The problem with those call centers isn’t competency but authority and incentive to act autonomously to solve problems. Which is ironic because it looks like Microsoft is ready to sell ai with the authority to act autonomously.

I don’t feel like I have a good sense of how valid the objections are.

I’d like to hear more about the specifics if the issues you ran into. I keep delaying my options to start using passkeys because it’s a lot to take in at once and the only services implementing them seem to be the most important ones that I really don’t want to experiment with my ability to acess them. I haven’t even been looking at the details of each service’s implementation.

Can you elaborate on what it means to use a security key as a password manager? I’m not sure if I understand what you mean.

It’s nice to see that others get it. Unfortunately, neither of us have any immediate influence on the largest social media platforms.

New Jersey has a law like that for gas. Can only increase the price one time per day. But ut doesn’t apply to all gass stations, just ones on the highway rest areas.

You made a good point and I immediately thought that reporting a gross profit dollar amount as an example of how profit margins are not slim as simply inappropriate. And I would have responded myself if you hadn’t. There’s no single dollar figure that can inform anyone about anything useful about the profit margin of a business. A number without context is useless.

I don’t see how that thought process is exclusive to people who are or consider themselves to be smart.

They aren’t saying that this is exclusive to people who consider themselves smart. They’re saying that they’re more likely to fall for the trap by engaging with the assumption of not being susceptible to being tricked. Although I think the author does conflate smart people with people who think of themselves as smart inappropriately.

AT&T simply had the laws protect them from competition for 105 years.

Residential home construction and renovation has always been a magnet for fraud. Take at least the the same level of precaution for solar installations.

Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use.

It didn’t take long before people saw that energy was a major factor in cost of operations of the network.

It was a poor design decision

One that is fiercely defended by people who invested into the implementation. So it may not have started with it being anticipated, but not it is and people are actively choosing to perpetuate this use of energy.

Back when Bitcoin was released, nobody was giving a thought to computer energy use.

VT for long term
Money Market Funds for short term

Why not use the $9 plan at ghost.org?

To give one example. It puts a link on paywalled Medium.com pages to view the page’s content on another site since a block list will no longer be able to bypass the paywalled content on Medium.com.

This seems like an extremely rare, high level of service and I’m still not convinced this would be the difference between EVs and ICE vehicle reliability if it was the standard at every dealer and independent shop over the past 10 years.

I attribute it to Tesla being a manufacturer that doesn’t care about the manufacturing process.

We need to wait until Monday to find out what IBM did?

Mechanics generally don’t inspect vehicles that are in for routine maintenance unless the customer is paying for inspections.

I don’t think you’re following the hypothetical being presented.

In this hypothetical, many people will view Amazon as unreliable for future purchases after their deliveries didn’t show up in time.

Almost anything seems to qualify as appropriate for this Technology community. It’s hard to think of something that’s not “technology” making this a general purpose community. Which is fine if that’s what people want, but I’m probably going to unsubscribe if there isn’t more focus here.