This has nothing to do with public health.
Oh really? Why is that?
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Safari is messed up.
care to elaborate or is reddit leaking again?
williamtwild commented on I got hacked and Facebook banned me emilycordes.com/facebook/... · Posted by u/kzrl
A little empathy would go a long way. Surely "life would go on" if your kids' school closed down, or if your best friends relocated, or if your employer laid you off. But it would be a significant inconvenience, wouldn't it?
She articulates well why losing her account is an inconvenience. We can at least acknowledge that her feelings are valid.
Comparing facebook to your employer is silly.
williamtwild commented on The pain of using budget notebooks as a software developer blog.l0g4n.me/using-budge... · Posted by u/L0g4n
Hi, IT director here. You wouldn't walk, you'd be walked out. By security. Then, likely sued.
Don't be a jackass. Discuss this stuff with your IT department.
Sued? Hyperbole. If you really do that as an IT director you are trash.
williamtwild commented on How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart grid.news/story/technolog... · Posted by u/jelliclesfarm
They did have retail stores, which as a person younger than the average on here is something that differentiates Gateway from say Compaq or eMachines in my mind
The problem i saw in my area was they opened up shop almost right across the street from comp-usa. I used to haunt that comp-usa and frequently i would hear people talk about just being over there. Their mai compalint was that they had to wait for thier computer but they could just buy one at comp-usa and leave with it. I am surprised they lasted as long as they did.
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What is the statute of limitation on such cases? This was six or more years ago.
hopefully more than 6 years
williamtwild commented on What’s in Which Python nedbatchelder.com/text/wh... · Posted by u/gammarator
I'd take the official claims and benchmarks with a huge dose of skepticism. Python is no longer a free software project. The infrastructure is censored and dissent is suppressed ruthlessly.
The entire ecosystem is great at marketing. Critical people like Armin Ronacher have left long ago.
I'd like to see truly independent benchmarks from unbiased or critical outsiders. But in general those do not have any interest in Python.
Can you suggest an alternative? (not perl)
williamtwild commented on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service blog.stablegains.com/were... · Posted by u/mkeeter
Stablehains sounds like something from a 2am infomercial. I have no idea why people would fall for this garbage.
For most people, a friendlier ideal is probably social recovery wallets, as advocated by Vitalik. You can restore access much like centralized services can, except instead of relying on a big company you're relying on your circle of friends and family. You can also include a company or two, if you want, without the company being a single point of failure.
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
Reversing charges is a different point, which could be accomplished pretty simply with 2-of-3 sigs if there's market demand for it. At the moment, scaling issues have kept crypto from being used much for retail payments anyway (though that's gradually getting fixed).
As for freezing cards, that's something we have to do a lot because we hand over full account credentials to everyone we pay and just trust them to keep those details safe and not abuse them. I've replaced two credit cards due to fraud, and it was a hassle. It boggles my mind that we've had public key cryptography for fifty years and we're still not using it for payments. Never mind blockchains, just upgrading the banking system to use public keys would be a huge improvement.