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PINs are safer, and less fraud is better. At the end of the day, shifting blame and liability is not going to change anything.

However, using security factors like secrets or updating the withdrawal limit is possibly inconvenient, that's why some people rather not use them and companies are incentivised to just recover the relatively minor losses to fraud in fees.

I guess it comes down to the fact that in some countries people are used to having about five different cards, and in others it's close to one.

((1) is both disingenuous (ignoring sensible withdrawal limits) and mathematically wrong (unlimited fraud spread evenly over all accounts is still unlimited fraud against every account). I guess people would pay more to avoid surprises, but they'd like it even more if there was less fraud.)

(3) The point was more that someone will have to pay for the fraud that is happening. Deriving a structural advantage from not using secrets is far fetched.

The customer still pays for fraud, one way or the other. So why not aim to prevent fraud in the first place by using a simple and effective second factor to mere possession of the card?

In this case it doesn't matter, because there's a car in front anyway.

I don't know how much the system can ignore or mislabel people and still drive safely, but right now it's not really safe and it's not necessary to have the car drive while improving object recognition.

In 8:39 - 8:42, there's a group (three people with a dog and stroller) crossing the street left to right.

Here's what the Tesla recognises on the screen:

  One person
  Nothing
  Motorcycle
  Nothing
  Motorcycle
  Nothing
  Car
  Nothing
  One person
  Two persons
  One person
  One person and a motorcycle
  One person
  Nothing
  Motorcycle
  One person
  One person and two motorcycles
  Two persons
  One person
  One person and a motorcycle
  Two persons
  One person

It seems to me you wouldn't really need public testing yet at this early stage of development. At a minimum, I would expect it to count the people correctly and get rid of the motorcycles, i.e. basic perception.

This is a discussion about market share, not quality.

The UK government has a democratic mandate to track infections, including by tracking visitors to areas of risk. The correct way to do this, and how most other governments do it is to provide two Apps. One for trivial QR/location based tracking, one for contact based tracking using the government-exclusive APIs.

The point is, the UK government made a technical error, we cannot extrapolate a democratic deficit or malice or anything like that from the information we have from this event.

> Von der Leyen [said] the epidemiological situation was worsening

> “The European Commission will know that the rest of the world is looking at the Commission, about how it conducts itself on this, and if contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc that prides itself on the rules of law,” Defence Minister Ben Wallace said

Can't believe such bullshit in the face of a humanitarian crisis. Sales are cancelled all the time. It would only be reciprocal, and in line with US policy. More importantly, the UK is already thoroughly vaccinated, and the risk is very low throughout the summer. For once, the UK has time.

He's right in that export restrictions on vaccines are wrong, but it's because much of the rest of the world is even worse off than the EU, not because this tool has a piece of paper.

There is some self-similarity going on (Mandelbrot discusses scales from 1000 km to 10 km) but rocks or coastal sections with the fractal dimension of Great Britain on a scale of 1m or 10m are a rare exception.

I'm not an expert, but I think it's because as the length scale gets smaller, coastal erosion dominates the coastline, as opposed to an older force producing larger features, like glacial erosion or even plate tectonics. No reason to drag quantum mechanics into this discussion, but the circumference of an atom can be defined, so that's not a problem.

An actual Koch snowflake you can buy will always have a measurable circumference.

E: Some of this misunderstanding is actually due to Mandelbrot himself, he wrote in the introduction to [How long is the Coast of Britain?, 1967]:

> Geographical curves are so involved in their detail that their lengths are often infinite or, rather, undefinable.

No, they're not any more infinite than a toothbrush.

Sorry couldn't resist, from wikipedia:

> if one were to measure a coastline with infinite or near-infinite resolution, the length of the infinitely short kinks in the coastline would add up to infinity.

No they wouldn't. The sum would converge. What a bad article.

It absolutely reads like anxiety to me (except for the dermatological issues).

Feeling short of breath (short of an emergency) can cause headaches, dizziness and random pain as a consequence of breathing too much. Left arm goes numb when there's too much tension in the left shoulder. Palpitations can also be related to excessive tension in the upper body, as can the circulation issues.

It doesn't need acute stress for that, just a steady accumulation.

I hope it's not disrespectful, but this is the most common explanation, although it doesn't usually get this bad.

It's available in Ireland, but maybe not to the Irish. As far as I know all of the European Apple online stores ship from Cork, and some of them sell Homepods.