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by corford 11mo ago
Unless you're an insider, currently you'd need to express that short via something else.
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by corford 1y ago
I'm in Europe and can go into my local supermarkets on Saturday and Sunday from 0900 to 2100. I can send a SEPA wire transfer on the weekend and the recipient gets it within seconds. My nearest big shopping mall (hundreds of shops) is
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by corford 1y ago
In our case, instant on-boarding of devs with no host setup needed. It's a large, complicated repo with a lot of unusual system dependencies. We build a multi-arch base image for all this and then the devcontainer is built on-top. Devc
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by corford 1y ago
They do but it's largely useless against all but the most unsophisticated of bots.
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by corford 1y ago
If you want a great book on the history of financial speculation, Devil Take the Hindmost ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0452281806/ ) is a strong recommendation.
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by corford 1y ago
In most cases yes. If you upgrade your browser, the only thing that changes is the user agent data. The underlying device remains the same and it is this that leaks a lot of fingerprinting attributes (screen, gfx card, fonts, timezone, lang
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by corford 1y ago
So they're whining that the UK has laws with teeth which makes it hard for them to offer AI sex bots without investing in adequate protections for minors?
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by corford 1y ago
>If I look back over my spreadsheets I have spent about 100K on rent in the last 15 years that I have been renting and that includes water and heat. Setups like that just sadly don't exist in my part of the world. But, in your case,
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by corford 1y ago
I guess it depends somewhat on where you live and what interest rates are doing when you buy. Where I live (and true of virtually everywhere else I've lived over the last 20+ years), monthly rent significantly exceeds what the monthly
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by corford 1y ago
Renting is not owning (no benefits accrue from asset appreciation). The same calc for ownership is very different. Also would love to know % of population in 1970 that rented versus today. My guess is it's much higher today.
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by corford 1y ago
If anyone's interested in some of the nitty gritty of this, can highly recommend "Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy" ( https://www.amazon.com/Three-Days-Camp-
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by corford 1y ago
Not sure for Italy but I believe in Germany's case it is physical bars
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by corford 1y ago
Here's a very informative video on this from a 30+ yr COMEX gold trader (the mechanism and cost to do it is discussed from about ~8 mins in): https://themarkethouse.substack.com/p/video-alyosha-with-a-r...
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by corford 1y ago
I think your concern on fertiliser imports is overblown. I find the argument that the EU shouldn't champion & invest in renewables while it also continues to use and import fossil fuels a false dichotomy. The same goes for fracking
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by corford 1y ago
>It's child-like and pure silly-ness. The EU or your hysterical reply?
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by corford 1y ago
Is this really true though? UK is building new reactors, France has many. Wind and solar are both massive successes across the continent. The North Sea still has oil and significant new LNG storage capacity has recently been built.
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by corford 1y ago
Agree with the acme.sh recommendation. It's my favourite by far (especially, as you point out, when leveraging with DNS-01 challenges so you can sidestep most of the security risks the article author worries about)
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by corford 1y ago
Personally, I thought this "friction" article was excellent and a very helpful way of framing things. Recommend reading it in addition to those two links.
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by corford 1y ago
This sounds right to me
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by corford 1y ago
I always assumed angel investing (at least as it emerged originally) was essentially philanthropy with the motivation being it gave very rich people a way to nudge things they liked into existence and provided them with a semi-cheap way to
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by corford 2y ago
The only obvious mainstream "success" to come out of crypto is stable coins (Tether/Bitfinex is something like the 5th or 6th largest buyer of US treasuries ...and amusingly keeps all the yield from them). Ironically, this us
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by corford 2y ago
Nice write up. I like the comparison to the cybersecurity field of the 1980s & 90s. Seems a good way to look at it.
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by corford 2y ago
FWIW, I don't think you should cave on this. For me, your choice to use it over "hallucination" instantly elevated the insight of the lessons. I also think the authenticity of the voice of the lessons benefits from owning the
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by corford 2y ago
Not sure what category of ecomm sites you were scraping but I scrape >10million ecomm URLs daily and, honestly, in my experience the compute is not a major issue (8 times out of 10 you can either use API endpoints and/or session stu
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by corford 2y ago
Yeah bit pricey for what it is. Fortunately I didn't pay for it (was an xmas gift)
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by corford 2y ago
I got this for Christmas and quite like it: https://de.braun-clocks.com/collections/digital-clocks/produ...
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by corford 2y ago
Memories. I had an unfiltered 100Mbit ethernet port, with public static IP, in my dorm room at Manchester Uni in 2000 thanks to JANET. It was amazing compared to the ISDN line at home (...which until then I had thought was the bees knees).
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by corford 2y ago
Password managers like Bitwarden allow you to store passkeys too. Ofc, that only works for services that let you create & use your own passkey, rather than force you to use one managed by them.
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by corford 2y ago
This recent interview covers some of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUSv2gdqX-Q (from ~40 mins in). Also these podcasts for more depth: https://www.investmentmagazine.com.au/2021/07/passive-fl
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by corford 2y ago
Fair enough, but how is your argument incompatible with transitioning away from fossil fuels and bringing in more environmentally aware regulations? It might not clean/reverse the damage already done but surely it helps to reduce the m

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