Millenialboomer

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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
As a manager, we have been incentivized to game this system exactly as you describe, both from my end and my devs end. Moving to a company which only cares about delivered software instead of metrics saved my soul.
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
I'd rather you not give westerners any ideas. It already seems like the united states is ever increasingly on the brink with the rhetoric of 'tyranny' we hear from both sides of the spectrum.
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
To be fair, the decision to make the original Baldur's Gate real time with pause instead of turn based was supposedly due to the popularity of diablo at the time. That doesn't take away from your point, but I do think it's a
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
I think, at this point, doubting anything the government claims without hard evidence proving their case is the wiser play based on pure pattern recognition.
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
The problem is you don't even have to run your operation from the country: you just have to pivot off of a box in that country as part of your obfuscation chain. In Cyber Security land, a lot of bad actors originate out of Israel, but
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
Exactly, people do not understand how trivially easy it is to completely halt US investigations into internet traffic origins just by pivoting off of a box in a country which doesn't hand over its ip logs to the United States. I would
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
I think he's making the point that the attributions of "This came from <insert geopolitical enemy here>" are without any evidence. How exactly do you determine that a hack originated in Russia when Russian ips will not
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
The problem is that state-level actors are considerably more sophisticated in their activities than what was seen here. There was a story on HN a while back that can best be summed up as "Defending against this is impossible: Mossad is
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by Millenialboomer 5y ago
I highly doubt the veracity of these sources, but I got worried and did a quick internet search: https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/jpmorgan-chase-accused-of-purg... I don't have much sympathy for these guys,