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by Lazare 8y ago
> well, the copyright to the software resides with Confluent That's not at all what he's asking. To quote from the article: "And to be clear: I’m not asking who owns the copyright (that part is clear, as it is for open s
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by Lazare 8y ago
The idea is that they would be sweeping it into short term treasuries, and no, they don't pay 3% either, but it's more than a chequing account pays. The remainder would presumably come from interchange fees. Ie, you put $500 into
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by Lazare 8y ago
In the US, FDIC is primarily funded by fees banks are required to pay, and there is an actual fund held by the FDIC to cover this. However, if the fund is exhausted the FDIC is backstopped by the federal government, which would step in and
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by Lazare 8y ago
I think it's becoming increasingly clear what happened. As whitepoplar noted here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691477 ) other similar services are FDIC insured because the funds are swept into FDIC bank accou
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I don't understand why governments don't just [violate civil liberties]. Perhaps you should think a bit harder. Maybe do some reading? Maybe consider how you'd feel if your civil liberties were targeted. > At leas
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by Lazare 8y ago
You can't map everything cleanly to HTTP status codes. When you implement the task queue resource, you'll need to come up with ways of representing what information is important to you (status, success, failure, eta, progress, et
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by Lazare 8y ago
I'm using it, it works fine. Two things to keep in mind though: First, the post recommends that "once resource is created, API should respond with 303 See Other status code on all the subsequent requests to the queued task."
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by Lazare 8y ago
I don't disagree, but that's a normative argument about what addons we should choose to use. My concern, however, is Mozilla putting themselves in the position of making that judgement for their users. Even if we agree that this
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by Lazare 8y ago
I'm not a member of the Clojure community, and have no idea what context may have driven this but... ...I agree with his point 100%, and it's certainly relevant to other communities.
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by Lazare 8y ago
Elm is a very locked down ecosystem, heavily influenced by a single lead developer (Evan Czaplicki) with a very small team of assistants. Development is slow, and focused heavily on what Evan thinks is best; features he doesn't use or
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by Lazare 8y ago
What you're missing is, everyone gets to depreciate their investments. Large oil companies are some of the few who can't .
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by Lazare 8y ago
Being able to amortize an investment over the productive life of an asset is a subsidy ? Under what definition of the word?
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I was surprised - and dismayed - that the polygraph was still being used Keep in mind that it was being used here by Ford , not by the FBI or Congress. I think the people who mattered are well aware they don't really work, but
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by Lazare 8y ago
Reading between the lines a bit, it seems: 1. Wallace was on Upwork to freelance. 2. Wallace was working for one client so much that he was at risk of becoming an employment relationship, rather than a freelancing one. 3. At no point was Wa
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by Lazare 8y ago
This all came out some years ago; this is just a followup lawsuit from the people who opted out of the first round of litigation. In short: It didn't work very well, but that's not the point. Longer form: Traders from several ba
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by Lazare 8y ago
A little background: First, in the FX market it's quite common to make trades "at the close", ie, the price at a specific time. In principle this serves everyone's interests, because you need to agree to some price, a
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yes, there are more people every year, but in the US, there aren't a lot more people every year. Population growth is at 0.7% and falling. On the other hand, I see no reason to think that "demand for good locations is increasin
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by Lazare 8y ago
Byzantine generals: N generals wish to coordinate their attack on a defending army. The attack will succeed if a majority attack at the same time, so you send messages to the other N-1 generals saying "attack tomorrow at dawn".
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yes. Simple oversight is possible. Alternatively, if it is a trust issue, the fact that it's not just "the X.org security team doesn't trust the OpenBSD maintainer team" but "the OpenBSD X maintainer doesn't
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by Lazare 8y ago
There's a serious bug that impacts a number of operating systems, including OpenBSD. In order to coordinate a release, some vendors were made aware of the bug before it was publically disclosed, but OpenBSD was not one of them, probab
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by Lazare 8y ago
My assumption is a bunch of "less critical" info on ~8m pasengers was accessed (phone numbers? names?), and then ~1m had passport or credit card numbers leaked, and they itemised the "more important" ones explicitly. It
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by Lazare 8y ago
I think you understand IPOs correctly, but you missed the bit where this isn't an IPO. This is the bit where some firms say "hey, at some point in the future you should totally sell yourself through us, we think you're very l
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by Lazare 8y ago
If I own a block of code, I can release it under as many licenses as I like, even if those licenses would totally conflict, and then each one of my users will need to track which license they received it under and adhere to those terms (onl
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by Lazare 8y ago
Last I checked Postmark is actually a fair bit more expensive, and SES is cheap and very, very, very barebones. After Mandrill exited the space in a fireball of burning good will, the remaining players in what I'd call the "ful
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by Lazare 8y ago
My employer is a customer of Twilio and Sendgrid, and for the exact same reasons: Sending notifications to customers via SMS and/or email, depending on circumstances. I suspect we represent a core customer type for both firms, and I r
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I thought that was the whole point of fiat-backed crypto? That is a key point of fiat-backed crypto. Whether Tether is an example of fiat-backed crypto is another question entirely. :)
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by Lazare 8y ago
My comment may have been unclear, but I agree with this completely.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> There's nothing wrong with CSV as it is for basic data transfer. I disagree. CSV is horribly underspecified and many parsers have conflicting ideas on how things should work. I've hit areas where, for example, an API was ge
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Quality thus increased, and remained increased, until the Internet made narrow-niche journalism profitable again. I basically agree with your overall point, but I think you may have that part backwards, actually. Advertising in genera
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by Lazare 8y ago
The phrase "yellow journalism" is over 100 years old now. The talking heads on cable news are well aware that their salaries and continued employment depend on their ability to attract views. And there have been plenty of scand

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