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it is also incredibly costly and difficult to be listed in multiple stock exchanges.

more liquidity

i was as impressed by gaming. being able to run a triple a game like resident evil 4 with everything turned to max on a mac laptop was something new to me.

hotels have their disadvantages. that's why sometimes an airbnb is a better choice.

> So Apple hardware is neither special nor unique nor worth the premium.

i always sell my apple products. i usually get at least 50% back on what i paid.

can confirm. they regularly shut down entire stations due to overcrowding only letting people exit and not enter.

here’s another fun fact: TfL turned on contactless payments for all their stations without any apparent changes in their user facing hardware. one day the same oyster card reader started accepting contactless payments. i’m sure it was not as simple as turning on a switch but it looked that way :)

i switched to passkeys on google and now i no longer need to input codes or passwords.

there are caveats to passkeys thou.

i also did this: created an email address that i use exclusively on apple. it actually wasn’t hard at all.

zero issues since.

> The problem stems from nefarious groups getting a hold of email addresses and running distributed dictionary attacks.

years back my email was leaked by a website that i never visited. apparently someone signed up using my email address and the website never verified the email.

in the meantime more and more people used the same email address [0] to signup everywhere (it’s not the same person, i checked).

[0] gmail ignores dots in usernames: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#:~:text....

at this point my emails should be random hashes@random hash domain

thanks for being a maintainer!

> An AI safety board would be dominated by representatives of grassroots civil society organisations, maybe some labour unions.

the “safety” in “AI Safety” isn’t what you think it is. it’s homeland security, not labour/societal security.

> Apple Keychain has personally wiped out all my Passkeys on three separate occasions. There are external reports we have recieved of other users who's Keychain Passkeys have been wiped just like mine.

i have been using passkeys on apple since they launched it. i have also converted all of my 2fa’s to passkeys (where supported) or enabled them as password alternatives. a lot of website support passkeys nowadays. i never encountered what the author encountered and it seems like something seriously wrong happened.

did anyone encounter this issue? is it logged somewhere?

i seriously considered dropping passwords completely for future projects, but it looks like there are still issues…

> London has more cameras than any other city in the west but leads crime significantly.

any link for the crime claim?

i checked multiple websites, and while hard to measure, London as a whole is not even in the top 10 european cities when it comes to crime.

what’s the difference between this and https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

just the payment part is it’s own universe of issues, friction, fraud, security etc etc etc

i read it twice and i still don’t understand the article.

is this site complaining about 3rd party analytics?

there is also a table further down that shows various banks sharing data with… themselves? citibank will share data with citibank, and first direct (aka hsbc) will obviously share data with hsbc.

can someone explain what this article is actually about?

SFO was the only airport where i had to wait in the security line starting from inside the plane. took 2.5hrs to reach passport control.

went again in february this year. 3 guys checking passports of hundreds of travellers. another 1.5hrs wasted.

meanwhile back in london i just scan my passport and go thru the automated gates. why can’t the US solve this issue? is it unions? is it federal government? what’s going on?

depends on the scale factor. can you scale it 10x to match the canal? probably not.

> Commenting on the Commission’s enforcement action in a statement, Thierry Breton, the commissioner for the EU Internal Market, wrote: “… We suspect TikTok ‘Lite’ could be as toxic and addictive as cigarettes ‘light’. Unless TikTok provides compelling proof of its safety, which it has failed to do until now, we stand ready to trigger DSA interim measures including the suspension of TikTok Lite feature which we suspect could generate addiction. We will spare no effort to protect our children.”

can someone please think of the children?

a bit more seriously:

1. are there any studies into the harms of cigarettes vs harms of tiktok lite/social media?

2. does the DSA’s “risk assessment” cover risks to EU users only or EU businesses as well?

3. are there any steps taken to make sure we won’t have politicians abuse the DSA to target unfriendly companies? specifically forbidding of micro managing various features and products by the politicians of the day? or is the DSA exactly this?

> How will we vote for national candidates if nobody knows what they think or say?

i’m going to burst your bubble here, but most voters have no idea about policies or candidates. most voters vote based on inertia or minimal cues, not on policies or candidates.

i suggest you look up “The American Voter”, “The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?” and “American National Election Studies”.

> So Spotify is making money from your music.

not really: https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-developme...

> Since the beginning of 2017, the streaming service has generated a positive net balance in eight quarters, two of them in 2021.

have you seen spotify’s new app in europe?

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-01-24/the-dma-means-a-bett...

they pushed hard for apple to open up in order push more ads.

> and their services revenue is in jeopardy with the new EU changes to the App Store

the services revenue is at an all time high and keeps climbing:

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/14629/apple-services-reve...

re. app store, the EU market represents just 7% of their worldwide app store revenues, most probably due to the fact the EU market is 65% android:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/apple-says-eu-represents-7...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/639928/market-share-mobi....

> it makes drivers pay for the externalities they produce (including pollution, congestion, noise)

you can make a point that charging drivers will impact the poor a lot more then others.

and another point you can make is that if anyone was actually interested in pollution then wouldn’t it have been better to restrict usage directly?

> If someone puts the majority of new content on another platform, is that "moving away"?

yes.

> What if they only use the old platform once a week? What if they only use the new platform once a week, but that's when an important discussion happens?

you’re describing low usage.

> They didn't have to do so. It has nothing to do with standards and everything to do with companies becoming aggressively and openly hostile towards anything that isn't directly under their control.

we tried to do it differently. it was impossible. every company had it’s own extensions on top of the standards because the standards were poor. those extensions only worked when chatting with someone on the same network using the same software. this was not sustainable. when we removed those standards we not only provided an incredible experience for the user but we also removed huge amounts of code that made everything much faster.

the casualty was interoperability.

you're describing the "network effect". but it only happens once people actually move away from certain platforms. why did they move away? features that couldn't be implemented using a shared standard.

> Players always drop it to trap their users to their service.

i understand what you're writing and i agree. but in my case all our enterprise clients were demanding features that had us circumventing interoperability since the features they were asking for would never make it into the standards.

i was there, i was developing on those systems.

i think you're romanticising things.

the whole situation with interoperability was not sustainable, as evidenced by the fact that it was dropped by every player as soon as possible.

one of the reasons why it was not sustainable was that the standards at that time were conceived for a different era, and everyone wanted special features not available in the standards.

it does seem like we're having much better success with interoperability nowadays, but only because the standards are much better today.

> the UX will be terrible.

if you run safari and store all your passwords using icloud “passwords”, safari will automatically prefill the 2fa code. i assume this is the case for other browsers as well?