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People don't want to give Amazon their biometrics?

If you trust Amazon, they were never storing images of your actual palm but instead creating and storing unique hashes from that data. Again, if you trust them, they did it in just about the most privacy protecting way possible.

It's not a hard problem to solve, you scale the punishment for the cases you prosecute so high that it makes the expected value of stealing a suitcase negative

You jail 100 and the thousands stop doing it.

Very cool! What's your license on this stuff?

What does it mean to steal crypto if "code is law"?


I can't imagine that contrails are a significant percentage of cloud cover.


Less than 1% globally, so you're right.


This is the terrible argument that leads so many countries to do nothing to reduce their emissions. Each country is a small portion of the total so they all do nothing.


This is bullshit. How can anyone pretend the radiation reflecting from it is significant? How wide are these things? 20 meters?


That’s narrower than a Boeing 737’s wingspan, and when you look at planes leaving a trail behind them, you can often see the trail fan out much wider than the plane.

Not sure how wide that would be, but the length has to be factored in too, which begs the question, how wide and long is a piece of string/cloud?

On the ground looking up the sense of scale falls apart a bit.


There are a lot of them.


One thing that's interesting about these regional laws is that they all necessarily use geolocation, but the regional laws are jurisdiction-based. Geolocation is inaccurate in many circumstances and also just insufficient in some circumstances (VPN, near a state border, proxied requests, embedded content, etc.)


Does this use Apple's face-recognition tech to automatically populate pictures of your spouse, or do you have to add them manually? I was under the impression that third-party apps couldn't access the People albums in PhotoKit.


You have to create the album yourself using Apple’s face recognition tech (Select All, Add to Album), and then tell it which album that is


There was a very simple reason for them: to hire more non-Asian minority faculty. Just as with SAT scores, if you evaluate candidates numerically, Asian faculty will take ~50% of the spots and Black faculty will take ~1% of the spots. But if you add a job requirement of "has helped do DEI woo for Black students" then it's a lot easier to justify hiring the Black candidate.


When you have $15/hr employees who can enable a $100,000 scam this is bound to happen.


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