chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 29d ago
> Force hospitals to expose API's with transparent pricing. Unless you're uninsured (which is a whole separate clusterfuck), the hospitals aren't the ones who decide how much you pay for any service - the insurance compani
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by chimeracoder 2mo ago
> But this went out of the window when some genius decided that usernames were too complicated, so Passkeys had to be discoverable, which means they have to be fully stored token-side. Which of course has the nice side benefit of essenti
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by chimeracoder 3mo ago
> See, that’s just flat-out lying. What’s this mythical circumstance where playing audio A at the same volume as audio B on one device will magically make A louder than Bon another? Regarding your second point: as any audio engineer or e
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by chimeracoder 3mo ago
> The HB vaccine unfortunately doesn't work that well, many people are still not fully immune even after several doses This is incorrect. The HBV vaccine is one of the most effective vaccines available for any pathogen, providing fu
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by chimeracoder 3mo ago
> Yes, there is an effective vaccine but not everyone has access to it for tons of reasons. Also, about 3.5% of the world's population already has it. That's about 300 million people for whom a vaccine is pointless, and who are
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by chimeracoder 3mo ago
It's estimated that 300 million people have HBV. HBV is currently incurable once acquired, at which point the vaccine is irrelevant. The HBV virus is also carcinogenic, which makes it unique[0] among the three big hepatitis viruses. L
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> “Free Palestine” isn’t exactly fringe. In fact, outside America and Israel, I’d bet it’s the default stance That's certainly not true in many European countries
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> wait, how many workers fall outside the 16-65 range?? A little less than 10% of the workforce. GP is correct - basically there was a report making that claim about the decline in employment rates of US-born workers over a certain time
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> This is wrong. There is no minimum time in the country for a green card. You are thinking of citizenship. That is different. You are incorrect. What you said is technically true in that there is no statute that requires it, but in p
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> This is not true, India has something called “Overseas Citizenship of India” which is technically not a citizenship even though the name says, but its a life time visa available for US citizens of Indian origin. And you don’t have to g
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> How many people become permanent residents of the US through these visas, as opposed to the others? The majority of permanent residents gain their green card through a status adjustment (ie, from a nonimmigrant visa). Status adjustment
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> That excludes all fans who don't live in big cities. A lot of people travel just to go to shows. Not really. The place that sells the tickets doesn't have to be the performance venue itself. This sort of distribution was quit
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Google owns Android. Google does not care about you or other users. Their customers are ads publishers. 0days does not matter for them "Google does not care about zero-day vulnerabilities" is an absolutely ludicrous claim.
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> They ended up citing a state law indicating that no locality domains were to be used for _government_ purposes in MA as their reason to say no, when of course that has no bearing on private use… > If anyone would like to band toget
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Chargebacks. "Oh, honey, I don't know how that got there. A hacker must've stolen my card! I'll call the bank immediately!" Worked in the adult industry and traditional e-commerce. It's a perennial problem
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> pornhub doesn't even accept payment via credit card. A while back they were kicked off due to there being too much CSAM. There are orders of magnitude more CSAM on other platforms, such as Facebook. As explained elsewhere in the c
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> This law is why they've been so aggressive over the last few years. There's nothing else that has changed There is so much that has changed! If you think FOSTA/SESTA are the only thing that have changed, you're clea
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Those bills are the reasons banks/credit card companies are pushing this since it holds them liable. You are either misreading those bills or confusing them with other similar bills which did target banking infrastructure (and whi
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> The problem is that activists who are laser focused on eliminating adult content watch intently for the first thing they can use against the company, and even if it violates their ToS something problematic is eventually bound to get th
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
Thank you - appreciate you being willing to correct that.
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> FOSTA-SESTA is the source of this. A well intentioned bill, that, once again, has unintended consequences beyond it's original intention. You're right that these are connected to FOSTA/SESTA, but you're missing the
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
Collective Shout is Australian, but there are plenty of similar groups in the US , UK, and Europe.
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> There hasn't been sufficient reporting on all the lobbying and back-room dealing. There has been tons of reporting on this in the industry. It is not hidden. The war on sex work is extremely well-documented, as is the explicit s
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> It's not people using stolen cards, it's people feeling shame or regret after making an intentional purchase and using chargebacks to "undo" the purchase If this problem were as pervasive as people keep saying it is
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Adult content, pharmaceuticals and travel are all industries that experience significantly higher occurrence of fraud and chargebacks than others. For example, your spouse sees a weird item on your credit card for a porn site. "Wa
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Why payment processors do it? Why people in America do not want to earn more money from commissions? Strong church lobby? Legal risks? I think its mostly religious groups who who are against adult content and sex, or there are other gr
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> It's not a sudden new thing. The financial theory seems to explain all the facts. Literally all three of the examples you list were the direct result of lobbying from groups like Exodus Cry and Morality in Media. These campaigns
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> The religious right knows many of their views are unpopular so they don't act in the open. They find underhanded ways to force their views onto us. Abortion bans wouldn't survive a simple up and down vote in almost any state,
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Question: what prevents an organisation like Kickstarter from using more than one payment processor, including the ones used by actual porn companies? The way the policies work, they would either have to use the latter processor for al
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> I’ve heard this is apparently less about morality and more about payments getting contested by men getting caught by their spouses This is a common myth. The concerted effort that we've seen over the last 5-10 years in particular

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