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yasp··on ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship
Taking someone's photo is different than storing their biometrics. The latter would violate laws such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
yasp··on ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship
What's your policy for complying with the patchwork of national biometrics laws?
yasp··on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains
It improves one flow without affecting another. You might not like what it improves but it does improve something.
yasp··on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains
Crypto apps running in eg smart contracts will be able to interact directly with it and trust it, rather than needing to trust a third party oracle that retrieves the data externally.
yasp··on PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging No Longer Sold
Ok, and PFOS and PFOA?
yasp··on California lawmaker proposes $50 an hour minimum wage
Only $50?
yasp··on Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video
tldr: please believe us, she had it coming
yasp··on Ask HN: What is your take on Bryan Johnson's "Blueprint"?
He seems to be wrecking his body in creative and previously unseen ways:

- resting body temperature of 94.9 F

- inability to naturally produce tears

yasp··on mRNA-based vaccines can cause ribosomal frameshifting
So a spike protein slightly different than what was intended could have been produced?
yasp··on Ask HN: How do I Convince someone the Earth isn't flat
Don't waste your time?
yasp··on Disney's Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
Technology putting people out of work is a story as old as time.
yasp··on New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour
Why not $100 per hour?
yasp··on Apple guts internal communication tool, crippling union organization
What do you mean I can't use workplace property to attack my workplace?
yasp··on AI’s astonishing productivity gains could help curb inflation
All technological progress curbs inflation. Absent Fed money printing we would have naturally occurring deflation.
yasp··on A man lost 26 pounds with a beginner's running plan ChatGPT created for him
https://twitter.com/gregmushen/status/1652159496519827463
yasp··on A man lost 26 pounds with a beginner's running plan ChatGPT created for him
After seeing the initial post on Twitter, I did something similar and have been running consistently for the last two months, having not previously enjoyed running. I love it now.
yasp··on Stability AI CEO: There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years
> AI CEO bullish on AI.
yasp··on To make more stingers, U.S. needs to revive production technology from scratch
Why do we need to give them to Ukraine?
yasp··on Instant Pot and Pyrex Maker Instant Brands Files for Bankruptcy
How so?
yasp··on Apple busts iOS 17 leaker with spycraft ‘canary trap’
Really foolish to keep posting with details even after the sister was caught. Some people just can't help themselves.
yasp··on Is BTC up because of lack of trust in banks post-SVB?
It's up because people expect rate cuts.
yasp··on Founders fund pulls money before SVB collapses
Given the economic factors + SVB's deposit base, what should they have done differently?
yasp··on Founders fund pulls money before SVB collapses
SVB announcing their equity raise was public info.
yasp··on Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
Only if it's material to the company.
yasp··on Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
Ostensibly they are missing from the labor force, not from the planet.
yasp··on Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
> A more intriguing possibility concerns the labour force. According to our estimates the rich world is “missing” 10m workers, or roughly 1.5% of the total workforce, relative to pre-pandemic trends (see chart 3). In Britain and Italy the workforce has actually shrunk. Early retirements and an increasingly elderly population explain some of the deficit. Covid may have pushed people to reassess their priorities, prompting them to drop out. Some even speculate that long covid is forcing people to stay on the economic sidelines. Whatever the explanation, falling participation has wreaked havoc with companies’ plans. Many fired staff when the pandemic struck, only to struggle to rehire them in 2021. That year vacancies across the oecd hit an all-time high of 30m.

Why not ask them?

yasp··on Ask HN: Science fiction movies that are appropriate for 12 year olds?
Blade Runner
yasp··on I found a secret US Government surveillance program (2019)
(2015)
yasp··on LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack
They're still subject to economic considerations (assuming a non-state actor). If the expected value on a cracked account is less than the expected cost to crack it, a rational actor won't bother. That they may use cracked AWS accounts, or botnets, to perform this cracking does not change these economic considerations.
yasp··on LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack
Good news for people who followed best practices. "I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun you."
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