I'm not sure why there's so much negativity in this thread. The listed requirements were already basic table-stakes security standards. IMO, anyone not encrypting all user data at rest, requiring MFA, etc. is bush league.

I’d love to find a way to do something similar with neighboring dogs.

Ultrasound whistle?

Sounds a bit cruel though, I dunno how it makes them feel

Usualy doesn't work. Needs a specific type of dog, and the right device. Most of the ones sold online are scams.

It makes them bark more, in my experience.

loud thunder sound using a big sub woofer?

... and a car to haul all that stuff, and time to drive to the nearest Costco.

It really is a luxury that a ton of people can't afford.

Time to go and acquire necessary food stuff is not a luxury in any reasonable framing. What is the alternative, eating drive-thru every day or having Instacart deliver overpriced groceries?

I believe eating food from street vendors was the usual way for paupers until quite recently. Recall that it was common to rent a bed for a few hours and share it with someone who worked different shifts.

Indeed. And I say this as Costco member. There are lot of factors that make Costco memberships work. And a lot of people won't be able to make much benefit out of Costco membership.

I say this as someone who admires their business model and how they treat customers & employees: your typical Costco experience is drive to the suburbs, spend $500 and load up your car with nice to have food products and discretionary purchases. Poorer people cannot do any of these things.

The $2000 daily driver died with covid.

The cost of the car itself is minimal compared to insurance, gas and storage costs.

What "storage"? You put it on your driveway. The minimum liability insurance around here is about $50 a month.

Some people do not own a driveway or a car space. There is an active rental market just for that.

There's no way to plan a city so most people can walk to a Costco. Warehouse stores are an inherently car-based phenomenon.

They don't require everyone to own a car. At the very least, they can run an efficient delivery service. And there's got to be a way to make a 3 hour rental or single taxi drive once a month much cheaper than owning a car.

Sprawl comes from urban planning. I think you mean to say a certain approach to planning makes it unnecessary.

That’ll end up in an arms race where you refine the gibberish to be more and more believable while the crawlers get better and better at detecting poison wells. The end state is where your fake pages are so close to the real thing that humans can’t tell the difference

Humans have been refining their gibberish for centuries.

I admire your idealism that "the real thing" is coherently different from good gibberish. The poisoned version of the same article is great: https://heydonworks.com/nonsense/poisoning-well/ (I love me some surrealism so gibberish is something I sometimes choose to input into my own model in my head).

The scary part of AI is that it shows how crappy most of the training material is.

> That is achievable in physical security, but not in cybersecurity.

Not with physical security either, I'm afraid.

Any physical lock can be manipulated, even the particularly high-security ones. But in practice, most locks are not even challenged because doing so requires actually walking up to the lock and trying. You can't try every physical lock in existence; but you can try every digital lock. So the effects of, say, an encryption backdoor key compromise would be far greater and far more immediate than, say, the compromise of the Travel Sentry master keys.

With physical security the state apparatus can provide physical security in the form of police and what not, as well as deterrence and punishment.

In the world of cryptography it's... a bit harder to do something similar. In the best case they can come up with a key escrow system that doesn't suck too much, force you to use it, and hopefully they don't ever get the master keys hacked and stolen or leaked. But they're not asking for key escrow. They're asking for providers to be the escrow agents or whatever worse thing they come up with.

They sort of do have that power. They have the ability to lower the max vehicle weight and eventually it gets lowered to where no real traffic can go over it. Grady talked about it in the video.

because one doesn't tend to get drunk on pie and then go beat up your wife or run over a pedestrian with your car. Is it biblical? No, but people rank sins by social impact out of habit.

People don't run over pedestrians because they smoked a cigarette, either, but church people view smoking in a similar way.

You can also just use a hand mixer with only one beater inserted.

I use a hand mixer with two attachments, which are the corkscrew type.

They are called "dough hooks".

Hand mixers that ship without these are incompletely delivered.

and fling peanut butter everywhere, and spend 3 minutes washing the beater off

Cheekily forging forward with Atwood's law! I love it!

And has Optum conveniently forgotten to ship refills, but only for the expensive drugs? That happened to my wife on multiple occasions.

Or maybe they've rejected refill requests until right before your supply runs out, such that you have to go days without your meds while the new supply is shipped?

Optum is the shadiest shitshow I've ever dealt with.

They make it extra painful sometimes when it's time to refill, requiring re-authorization every year. My doctor has a woman working for his practice who spends almost full time battling insurance companies so that patients can get their meds, and she's been my ally at managing these fights.

> My doctor has a woman working for his practice who spends almost full time

Yep, and this is the sort of make work that the health care system is full of that drives up costs for everyone.

Every doctor has one of these people, and they are probably the most valuable member of the practice, after the doctor, themselves.

Most of them (in my experience) have been middle-aged women, hard-nosed, cynical, and no-nonsense. They can easily be abrupt and cranky.

It's a real good idea to ignore that, and make them your friend. They can do miracles.

A lot of the doctors I've seen recently just don't take insurance. Basically they just tell me what something costs and then I pay it. Obviously if you are poor this is a problem, but then again so is everything else and you probably can't afford health insurance anyway.

Getting new prior auths every year is annoying but not exclusive to Optum, thats been the case with all the specialty pharmacies I've gotten prescriptions from.