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by codexon 11y ago
My main problem is with the title of the story. Ideas are not cheap. Bad ideas are cheap. Good ideas that are obvious have probably been acted on by thousands already. Therefore only the non-obvious ones are left and you will only be able t
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by codexon 11y ago
This pithy expression is overused and I would argue, unhelpful. Ideas are cheap, but ideas that will make you rich are rare. And the ones that no one else is already working on are even rarer. I remember reading another one of these blog po
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by codexon 11y ago
I would have to say, isn't betting on disaster going to end up one day having the counter party saying "sorry Nassim, I am bankrupt, I can't pay you"?
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by codexon 11y ago
Mailinator seems to have added some other anti-scraping detection. Unfortunately it does not work very well as I was not scraping mailinator, but still somehow got IP banned. Fortunately my ip has changed. But they definitely have some stra
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by codexon 11y ago
If you are logging passwords, you've got bigger problems than worrying about attackers being able to middleman your TLS connection and somehow not able to modify it. I know what you are trying to explain, and you are simply bending ove
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by codexon 11y ago
You aren't getting it though. Yes defense in depth is good. But javascript encryption is the weakest link in the chain, it isn't an extra layer of security. This is something that many people seem to have trouble understanding. As
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by codexon 11y ago
TLS already ensures that the attacker cannot intercept the login. If you cannot trust the TLS connection, all bets are off.
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by codexon 11y ago
Yes, it does. It was a complete waste of time and does nothing useful except chew more CPU cycles. This is why all the security experts say that JS crypto is useless.
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by codexon 11y ago
They may have logs but they don't have perfect logs. I know people who got banned for having debuggers open not attached to the game. The VAC system is also incredibly intrusive. It was scanning random processes on my computer, and I k
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by codexon 11y ago
And you are correct. Bug fixes from Valve are few and far inbetween with many bugs being unpatched for years. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/assig...
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by codexon 11y ago
No not really. It highlights how incompetent Valve is at security. If you cannot trust the webserver or whatever is being served to you, JS crypto isn't going to do anything. They could just send you a login script that sends your unen
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by codexon 11y ago
Last time I checked which was about 2 years ago, I've started seeing paywalls that blocked DNS.
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by codexon 11y ago
I don't doubt 1% is a common standard but the parent was making the assertion that "all the businesses that currently exist and accept credit cards are doing so without more than 1-2% chargeback rates".
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by codexon 11y ago
And what is your point? The remittance industry is not a valid business?
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by codexon 11y ago
If a payment is reversed, fine. The buyer got all their money back. But adding a $25 "administrative fee" or a $10,000 fine seems like a frivolous act, given how little effort is spent investigating chargebacks.
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by codexon 11y ago
> Somehow, all the businesses that currently exist and accept credit cards are doing so without more than 1-2% chargeback rates. Citation needed. https://www.quora.com/Online-Payment-Gateways-and-Processing... "Amou
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by codexon 11y ago
And unfortunately it is encouraging poor behavior from customers to be able to get things for free. I think everyone can agree that maybe with a 20% chargeback rate, there is something wrong with the business but 1-2% seems possible for a l
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by codexon 11y ago
I have trouble believing even a 2% chargeback rate would endanger Visa/MC. It seems like they hardly spend any time investigating chargebacks and most disputes seem to be won by the buyer by default unless they have a habit of filing c
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by codexon 11y ago
The question I want answered is what's to stop the people who own the automation technology/patents/natural resource rights from leaving the country so they don't have to pay the taxes for everyone's minimum income?
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by codexon 11y ago
I have heard that in other places outside the US, medical school is not hell, and it was made that way by the AMA which enforces a monopoly on how many MDs schools are allowed to graduate each year. Whether or not this means doctors educate
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by codexon 11y ago
It seems like anyone can file a paypal chargeback and win 99% of the time.
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by codexon 11y ago
Unlikely is better than nothing, that's my point.
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by codexon 11y ago
But you have to realize that at Google, that person is your only point of contact. Making your displeasure known to at least 1 person who works there gets your message across better than sucking it up and letting them think it isn't re
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by codexon 11y ago
So are you really telling me Youtube wouldn't use EME if it was there?
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by codexon 11y ago
Why not blame youtube as well?
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by codexon 11y ago
I think it was quite reasonable to doubt youtube had a future. The bandwidth costs still must be enormous and back then more so. Only a few companies had the clout to negotiate favorable prices for bandwidth. Even now I am surprised that th
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by codexon 11y ago
It really isn't surprising for anyone who has read his history that he is not a very moral person. He made the precursor to Facebook by hacking servers and stealing people's pictures. Then he lied to the Winklevoss twins that he w
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by codexon 11y ago
When you have a scripting language with a GC you are targeting a class of users who can't or don't want to be careful enough to prevent circular references. Circular references aren't easy to avoid, sometimes there can be mor
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by codexon 11y ago
Reference counting is not a complete GC solution, it does not collect circular references which happen quite often. That is why python will occasionally run a mark and sweep GC even though it says it uses reference counting.
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by codexon 11y ago
Again you are completely missing the point. The SAT is not "pro" guessing. It is mathematically neutral. If you get rid of guessing completely, then there's no way to differentiate between people who have no clue what the que

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