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gmac commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx

reeddavid · 3 days ago

I think this comment references something many people don't realize: Even items that say "Ships from Amazon, Sold by Amazon" could be counterfeit, because the inventory from third party sellers is co-mingled with Amazon's own inventory.

If you see "Ships from Amazon, Sold by RandomCompany" you might worry about counterfeits. But the "Sold by Amazon" item might also have been sourced from (or counterfeited by) "RandomCompany".

gmac · 3 days ago

I’ve seen this stated many times on HN, but never knowingly experienced it with Amazon in the UK. Is it possible this varies by market?

gmac commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

IshKebab · 22 days ago

> The results are basically universally in favour of speed enforcement reducing motor vehicle collisions, reducing injury and cost.

Yeah this argument comes up a lot in the UK from people advocating 20mph speed limits everywhere. It's a super dumb argument though. Obviously increasing speed is never going to decrease danger. But if "slower is safer" is the only argument for 20mph then the logical conclusion is 0mph.

Clearly there are other factors at play, but the 20mph people never acknowledge that for some reason...

(To be clear I'm not advocating for 30mph everywhere. I feel like 25mph is actually the best trade-off for most suburban roads.)

gmac · 22 days ago

Speed, of course, affects not just how many accidents there are but also how bad they are. A key argument for 20mph is that collisions with pedestrians at this speed are mostly survivable. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtl...

Posted by u/gmac a month ago

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gmac commented on Postgres's sslmode=require: ubiquitous, reassuring, and almost useless neon.com/blog/postgres-ne... · Posted by u/gmac

cpburns2009 · a month ago

> The problem is this: sslmode=require encrypts, but it doesn’t authenticate. It does all the hard work to make sure your communication channel is secured, while doing nothing at all to check who’s on the other end of it.

I fail to see the problem with this. For a general setup within a secure network, dinking around with CAs and certificates is more headache than necessary. You already know the server you're communicating with. The connection just needs to be encrypted.

gmac · a month ago

I think it comes down to these two questions:

* If the network is secure, why do you want to encrypt?

* If the network isn't secure, why don't you want to authenticate?

Encryption without authentication generally seems like a strange combination.

Posted by u/gmac a month ago

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gmac commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth

poszlem · a month ago

Here you have data that includes the UK too:

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/ftc...

gmac · a month ago

It's hard to know what to make of this without a better understanding of the methodology. But the supposed leftward shift of men and women in the UK is kind of hard to square with an increasing vote share for the hard-right morons of Reform UK.

gmac commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth

MrBuddyCasino · a month ago

Just because everyone around you (which is academia) thinks this, doesn't mean its true. Because the data says the complete opposite: men drift towards the center/right, women to the extreme left.

Data by "German General Social Survey", Infratest/Dimap (an established and respected polling institute):

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/ftc...

gmac · a month ago

I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks. And these data are for Germany, while we’re commenting on a thread about the UK.

I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s importantly about a shift in how people label left/centre/right. (No left-wing parties I know of are currently suggesting returning income tax rates on the rich anywhere near to historically normal levels, for example).

gmac commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth

gmac · a month ago

Fully agree. The extreme left barely exists in the UK, Labour are perhaps a little right of centre, and the extreme right is all too well—funded and high-profile.

gmac · a month ago

(Thought I was adding this to my previous post, but in fact I was replying). I think part of the mechanism here is the normalisation of Trump. An authoritarian/trending fascist US President is continuously reported as mostly business-as-usual, and this inevitably shifts the discourse rightwards.

gmac commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth

bigfudge · a month ago

We should be clear that what is today termed extreme left in the uk and us is I) historically pretty centrist and ii) pretty normal in most of Europe.

It’s the right that are shifting, not the left.

gmac · a month ago

Fully agree. The extreme left barely exists in the UK, Labour are perhaps a little right of centre, and the extreme right is all too well—funded and high-profile.

gmac commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth

gmac · a month ago

The obvious reasons being what?

To the extent this is true, I would phrase it the other way: women are becoming less conservative, while young men are drifting towards the extreme right.

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