>There is a law against asking people who interact with the state for data that it already has.

I find that very interesting. Could you provide a link?

I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with. It was more than 30 pages.

>> Paypal provides an effective dispute resolution process and enables customers to pay for stuff by explicitly authorizing a payment and without giving away their payment info to unknown third-parties.

> I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with. It was more than 30 pages.

What kind of info do they share with those third parties?

I think the GP's point stands, since the "unknown third-part[y]" that customers are usually most concerned about is the merchant, which Paypal definitely doesn't share payment info with (like CC numbers).

Offtopic: PayPal shares more than we think it does. I've had issues where certain merchants asked me to confirm identity by sending copy of utility bill for address I had on PayPal account. I thought my address is private so sent a bill for my siblings house where I also paid the bills for internet, but they reported that address is not same with PayPal, so I argued a bit but eventually had to send one for correct address. I think that, PayPal doesn't share CVV but merchants can view all personal info attached to my PayPal account.

That doesn't seem too weird to me. Wouldn't most merchants necessarily have your address in order to provide services to you (shipping would definitely require it, for instance).

In the interest of giving PayPal some potential benefit of doubt, it could be that they're simply returns a match/no-match on the address as a fraud-reduction step or something.

> I once saw a pdf which listed all the third parties that PayPal shares its information with.

It's immatetial how much data paypal shares around. What's important is that I can share my CC with paypal and use paypal to buy stuff from any store that accepts it, and the risk of my CC data ending up in the private stash of any random CC fraudster is so low that such a thing is practically unthinkable.

how does that compare with a typical credit card company?

When my mom’s small business would receive a chargeback from her merchant bank, they would send her the ENTIRE customer’s card statement for the month in question. By email.

Could you try to articulate that in a simpler way? Without proper punctuation this is hard to follow. Thank you.

It's not the companies (and their earnings) who will pay back investors. Other bagholders will do that once they go public.

The Vivo Nex can do this too btw. It's a cool feature though.

What's a Vivo Nex?

That's a smartphone.

They presented the dynamic depth control with the words: "No other smartphone right now can do that".

Lie. I'm writing this comment on a Vivo Nex and I have been using this for months.

No, the Vivo Nex cannot adjust depth of field in post-processing. It can adjust depth of field (via aperture) before capture.

Wrong. I shoot the photo, and can afterwards (or whenever I stumble upon the photo in my gallery) adjust the depth of field with a slider. Pretty similar to what they did in the presentation. I can even change the subject of focus.

Definitely has the option to adjust depth of field in post-processing. Done it lots of times.

Not a smartphone, but there's also these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera

And this isn't done through ML trickery.

>High amount of intelligence has a negative corelation with creativity.

This has not been proven and I don't think this is the case. Here is a great post that highlights the faulty methodology of most studies that came to this conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088314

I think intelligence gives you the background of ideas, philosophies, and history from which you can, if you are motivated enough, be inspired by when working on creative pursuits. I am likewise not terribly convinced that the correlation is as high as the GP asserted.

Also, I think that creativity usually comes from two ideas that no one really considered could be combined together, but someone did, and pursued it. The people who are best able to capitalize on that are those who are experts in more than multiple fields, like polymaths, and can use the knowledge from one field and pollinate in another field of expertise. I.e. polymaths, who I would expect to be some of the most intelligent people out there.

I think this means conventional intelligence. If lots of people think you are smart it is only possible if they all have the same internal definition of smart which must be the lowest common denominator.

Creativity and creative intelligence is unable to hook into established definitions and so such things can't be labelled. Often they are labelled as "different" or even "subversive" until small group mindshare makes it mainstream and eventually it is appreciated.

Austria also has a very good social safety net, free universities and subsidized childcare - and we have very few startups, because people just don't like to take risks here.

For ARM, always use Oracle VM. It's around 15x faster for my application.

Please read on http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/297: "The contribution from Oracle provides full C1 and C2 support for ARM, putting it on par with other architectures."

So from now on the OpenJDK will be as fast as Oracle VM on ARM!

Comparing Kahnemann's work with Newton's is absurd.

Indeed, stopping to rank everything on absurd scales would be a great intellectual achievement for humanity.

That's what I thought browsing the comments.

As a scientist, it is important to attribute ideas to the people that put them forward.

But the essence of science is about the preservation, dissemination, and most importantly researching knowledge.

Whenever the topic of attribution comes up, it seems to quickly escalate from giving due credit to sciences politics.

On Kahnemann in particular, I was quite influenced by this series of tributes to him: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-on-kahnema...

There are several items in the list that seem glaringly out of place

Which ones? Note that an item being on the list doesn't mean it's a comparable achievement to all others on the list, just that it's above an implicit and slightly vague threshold.