And a third-order effect of every other link being SEO garbage or AI slop

That's still not a scam. They tell you what you're paying for. If you don't like it, then go somewhere else. There's no deception going on.

So the hecklers selling overpriced trinkets at every major tourist attraction in Europe or the US aren't scams? I disagree.

Unless they're trying to force them on you, no, they're not. Them being annoying as fuck doesn't mean they're dishonest.

You're using an free tier supported by ads, what would you expect?

Either pay the money they ask if it's worth having comments, or build your own system.

as far as I can tell, pharmacists cannot give vaccines off-label (this is an issue for the new covid guidelines and some states fell back to an Rx if no longer eligible for the covid booster).

Your PCP may give a vaccine off-label though, which is how I got my Shingrix, though I had to pay out of pocket.

No number of confirmation dialogs going to help anyone in determining that their 27+ digit address is mistyped.

Copy paste, and triple check the first and last 4 characters.

Not good enough, scammers will make copycat look-alike addresses that have the same first ~7 and last ~7 characters.

What does this mean in practice though? If you need to be certain, make sure you copy the right address.

What about something like VisualHostKey but for the bitcoin address?

I doubt that would help much. People should clear their clipboard, and copy & paste, then double check the whole thing, or at least the first and last few characters.

Bad advice scammers/malware have huge tables of addresses they've generated that agree in the first N and last N characters. If a user is going to compare a subset they should make an effort to make it be an unpredictable subset.

Bad actors can easily pregenerate adresses that mach those ahead of time.

$20 billion sell price is no longer a “startup”

Indeed, in a week Meta will offer that to an ML undergrad as a signing bonus.

Diamonds definitely chip.

Sure, but so does everything, and a typical user won’t really see chipping unless they bang it really hard against the tough surface in a weird way

Synthetic diamonds are so cheap now that even de Beers closed their online store.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2025/05/09/de-be...

You're a few years too late, as this trend has been been happening for a decade at this point. You can find many articles online about how millenialls and now gen-z are ditching diamonds.

Are they ditching diamonds because if fashion, or are they ditching diamonds like they’re ditching buying houses? I would bet affordability is more likely the cause of decline in younger people

Diamonds have absolutely catered in affordability in the last few years, so I think it's probably fashionable. I've seen more and more people say they want something different than a diamond ring and I think part of it is that they aren't worth multiples of any other ring anymore

You're giving a MFA number to someone that called you?!

The bank I used to use had a per-verification request code that the app showed. If the party dealing with you knew the code, you could be sure they were the party who initiated the verification request.

But you said you read back the code. It should be the other way around--*you* compare the code they give you with the code the app gives you. Give zero information until identity is confirmed.