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pain2022··on Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues.
How is a website owner is supposed to verify that it’s an adult or a kid pressing ‘buy’ button while being logged into an account with adult’s details?
pain2022··on Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues.
Why is it difficult to give a kid their own device (or an account on shared device), and don’t enter parent’s credit card details there?
pain2022··on What it was like working for Gitlab
What is M1?
pain2022··on Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too
> If brain activations are insensitive to subtle adversarial attacks, we would expect people to choose each picture 50% of the time on average. However, we found that the choice rate—which we refer to as the perceptual bias—was reliably above chance for a wide variety of perturbed picture pairs

Ok, but the article doesn’t say what was the actual rate?

pain2022··on Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ
The problem is that one can change Apple ID password knowing only the pincode. No old password asked. This gives thief a full control of Apple ID

Settings -> Apple ID (top panel with name) -> Password&security -> Change password

pain2022··on Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)
I'm so tired of seeing this 70% number. There is a lot of available evidence against it. Why is it so widely quoted by western media?

The poll is from Nevada, same poll company that said 1% support Navalny as a politician. Navalny got 27% on Moscow mayor election in 2013. Tens of thousands of people were on demonstrations in his support in 2021, risking getting beaten up by police and jailed.

Out of ~100 people I know, maybe a couple somewhat support war.

In Moscow, none of civilian cars you see on the streets have Z/V/military symbols in support of the war. If war has 70% support, at least 1% would put it on display.

pain2022··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Forced usb-c charger for laptops is concerning.

1) it is additional attack vector, what if maid in my hotel enhanced my charging brick with rubber ducky?

2) mag safe is very convenient

pain2022··on Some WFH employees now live in another country
What these abbreviations mean? IMF is not even googleable. This is so annoying
pain2022··on Libraries – how companies do not understand open spaces
Would be nice if the article about office space design had any photos or floor plans or images besides 3 stock photos
pain2022··on The nightmare of targeted individuals in the age of paranoia (2017)
What is RAT?
pain2022··on I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)
This story is scary and heartbreaking. The guy represented poor people in a foreign country against brutal corporation and now his life and career are ruined
pain2022··on Sanctions and Strategic Bombing
I’m curious what is your source for Russian civilians supporting the war?

My counter-point is that almost everyone from my friends, family and colleagues are upset about the war, and many left the country

pain2022··on Empirical Notes on Kissing
I actually learned a lot from this article.

Are there more detail guides and reviews of the subject?

While it is generally assumed that a romantic subject cannot be studied formally, there is obviously skill and knowledge involved in making process pleasurable for oneself and a partner

pain2022··on New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
Well said, this always bothered me
pain2022··on Crowdsource by Google
Neither did you. They release 3 datasets partially out of dozens

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385975

pain2022··on YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database
You do realize only a fraction of demonstration was arrested, and that for every person who risked getting beaten up and arrested there are many of his friends and relatives who support his views
pain2022··on YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database
“Independent pollsters”, my ass. According to their polls, Navalny support was 0-1% while so many people was arrested during demonstrations in his support in Moscow that thousands were put into immigrant detention center instead of regular jails.

Also, people are scared they will get fired from their government jobs or worse if they voice opposition.

pain2022··on The Russians Fleeing Putin's Wartime Crackdown
I too would like to hear a rational explanation of how Netflix and Figma cancelling services to Russians helps Ukraine