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[0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
These all died in obscurity. This blog post by contrast had a catchy title that HN actually engaged with, and as such is measurably superior.
Blame dang & co, for making forum software in which blogspam is the only way to add comment or meaningfully add context and editorialize. (Since blogspam is officially discouraged I’d say the software is not fit for purpose.)
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I only send and receive money with Google/Apple Pay & PayPal at this point. This flow is reasonable (every transaction is authorised in a trusted location (ie: PayPal). Further transactions are impossible without additional authorization). It boggles my mind that banks & CC companies haven't made some standard for this. Would save them so much money in fraud protection.
Oh that’s easy enough. If they need a PIN it’s actually being run as a debit card over the debit card network. Otherwise it’s being run as a “check card” over the credit card network (with higher fees and better consumer protections). It’s just backed with money instead of a line of credit.
> Why do online stores need my name and address, but IRL ones do not?
IRL stores have access to the actual card (with your name) and having this artifact present makes it much less likely that you are a fraudulent fraudster committing fraud, so the processors are willing to take it.
> How can restaurants swipe my card now and charge me later?
the good news is if the store ever defrauds you, everyone knows where to find the store! Unlike fraudsters making purchases.
Searching the internet for it is making me increasingly upset. No I don't mean Xbox s, I put the damn thing in quotes for a reason.
Right? One of the many things (and I mean this without any hate whatsoever) I simply can't and will never understand about the US. A bank account number is your mailbox for receiving money. How does that country even operate when they build those mailboxes underground?
(Using a check, the very infrastructure we’ve been talking about!!)
None of these were silly. It takes an extraordinary amount of hard work and collective intelligence to fix these issues.
> failure to label the input pipes for a factory
Labels are not the end solution, no one reads labels unless they want something, anyone in IT should know this. (It's a great dark pattern trick)
That video was a great example video of "Murphy's law" the engineer principle, not the joke. The problem is the solution, different attachments for different fluids goes against the safety of standardization.
I've seen USCSB give advice I would consider incorrect or in question, they suggested locking compound gates. You can be directed to leave them unlocked to allow emergency evacuation in person or by car.
I don't know what's better there, but USCSB needed to also address evacuation safety if they make statements like that.
This stuff is hard and has to be applied to accidents that have not happened. It's a 'Bullshit jobs' mega-machine.
[edit] I have the say the 30 second intro to the "Explosion at the Husky Superior Refinery" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhkzK7jkKg gave me goosebumps.
I think this one especially is simple enough of an error, and the consequences are so disastrous, that it’s reasonable to find it silly.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
It goes really deep in terms of what it affects in physics.