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by cglace 6y ago
Because systemic issues can be fixed overnight.
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by cglace 6y ago
Well yeah, when you remove 99% of the visual information it can be hard to tell if it's a motorcycle.
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by cglace 6y ago
You often confuse motorcycles for cars?
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by cglace 6y ago
Amen. I think the mistake is to reach for the complicated patterns first. Rather than refactoring later when it’s obvious they are needed to simplify your code.
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by cglace 6y ago
When you buy pine needles in bales? I’ve been spreading pine needles since I was 7 and not once have I encountered a snake in a bale of pine needles.
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by cglace 6y ago
We see UpUp as a piece of our overall fraud strategy. We lend $35,000 vehicles to renters without meeting them in person. Often we are up against very determined bad actors. What we have found is that if you make a fraudsters job a little b
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by cglace 6y ago
can you set this to automatically trigger for high risk transactions? -how do you flag the user as "ok" for charges in stripe? -do you need to disclose random charges to the customer? Triggering a verification automatically base
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by cglace 6y ago
At Fetch[0] we built UpUP as an internal tool to help us authenticate high-risk transactions. As we scaled we started experiencing a high volume of fraud from multiple vectors: meth rings, carders, identity thieves, etc. We started to manua
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Show HN: UPUP Simple Credit Card Verification to Reduce Fraud(upupapp.io)
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by cglace 6y ago
FWIW This happened to me in South Carolina. It did not work out in my favor. Someone backed into my car and the next day filed a claim saying I hit her. The insurance companies sided with her...
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by cglace 6y ago
You're assuming a lot of things. 1) That jail time will prevent long term future victims (it won't) 2) That jail will rehabilitate him (it won't) 3) That being compassionate will cause him to commit more crimes. In this case
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by cglace 6y ago
My point is that you shouldn't shout at people taking steps. You should encourage them to take more steps.
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by cglace 6y ago
So your answer to zenos paradox is to never start?
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by cglace 6y ago
An uneducated person doesn’t think of themself as “uneducated”. They view it as having a different set of experiences that has led them to a different truth. A truth that you won’t be able to understand because of all of your “education”.
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by cglace 6y ago
It seems we are headed to not using words with more than one meaning if one is unpleasant. No room for nuance these days.
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by cglace 6y ago
Okay, you got me, he didn't self censor but he was talking about considering self censoring and chose not to. QED no one has ever self censored out of fear of reprisal.
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by cglace 6y ago
How do you show a final price if you don't have all the information needed: tax locality, shipping preference, total cart value discounts etc.
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by cglace 6y ago
Go back to the original parent of this thread. The concept was he self censored due to the fear of someone being offended.
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by cglace 6y ago
Everything has that potential now, DMs included.
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by cglace 6y ago
I really don’t see how what you are saying helps in any way. There can be a conversation outside of our agency in the situation. Sure we can adjust our language to the ever more sensitive sensibilities of society but we can also question th
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by cglace 6y ago
Once something leaves your lips/phone/computer it doesn't matter who it is intended for. Surely you know this.
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by cglace 6y ago
I was using "we" to mean "we" would be self-censoring.
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by cglace 6y ago
I feel like you have removed so much nuance from the discussion that what you are saying is essentially meaningless. Choose your words wisely, listen, react, respond. It says nothing about the intent of the listener. A listener can intentio
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by cglace 6y ago
If my intent does not matter and my words can be construed to mean anything then where do we go from here?
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by cglace 6y ago
Are you being intentionally obtuse? There is a difference in knowing the meaning of a word and knowing the myriad of ways a word can be perceived by your audience. One is very easy the other is a gargantuan task.
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by cglace 6y ago
Wow
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by cglace 6y ago
Should we really have to research each word we use before using it?
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by cglace 6y ago
I think the point is that it’s very expensive to do the former. There are 195 counties, 4,300 religions, n different cultures, languages, m different races, to figure out the right permutation of words that offends the least seems like a da
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by cglace 6y ago
I don’t think it’s trivial if we are to the point where we are censoring completely benign words.
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by cglace 6y ago
I can assure you that these websites are not using any fancy features.

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