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> The disabling of iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts

Do you have any more information on this?

It sounds alarming when stated without further context, because it makes it sounds like a slightly overdue payment could cause an instant shutdown of ones account.

You originally seemed to be saying this is what happened, but now you are saying it’s not that simple.

I would be very surprised if my Apple account was locked out after 15 days of non payment of my card.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was locked out (for example) after 100 days, especially if I hadn’t communicated with them.

Another reason for it to be locked out might be fraud detection, in which case I might actively want that, even thought it occasionally causes inconvenience.

One is indeed absurd and very salient to all Apple users, the other two would be unsurprising and frankly of no real concern. At this point we don’t know where on the spectrum the policy actually lies.

So without more context, #2 seems like a potentially very serious claim that could later turn out not to be so bad.

This is a common way damaging misinformation starts to spread.

I’m not for a second suggesting this is your intent, but I am pointing out that this is a likely effect, dependent on what the context actually turns out to be.

Edit: also worth noting that the tweet, and the HN headline are worded in an unequivocal way. It seems like as written, they may simply be false based on what you have now said.
As someone who also grew up in a poorer family I can relate as well, both the disconnect from people in the industry I've talked to and the skills I picked up growing up.

My dad had a bunch of tools growing up which he used to do household repairs and repairs on the cars, I remember for the longest time my parents driving an old station wagon with a lot of duct tape holding things together or covering leaks and the air conditioning not working.

I still try to repair things on my own if I can, while some people I know just go hire someone on Handy or something to fix things for them.
1 rich person saving his money so his 3 children never have to work is bad for the economy.

It's better the 1 rich person is forced to consume that in his lifetime. By doing so that money is redistributed back to the economy, and his 3 kids are also productive.

In scenario 1 only 1 out 4 people work. In scenario 2, 4 out of 4 people work.

Also - it's hypocritical for 'pull yourself by your bootstraps' for children born poor, and 'guaranteed basic income' for children born rich. That is more dehumanizing than not being allowed to pass off inheritance.
Adapted from a manga? Sure I guess. And most movies are adapted from books. I'm not sure that qualifies as a multimedia economic model. Is the anime really there to increase sales of the manga? Or is it supposed to be profitable on its own?

I would, perhaps naively, Assume the latter.
Walter Bright (original creator of D and the D compiler) posts here pretty frequently.
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I guess that means you're pretty mainstream then. Sucks for Muslims, anarchists, journalists, activists, etc.
It'll cost a few trillion to prevent climate change from getting worse.

It'll cost a few tens of trillions to mitigate climate change and many non-human species will be in serious trouble if we don't do anything about it.

Either way, humans will be fine. But I still advocate strongly for option number 1.
This kind of thing is exactly why we need to normalize complex examples.

Have the simple ones front and centre, but also go full pedal to the medal and show flesh out the really complex ones.

Recent and related shout-out: Neo4J has thankfully included some on their API documentation.
> The state could put the same deal to the rapist as it does to everyone else: work if you want to eat. It does not.

And you would be okay with that? You're advocating for actual slavery of inmates?
These posts do have a very specific feel to them, in that it's about how a perfectly rational engineering decision leads to bad UX. Upgrades that lock down the system further are probably good for most people, but not for developers. Missed payment leads to account lockdown is how an engineer would think to set things up, but not someone who's advocating for the user's experience. All the stuff with their new chips.

You could be right that this is someone sniping at their issues and maybe playing the market at the same time. Even if it is a larger evil competitor, these do seem like legitimate problems.
We're already screwed as far as preserving the human species as we know it, and why would we want to?
Are you seriously counseling someone to run mitmproxy in order to puch a hole out of their employer's network?
It's not an Apple Card policy. At all. And you didn't post any convincing evidence of that.
Materialize is a really interesting solution, and I love for what it stands.

But the documentation is missing more details about the architecture overview. A single update could cause many gigabytes of data to shift on the materialize view, and I do not understand how Materialize would handle that scale.
1) Thou shall not insult thy Branch Covidian.

2) Thou shall insert thy anal swab into thy ass.

3) Thou shall bow down before your lord and master - any democract governor.

4) Thou shall steal a federal election based on lies.

5) Thou shall adopt Faucism as thy new fascism.
This is absolutely terrible advice!
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Is it any good for languages other than English?
Fair enough, if we want argue along those lines - if you're in country X, would you like to be spied on by your country's gov AND China?

I, for one, would prefer, if I have a choice, it to be just my Gov and not a foreign Gov that I consider to be hostile..
Materialize seems really, really interesting. To the point where my crotchety old man senses are telling me that I should be careful about getting too excited about new technology.

Are there any interesting case studies of people pushing the edge of what's possible? For my use case, I have max throughput of 10k updates/second potentially materialized into tens of thousands of different views (with some good partition keys available, if needed).
Re (3), explore why Russians themselves call them oligarchs in first place.
>If the rest of the world closes its borders, maybe they'll have to look into landfills, flood walls etc. Or maybe they can settle the newly habitable Siberian lands.

The "if" is funny. There's already many hundreds of millions of poor people around the world that have the borders closed to them. I don't see why 200M extra poor Bangladeshis wouldn't suffer the same fate.

And there is no reason to believe Siberia will be habitable, at least not in exactly the timeframe it needs to be to offset other habitable areas that are lost.

Climate change will be a slow moving, albeit accelerating, series of crisis that will grind those who are poorer and don't have the power to move to suffer losses.
Legitimate interest as defined in the GDPR isn’t that of the user, it’s that of the business.

You can provide users with a binary choice, as long as it’s all or nothing and the free service and paid service are separate it’s acceptable.
In your mind, does that description fit absolutely nobody who is short on rent?
But I guess truck drivers won't be so arrogant to make that kind of statement for themselves.
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This is another example of a random ban, only solved because the victim was able to make enough noise. On tech fora like HN, nobody is surprised. But even my non-techie friends are starting to notice this might happen to them too. Google is, in the public eye, slowly but surely turning from a rock solid partner into a rug that might be pulled from under your feet without any notice.

So I am wondering what the Google decision makers thinking about this Are they hoping they can sweep it under the rug? Do they even notice? Or is this a big-corporation case where the hind legs of the dinosaur have been kicked, but the brain is still to far away to notice?
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I mean, all functioning governments track the net value of imports / exports (that's the main job of customs departments).

Most functioning governments also keep a balance of payments (https://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/bop/bop.htm).

If the flow of imports / exports doesn't line up with the net flows of payments, someone would raise a flag.

So yeah, unless it's ML / illegal trades, we could at least figure out a way to track it.
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Every card which I've owned has allowed an option to autopay the minimum payment. This way you don't have to deal with accidentally missing a payment which can be quite costly.

That said, the real solution here is to not spend more than you can pay off. Every time you carry over your balance, it's a big win for the credit companies. If you get to the end of the pay period and your card balance is greater than your checking balance, then you lose.
GP comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306326
reminds me of the ancient slogan "Think" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_%28IBM%29

Though, (tongue-in-cheek) points off for not mentioning g factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

Also, mirrors my own experience in terms of my own productivity and how it takes a severe nose dive after hours.
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But to meaningfully support a thing - per the original author - "compiles on a version of the ISA" (and there are many of those for ARM) - and "actually works as intended" do have to care about things like "this ARM core runs these extensions. This ARM core is really just a coprocessor to a binary blob processor. This ARM core is buggy as fuck but no longer supported by the vendor" matter. Where's your source of randomness for crypto, just as a starting point?

People want - to borrow from the BSD world - FreeBSD levels of support for specific chipsets and features, with OpenBSD levels of support for security, and NetBSD levels of portability. These are not compatible outcomes, and folks should stop pretending that they are.
Depends on the card you apply for. I didn’t have a credit score until my mid 20s because I avoided them like the plague and bought only with money I had. Now I still do the latter, but I get rewards for using a credit card for purchases. My very first credit card had a very small limit ($250-500, I think), and I only used it for groceries.

Not to say everybody needs a credit card/score, but they do have advantages if you’re responsible with them. :)
Three facts, then:

* Most investors' returns are below index returns.

* If everyone starts leveraging the index, that strategy becomes less effective.

* Leverage subjects you to even bigger drawdowns than just buying the index. Do you think the average investor, who can't even manage drawdowns from the index can handle drawdowns bigger than drawdowns on the index?

Besides, who said people don't make money? Also, notice how you switched from "active trading beats passive indexing" to "leverage the index." Are you saying you can't time the market? That you don't have the ability to make correct decisions about both when to get in and when to get out?
I agree. for 7.45 per month, you can just buy your own RPi.
I disagree their judgement was right - I think it was catastrophically wrong. there are some things that you can treat this way (let it blow over), but a reporter saying the n word to a group of high school kids is not one of them. the fact that it was only said in a question to clarify what someone meant, rather than than as a slur, is also wholly exculpatory - making the real story a complete non-issue. also, think about how it actually turned out -- their strategy completely backfired, insofar as it was actually intended to limit the pr damage of the story.
( s/Queue/Cue/ )
Your work look motivating. What kind of NLP algorithm you are using to solve your problems?
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> Is Python actually suitable for cryptographic code, especially if constant-time operations are needed?

No, but as seen in the first chunk of rust code added, the amount of logic that needs to be constant-time is a) very, very limited to a few primitives only b) algebraic in nature (put differently, it's not where memory bugs will pop up, so using rust over C doesn't even buy you much).

For instance, ASN.1 parsing doesn't need to done in constant time in the vast majority of cases (and in all cases I am aware of).

> And then when said logic stops being opt-in, why wouldn't the same problem arise?

Some friction will certainly remains, but it will be nothing compared to the current breakage.
I think all my friends had moved to google talk and text messaging by 2006.
It's incredibly naive to assume NSA/* doesn't do the same, even if that affects your daily life as a human/business owner about as much.

I despise the chinese government - may it concern Uighurs or the treatment of Tibetans. Still I have a hard time believing none of my data collected by google is used by the US administration, which, as we know, is not always lead by a trustful person. Still, if I had to choose whom to embargo, I'd definitely choose china/russia.

Since it's so easy to cheat traffic, there are two options: only china/russia needs to cover traffic, or ...?
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Having a word that you that literally can't say even in quotation or reference implies something almost akin to magical thinking.

The only thing I can think of that’s comparable is how Jews treat the divine name. I’d be uncomfortable to type it out in Hebrew even though I haven’t been religious for many years.
I haven't investigated this (or considered Merkle Trees), but will follow up if/when I get a chance to test it.

I've tried to design the code so it shouldn't be too hard to do a drop-in replacement of Bloom filters with something else if a better data structure comes along.
This tweet and claim don't really pass the laugh test, given that Apple has gone out of its way to help Apple Card holders who needed to skip payments for months in a row during covid.

There's simply no way that Apple is doing this; there is another explanation for this single user having this experience and I'm sure that will come out. This isn't found anywhere in Apple's terms of service.

I'll give 10-1 odds on a $100 bet that this isn't happening. Any takers?
I don't autopay credit cards. I only do this for accounts that have fixed value and require little overseeing, e.g., car payments. Any of my credit cards are payed only when I review the amount and make the decision.
In the absence of being able to upvote this, I'd just like to post that I appreciated reading your article.
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I think we're going to find out very soon...

Edit: not at the presidential level but certainly cabinet members have gone to prison before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
Really? I thought this was because demand anticipation is hard, and chip manufacturing requires a long pipeline
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26279891