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Sure, at this point Apple's solution likely works this way: they care about their reputation. But even a secure faceid opens the Pandora box: today it's just iPhone users, 5 years later it's everywhere, including in solutions from Huawei and 10 years later it's the law. Afaik, Delta airlines already trying to use faceid. And once faceid is required to buy gas and groceries, your complete and nuanced dossier will be available for sale on all these data exchange brokerages. In this beautiful future, faceid is needed to unlock any car and it would play you ads for 3 mins while it's starting.

There's surprising support here for the faceid stuff, despite it's clearly made to normalize using biometric data for everything and make one step towards the survelliance state. But let's pretend we are more concerned with security of this approach: how is it better than a ring with a chip you'd wear and use for auth? If this identity is compromised, you could just get another ring. And you wouldn't need to give your real identity to apple.

If you're ever offered a 1M job, you accept it and figure out the risks later. It's much better to fail after collecting 1M, than grunting for 10 years thru a risk free 100K job.

I remember a similar conversation with a CTO of some cheap company that wanted to offer me 100K and arguing that he knew many risk takers who took on high paying jobs in bigger firms and failed. That was many years ago. Now my comp is approaching 1M, my job is super risky and demanding, but I don't care as in the worst case I quit with enough money to not work anymore. I know many vps and execs in smaller firms and their attitude is the same: they don't give a flying f..k so long as the pay/risk ratio is appropriate.

Kinetic energy is fake. We may as well say that it's planet falling on the ship and thus it's energy is the mass of the planet multiplied by v^2/2 and where did that energy come from?