matt4077 (u/matt4077)

matt4077 commented on “I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code” theguardian.com/money/201... · Posted by u/vanilla-almond

thereisnospork · 6 years ago

To continue the analogy: If someone parks in your driveway, while you don't have to tow their car, you are entitled to recompense for towing costs.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

Money in your account does not in any way inconvenience you in the way that a car parked in your driveway does.

matt4077 commented on The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf] democrats.senate.gov/imo/... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

sillysaurusx · 6 years ago

Why are you sure that’s all it can grab? That seems mistaken on a technical level. “Can’t” and “doesn’t” is an important distinction.

We have seen lots of examples of ad analytics SDKs that push the iPhone beyond its intended sandbox. Most of them have been banned, but some operated for years before getting banned. It would be a disservice to brush away those concerns as fearmongering.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

By that logic, very app should be designated “a counterintelligence threat”

matt4077 commented on California car burglaries are at crisis levels latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/nickgrosvenor

34679 · 6 years ago

It seems like you've read an awful lot into what appears to be nothing more than a copy/paste of a bio, with no suggestions whatsoever on how to feel about any of it.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

There are exactly one-and-a-half points of his bio in the text (one being cut off halfway). The rest is a list of relatives. If that doesn't imply a judgement based on his relatives, it's just completely pointless.

matt4077 commented on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy telegra.ph/Private-Intern... · Posted by u/ArcVRArthur

Razengan · 6 years ago

When the concern is our privacy and secrecy, isn’t it better to err on the side of caution than trust naively?

What if it were a matter of health? Should we trust before verifying? Would it still be a “loaded” question?

matt4077 · 6 years ago

By that logic everyone and everything is corrupt, monitored, etc. Including the hardware you might install your own VPN node on, all messenger apps, all phone lines, the mail, and so on. Your best friends are all spies. Your bedroom is bugged.

That would mean there is absolutely no way to improve your privacy and you might as well do nothing.

matt4077 commented on California car burglaries are at crisis levels latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/nickgrosvenor

fernandopj · 6 years ago

And if you see httpsterio's comment, that's 0,01% a day, 3,65% in a year, which is huge. Insurance must be crazy high to accept that level of risk on average.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

As others pointed out, this is break-ins, not cars being stolen. Typical cost of a break-in is one window. I have no idea how much that costs, but let's say $1000, which is probably 10x too much. That comes out to $1000 x 0.0364 = $36/yr.

matt4077 commented on California car burglaries are at crisis levels latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/nickgrosvenor

matt4077 · 6 years ago

Are you seriously judging someone by their great-great-uncle's book?

And why are you including a relative being a Appeals Court judge, and an independent journalist? Is "independent journalist" a code for something?

matt4077 commented on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups nytimes.com/2019/11/26/he... · Posted by u/pseudolus

cabaalis · 6 years ago

I'm in the healthcare analytics industry. I see the private payers optimizing for the things you say they don't. It's simply more profitable to have a healthier patient.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

How long do US citizen stay with a single healthcare provider (/insurance)? If, say, only 50% are still with the same provider at age 50 as they were at age 30, there is a discount on the benefits of preventative measures compared to single-payer systems.

matt4077 commented on ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B keypointsabout.org/blog/a... · Posted by u/dano

geogriffin · 6 years ago

Does anyone have a clue if they'll manage to keep their 501(c)(3) status with $1.1 billion in profit for 2019? My understanding is that profits like this unrelated to their normal business activies are taxable, and may also cause the IRS to reconsider their non-profit status and/or levy penalties [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/unrelated-business...

matt4077 · 6 years ago

The $1.1 billion isn't profit. They're selling an asset (the .org rights). That transaction should be entirely neutral in terms of profit/loss.

matt4077 commented on Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes psycnet.apa.org/record/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

rhinoceraptor · 6 years ago

If there was an alternative to sleep, then that would be a huge evolutionary advantage.

matt4077 · 6 years ago

Sleep could also just be a low-energy mode for times that are (used to be) unproductive, i. e. darkness.

matt4077 commented on What is energy, actually? (2011) jancovici.com/en/energy-t... · Posted by u/gorpovitch

pjc50 · 6 years ago

> because each year the economy is still adding its GDP even if it is not growing

Er .. "economic growth" and "increasing GDP" are usually considered to be synonyms? Do you have alternative definitions?

matt4077 · 6 years ago

I believe they may be referring to the idea that not everything is consumed in the year it’s produced. Infrastructure, for example, is useful years or even decades after it is built (and, presumably, counted in GDP).

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