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jeffhiggins | 5 years ago | on: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

I agree that the incentives are perfect to be as deceptive as possible.

jeffhiggins | 5 years ago | on: Elon Musk aims to revolutionise battery technology

“He claims his Hyperloop concept could revolutionise public transport.” Hyperloop is private transport.

jeffhiggins | 7 years ago | on: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression

I’ve started leaving DND mode on 24/7. I go to my notifications, they don’t come to me anymore. This also prevents your iPhone from being DOS’d by a phone call at any moment.

jeffhiggins | 7 years ago | on: How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID

Hold the lock button and one of the volume buttons for 3 seconds. This disables biometrics, and gives on-screen swipe options for MedicalID and Emergency SOS. Pressing the lock button 5 times also disables biometrics, begins a 3-second countdown to auto-call your Emergency SOS contacts and 911. One nice touch is that the language used to let you know Touch/FaceID are disabled doesn’t rat you out to the cops (just says that Touch/FaceID doesn’t recognize you, not that you intentionally disabled it). If these don’t work for you, there are options under Settings, Emergency SOS.

jeffhiggins | 7 years ago | on: The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: Dogs have self-awareness (2017)

Interesting idea, that the mirror test for dogs is unfair because their vision sucks compared to their nose, but this reasoning seems to take quite a leap. From the article:

“This study confirmed the previous evidence proposed with the STSR by Dr. Cazzolla Gatti showing that "dogs distinguish between the olfactory 'image' of themselves when modified: investigating their own odour for longer when it had an additional odour accompanying it than when it did not. Such behaviour implies a recognition of the odour as being of or from 'themselves'."”

Maybe the dogs just recognize their own modified scent as very familliar? Not as a representation of themseles, but just a smelll they smell often. I love dogs, and don’t doubt for a moment they have some level of self-awareness similar to our own, but to me, this test stinks.

jeffhiggins | 8 years ago | on: Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]

Maybe she’s wealthy enough to be able to not go bankrupt for her treatment, and staying around friends and family and avoiding travel are all good ideas for someone with brain cancer?

jeffhiggins | 9 years ago | on: How Uber could end up as Silicon Valley's most spectacular crash

This entire thread seems to be missing the fact that during this period of us soaking it up, all legitimate competitors can't compete and will either disappear or suffer greatly.

jeffhiggins | 9 years ago | on: Toronto’s Chinese bottle ladies

Wouldn't the city be able to collect the bottle deposit too? I'm assuming 5-15 cents each is much more than they'd get by recycling the glass.

jeffhiggins | 9 years ago | on: GPU glitches in 2016 MacBook Pro models

For modern Macs, this seems like expected behaviour. My 2012 MacBook Pro and my late 2014 5k iMac regularly glitch out like this.

jeffhiggins | 10 years ago | on: How cancer cells fuel their growth

To me, Bulletproof coffee tastes like a double double from Tim Hortons. So I agree, it's definitely an unspeakably vile tasting concoction. :)

jeffhiggins | 10 years ago | on: Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong

4. Willpower and discipline.

jeffhiggins | 11 years ago | on: Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

The uncomfortable truth is that many HN readers are the ones gleefully building these tools.