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by bostik 6y ago
In a way we associate tithes only with churches, but as the first sentence of that Wikipedia page states: "[...] paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government." However, I think you bring up
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by bostik 6y ago
30% cut from one-off payments is highway robbery. On top of that... > They're handling [...] payment processing. That has a tone-deaf shade. This piece of news is particularly volatile because Epic and Apple are now going to court
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by bostik 6y ago
Sounds like you're throwing a challenge to the Hackaday types out there. And amusingly enough, using cheap hardware to mess with RF devices around you reminds of Steve Lord's hilarious/informative/vicious "Cider Kil
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by bostik 6y ago
You don't need to be a non-native speaker for that. If the other side is convinced you're a bot, it will be very difficult to make them believe otherwise. Which in a funny way has echoes of conspiracy theory believers who take eve
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by bostik 6y ago
> why haven't we been able to advance on-device processing? Probably because getting the payloads shipped for server side processing provides a constant stream of training material updates? That's my cynical take, at least. B
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by bostik 6y ago
Adding more information since yesterday. The location requirement can be relaxed, although we're currently doing this on a case-by-case basis. (We're still figuring out how to adapt longer term to a potentially plague-ridden world
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It is, yes. But considering how the situation with the plague has progressed, and how physical location means slightly less than it used to, I'll check with the team tomorrow.
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by bostik 6y ago
Oh hi! It's going on - and indeed, your question prompted the note. As one might expect, the original scope was ... insufficient. The exchange team have taken over the responsibility for new customer-facing stream API. The current one
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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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'Ghostwriter' Influence Campaign [pdf](fireeye.com)
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by bostik 6y ago
I got lucky, I think. This one has the feel of having been influenced by Dali or Magritte: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9324....
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I'm still waiting for him to fill the much promised ditch.
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Twitter may not have the corporate ability to care about things beyond the horizon. IIRC the first time they posted a profit was less than two years back. Google embarked on their BeyondCorp/zero-trust initiative after the 2009 Chinese
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> looks so good in the corruption statistics The main corruption measurement I know of is the CPI: Corruption Perception Index. It doesn't measure how much corruption there is in any given country, it only measures how much vis
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by bostik 6y ago
Right, good point. I'm relying on my memory here, but when the advanced protection program was first launched, I recall that one of the benefits of it for journalists and high-risk individuals was that changing recovery options (emai
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by bostik 6y ago
You're probably getting downvoted because of the tone you used, but I think there's a good point hidden underneath. Trump's account is probably specially marked for two- or even three-person lock, to prevent "rogue accou
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by bostik 6y ago
Taken to logical extreme, that would make any black PR or reputational attack a security vulnerability. Infosec is certainly a hefty part of business continuity, but business continuity itself is a much wider topic.
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by bostik 6y ago
Would that be Charlie Stross's essay (and the subsequent CCC talk): Dude, You Broke The Future?[0] 0: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
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by bostik 6y ago
The word missing from the post is "headroom". In critical systems it's more often called safety margin. If you let the beancounters squeeze out headroom in the name of greater efficiency, you sacrifice resilience and reliabil
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by bostik 6y ago
In a way, we're not that far then from the world of Snow Crash[ß]. The thing in the book that always struck me as both unlikely and remarkably accurate as far as human vanity is concerned, was the idea of high-end custom avatars. Steph
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by bostik 6y ago
It would look like democracy right now. And no, that wasn't snark. I'm basically paraphrasing Alan Moore's statement that democracy is just another way of being ruled by the biggest mob.
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by bostik 6y ago
> Very few browse their feeds with sound on There's a VERY good reason for that. I can just about stomach autoplay videos, with all their network stuttering and CPU hogging on mobile. At least I can scroll past them. I can't
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by bostik 6y ago
Plus the format itself. Twitter is inherently optimised for soundbites. Nuance and high-impact, 5-seconds-at-a-time communication don't really mix. Then add the incentives built into any (anti)social network: they automate piling on.
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by bostik 6y ago
The same thing the language was originally intended for? Namely, the <marquee> content.
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Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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by bostik 6y ago
To be fair, executions ("customer purchases") are relatively rare events. If we want to keep with the analogy e-commerce, you can think of orders/cancels as merchants repricing their wares and changing their on-offer quotas h
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by bostik 6y ago
Yeah, my bad. Meant to say "exponentiation". And if we're talking about precise terms, that should be prefixed by "modular". On the bright side, the brainfart triggered a lot of interesting discussion. :)
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by bostik 6y ago
At a guess, it was likely a tradeoff between security and computational cost. I used to do freelancing for an ICT magazine and in early-to-mid 00s ran some numbers, as part of an article I did on limitations of applied cryptography. You can
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More like "I like looking at really smoothly rendered TTF fonts". I've tried to use TTF fonts in terminal. None of them work well enough, or renders better than the classic 6x13.
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You do know supermarkets (or chains) charge brands for their physical position?[0] Items close to eye height get more attention from shoppers, and as majority of people are right-handed, the shelves on the right-hand side[ß] are more likely

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