Veratyr

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by Veratyr 10y ago
I don't buy it. Apple is just painful to negotiate with and the banks want an at least semi-even table to play at. This conflict isn't unbalanced. The same access is being sought on both sides. The banks want their ~10M ish iPhone
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Android is under constant attack and there are huge botnets and malware. Just because a particularly bank hasn't been hit doesn't mean that money isn't being stolen. Do you have even anecdotal evidence of Android payment
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by Veratyr 10y ago
My impression is that the banks want the access to be bidirectional. If they give access to Apple Pay, Apple should give them access to the NFC module. That seems fair to me. Apple should have to compete instead of monopolising its platform
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Australian banks have been releasing NFC payment apps for Android phones for years now and there haven't been any major attacks. I'm reasonably confident they can handle this well. I don't trust Apple nearly as much as I trus
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by Veratyr 10y ago
And for yet more context: - Australia already has widespread NFC payment terminals and has for years. My anecdotal estimate would put the terminals in Melbourne at ~95% accepting NFC. Everything from a McDonald's to a department store
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I understand your point but imagine working in the FBI. How do you tell the victims of the crime that the people who harmed them is still out there because you can't get access to the last piece of evidence you need? I'm not at al
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Does this automatically escape/convert things like datetimes in a query or does that need to be done separately? The docs are a little sparse on details. Looks fantastic anyway!
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The disk space seems especially weird. Others have mentioned this but even services like Google Drive or Dropbox can give you storage at ~$8/TB so who's on the other end of this transaction, willing to pay premium prices for low e
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Yeah it's by no means perfect. Another problem that comes up is that when one drive fails the load on the others increases, which can lead to more failures. It'd be really interesting if someone's looked into the stats here b
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The problem for me at least is that most of the drives I use come with 3ish year warranties, so they're RMA'ed for free. By the time I'd have to buy a replacement I'd be intending to upgrade anyway.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Something important that I don't think many people bring up is the cost of these drives in a RAID, taking reliability into account. When you're using this as the sole drive in a desktop machine or something like that, paying the e
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I'm an Australian expat and one of the surprising things I discovered is that no, you can't do that. Despite the US being technically ahead in so many areas (like internet speed), regular banking here is stone age. It's like
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Hardware looks very similar to https://vr.google.com/jump/ and https://gopro.com/odyssey but with cameras top and bottom. Really interesting to head about the math and software that went into it though
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by Veratyr 10y ago
It's very different in the US. Many banks/credit cards will share your contact info for marketing by default and require an explicit (and often burdensome) opt-out.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Don't publish your number beside the 5 people (bank, accountant etc...) you are willing to receive call from. Unfortunately this doesn't work. If the number itself has ever been used before (it has), it's already on a bu
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I keep the SMS/voice service because: - Being able to call out is handy for interacting with antiquated infrastructure at e.g. banks, government agencies and cable companies. - There are times when I'm willing to receive scheduled
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I live in an apartment complex and don't have a functioning intercom. The only knocks at the door I get are deliveries that I expect and monitor through online tracking. Theoretically if someone were to knock, I would check through the
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by Veratyr 10y ago
It's the difference between a quick, harmless glance away from what I'm doing and completely destroying the things I've got going on in my head. As for why I don't answer the phone in general, the idea that someone think
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I think the money just needs to be spent better. In Australia "taxes and mandatory benefits" on a $100k USD salary cost the employee ~30% in taxes and medicare levy and the employer ~5% payroll tax + ~10% superannuation (401k). In
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by Veratyr 10y ago
http://blog.kenkaminesky.com/photography-copyright-and-the-l... in the "Do I need a model or property release to own the copyright in my photograph" section goes into this a bit. TL;DR: "In general, if proper
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Surprised he didn't talk about dedicated/colocated servers. For $100/month he could have had a E3-1231v3, 32GB of RAM, 2x480GB SSDs and unmetered gigabit bandwidth from OVH. Instead he paid $100 for 4 hyperthreads, 15GB of RA
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Although I'm very much Australian, my wife is Russian and her mother is a teacher. During a visit to my wife's small city, we attended some kind of summer show at her mother's school, which had students from elementary to hig
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Cloudflare changes this model and superficially tells the user they're using https, but then on the second link to cloudflare, it's unencrypted. Even worse, as we can see here and elsewhere, a lot of people explicitly sign up
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Ohhh boy. > Single-homed bandwidth can be gotten for $0.35/TB, DDoS mitigation services are plentiful and sometimes even provided by default, and the web is generally Fast Enough. This only works when you're buying _a lot_ of b
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Unlike Sandstorm though, Cloudron hosting is limited to managed by them or Amazon's cloud. Being able to control your self hosted app environment is a big part of why you'd do it.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I'm running over several terabytes and on the 5k images I've done so far (3.6GB), the compression has been 0.78x, which is damn good for lossless compression! EDIT: 17GB now (my server is kinda slow) and it's still holding at
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Not entirely relevant but Google also has a public IDE of sorts: - https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/using-sour... - https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/features Personal
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by Veratyr 10y ago
You can get per hour billing for compute at OVH and I believe they're Openstack based so their API isn't too bad.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
You're looking at the wrong market. At Hetzner, you can rent a dedicated server with 2x3TB drives for about $25/month ($0.005/GB, to scale to multiple servers, use Ceph) and a few larger machines for under $100. At OVH you ca
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> While at the same time producing the highest GDP per captia in the world, the most number of people with college education, and leadership in probably 80% of global industries? Producing these things and breeding crime, poverty and pro

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