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by bostik 7y ago
Well, I know for a fact that all of the banks in UK must support open banking. Granted, the functionality is mostly reserved for B2B communications, so in practice you will need to go through a OB provider. These providers [try to] abstra
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by bostik 7y ago
The team who handle the payments should have a post coming up soon.
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by bostik 7y ago
> Also, other banks have the same kinds of outages One of the unexpected advantages (if you can call it that) of OpenBanking integrations is that you get to see, in practice, just how often the high-street banks have problems. Or how l
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by bostik 7y ago
There is also the fact that GDPR cannot overrule industry specific regulations that mandate long-term retention. I work in gambling industry, and we are required by the regulations to keep ALL user information, including the KYC documents
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by bostik 7y ago
> ad should be on-topic to the specific web page, not specific to the reader Amen. I find myself returning to something I said 4 years ago about the limit of acceptable ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521930
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by bostik 7y ago
It would be simpler and more honest to stamp every single political ad with something like "Contains: lies, untruths, omissions and/or misinformation." Then at least something in a displayed political ad would be true.
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by bostik 7y ago
A much more entertaining and informative book than it's title or pedigree would hint at. Genuinely recommended reading. One of the most surprising details in the whole book was the trading system devised by the biggest HFT-complainer,
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by bostik 7y ago
Funny thing, that. If you are in a war and are in the lucky a situation that you can prolong the conflict without much negative effects, "keeping the game going" is in fact waging a war of attrition.
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by bostik 7y 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, agile, and fast-growing te
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by bostik 7y ago
> Even if you have a "trusted=1" flag for repos, you can be sure people will set external repos to be just as trusted as the core ones That was the thing - you couldn't. I don't remember which way the level hierarch
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by bostik 7y ago
> Modern warfare very much has rules and laws I have said this before, and this looks like a prime spot to say it again: The only people who play fair are those who don't know how to cheat well enough.
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by bostik 7y ago
Intel and Nokia were trying to add repository trust levels to rpm back in 2010/2011. To this day, if you can add a new repository, it is fully trusted and can provide trojaned updates to any core package. Bump the version number to som
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by bostik 7y ago
I never ask that question about the candidate's current or most recent previous employer. Any answers will be guarded or clouded. Instead I ask what coworkers they still remember from their earlier jobs, and why. This has the double be
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by bostik 7y ago
Warrants and subpoenas are inconvenient. They are targeted and may take time to be issued. And observing from the outside, US as a nation is still years - likely decades - from being able to stomach general warrants. But you are already wel
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by bostik 7y ago
Now, do you really think it would be something as straightforward and innocent-looking? A much more likely scenario is that brainstreams would be stored in various tech giants' systems (and because analytics is important, ~nothing is d
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by bostik 7y ago
> This problem of cat thefts have been a problem in the us for a long time. Indeed. I don't know what materials the current generations use, but 20 years ago, at least, the catalytic mesh was platinum. Unsurprisingly, converter th
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by bostik 7y ago
> It's a pernicious bug in certain kinds of psychology that makes it quite hard for someone to tell the difference between nightmarish fantasy and reality. I don't want it. When reality has repeatedly put nightmarish fantasy
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by bostik 7y ago
Just as a historical data point: for a long time blogspot was completely broken if you blocked trackers (including Google analytics). The pages simply wouldn't load beyond the placeholder "gears in a box" emblem. My hypothesi
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by bostik 7y ago
Oh. My guess was wrong on almost all accounts.
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by bostik 7y ago
Well that's certainly interesting... I used to work for the guy who pushed the original Qt acquisition at Nokia. He later on, after the Elopcalypse, moved to Huawei to head one of their R&D units. Wouldn't be at all surprised
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by bostik 7y ago
I upvoted you, because as cynical as your comment may be, I believe yours is the most rational approach. I believe that in our lifetime we will see the western countries effectively barricade their borders. When an unannounced ship approach
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by bostik 7y ago
Ah, somehow I missed that one. Thanks. An interesting question to be honest. I'd somehow expect any prosecution to be far too complex for the parties to enjoy court. Sure, you excluded yourself but then went to the casino after all. Di
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by bostik 7y ago
The Freestyle is a wonderful keyboard indeed. The freely adjustable angle (+ distance if you need it) between the halves makes for a great typing feel. I used to go for Microsoft split-ergo, and before that, the Logitech split one until it
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by bostik 7y ago
Oh, you want to know the punishments for willingly breaking responsible gambling rules? Huge fines, potentially followed by loss of license. You do not want to go there. With the elevated scrutiny on gambling operators (triggered in part by
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by bostik 7y 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, agile, and fast-growing te
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by bostik 7y ago
The Count of Monte-Cristo carries a depiction of a public execution that is rather ... vivid. The convicted is clubbed to death. And not too cleanly. Quick research doesn't say whether this fashion was used in reality or not. The wik
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by bostik 7y ago
> because customer experience isn’t a KPI and so won’t get them promoted? In a way, I think you may be on to something. At least indirectly. Amazon are constantly pushing the narrative that they are obsessively customer-focused and con
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by bostik 7y ago
> Heroin has always been illegal. Not wanting to stamp on any of your other arguments, but the quoted statement ignores historical facts. Heroin was sold, and actively marketed, as a medication to calm overly active children.[0] Mommy
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by bostik 7y ago
Let's keep in mind that propaganda, advertising and public relations are all spouting from one and the same sewer. Hell, PR as a modern profession is a descendant of propaganda[0]. It doesn't matter whether you're selling a p
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by bostik 7y ago
> In 1997, China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong. It remains a SAR until 2047. Why do you think China has any intention of keeping their end of that contract? (And I'm not being snarky either.) Contracts in general are done be

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