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by bpicolo 7y ago
The Shanghai metro is nothing short of amazing. No delays, extremely clean, cheap to ride, very extensive, and they built it fast.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
It's more than that. The loaded JS library renders your inputs into iFrame elements (for PCI compliance). So it takes that HTML and embeds it down. Recent PCI changes added different-domain hosting for the form itself as a requirement
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by bpicolo 8y ago
They have the embedded option as well: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js#stripejs-and-elements This change seems to solidify the distinction between Stripe-hosted vs self-hosted
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by bpicolo 8y ago
For middlemen it can cost significantly more, as they often have to pay the businesses for the service anyway (e.g. food delivery)
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by bpicolo 8y ago
I would never expect public servant's private phone numbers / private mailing addresses to be publicized. The only usage of that would be harassment. Work mail / phone? Sure.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
https://www.livescience.com/44033-florida-pythons-rarely-att... > The authors of the study[0] said they could only find one report of a free-ranging Burmese python fatality: the death of an infant in Hong Kong about a ce
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by bpicolo 8y ago
The Florida panther has had big problems not getting driven to endangerment. I can't imagine jaguars fairing much better
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Different trademark classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classific...
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by bpicolo 8y ago
They explicitly created a tech debt issue to fix that, seem reasonable to me?
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by bpicolo 8y ago
The wouldn't typically ask directly unless they expected people are committing tax fraud, but you can bet that any country Coinbase is operating in can ask them similar. They have to abide by a wide range of financial regulations. It w
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by bpicolo 8y ago
You can get partial results with really any enumerable style api pretty easily, e.g. python def distinct(l): seen = set() for s in l: if s.lower() not in seen: yield s seen.a
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Every new grad, intern I've worked with has done an amazing job hitting the ground running. They're not ready for "here's a big problem, please dream up a solution and get it out the door", but with reasonably laid
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> but would IRSes around the world be able to get your data from coinbase? Yes, they already do. ( https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/292444... )
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Several others. containerd (spawned by Docker), CRI-O, something called frakti ( https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/cri/ )
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by bpicolo 8y ago
I suspect it depends on what you're building. Some problems in computing are drastically harder than others. Crud-like web applications, for example, are a well-trodden path now, but there are many applications of software that are not
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by bpicolo 8y ago
In the US, profit on crypto is straight up capital gains. Held for less than a year = short term capital gains, taxed as regular income. Long term depends state-to-state, but overall taxed less than income (federal has 3 brackets - 0, 15, 2
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> but at least you probably don't need to trust that Paypal and Mint are both going to store your credentials securely. Sure you do. They have it in plaintext on their servers. It can end up in logs. It's also not just Plaid -
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Right, this is just a recommendation to help you improve the article format. As of now, I see “I applied k-means clustering, you won’t believe what happened next”. I want to see what happened next, but working through an ipython notebook is
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> I just didn’t want to mix my M:tG findings with this tutorial so that readers who are into Data Science but not into the game won’t be bored. I'd encourage you to add some examples here, even if they're dumbed down. Without t
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> If you have a defined vacation policy, then by law the company is obligated to pay you out for the unused vacation days in case of termination/resignation I think this is only the case if vacation is accrued. If it's a single
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by bpicolo 8y ago
There's definitely something to be said for the rate at which you can learn to be a strong developer in SV / similar tech hubs, because there's a lot of good mentors in the area to absorb knowledge from.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
The pattern in general is used by more or less every database in the form of write-ahead logging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging
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by bpicolo 8y ago
There's a gamut of reasons, and it benefits all of managers, ICs, and the company. I like to point to Spotify's prose on building their engineering career ladder as a good example of why ladders can be important. 0. https:/&
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Job titles don't in any way stop me from understanding the uniqueness of individuals on my team. There are many paths to leveling up, and understanding why people are in the positions they are directly requires that individual context.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Dhall does indeed look like it starts to address this problem - haven't seen it before. I'd have to read deeper to decide whether I like it or not, though. I may try to convert some existing complex YAML I'm using into it to
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> This is not structured data. This is programming masquerading as configuration I find myself expressing this same opinion to people on a frequent basis. See ansible for another big example. Ansible has a try/catch equivalent in ya
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Supremely fresh seafood is drastically cheaper and more accessible in Shanghai than in anywhere in the US. You can hop over to any local grocer / wet market and find a half dozen varieties of live shrimp, eel, fish, etc.
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Suspect you lose a lot of the relevant flavor components this way. It's pretty delicate even from the fresh plant - sorta the whole point is you have to grind it fresh and use it within a short span (~an hour)
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by bpicolo 8y ago
> Active libraries So my upgrade is going to be tremendously hard for this application, then. Good to know
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by bpicolo 8y ago
Extra note: The Eve project was more or less discontinued: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eve-talk/YFguOGkNrBo/E...

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