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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>To be honest I'm not an operations guy, and never have been, but I do work in management and my good friend who heads the IT department is struggling to find new roles for the operations people as we're heading into the cloud.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>"Orange Squeeze" I am seriously, completely confident that name would fool the person it's meant to.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
The VA complaining that tags are too big for small things and HP complaining about the wifi tells you the level of intelligence going around here on both sides.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Coinbase is in the USA, which makes it fall under the SEC, but Gemini (which all of /r/bitcoin is apparently moving to) isn't -- it's in Canada and the UK. That's what makes regulating bitcoin hard. It soon becomes
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>"I will not hesitate to terminate the employee immediately and take appropriate legal action." What possible legal action can he take? Breach of contract, maybe? There's no laws regarding cryptocurrency insider trading or
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>People might not like it but if Coinbase/GDAX cannot understand liquidity issues after so many years, it doesn't bode well for cryptocurrencies in general. All of the exchanges are repeating mistakes already learned by the fin
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
It wasn't a comment about lobbying for NSA expansion specifically, but I imagine there's plenty of companies who would benefit from NSA expansion that provide services to the US government.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>How can we fight against these patterns? Elect enough people willing to self-regulate and pass those bills. The current climate with lobbying money won't ever pass something like that.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
It's not called an IQ test legally. But it has precisely zero to do with your job unless you need to predict the next shape in a sequence of shapes, write essays on grammar, word association, or do head math within ~30s. Here's an
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Yep. In particular, stay away from anyone funded by Vista Equity Partners because they enforce IQ tests during hiring for all of their companies. That's overlaid on top of a whiteboard assessment.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Most of these graphs don't seem to have too many connections. Wouldn't a checklist layout be much better?
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>Encrypt you users private keys client side with a password only they know. Now I just hold encrypted keys my side. I still wouldn't trust you as an exchange. There's plenty of email/password dumps available. >Hopefully
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Wonder what mechanism we'll use to enforce that. Oh right, regulation.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>It's because insurance costs 10X for sick people (because they also draw 10X in insurance) Is that before or after the sticker price that hospitals give insurance companies? I'm not sure anyone can get accurate prices, so I&#x
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>simply because the ecosystem surrounding it is so much fun for a non-negligible swath of people? Sure, and also: 1) You can probably get away without paying taxes on it for now 2) It probably inherited some enthusiasm from the 2008-2017
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
The problem is that insurance costs continue to rise for no real reason. They even made costs rise when more people were insured because of ACA. In what world does that make sense?
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>you're already behind the curve. SQL syntax is extremely verbose, and compounds the more tables are involved in a query. You're not counting the time the ORM has saved you before having to resort to logging SQL.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
So the DoD wanted to brick devices instead of just declaring companies making these devices a threat to national security, banning their products from sale, and setting a good precedent? :| Would the intel community really need a botnet lik
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>"read some BDSM material" Emphasis on quotes. Most of that novel is an abusive relationship, from what I hear.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>I've never heard of a man being ignorant enough to hit on a female boss, but it wouldn't surprise me. It's far less common, but it certainly does. You just won't hear about it if they find each other attractive.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>Monero and ZCash are attempting to do exactly that. Which is a great flag to never trust any major service's Monero and ZCash offerings.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>What happens if Coinbase cannot obtain replacement bitcoins at a price near what the insurance pays out? People lose their bitcoins. It's as simple as that. That's a risk everyone should understand before buying. They might be
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>What if a Coinbase insider steals from the cold wallet? That's the inherent risk with crypto. You have to resort to "leg-breaking" to get the thief to give up the coin. Otherwise you'd need undue influence on the dev
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Cryptocurrency is just going to converge on existing financial ecosystems and regulation. Blockchain can't fight sovereignty.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>1) No counterparty risk. Everyone can get hacked, but coinbase being hacked shouldn't every, under any circumstances result in me loosing any bitcoin they hold on my behalf. Coinbase is insured by AON Insurance for their hot wallet
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
How can we stop^H^H^H^H subvert this?
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
I generally hate anything that I build that doesn't have a solid business plan with customer need behind it (read: all non-employed side work). I still don't know how to get out of that mindset.
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>Sure there are lots of people who are buying crypto because they think they'll make loads of money but a significant portion of us are in it because we dislike the infantilizing ways the current banks hold us hostage. Sure, but if
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Laundering Bitcoin through iTunes(thedailybeast.com)
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by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
Non-profit + government money + charity has honestly been some of the most wasteful spending I've ever seen (as a developer, not as an accountant). And I don't imagine humans are that different between healthcare and education ind

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