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passerby1··on How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives
Would someone suggest how would hundreds of investigations (and courts? Or there were no courts at all?) were not able to shed any light on the bug? How is it even possible to continue for more than 20 years?
passerby1··on System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
How many apps do use certificate pinning and so will be broken as a result of this app's MITM?
passerby1··on Joint initiative for trustworthy AI
But it's democratic [0], specifically a direct one: "tradition of direct democracy".

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland

passerby1··on Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health
It reads as "survived users".
passerby1··on Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style
Does anyone know how to turn it off forever?
passerby1··on The Scourge of Airport Noise
Need to mention the punishments and fines in Germany for making noise. Switzerland has even more strict rules (and very angry neighbours, I assume).
passerby1··on Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convictions
> but just any law enforcement would find such an amount of cash suspicious, and probably trigger an investigation

It feels like it's almost illegal to own cash when I read this. Would someone please tell why? It's OK to live in a debt, probably a very high one, buying expensive things like luxury car in credit. Is it forbidden to save cash? If it's OK, then why is it suspicious to travel in a car with cash?

passerby1··on America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan
> Privatize the profits, socialize the costs (like toxic cleanup).

Any business would love to do the same, if possible. Because that's the businesss: increase the profits.

Should it then be considered a "natural" way? And where should we draw a line (if any) on what's ok?

passerby1··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
Why only now?
passerby1··on I got hacked and Facebook banned me
Does it makes sense to push for representatives to discuss a law to forbid a city or state announcements to use any commercial platform for announcements?
passerby1··on Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case
Both comments are false. Reality is more complex as _sometimes_ it ignores: [0]

0: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/have-you-seen/2022/04/2...

passerby1··on Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
What's the difference between those two?
passerby1··on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
> The promise of Bitcoin is to bring a monetary system politicians and bankers cannot manipulate. Whether that’s a good thing or even realistic is a separate discussion.

Never heard of any politician giving up power voluntarely.

And money is the power: no more printing - need to work hard for money.

Not gonna happen.

passerby1··on Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?
Google loves to provide support, but for its customers only. Customer is a one who pays them millions of dollars for ads.
passerby1··on Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?
Using adblock is indeed very convenient. Enable browser extension and forget about all web annoyances. Calm and peece.

Google Ad Premium disables google ads only (or most of them?), while other ad nets (avg more than 80 cookies on every major news site!) will continue to annoy.

passerby1··on No Fixed Address Bank Account
> will happily gouge for rent

Making profit is the goal for renting out, right?

passerby1··on Chart: Lithium prices are through the roof this year
Could you give some examples of coups for resources other that oil?
passerby1··on Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
Bouncing usually requires money
passerby1··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
First of all is to come to some kind of an agreement on the definition of ethical.
passerby1··on Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
Following the logics of requiring an official government-issued docs, is it required for any fact written in Wikipedia, or where they draw the line?

In other words, how exactly is the "common knowledge" separated from the "controversal" one, which requires a proof to present to self-appointed guardians of the True?

passerby1··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
What are PMs' arguments for the switch?
passerby1··on Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open
Interesting. Which of his books do you refer here to?
passerby1··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
Do anyone seriously consider changing Jira/confluence to some alternative after this?

I personally stopped using Jira a couple of years ago in projects I lead.

passerby1··on New(ish) command line tools
Good for you! But the question was about it being secure, while answer is about something else.
passerby1··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
Looks like a valid for a non-canadian, why is this downvoted?
passerby1··on Fossil
It would be good to see titles for links above. What's your point of listing them without titles?
passerby1··on Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)
`Destroying apple, please wait... General error detected: the destroyer is destroyed.` /s
passerby1··on Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)
Yes. By the way, the parent comment highlights an important point of having lots of countries and jurisdictions which has very different view on this. My prediction is that it will be fragmented.
passerby1··on If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
Where should the profit come from for a search-oriented product/business?
passerby1··on How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London
Wow. Never happens in Europe. Or in the US. /s
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