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The only time I'd trade on that platform is when I have information others don't. I assume that is also true for those 1% farming suckers.

> Making a movie about one of the creation of some of one of the most famous companies on Earth is obviously interesting.

That's not what "Jobs" is about. It's the setting of a character-driven dramatization of Steve Job's life and his personality. You do not grow a company like Apple merely by dominating rooms with your personality, dropping oneliners and speaking in absolutes. There's a lot of actual work involved, the details of which would make for a movie rather boring to most audiences.

"Jobs" is a movie about Apple as much as "Inglourious Basterds" is a movie about the US military in WW2.


Because in English you say "three dot two", whereas in German it is "Drei-Komma-Zwei".

It just reflects the spoken language. And having the unused symbol then be the thousand separator is natural.


Interesting, I did not know this, but a little bit doubtful. Wouldn't it be the other way around? Explicit spoken language coming from being written that way.


Maybe at some point originally, but now you can't change it. Spoken language resists attempts to shape it by committee, and written language has to begrudgingly follow its lead.


It's wild to me that this can have effectively no impact on a person's cognitive ability.


The Ministry for State Security in former East Germany had cells they'd dissappear people into. If you ignore the physical torture they employed in the earlier years, the actual cells themselves were somewhat more comfortable than what the Japanese got.

The Stasi had beds, some sense of privacy through proper doors, and an hour a day one might spend outside in a small courtyard to get some sunlight.

However the level of psychological torture (sleep deprivation, hours of standing/sitting in a prescribed posture, hourly checks, ...) appears to be milder in Japan. The Stasi could take that pretty far once they weren't allowed to use physical torture anymore.


Shush! Explaining them away is boring.


That key will get leaked. A key that has to go into every phone, even if done at the manufacturer and onto the TPM chip, will get out.

Also even if it doesn't get leaked directly, the security of TPM chips is not absolute. Secrets from them can theoretically be extracted given an attacker with sufficient means and motivation. Normally nothing that's on a typical TPM chip would warrant a project of that magnitude, but a widely used private key can change that equation.

Plus a TPM chip doesn't really have means to tell the phone isn't being lied to. You could swap out the actual phone camera hardware and sensors for a custom board that feeds the entire phone camera data of your choosing and it would be none-the-wiser.


> That key will get leaked.

Maybe? But biometric passports, chip-and-pin payment cards and SIM cards seem to do reasonably well. And Apple can always push out a mandatory software update that rotates the key, if they need to.

> You could swap out the actual phone camera hardware and sensors for a custom board that feeds the entire phone camera data of your choosing and it would be none-the-wiser.

Apple's 'TrueDepth' cameras are serialised and paired with the rest of the device. The touch ID sensors were before that too.

I don't know the precise details, but reports from people trying to repair devices independently of Apple are that the phone is very much the wiser.

e.g. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/120567 https://www.reddit.com/r/iphonehelp/comments/1dl38kq/iphone_...


> Apple's 'TrueDepth' cameras are serialised and paired with the rest of the device. The touch ID sensors were before that too.

That prevents trying to swap the module, but doesn't prevent swapping out the sensor on the module itself.


There is no reason to talk about that system: it's nonsense. It's like inventing a bad encryption protocol and discuss about why it is bad.

Better learn about the good one, but I guess it's harder than making up nonsense.


They're just part of the machinery for extracting money from these "nonprofits". Take a closer look at anything these paragons of virtue spend money on, and you'll find rot in every last minute detail of their day-to-day operations.


Like many VC’s that extract wealth from companies to enrich themselves.


That's surely the expected behaviour. Why would a VC provide money if not to get a return?


It doesn't even matter whether it actually exists, because it works for modeling the universe and making accurate predictions about it.

That means for now it's useful.


The driver's exclamation after being struck...

"Oh shit!" indeed.


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