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"Download APK" button is not downoading APK, just redirecting to repo.
Comment · 27 days ago
> It's a smart thing, because it causes the processing costs of expensive payment types to be borne by the customer who is using the expensive payment method

Why the same logic does not apply to cash payments? They have costs too.

> Unfortunately it has become a popular idea to ban the surcharging of these costs by retailers, so it's likely to be outlawed by next year, which is completely asinine.

It's completely sane. Surcharges are now outlawed in Australia (from 1 Oct) and I finally paid for my coffee exactly the same amount that was written in the blackboard. Businesses that do not want to absorb the 0.5% fees are free to stop accepting credit cards or can raise prices (none near me did that so far). That's fine, the most important thing is if coffee is 5.50, you pay 5.50, not some random amount.

Comment · 1 month ago
PISA is not the only OECD study/assessment that evaluates students abilities. There are others - PIRLS, and, more importantly, ICILS (The International Computer and Information Literacy Study). It's unfair to look at PISA results alone.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm pretty sure the whole "hack" was AI agent asked some question about health statistics in Australia, tried to google info, found some clues that statistics it is looking for was on old Medicare portal, went to that portal, and, ignoring robots.txt, crawled site to get all publicly accessible documents.

Really, a "hack", and a "cybercrime", when you really need those words to push regulatory agenda you need. Just do not go into details what really happened, vaguely mumbling "webcrawler... Not taking no as an answer...."

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Mate, 3 months ago you admitted on HN that you never get Singapore PR, just admit you want to moan how west is bad. I pay more taxes than you, and that's ok, Australia worth it.

> shell0x 3 months ago | As a white person, I’d probably never get PR too but I think it’s good that they maintain the current percentages, otherwise the country would turn unrecognizable like Germany or France

Comment · 7 months ago
It's not clear from README, does it have persistence? I.e. if I create an s3 bucket and upload files in it, would the bucket/files be there after I restart the emulator?
Comment · 7 months ago
But evolution is not optimizing for best outcome in terms of health. As Dr Karl said, "Evolution does not have to be perfect, just good enough for you to have babies & get them to maturity".
Comment · 9 months ago
To add to that, most of the events described in the article - hitting cyclist, hit when reversing, hit stationary item on parking etc - happen during low speed city driving, but most miles for average driver are driven on highways. So, taxis, that are driven most of the time in city, would definitely get more crashes per mile than average driver. So 500,000/200,000 miles number could not be really applied to a taxi. I exect that number for taxis could be much lower.

Also, even for a non-taxi, 200,000 miles between minor hits on average seems incredibly high - that would mean that an average car in US does not hit anything in a car's lifetime. I'm not sure where that number is coming from, if that's non-reportable events.

Comment · 9 months ago
Have you read the article? It's casualties, which includes wounded. Article mentions that about 100-140k are killed, not >1m
Comment · 9 months ago
It actually does - migration from central asian ex-USSR republics was and is massive.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
> // TODO: Handle credential_source, role_arn, source_profile, sso_*, etc.

So it does not support any meaningful multi-account login (SSO, org role assumption, etc), and requires AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. That's a no-no from security POV for anything in production, so not sure what's the meaningful way to use that.

Comment · 10 months ago
so stealing temporary credentials are fine, right?

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