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Armic··on Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? (2025)
Easy practical definition: something you couldn't make in your own kitchen no matter how good of a chef you were. eg you could can beans, you couldn't make a poptart.
Armic··on Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
What happens if you lose all your hardware factors (eg if you have a home fire)? Are you just locked out of all your accounts with this approach?
Armic··on Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp
As someone unfamiliar with their privacy policy, can you explain what’s egregious about it?
Armic··on Gail.com FAQ
It's a misspelling of gmail.com
Armic··on Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
There's a great SSC story about this concept: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Armic··on Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
I used to use tower, but I switched to fork for two reasons - it was more performant with my work monorepo, and fork's a one time payment and tower's an annual subscription (and more expensive). I'm not affiliated with them at all but I'm a happy customer and recommend you give it a shot; they have a free trial.
Armic··on Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app
Found another issue - in the ipad app changing the font size doesnt change the size indicator
Armic··on Show HN: Notesnook – A cross-platform privacy focused zero-knowledge notes app
This looks really cool! Any plans to offer one time payment as an alternative to subscriptions? Also heads up clicking login on your main website didn't work for me - I had to use signup to go to app.notesnook.com and then switch to the login modal
Armic··on Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
Not quite - it seems like when you deposit cash, some up to all of it is made available immediately for trading if you're on the default account settings. My guess is that most users believe that when they buy stocks with this money, they think it is cash when it is in fact margin, and these are the people who got margin called.
Armic··on Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
All robinhood accounts are by default margin accounts: https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/robinhood-accou....
Armic··on Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
So you're saying it's okay for Amazon/Costco to put up Amazon Basics/Kirkland, so long as they're paying someone else to make it for them?
Armic··on Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
Re: Amazon, many companies do the same thing (e.g. CVS, Target, Costco). With Costco in particular, Kirkland products are higher quality and cheaper than the competition in almost all categories they are in, which is a benefit to me as a consumer. Should Kirkland be broken off just because other companies can't compete with it? If not, what's the justification for Amazon?