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by borplk 9y ago
I think this has become increasingly infeasible over the past decade due to the rise of social media and internet usage. People have become very picky with very short attention spans (scroll through feeds, swipe left/right, filter peop
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by borplk 9y ago
> One of the problems with Tinder is its nebulous ethos. That's a "feature". It makes it mainstream enough for people to be there without being embarrassed or ashamed. Then people can turn it into more of a dating thing or
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by borplk 9y ago
Did you speak to a lawyer? Firing you for that sounds illegal.
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by borplk 9y ago
> It goes to show how poorly funded open source projects are. It's also completely unsurprising. Relying on people's good will doesn't work sufficiently. It turns into a tragedy of the commons situation with everyone hopin
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by borplk 9y ago
Classic HN. Let's throw some ML & AI & DL at it. Don't forget to take your TensorFlow with you.
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by borplk 9y ago
You construct a baseless premise that rushing things up is somehow going to result in a better outcome. If anything taking things slowly, establishing communication and negotiating would have better chances. And that seems to be the standar
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by borplk 9y ago
It's so easy to spot American comments in this thread.
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by borplk 9y ago
No they would send the special forces. But they would not be stupid enough to end it this way.
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by borplk 9y ago
Take the better offer (politely and professionally). It's just business not a play date.
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by borplk 9y ago
Same. There was one time when I was forced to read it back to the phone operator. Awkward.
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by borplk 9y ago
> but if you are doing container security correctly ... The container that wasn't! (I get the gist of it, just tongue in cheek)
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by borplk 9y ago
Scam
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by borplk 9y ago
That kind of setup doesn't work. They will keep it honest for the first 24 hours of rolling it out. Then it will creep from "during those 10 seconds" to "the entire time".
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by borplk 9y ago
I recently saw one site that said "It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. So you must wait 10 seconds.". And had an overlay with a countdown.
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by borplk 9y ago
I'm trivialising it a bit but at its core the bullshit speak and the like gives hollow people a shield to hide behind.
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by borplk 9y ago
Silly title.
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by borplk 9y ago
What does MIA stand for?
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by borplk 9y ago
Can you mention a few examples?
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by borplk 9y ago
You scroll down a bit, an obnoxious overlay jumps out "GET THE BEST TIPS IN YOUR EMAIL" ... with an even more obnoxious cancel button "No I'm dumb and don't want the best tips in my email". Then as you attempt
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by borplk 9y ago
I think it runs just a bit too deep in the psyche for one to be able to escape it by moving to a different company. It happens in many contexts even outside of business. Perhaps you can escape it by making a product like a mobile app or Saa
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by borplk 9y ago
Don't be nasty.
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by borplk 9y ago
Yes but it tends to be around bigger companies. Lots of smaller businesses just don't care. They also don't have "chief somethings" to tell them it's important, or to do it to save their own asses just in case. They
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by borplk 9y ago
> You can recognise it exists whilst still being disappointed that it exists. Yep. To me an interesting contrast to what I said is Bitcoin. It has legs of its own to stand on and therefore does not need to borrow credibility from the aut
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by borplk 9y ago
Security stuff is notoriously difficult for demonstrating any kind of value. 99% don't care unless and until they get hacked, they will also forget about it all in 2 months. If they don't get hacked for years they will just attrib
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by borplk 9y ago
A huge huge part of it is just persona, profile, reputation and perception. A fancy consultant with a laundry list of "credentials" will be automatically trusted. When Joe Schmoe developer says the same thing it will be dismissed.
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by borplk 9y ago
Steve Gibson has done some podcasts about RowHammer stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYkahXb1gs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PapZsPLGlo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGR_LPh42k
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by borplk 9y ago
Yes what I said is impractical.
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by borplk 9y ago
Maybe people are defining waste differently (equating "high cost" with waste). What you may call waste is in a way the cost of the operation of the network (and its properties and guarantees and so on). Waste suggests that there i
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by borplk 9y ago
Yes you are correct.
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by borplk 9y ago
> 2. ledgers keep transaction histories, not absolute values. to clear someone's wallet, you have to transfer his money out. you can't forge that guy's crypto signature. As long as there's >50% consensus, they can

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