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Fun fact, the person who stole the sim probably worked for the carrier, or used someone who worked at the carrier that they either knew or had leverage over. You already have to verify your identity to the carrier if you want to make changes to your account, and while you might be able social-engineer your way past it, but I would be shocked if someone like Jack Dorsey didn't have a password associated with his account that is required to make changes. Saying the carrier needs to be sure before making changes is useless if the person at the carrier is circumventing it. Plus they already do it.

Joke's on them, it was 4,000.

China tends to create absolute garbage for the chinese market. Huawei's reputation outside of china has taken a massive hit, even though they were considered industry leaders this time last year, so that's not helping. Add to that the fact that they seemingly pumped this out in about 4 months and skepticism is warranted.

I'm pretty sure he's just referring to the fact that if someone can push an ota update and you have something like iMessage that has encryption keys on the device, there's nothing stopping a company from pushing an update out that compromises your security. End to end isn't compromised, it's potentially compromised. Smartphones are the schrodinger's cat of security because while they're considered "secure" right now, they could be blown wide open via automatic update any second. Telegram is encrypted end-to-end, but if you have automatic updates on, there's nothing from stopping the developer or rogue actors (or states, like russia) from pushing an update out that uploads all of the encryption keys to their servers and decrypts everyone's messages. Automatic updates are fundamentally insecure because they can instantly compromise your security. If you want true security, go with open source and review (or wait for reviews) of all code changes that happen in the apps you use, and you want a distro that either doesn't have an os ota system or allows you to disable it. Also, there is potential for baseband attacks because we're all at the mercy of telecoms and no one runs custom firmware or opensource code on their baseband processor so who knows what vulnerabilities lie there.

Genetically modified foods are already in the food supply, thats why you see that "GMO free" logo on things. Its also why some company can sue a farmer for patent infringement by growing crops from last years seeds/harvest.

God, I hope so. I guess I can always go with my fallback of dolphin trainer if this whole web developer thing stops panning out.

fighting it gives it attention and validity, its the streisand effect. And Julian Assange lives in the UK but was still a tool of the kremlin's propaganda wing. what's your point?

""Magnitsky act: behind the scenes" where Bill Browder allegedly laundered his corporate holdings for tax fraud through various handicapped people, and eventually gangsters who were conveniently murdered."

Look, I'm not saying that's a bullshit documentary, but that's literally the kind of smear campaign Putin would execute to try to get talks of the magnitsky act thrown out. I wouldn't take any of that information as factual.

The difference here is that the 30% cut is on everything digital sold through apple's payment system - including in app purchases. Amazon has removed in-app purchases from it's kindle and comixology apps because they'd owe a 30% cut to apple. Make whatever justifications for the app store purchases you want, it's the digital content from other stores (video, music, books, etc) that will bring about the anti-trust issues. Add to that the fact that apple is the only one restricting users to their app marketplace and you have the recipe for an antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft got hit with antitrust because they included internet explorer by default, how apple has only allowed one source for applications for ten years and never been challenged on it I will never know.

This is a really weird device. The mac mini has long been used as a home theater pc of the apple ecosystem, due to it's formfactor and being the one apple device that didn't come with its own 20 inch screen or 3 foot tall tower. Apple tv, for all it's shortcomings, has sort of supplanted that and you're much better off sticking that under your tv and running your plex server somewhere else. So now we have a mac mini which is too expensive to be a home theater pc or to be stuck in a closet serving media, and is comparably priced with macs that have actual screens. So its like good for someone who for some reason doesn't want to carry a macbook around but wants a semi-portable workstation? or someone who wants an iMac with a bigger screen? It's not useful as a mac mini, and it's pretty redundant thanks to every use case being covered by an existing mac. Who is this device for? Who is buying this over a macbook or imac?

GM stands for Gold Master I believe. Apple's concern therefore isn't that the device isn't out yet, it's that it's not finalized, and they don't want an app update to say that it supports something which isn't finalized yet because it could change tomorrow (even if that's unlikely).

I believe the correct response to that is "sandwiched between two burly gay men I met on grindr".

I saw an ad for something like that a while ago, but realized that you couldn't sell an ipad for $0.56 if you weren't getting the full retail plus a margin from somewhere. Thankfully I never got into it.

So basically it was inevitable that everyone who was hired would be fired by your robot?

republicans are not a protected class, twitter can ban them if they like. It's not remotely illegal.

It's more like Steve Jobs was such an uncompromising asshole that he would rather throw a substandard product in the garbage than put out something he considered lesser. He didn't have vision, nothing he "made" was revolutionary at all, and he didn't make anything after the NeXT. Steve Jobs was amazing at two things: getting in on the ground floor (the iphone came out so quickly after the first all touch screen smartphone that no one even remembers the original) and making sure that what they did put out either worked or didn't see the light of day. I remember the early android competitors (notably Motorola's droid) suffering from touchscreens that failed to track accurately (https://www.wired.com/2010/03/touchscreens-smartphones/) compared to the near perfect performance of the iPhone, its the sort of thing that Steve Jobs would have insisted on.

The real application here is that duplex could order you takeout.

I had a new macbook pro for a developer job and three weeks after I got it something on the motherboard shorted out and caused one speaker to make a loud popping noise and stop working. it crackled for months before we could get it looked at, and when they realized they needed to replace the whole motherboard the sent it back after certifying that the speakers now worked. Only the broken speaker still sounded noticeably different from the good speaker. I don't have that computer any more, and it still irks me that apple couldn't be bothered to replace all the broken parts.

That's the thunderbolt port, which is designed to pass full current, that's why it's specific to that port.

I don't necessarily agree. I Think that does happen, in fact thats more or less how I met my best friend. But I think coincidence plays a far deeper role. I've made some great friends online just by happening to be playing in the same match and accepting an invitation to a group for no reason. I remember how I joined my six man destiny clan - three years ago I was playing in the iron banner and just so happened to party up. We then played all weekend and for the next three years. Same thing happened when I joined a group that messaged me because my gamertag was coincidentally related to their group name.

Wait, the government is looking for collusion aimed at stopping eSIM technology, so one of the alleged colluders is actually stopping the development? In what world does that make sense?

Screw this [insert decision of reddit admins], I'm going to Voat!

The only problem with voat is it's probably the Mos Eisley of the internet now, since every time reddit kicks out the racists or the fascists or the bullies they all say they're going to voat.

I'm a definitive millennial, I have access to multiple video streaming libraries, 3 game consoles, literally 100s of video games, all of the internet, and any book I could want. I still find myself looking at my copious amounts of entertainment and think "I don't want to do any of this right now." I may have a netflix queue in the hundreds and entire series I want to watch, but I experience the boredom that only comes when you have so many options you can't pick one. I don't think this is unique to teens.

The problem with police officers lying like this is that it colors all other police interactions as suspect. If the police were smart, they'd turn these sort of people out rather than close ranks.

I'm not surprised, I'm a shifty character. No way I've told myself everything about myself.

If amazon wants to get into the hardware game, they need to treat competitive hardware fairly or be hit with an anti-competitive lawsuit. There's no two ways about it.

Stop being thick headed, there are all sorts of differences between men and women, just like there are all sorts of differences between individual men or individual women. The point is none of those differences make women unsuited to leadership or incapable of being a scientist or something, and the system currently rewards alpha-male bullshit (another fallacy, the alpha male thing is based off of a basic misunderstanding of wolves or something and is total bullshit and shouldn't be rewarded) instead of actual leadership qualities. Everyone would actually be better off in the workplace if we moved away from rewarding those traits and becoming, as you said, woman-friendly.

In other words, all bosses are assholes and statistically speaking most assholes are men.

Japan has nothing to worry about. The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan, signed after WWII, basically means that Japan AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are responsible to ensure the national security of Japan (It's actually mutual with the understanding that the Japanese constitution forbids deploying armed forces abroad). In other words, if china is actually aggressive towards Japan in any way, the full force of the United States armed forces will stand with them. As one of China's main trading partners, China doesn't want to pick a fight with the united states any more than we want to pick a fight with China. Similarly, South Korea has little to fear from China (even if they're propping up North Korea to do it), since the US has a similar relationship there. Nepal and Taiwan are screwed. India... its hard to imagine things going worse for India to be honest. Lets focus on getting most of their people clean, proper toilets before we start worrying about the influence of communist dictatorships, eh?

I don't participate much because unlike, say, reddit, HN seems much more focused on delivering people to other destinations. That might just be my perception, but I think reddit has much more sophisticated community features, where as comments have always felt like an add-on for HN