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bb123··on Oil Prices Jump Most on Record After Saudi Strike
By your logic no one should ever question the financial motivations of anyone, ever. It seems completely reasonable to me to question who stands to gain the most from something like this.
bb123··on Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes
Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes *(In the US)
bb123··on Apple Music Web Client
Is 50MB that important? I would just use whatever provides you with the best experience (whichever that may be).
bb123··on My Sudden Trip to Hell
Do you have anything to back up your claim it was caused by the stress? That seems like a pretty big claim to make.
bb123··on Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over Model 3 safety claims
Cars have roll cages built into the frame of the vehicle. Thats why they don't crumple under their own weight if they roll. I don't know what kind of Mad Max world you're driving in but an external roll cage and a 4 point harness (as opposed to the 3 point harness already fitted in literally every car) seems like complete overkill for most use cases. Also motorway driving is generally the safest kind of driving, so while your story is certainly evocative I don't think it really justifies your claim that every car should have two roll cages. We don't put cow plows on most cars either, by your logic we probably should.
bb123··on Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
> Additionally, as part of a future software update, users will have the ability to choose to participate in grading
bb123··on Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
Does anyone know why the NYT has this agenda?
bb123··on Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability
Couldn't you just put the phone into Airplane Mode while you block the caller? This would be my first action.
bb123··on Fooling Production-Grade Classification Systems with Adversarial Traffic Signs [pdf]
Makes me think that there is still a long way to go here. All of the changes they made to the signs leave them still easily readable by humans. One could see how reflections, weather and other environmental factors would distort a road sign more than this. Speed limit signs are possibly the hardest example though because it requires the system to recognise the exact number on it, rather than just its existence. I wonder how much harder it would be to get it to misclassify a stop sign?
bb123··on Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
It is possible: Buy an Android if that's what you need from your phone.
bb123··on Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
This is silly argument to make here. The vast majority of users aren't using their phones to whistleblow on some government scheme or a plot by the new world order. They are running their businesses and lives on these things. And for those people the ability to run some .apk from a sketchy website is worth less than nothing to them, but the safety of being protected from attack is. Realise that you are not the kind of user these phones are designed for. You are a power user who wants power user features. That is fine, but don't condemn people who are just using their phones as tools.
bb123··on New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C
Why is it bad for your health?
bb123··on Whirlpool told to recall dryers in 'unprecedented' government move
1% would be an insane failure rate for something this dangerous. Over half the households in the UK own driers [1] and there are 27.7 million households in the UK [2]. If 1% of driers were catching fire we would be seeing 138,500 extra house fires a year! Even 0.001% is too high.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/289140/tumble-dryers-in-... [2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

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