access the Windows source code via FOIA request?
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I'm not sure I agree with the core phenomenon that the author is trying to explain.

Is it really people on average are getting stupider - or just people on the internet? Because yeah, coherent discussion on internet has been on the decline ever since Twitter got popular.

I haven't seen people in my real life have become less intelligent, though many have become more skeptical and outspoken. People on the left are skeptical towards police and religious and financial institutions, and people on the right are becoming more skeptical of news media and academics. The real difference here, which is probably influencing the author's take - is that many liberals regard skepticism towards moral authority is seen as healthy, and skepticism towards intellectual authority as stupidity (and for others, it's vice versa)

It's not that clean cut though, both sides have actually fed into each other with this skepticism - which entrenches it further. I grew up watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Colbert Report every night. Sure they mocked politicians, but they mocked news reporters just as often. Fox News was a big chunk of it - but nobody was spared. I spent a decade watching talking heads from every network lie, get called out, and then lie some more.

Likewise, while many of the right line up to "support the police" - is there really any greater sign of distrust for authority than gun ownership? I've talked with plenty of gun owners, and the reasons most admit to owning guns are as follows:

1. They're worried they'll be in trouble and cops wouldn't respond in time to help them.
2. They're afraid the government will become tyrannical

In either case, those reasons betray the underlying belief that even at it's best - the government and it's officials (cops) are not more capable of enforcing personal law and order than an individual is, and at worst - violence might be required to stop government officials.

So sure it's weird, but in a way, this could just be what it's like when people of all backgrounds start to look more critically at flawed institutions. Many of these people are excited to see that others who are "waking up" (ie, realizing that things are flawed) and are feeding into that energy online. It's similar to a religious fervor like the great awakening. Once the novelty of it all has passed, people will either start working towards actual change, or they'll be distracted by something else.
There is also an old 4chan truism from the 2010s for that, "It's Still Shitposting Even If You Are Being Ironic", also one of the most overused 4chan meme of all time, with hundreds of cute image macros [0].

Speaking of 4chan, I found its trolling and politics are extremely objectionable, yet there's a lot of psychology and sociology to be learned here, especially the mechanisms commonly found in an online community. QAnon is an excellent case study on how a self-organized online community can create an influential meme that eventually affected mass psychology.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-still-shitposting-even-if...
Seems like an overreaction. No one has actually abolished any police force in the U.S., AFAIK. The Minneapolis city council made some noise about it, but most of them regret it and nothing has come of it.

Any guns you own are statistically more likely to kill/injure your family than protect them.
You're still free to send a text, write a letter, call. Twitter and facebook aren't public utilities.

I saw an interesting comparison the other day. If this was a message board from the early 2000s, and the moderator was deleting posts, you move on, not throw a giant fit about free speech using some one else server.
https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ#Why_use_ReactOS.3F

> There is currently no other operating system that implements the kernel architecture design of MS Windows NT™ so if you are unhappy with the direction or goal of Windows there is little real alternative. ReactOS was started as a “clone” of Windows NT to alleviate this situation. To demonstrate the concept of o/s cloning, GNU/Linux is the best for comparison here: Linux was started as a “clone” of Minix and Unix, eventually going on to be a Unix replacement.

...

> Linux+Wine is never going to be a complete replacement for a full Windows system. It's not only because of Linux (despite some user-friendly Linux distributions out there) and not only because many users might find a transition to Linux/BSD difficult but it is largely due to design and implementation decisions of Linux and Wine architectures which prevent 100% compatibility.

You aren't the audience, in other words.
it's been in alpha for 24 years

Reading stuff like this is good perspective on projects that make me want to pull my hair out after slow progress for a few weeks.

Patience is good. Persistence is good. Something that is rare in today landscape.
> Pretty often the combination of features you want are not available in an ARM chip.

No argument. But this is becoming less and less true since ARM has even become standard in automotive.

> And sometimes you might be required to work on some strange 32-bit CISC from Renesas just because the salesperson took the purchasing manager to dinner somewhere.

HAH! Been there ... screamed about that.

We're probably not as far apart as you think, if I'm just writing 100 lines, I'll just reach for C and be finished in an hour or two.

My problem is that none of my projects ever stop at 100 lines. They evolve and only get bigger. Eventually they adopt a "stack" (CAN, BLE, TCP/IP, etc.) from some manufacturer, and it's all downhill from there.

I need help to manage that explosion of complexity and the torrent of bugs it creates, and C just doesn't provide it. I don't think I've programmed an embedded device smaller than the original PDP that K&R developed C on in probably 10 years--maybe more.

And this includes FDA cleared products. The days of just sitting on an unchanging product for 15 years after getting clearance are gone.