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by bostik 4y ago
Because they are. In fact, there's an entire trifecta. If you take bets on how companies will do in the future, it's called finance or investment services. If you take bets on human misery, it's called insurance. And if you t
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by bostik 4y ago
I can imagine their insurer and production crew to have had a very intimate relationship. Ring Insurance company rep sees caller ID: "Oh no. What have they thought up THIS time?"
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by bostik 4y ago
Every time I got to do anything interesting in an UI, I have had to dive in to read the source code of the library I have to appease. Documentation simply has not been available, explicitly marked as non-existent, or in the more hilarious
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by bostik 4y ago
Actually, it is not. The shortfall in UK's social housing can be traced back to Thatcher's policy of forcing councils to sell off their housing stock at firesale prices, and forbid them from using the money to build new ones . Ca
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by bostik 5y ago
> And there's the risk of the 'not so competent programmer', who knows how to fix stuff, without thinking far enough. I would actually claim that majority of non-seasoned programmers fall into this category. It's ra
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by bostik 5y ago
Considering how many high finance shops live off of gambling with other peoples' money, I find the intellectual honesty of a company doing it on their own dime ... refreshing.
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by bostik 5y ago
> integration tests running on real data not on mokups. I can see you are enjoying the life outside of a highly regulated industry. Having certain kinds of production data in tests (or feeding that to test environment) would be a major
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by bostik 5y ago
Can Finns, with our love of Salmiak, tag along?
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by bostik 5y ago
For the record, I'm in ~northern Europe, and plan to eventually retire to warmer climes. Observing the intensifying weather, I am most definitely looking at how the change in sea levels, ambient temperatures and more powerful storms
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by bostik 5y ago
Almost every public company has a forced buy-out clause in their stock's trading and ownership rules. That is, if someone ends up owning $VAST_MAJORITY of a company's stock, they can then forcibly purchase the small fractions off
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by bostik 5y ago
Medallion has been closed for new investors since ... a long time ago. Nobody has an explanation how they can sustain such an absurd return, but there are a few theories floating around. Subjectively the one that appeals most to me, is th
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by bostik 5y ago
I can't tell which way the arrow of causality points, but all the digital banks in the UK are in various stages of still growing to reach the scale where they can become sustainably profitable. This in turn means that they will have th
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by bostik 5y ago
Going off on a tangent, if you liked that clip, I can only recommend to check up LMan's impressive remixes at RKO: https://remix.kwed.org/search/lman Start with Turrican I end titles and go from there.
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by bostik 5y ago
I look at that the other way round: the average basic computer skill levels are insufferably low.
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by bostik 5y ago
In 2014, I was cursing the shitty search results of GDrive - and asked aloud why can't a company known for their search engine make all their search systems equally good. It's 2022, and Google search is just as shitty as their GDr
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by bostik 5y ago
Snowden revelations? At least room 614A was about traffic going through a specific network point. Whereas the more modern "full take" has been about grabbing traffic from pretty much everywhere.
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by bostik 5y ago
This was my topmost question too. The report very cleanly omits any and all mentions of SAML signing certificates. Solar Winds was the first known incident to escalate to so called "Golden SAML" attack. If the support staff had ac
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by bostik 5y ago
> cryptographically secure audit log of all changes made, that allows you to know exactly what software you're actually shipping. To be pedantic: not quite. Git is certainly a cryptographically secure audit log[ß] but it only tell
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by bostik 5y ago
> real identity verification could be a very good thing for the internet if implemented correctly. Considering all the edge cases and ill-informed/malicious second-order effects, I don't think it can be implemented correctl
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by bostik 5y ago
There is a simple rule of thumb: if you would not grant a power to your worst enemy, you do not grant it to your friends either.
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by bostik 5y ago
Or to put in terms HN'ers are more likely to be familiar with: OWS was a wide-scale speculative execution exercise. Run everything in parallel, or at least start as early as possible, and be willing to discard the results of potentiall
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by bostik 5y ago
I have a split-brain on the matter. I trust Amazon to the extent that I am okay with them storing my card information. Their security practices in that regard are pretty damn good. (I do not trust Google with my payment card info. I do not
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by bostik 5y ago
I think 5 years is too short. It assumes the creation[tm] will work out of the box and get immediate momentum. Whereas for music and literature it may well take a decade before the thing bubbles up to someone's consciousness. I'd
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by bostik 5y ago
I don't think we need to kill copyright, but we sure as hell need to control how it's used. To start with, we need to spay and neuter the out of control copyright enforcers, and especially every form of copyfraud. My previous ta
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by bostik 5y ago
> Ultimately, of course, the market will correct itself. Historically major corrections have been called something else, and the adjustments have been administered through blood and steel.
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by bostik 5y ago
While I agree that privacy is a human right, I only grant that right to individuals. The moment you enter politics, you SHOULD lose your privacy. When you enter politics, you are either doing that to defraud people, or planning to do so a
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by bostik 5y ago
A successful or otherwise interestingly profiled athlete in Olympics will have recurring contacts with sports (and lifestyle) beat journalists. They in turn will have contact with their peers working their respective beats. So with just two
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by bostik 5y ago
> So its okay for people to leak addresses of politicians and call on other to kill them? To leak their addresses? Yes. To call on killing them? No. Knowing where your elected (and/or unelected) officials live is very useful for c
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by bostik 5y ago
> root cause is that Chromium is well suited to being embedded Bingo. Let's not forget, Chromium itself is built off a fork of kHTML, the rendering-engine-as-a-library originally developed and used by KDE project. Apple forked kHT
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by bostik 5y ago
I can say with full confidence that this at least has nothing to do with their hostage situation: > Having no formal support channel When I last had to deal with their so-called support, all contact details were very efficiently hidden

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