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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Plenty of white collar businesses in the US use performance improvement plans. But that would be a ridiculous remedy in a business with thin margins like a restaurant - some businesses need the freedom to hire and fire quicker.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
That line starts to get blurred when you have leviathan banks in an oligopolistic industry like Citi, who only exist because they were bailed out by the gov't, making decisions like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018&#x
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Adrian Lamo has died(zdnet.com)
228 points by ad_hominem 9y ago|211 comments
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
What's wrong with full disclosure? Ryzen owners ought to be informed ASAP that they're (possibly) vulnerable.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Right, didn't mean to imply they didn't. But the differences are that Tarsnap is pre-pay[1], while AWS/GCP automatically debit your card. How many people have several months, or a year, of runway on their Tarsnap account bala
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
That's a good way of putting it. I wish I were at a place in my life where the difference between $3/mo and $75/mo ($36/year vs $900/year) is a non-issue, but unfortunately I'm not. So for now my family photos
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
But it doesn't cost $0.24 to make it impossible for Amazon to give it to anyone else. I'm using BorgBackup to encrypt my data, and it appears to use the same AES-256 and HMAC-SHA256 algorithms as tarsnap. There are a plethora of o
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
I'm not rsyncing plaintext data to S3/GCP, I'm using BorgBackup to encrypt and dedupe it. I don't know if the encryption is comparable between the two (they both appear to use AES-256 and HMAC-SHA256), but I imagine tars
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
> ... I can set a permission which does not allow data to be deleted. That is, if a hacker somehow gains access to my server, she cannot delete all the existing backups. With GCP/AWS, you can copy and paste a bucket ACL that only
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Glad you're happy with it. I went with BorgBackup which I'm also happy with. AFAIK it also does dedupe, encrypt, checkpointing, and can throttle upload speed (don't know about the rest).
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Sure, that's a good point especially considering he's a one-man show so it probably makes sense to keep the user base as ruthlessly small as possible just for support reasons alone. It does make me curious though who the target cu
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
On the flipside of that I've seen patio11 specifically tell the tarsnap guy to charge more, while his product already costs $0.25/GB while GCP Cloud Storage Nearline and S3 Infrequent Access are $0.01/GB (and falling each yea
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Just be prepared to be ticketed by overzealous NYPD cops. http://gothamist.com/2017/04/28/nypd_bike_lane_tickets.php
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
It's purely a PR damage control move. Foreign agents would certainly know how to buy a PO box and/or incorporate an LLC.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, I think you're right there. I misspoke when assuming that banks had much leeway in holding those funds (I'm not very familiar with banking regulations). However I still think it's accurate to n
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
"... the ACH system never provides positive confirmation that an ACH debit has gone through successfully. The only response an ACH originator may get is one notifying them of a return. Because of this 'no news is good news' p
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Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement(eff.org)
131 points by ad_hominem 9y ago|72 comments
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
> Card owner can accept/reject the change request Can users make private forks of cards? For example if I liked some set of cards as a base but needed to make some alterations for my own purposes
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
One thing I've always found annoying when playing Netflix in Chrome on Linux/Ubuntu is if you hit ctrl+alt+shift+s to get into the debug menu, the available bitrates are always lower than what you see available when running Window
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Predicting a noticeable bump in Cloudflare users around July when people need a quick way to make their sites "secure"
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
One thing that was clear from following him on Twitter was he had a big heart, and in particular was a doting father to his (I think three) daughters. They all seemed to be very free spirits.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Don't forget the most famous one, "Why use this [Dropbox]? It's the same as FTP or email" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Apologies, I misread what you originally wrote. You are consistent after all.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Interesting, but if you look at the graph banks were already well on a downward trend before 1994 - there were 14.4K banks in 1984, 13.4K in 1988, 12.5K in 1990, 11.7K in 1992.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
This is a great reminder to not auto-upvote an HN darling when you see the handle. It's pathetic this comment pointing out their hypocrisy is buried at the bottom of the thread.
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
I wasn't aware of that number, but I was just thinking recently about how many fewer banks there are today than there used to be. In 1995 there were 10K; as of last year there are less than 5K.[1] So a 50% drop in that timespan, mirror
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
The unofficial existence of "no-go zones" in immigrant areas, the increase in grenade attacks, including against two police stations in the last few months (Helsingborg and Malmö), the increase in rape the last few years (particul
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
I think you'll find all the major social media sites strip metadata nowadays.
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AutoSploit: Automated Mass Exploiter (uses Shodan and Metasploit)(github.com)
2 points by ad_hominem 9y ago|0 comments
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by ad_hominem 9y ago
Yeah I'd also like to see that, especially with the number of banks continually shrinking (e.g. less than half as many exist as did in 1980), giving consumers fewer and fewer options to shop around. Then the other half of my brain is l

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