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New comment by brorfred in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

brorfred — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:25:57 +0000

Can you expand on this? SL accepts any credit card for purchasing single tickets and I assume you can buy an SL card using cash in for example Seven Eleven? Also, the issue with bank ID when you are robbed is identical to any bank app anywhere, isn't it?

Region-Beta Paradox

brorfred — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:58:45 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-beta_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958205

Points: 5

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New comment by brorfred in "I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played"

brorfred — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:31:35 +0000

I think Trader Joe's is as close as you get to it?

New comment by brorfred in "Why does pepperoni curl? (2019)"

brorfred — Sat, 14 May 2022 07:17:17 +0000

Seem like at least some do: https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sale...

https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-froz...

My point is that every country has good and bad food. You can find some of the worst “cheese” in the us, but also amazing artisan kinds that is is exuberantly priced. American country ham has won over Parma and iberico in blind tests by experts. There isn’t one Italy or one United States or one Sweden. It all depends on where you look…

New comment by brorfred in "Why does pepperoni curl? (2019)"

brorfred — Fri, 13 May 2022 10:10:19 +0000

And there is absolute crap cured meat in those countries too. The most disgusting pizza I've ever had was a Dr Oetker's frozen pizza with gross salami as topping. Seems like the brand is sold in Italy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005856/Ristorante-...

New comment by brorfred in "I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears"

brorfred — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:01 +0000

Average can mean either mean or median.

New comment by brorfred in "Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house"

brorfred — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:13:03 +0000

The importance of collecting race data is because of a history of systematic discrimination based on race. It's not for example Black or Hispanic groups that decided that those categories are important, it was the people creating Jim Crow Laws, Redlining, Bank discrimination, unequal resource distribution to schools, racial discrimination of public pools, racially based differences in policing strategies etc. The reason to ask these question is to make it possible to identify such discrimination.

Sweden is a great example of why this is important. There it is much harder to identify such kind of discrimination due to poor data. See for example the treatment of Romas or Afro Swedes.

New comment by brorfred in "TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit"

brorfred — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:27:45 +0000

And how many people have died in the strip mining of uranium?

New comment by brorfred in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

brorfred — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:24:15 +0000

Very true but a side loaded app can do so much more. Possibly even act as a key logger. Definitely provide info about all your whereabouts during protests.

New comment by brorfred in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

brorfred — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:21:33 +0000

Not at all. I read that story as the suggested apps being on the AppStore and having gone through the normal vetting by Apple. If so, then the government doesn’t have access to any more backdoors than already potentially exists in for example WeChat or Alipay.

New comment by brorfred in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

brorfred — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:46:38 +0000

Sideloading also allows authoritarian regimes to add apps to your phone. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border...

New comment by brorfred in "Do you really want Linux phones"

brorfred — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:55:41 +0000

But that's what you a developer want, not necessarily the users. I'm extremely happy that you can't tell me to use another browser and have to fix your code for Safari instead. I think that you have a right to decide which browser I can use, even if I'm your costumer. I knew the rules when I bought my iPhone and had to accept them, even if it means only using webkit. Being forced to switch to Chrome when using a specific website just because the developer didn't feel like making it work in Safari is very annoying on the Mac and would make me go nut on the phone.

New comment by brorfred in "OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing"

brorfred — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:11:51 +0000

It seems like DPP is part of WPA3, which came out in late 2018 and Apple’s version was first introduced in iOS 11, which was released 2017?

New comment by brorfred in "Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders"

brorfred — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:17:42 +0000

Free market idealists also tend to be very against the natural way for workers to consolidate and leverage negotiation power: trade unions.

New comment by brorfred in "iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers"

brorfred — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:49:01 +0000

Isn’t it even 1. Google, 2. Ad buyers, 3. Developers, 4. Users.

New comment by brorfred in "Richard M. Stallman resigns"

brorfred — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:52:25 +0000

An advocate for gay marriage, abortion, trans-gender rights etc would never have a leadership position at Chic-Fil-A and would be fired in a heartbeat if they came out with such opinions. A anti-gun advocate would not be allowed to sweep the floors at the NRA. A vegan would never be allowed to do PR for a meat plant.

New comment by brorfred in "Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python"

brorfred — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:59:32 +0000

I have this problem when using the src folder tree conventions (poetry new --src new_package).

New comment by brorfred in "The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature"

brorfred — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:47:51 +0000

Any mobile device will ping central servers for notifications, update information, ntp, etc etc. Apple or google or at&t will of course always have your current IP address and be able to provide it to police if served a search warrant. In what way is the “find my” service expanding that?

New comment by brorfred in "What to Expect from Marzipan"

brorfred — Fri, 10 May 2019 08:40:30 +0000

App convergence over different operating systems seems to bigger trend than platform convergence within an ecosystem, and Marzipan seems be Apple's response to that. I would much rather run a version of Slack's iPhone app than the electron version I'm stuck with at the moment.

New comment by brorfred in "How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]"

brorfred — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:58:54 +0000

There are several tool chains but they are either internal on institutional level or commercial. The main numerical library is NAG. Still comersial but cheap compared to the price of most cluster systems that the code is developed for. Heck, FORTRAN is probably the only language where people pay significant sums for the compilers (e.g. pgi, ifort).