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moscovium··on A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
Which is why consumer product safety in the US is very high.

Also did you even read the article? They argue the brake failed because of the design of the bike.

"The suit goes on to argue that the quick release came loose as Steinsapir’s friend was applying the front brake, which allegedly caused the wheel to wobble and ultimately caused the crash. The plaintiffs also say that the surviving girl—who we’re not naming because she’s a minor—attempted to turn off the bike, but that the electrical power failed to shut down."

moscovium··on Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (2013)
"... with justices talking over each other and pontificating more than questioning..."

lmao all workplaces are the same

moscovium··on Passwordle
I laughed. I can't wait for this to be used as a problem on some CS final.
moscovium··on Worldcoin: A new egalitarian global currency
holy shit the future is bleak. Scam Altman up to another trick.
moscovium··on [dead]
It's not so bad, but tbh I would trust running some random executable more on Mac more than I would Windows, so some people might be conditioned by how safe Macs generally are.
moscovium··on Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines
Is it not the goal of a headline to engage?
moscovium··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Did you not read the tweet or are you just trying to misrepresent her argument? She is asking why different sets of trading rules are apply to retail and institutional investors. If retail can sell, but can't buy, who are they selling to?

"We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit."

moscovium··on BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
"Before money we had to barter, which led to the double coincidence of wants problem. When everyone accepts the same money you can buy something from someone even if they don’t like the stuff you own."

Stopped reading right here. Anthropologists have widely discredited any ideas that "before money we had barter", but it's just shyly asserted as absolute fact.

If you're going to argue something isn't money, you should first have a correct idea of what is money.

moscovium··on Removing Holocaust Denial Content
Since its inception facebook has not had completely full free speech. It doesn't allow targeted bullying, scamming, or any other way of causing material harm to another person. All this is doing is admitting genocide denial causes material harm to another person, which I'm sure you would agree with.
moscovium··on Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
Not at all
moscovium··on iOS 14 is available today
SF Bay
moscovium··on iOS 14 is available today
Installing for me right now
moscovium··on Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads
Remember when Jack Dorsey had his SIM attacked for the 2fa?
moscovium··on TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
> Everyone thought Vine was here to stay too.

Vine was loved and was shut down by a part time CEO.

> Snapchat was huge at one point and now I no longer know anybody who still uses it.

People under 25 still love and use snapchat.

Tiktok has 80 million MAUs, and is becoming the tool of cultural influence in the same way the Instagram did. I wouldn't underestimate the staying power of tiktok.

moscovium··on Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable
i was just clarifying the poster above lol
moscovium··on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
China bad
moscovium··on Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
This post itself being on the front page gives a sweet Droste effect
moscovium··on Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable
'Debo' or 'Deob'?
moscovium··on Show HN: Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder
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moscovium··on Mailvelope
> The browser extension Mailvelope provides end-to-end encryption for your existing email address.

Seems pretty clear to me

moscovium··on Spyware in macOS
Every article is over 5 years old, and some of them imply the problem is with MacOS, then link to issues with iPhones. Come back with real data.
moscovium··on Renaissance Technologies
Let's see Paul Allen's yacht...

...look at that tasteful off-white coloring, the thickness of it. Oh my god -- it even has a water mark.

moscovium··on Lenovo to pay $7.3M for installing adware in laptops
I read the headline thinking it was a purchasing deal, not a fine...
moscovium··on How Jack Ma took on eBay with Taobao
There's no competition like no competition!
moscovium··on AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years
If you've been following AMD, good news hasn't always meant better prices with this (or any company).

Last I remember this thing was bouncing from 11 to 12 consistently.

moscovium··on Timeline of the far future
What if the base isn't an integer?

Base e for life.

moscovium··on Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset
This appears to be a hosted site the team put together for a public front to the dataset, not an official Berkeley page. It certainly doesn't meet any standards required by a public institution, like ADA compliance, either.
moscovium··on [dead]
GDPR is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it's a great step toward enforcing accountability on international companies and the data they have that gives them incredible influence over the world.

On the other hand, I can attest to the pain its caused to smaller companies having to implement support for it, and while some of the companies that have shut down were apparently using user data in detestable ways, I'm sure it's got a lot of companies scrambling.

Interested to see what happens after the 25th.

moscovium··on Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts
I'm so glad these incentives have contributed to expediting the eventual heat death of our universe
moscovium··on Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
Not intentionally programming them to run red lights, just intentionally or unintentionally not taking necessary precautions to prevent it from happening. They can get it right, or have it right now, and it's pretty clear which side they've chosen.
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