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Use authy for authentication https://authy.com/blog/authy-vs-google-authenticator/
If this was an independent review I would take it more serious, but it comes from authy directly. Serious question tho, can Authy be used on any website that supports Google Authenticator?
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Not the freedom I mean. I would say that people with lower incomes have better lives in other Western countries, but that's not the freedom from the government (at least on paper but probably in practice as well) that I meant.
It's funny how when discussing freedom with an American they'll always insist the only measure that's really important is the one they excel in.
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I also have first hand experience as a US citizen refusing to answer any questions each of the ~couple dozen times in the past half decade or so I have crossed the US border. In my experience, not only should you decline to answer any questions, you should demand to have an attorney present for any questioning. This should end the interrogation fishing expedition, though in my experience you need to repeat yourself 3…
Yeah, good point on suing, I know I've heard suing the feds is a whole other ordeal than suing states or political subdivisions such as cities under the state. For the states/cities, it's a section 1983 lawsuit, while the feds they refer to it as a Bivens action. Sadly though people can't afford that, but I know some lawyers will take a cut if you win.... but some lawyers don't even want to help because they want to…
I have had CBP officers tell me that I have no right remain silent. I have had CBP officers tell me that I have no right to an attorney. I have had CBP officers tell to me that they will not let me into the country until I answer their questions. They are indeed liars. Stick to your guns and they will fold.
A US citizen is admissible once their claim to citizenship is verified and they have completed a written customs declaration. At some airports, CBP eschews written customs declarations and has a policy to interrogate passengers instead. In that case, simply demand to complete (or, better, bring along an already-completed) Form 6059B and maintain your refusal to answer questions.
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It's like herd immunity: if most phones have an activation lock, then thieves are less incentivized to steal them. Obviously they can still sell them for parts, but they're worth less.
In theory it's not needed since you could report your phone's IMEI as stolen and the phone would be block, for some reason it's not common among operators https://www.gsma.com/services/gsma-imei/imei-blacklisting/
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You can also press the lock button five times to make it refuse to unlock without a valid passcode.
Just tried that (iPhone 8) and it did reject my fingerprint but only after issuing a loud WHOOP WHOOP “Emergency SOS” and 3 second countdown to make an emergency call (presumably 911). Hardly a stealth move to pull at the border!
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If this was an independent review I would take it more serious, but it comes from authy directly. Serious question tho, can Authy be used on any website that supports Google Authenticator?
Yes
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Class mobility better in other countries? Please provide a source for this claim.
Vertical social mobility is pretty bad in the US. This is for 2012: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi... This OECD chart shows how your financial outcome is practically inherited in the US and Germany: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/moving-up-the-income-... This isn't very surprising. For decades, the strongest predictor for a country having high social mobility is a strong welfare…
I guess that does not apply at all to developing countries like China.
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> An elasticity of zero would mean there is no relationship, and thus complete intergenerational mobility,
No, an elasticity of zero would rather mean that people are overly taxed and therefore there is no transfer of wealth between generations, which is probably not what you want (what is already taxed belongs to you and whoever you decide to give it to).
Of course, elasticity of zero would mean that there is no whatsoever transfer of skills or intelligence between generations, which is genetically patently false.
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That would really depend on how you define freedom, if you look at it theoratically like "free to do whatever you want". Then maybe , if you look at it from the perspective of "an individual can garner freedoms through work" they are far more likely to do that in most other western countries. You are far more likely to not have to worry about things like healthcare in european countries than you are in the US for exa…
Class mobility better in other countries? Please provide a source for this claim.
The U.S. is dealing with the after effects of major social ills. Children in intact families are still very likely to have economic mobility.
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Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?
Freedom of expression has a much stronger protection status in the US than in the UK. That is one example.
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Use authy for authentication https://authy.com/blog/authy-vs-google-authenticator/
If this was an independent review I would take it more serious, but it comes from authy directly. Serious question tho, can Authy be used on any website that supports Google Authenticator?