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appleflaxen commented on The Gimmicks of Food Labeling   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/fortran77
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
> But I can proudly and honestly say I’ve never been sanctioned by a court for filing anything frivolous.”

What a noble man

appleflaxen commented on Just Build It...   blog.stephaniestimac.com/... · Posted by u/weird_science
maxverse · 2 years ago
I disagree. Unsolicited feedback lacks context and might not be intended to help the developer. Feedback to someone you don't know should be offered only if they're explicitly asking for it.
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
You disagree that keyle wants feedback?

That's literally all they said.

How can you disagree about what one individual says they themselves want?

appleflaxen commented on The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)   eurogamer.net/the-boy-who... · Posted by u/grubbs
baby · 2 years ago
That kid destroyed the life of many people for quite some time. Now I can agree that this is the kind of situation where what he did VS the consequences of what he did are disproportionate, which is the issue with computer/cyber crimes in general. Some kind of punishment is required here, I think Valve did the right thing, now the Justice System...
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
What life was destroyed?
appleflaxen commented on The End of the Googleverse   theverge.com/23846048/goo... · Posted by u/CharlesW
ghaff · 2 years ago
Microsoft was pretty loved back "in the day" (80s to 90s). Maybe not as much as an enterprise OS company but their developer support was pretty awesome before most people had access to "everything" via the Internet.

I'm not sure anyone else really qualifies as a big very consumer-facing tech company in the modern sense from that era or before though, of course, there were many once popular companies like MySpace that just flamed out. Yahoo! might be an example.

appleflaxen · 2 years ago
I think people loved their products but hated their monopolistic pricing.
appleflaxen commented on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome   theverge.com/2023/8/30/23... · Posted by u/pjmlp
stetrain · 2 years ago
I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"

Nope, not malware. Just Windows.

https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...

appleflaxen · 2 years ago
Wow. That's incredible!
appleflaxen commented on Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?   law.stackexchange.com/que... · Posted by u/oatmeal1
anonu · 2 years ago
HIPAA is sort of a joke to me. My perspective being that of a patient. Any doctor's office just blindly asks you sign a HIPAA authorization release form. Most patients don't realize that you have a choice to "opt out" and not sign it. But even then it doesn't matter because under HIPAA the provider may still choose to share your personal information for their own reasons.

Sure, I am doing a lot of "hand waving"- I'm not an expert on the law. I'm merely sharing my perspective on this. Would love to understand more about this specific authorization...

appleflaxen · 2 years ago
> Any doctor's office just blindly asks you sign a HIPAA authorization release form.

You are incorrect. You are being asked to acknowledge that you received a copy of their privacy policies. You can decline and it doesn't change very much (if anything), because they will still document that they informed you of them... which they did.

It's understandable that people don't read what they're signing; I often don't have time, either. But you are posting about that form having not paid much attention to it, which is less common, in my experience.

appleflaxen commented on Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN   ohchr.org/en/press-releas... · Posted by u/layer8
ConfusedDog · 2 years ago
Just saw a documentary interviewing escaped trafficked labors – just men, women ain't even capable of escape. They are falsely promised for "entrepreneurial opportunities," promptly got locked up and financially deprived to do scamming, prostitution, etc. One guy escaped, bystanders took him to the police and the police was part of the traffiking ring and sold him back. He finally paid off somebody with promise of ransom payment from his relatives, and upon entering Chinese border, he was fined by Chinese border control for violations. These local traffik orgs are armed with AKs and well connected politically. What a crazy, crazy world.
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
It's the modern day slave trade.
appleflaxen commented on A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
rexreed · 2 years ago
Pancreatic cancer scares the bejeebus out of me. One day I hope there's some solution because it's almost a death warrant if you get that diagnosis.
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
This article has nothing to do with cancer, though.

A bionic pancreas won't help you at all if your native pancreas developed a malignancy.

appleflaxen commented on Notepad++ v8.5.6 still vulnerable to possible arbitrary code execution   securitylab.github.com/ad... · Posted by u/dossy
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
I think that N++ is a one-programmer project.

Don Ho seems like a really cool guy.

I hope he is able to get the patch Incorporated, because it sounds like the security team provided one.

Thanks Don, for your work; and thanks Jaroslav, for the security discovery.

appleflaxen commented on Walmart cuts pharmacist pay, hours while workload piles up   reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
achates · 2 years ago
Pharmacists are pure rent seeking. They got state legislatures to mandate their services and restrict the number of graduates to keep salaries high and pass the cost to consumers. Hopefully online pharmacies reduce our reliance on them and bring costs down.
appleflaxen · 2 years ago
You have no idea what the reality is.

They are overworked and employed by mega corporations.

They are all miserable.

Talk to one.

u/appleflaxen

KarmaCake day4667September 4, 2010View Original