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811.
by bostik 6y ago
That is precisely it: for a hardcore capitalist the idea of having to compete only on price and quality is horrifying. If you can't have maintainable moats, rent-seeking environments, or bought regulators/lawmakers, what's
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by bostik 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the USSR would have loved to have technical enforcement mechanisms available so that the great unwashed masses could only use "domestic products" anywhere. Although, to be fair: a capitalist fears nothing more
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by bostik 6y ago
Objects in S3 can have custom metadata associated with them. Look at the returned data for the HeadObject call.[0] It's not advertised in the documentation, but HeadObject(Bucket, Key)['Metadata'] is a neat dictionary of cust
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by bostik 6y ago
Having just read both Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gates, the concept of CLOs sounds awfully familiar. Loaning money to high-risk companies? Bundling a whole bunch of said loans into securities? High returns despite the risk of a
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by bostik 6y ago
Surprisingly often websocket connections are made to a different domain from what is serving the site itself. I'm not sure about the root cause to the pattern, but sure as hell know that our company has been doing it at least since 201
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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (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 and agile team in our beaut
817.
by bostik 6y ago
Oh, nice. Thank you. I had bookmarked M3 earlier on, but never got around to really looking into it with proper thought.
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by bostik 6y ago
At this point Prometheus is pretty close to becoming the boring technology. The latest versions have finally brought in the plumbing and tuning knobs to protect against [most] overly expensive queries. So you can't easily take it down
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by bostik 6y ago
To be fair, toilet paper is in a very special product category. It is used by everyone (sudden interest in bidettes notwithstanding), is pretty cheap, weighs very little and takes up an absolutely enormous amount of shelf space relative t
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by bostik 6y ago
Well, here's the funny bit: Twitter doesn't need to decide . If someone in a major power, such as a G20 member country, is in a government position, they are a world leader. And because things are always contested, that same cate
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by bostik 6y ago
> What about bank sites? Bank sites don't work with strong ad blockers. For these sites I use anonymous mode in a different browser . I don't disable my adblocker. I wouldn't go walking around dark alleys blind drunk in
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by bostik 6y ago
After years of pain, I've come to appreciate what was once relayed to me. All configuration management software is broken. They are equally terrible, each in their own merry way. The only thing you get to do is to choose the one that s
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by bostik 6y ago
I feel like I must be a broken record, but here goes. Frustrated, more than four years ago, I put together a set of ground rules for online advertising I would find agreeable. It's fascinating to watch how the online ad ecosystem[ß]
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by bostik 6y ago
Both of those look like they were reading off of this: https://i.imgur.com/9MQv6z8.gif I miss PLIF.
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by bostik 6y ago
> [git ecosystem] have “notes” which are vaguely similar, maybe it’s something they’re considering? If you're referring to git-notes, they are ... kinda special. They are objects in their own namespace that reference the repositor
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by bostik 6y ago
They used to. This would have been in early 2000's, when all the major AV products - particularly those doing mail gateway scanning, were vulnerable to them. At first it was a zip attachment, expanding to several GBs. That got patched.
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by bostik 6y ago
Juul also went all-in with addiction potential, by loading their liquid with high amounts of nicotine. And are probably not alone in that practice either. Freakonomics did an episode[0] about e-cigarettes last year. A cartridge in US contai
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by bostik 6y ago
Let alone might get actually blocked by content-inspecting AV because signatures are only added, not removed.
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by bostik 7y ago
Kind of off-topic, but trying to watch that video brought this to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792243
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by bostik 7y ago
Disclosure: I'm writing this with my DPO hat on. The GDPR does specify what is personal data, but doesn't go out giving real-life interpretation examples. The categories given in the regulation are direct identifiers and indire
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by bostik 7y ago
> So I think Banks are part of the problem Indeed. This is far too common in the UK. The banks call people, introduce themselves to be from a $bank, and then start asking security questions. I have had to tell the other side a couple o
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by bostik 7y ago
I have learned that vivid imagery, when used sparingly , helps to drive the point through. For the record: I have never liked cut flowers as a concept, and even find flower vase the second most useless household item that one can own. But
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by bostik 7y ago
I don't even understand the whole cut flower thing. It's morbid. You cultivate something that is living and beautiful. Then you kill it, and bring the corpse inside, to essentially observe the once-living thing's decay. (And
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by bostik 7y ago
I agree it's not exactly the same. I would also love to inhabit the parallel universe where Netflix hands out a 4-minute buffer, because in this one 20 seconds seems to be on the high end. However, I strongly suspect that Netflix'
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by bostik 7y ago
The attack is known from VoIP systems: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321888273_Classific... Adapting the research to other non-CBR streams doesn't sound far-fetched.
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by bostik 7y ago
This page should not be even needed. Having your data be in something like this should be opt-in .
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by bostik 7y ago
The money might not be in the bank. For many (even unicornish) startups the funding is released in tranches, usually tied to certain performance metrics. With drastically reduced revenue, new customer flow all dried up, and even marketing r
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by bostik 7y ago
To be fair, you have these latent single points of failures even in the most resilient distributed systems. Such as S3. The bucket names are globally unique, which means that their source of truth is in a single location. (Virginia, IIRC.)
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by bostik 7y ago
> your entire 45 minute interview There's your problem. Right there. I don't think we can evaluate whether someone can do a decent job in 45 minutes. Or an hour. Sure, we can spot and confirm a hopeless case in 20. But beyo
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by bostik 7y ago
Gaming headsets are actually pretty good for video conferencing. I got a pretty cheap one (£20) from a major UK chain as a test. Has worked wonders, even if ear fit is not perfect (bit heavy compared to what I normally would wear) and sound

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