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Because it's not true, check the largest consumer banks: https://www.postbank.de/dam/postbank/pdf/privatkunden/Postba... https://www.deutsche-bank.de/dam/deutschebank/de/shared/pdf…

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 updat…

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 …

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…

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 Motorcy…

This is a discussion about market share, not quality.

> "(Europe has over 100 mobile operators, compared with a handful in America or China.) These lack the economies of scale and opportunities to grow quickly enjoyed by firms plying …

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…

This is not surprising for a ex-government agency that is still substantially government owned. Somewhat anti-competitive, expensive, and they clearly have no sense of urgency with…

> 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 conduc…

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 1…

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 wou…

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 c…

How I cancelled the New York Times: > To: help@nytimes.com > Hi, please cancel my subscription (account number ...). Thanks and regards. Answer: > Hello, ... > Thank you for contac…

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.

That's because domains were increasingly registered to masses of private customers, who should have a different expectation of privacy than businesses. And privacy is a problem her…

There is no reason for a reputable professional data center operator to stay anonymous and not disclose a business mailing address or applicable jurisdiction. But then again, you a…

In 2012, the same Mac mini case held a cooling system for a 45W chip, 2x2.5" storage bays (or one storage bay and a DVD-Drive), 2 RAM slots, and had three more ports and a card rea…

When you run your own code, compiled on your own computer with your own copy of XCode for nobody but yourself, the only applicable measure of software quality is whatever is good e…

This reminds me of this British perspective on the custom of opening a window in Germany, which is indistinguishable from parody for a German: https://www.theguardian.com/world/202…

The free (requires account) official Wim Hof Method App has free guided breathing exercises.