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by awinder 7y ago
I'm amazed anyone is sticking on that platform now that td / etrade / schwab went to free trades. There's no reason left, other than you want dumbed down tools / don't know better.
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by awinder 7y ago
Credit card companies use your past history across merchants in risk scoring transactions, yes, and they also pull in data from external sources that are outside of their walls to further enrich that data. Anyways -- this is all massively o
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First off no one is saying "you look like fraud", they're saying details of your purchase looked suspicious. This is the first place where people need to pump the brakes, there is not some dire sinister plot, you went to mak
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by awinder 7y ago
How many companies don't have a support@____ email address? Seriously, they'll figure it out, it's really not that large of a haul to get stuff corrected, and it's the difference between "we can't take credit
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by awinder 7y ago
I mean people have been subjected to fraud scoring for decades, you get declined, you follow up, and you get in w/ a new data point for the next time.
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by awinder 7y ago
I was at a loss for why Sift was collecting data like this from companies like airbnb / etc, I worked a project using them around curbing some pretty gnarly levels of credit card fraud. I think it must be that these companies are utili
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by awinder 7y ago
Golangs package management is almost objectively a dumpster fire, confirmed by the fact that they’ve made at least 3 whacks at trying different esoteric things. There’s a lot of things that are nice about Go but package management is defini
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by awinder 7y ago
This is certainly not one of the languages that the author is referring to, but I super appreciate how nodejs sandboxes modules with no fuss. Even within python virtualenvs I run into issues all the time where 2 modules have conflicting ver
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by awinder 7y ago
xD I don’t know either but I did my best to make you whole on needless downvoting. But yes, pension funds do invest in private companies in a few ways. Some of it is relatively recent. They absolutely will invest during the “road show” of p
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It’s entirely possible that pensions had some dollars wrapped up in WeWork but I don’t have inside knowledge or anything, they just have a decent backplane of institutional investors. But you can’t take this view that every failed investmen
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by awinder 7y ago
Oh this, a thousand times. I took a job where I had to do office casual dress for the first time (I had a nice run) and there’s these great series of “your favorite ___ for ___“ posts. People breaking down in price tiers what & why they
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"I started the @tesla_truth Twitter handle on November 27, 2018 to refute the disinformation campaign orchestrated by a group of Tesla short sellers who called themselves “$TSLAQ”, noting their intent to bankrupt the company in order t
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by awinder 7y ago
Nowhere in the article is the viewpoint that they’re going to change ICEs conduct mentioned. Inventing opposing viewpoints is one of the lowest rhetorical devices, and I really wish people would post with more care around here. As for “only
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by awinder 7y ago
This makes me feel so much better about just paying to make it go away (I was charged for "17 carpet spots"), thinking it wasn't worth the time or aggravation. These places (airbnb, vrbo, its all the same stupid schtick) are
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by awinder 7y ago
Yeah the parent keys in on a very dated view of mental health ("it's just a state of mind") that ignores, I don't know, at least 70 years of knowledge. It's an empowering thing for some people, but it's noneth
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by awinder 7y ago
I’ve become increasingly curious about things like owning a ____ franchise (mostly from watching this fantastic location by my house go through a revolving door of poorly-run franchises and wondering “I bet you could make some money if you
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by awinder 7y ago
“-Group identity over individuality” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_th...
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by awinder 7y ago
So I am actually speaking from personal experience so this does 100% happen, we could have a discussion about the relative occurrences, but I don’t even know that those numbers exist. I understand that certain personality types really latch
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by awinder 7y ago
You’re going to want to change your mindset from “I want _their_ job” to “I want to be a tech lead”. Some things that you can do: 1. Observe and understand what the mistakes exactly are that they are making. Note the consequences. Understan
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by awinder 7y ago
“In fact, one of my kids was recently interviewing at a startup and I told her to ask about the preferred overhang — she said the interviewer looked at her like she was asking about his sex life! She didn’t get a call-back.” I’ll do you one
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by awinder 7y ago
It’s posted elsewhere in this comment thread but that’s after the point where it becomes clear that he wrapped a moral argument in a technical envelope and people spent a lot of time trying to help him out with the technical argument. Put a
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by awinder 7y ago
I mean anyone that tells me they're 100% certain of anything outside of basic facts, the BS meter starts going off, so that feels like a bit of a trap. It's a total game changer, but I'm 3 years in, and would not change it.
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by awinder 7y ago
I'm not saying apple takes you from 0 to millions of downloads, I'm saying that the marketplace does find you new customers. I buy/subscribe to lots of stuff that I find through the editor callouts or through organic search
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30% is high but it’s not just payment processing, it’s payment fraud insulation, download bandwidth, and marketplace amplification (people finding your app without knowing they’re looking for your app). Apple also drops subscription costs f
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by awinder 7y ago
How many people are still under the CISO at NYT? I’m getting spidy-senses tingling that there was bloat in that part of the org, not some insane “we don’t need security” type of angle. EDIT: it looks like NYT hired a CISO around August ht
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by awinder 7y ago
I'm gonna go in a different direction: broadly, solutions that deal with the problems of an aging population: 1. Technology that helps doctors/practices service more elderly patients 2. Wellbeing technology for seniors (Headspac
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by awinder 7y ago
This is just patently untrue. Your brick and mortar store has a clear hierarchy of responsibility -- it's the workers job to prune expired items from shelves. It's the manager's job to make sure the employees are doing thei
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by awinder 7y ago
The most charitable way of looking at this is that yang wasn’t wrong, but he wasn’t right either. He made explicit claims like “this isn’t a rules problem” in response to trade policy; actually, there’s a lot of evidence that there _is_ a t
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by awinder 7y ago
Ford was around for like 53 years before they publicly offered stock. And they’re a success story for dual class sure. Check out hollinger for a case where dual class didn’t work out great. Theres definitely not enough source data to say th
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by awinder 7y ago
Because it’s cheaper for credit card companies to eat this cost than it is to prevent these costs. Don’t tell me you all haven’t taken shortcuts and papered over low-impact bugs etc., it’s the way of the world.

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