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by cosmie 5y ago
There's also reginal variability in this. My experience with a dermatologist (in the US) ended up being the same as you anticipated it being. Trying to book a new patient appointment myself I was getting quoted availability 2-3 months
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by cosmie 5y ago
This. Facebook makes available a lot of configurable parameters around bidding and budgeting[1]. If you've set a campaign-level budget, Facebook's system paces delivery to spread that budget from the start date to the end date. It
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by cosmie 5y ago
> I looked and couldn't find a name for it The bullwhip effect[1]. Although in this instance, it's inverted from its traditional direction. Generally the closer you are to the consumer/end product in the supply chain, the
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by cosmie 5y ago
> i do not understand snapchat and their business model. Ads[1]. Initially it was just promotional lenses/filters and required a high touch process and substantial media spend commitment. But looking at that site, they now have a fu
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by cosmie 5y ago
There are a few third party libraries/projects that are useful for that situation. Libpq[1] is one, and this[2] project is another. The readme for that second one includes links to several other M/PQ related projects. [1] https:&
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by cosmie 5y ago
> I wonder if that would work? I can't say for sure, but likely not. It sounds like your client may have been relying on one of the optimization add-ons that are automatically installed with Excel[1][2], rather than actual Excel fea
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by cosmie 5y ago
If you're in the Office 365 ecosystem, you can do just that (in a sense). The MS Graph API has a workbook endpoint[1] that lets you do nifty stuff with Excel workbooks hosted in OneDrive or Sharepoint. Pair that with non-persistent ses
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by cosmie 5y ago
In the case of the font foundry my client was licensing from, ‣ You were not allowed to self-host the font files, and had to load them directly from the hosting URL provided by the font foundry ‣ There was no explicit reporting involved. Ev
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by cosmie 5y ago
It's also incredibly risky for advertising and marketing campaigns. I had one client that started getting their product catalog scraped aggressively, and the invoice for their licensed font usage that month was an order of magnitude hi
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by cosmie 5y ago
PWA are explicitly exempt from the data storage wipe behavior[1]. So there's that, at least. For now. Although I agree that it's a fairly minor win in the grand scheme of how handicapped PWA's are on iOS. And like you said, t
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by cosmie 5y ago
If you haven't, check out the Windows Admin Center app[1]. It's targeted primarily at managing Windows Server, but works fantastically for managing Windows 10 too (and they even mention that on the doc homepage). This[2] page in p
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by cosmie 5y ago
That's the wholesale price. When you pay Route53 $12.99, they remit $7.85 to Verisign, who maintains the authoritative registry for the .com TLD. By jacking up the wholesale rate by 7% (the largest annual increase they're allowed,
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by cosmie 5y ago
It's not the climate change that'll get us, but each other. Left to nature alone, we'd likely evolve and adapt and survive in some form or fashion. But the advancement of humanity has led to all kinds of ways we could do ours
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by cosmie 5y ago
Amazon also charges for the disposal itself[1]. Although they're likely not going to receive payment from delinquent accounts, it's something sellers in good standing have to account for. Amazon charges a monthly storage fee[2]. I
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by cosmie 5y ago
> I think some of the administrative pain can come from having a 'sandbox' or 'qa' tier beyond dev (which in this case would be customer facing) before production. Pretty much. It's hard to guess at the reason wh
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by cosmie 5y ago
> For most SaaS there’s no logical reason why having a feature for 2 extra weeks would be an enormous advantage to a customer. In my experience what this question really is is “can we make last minute change requests to a feature you tho
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by cosmie 5y ago
Seems more like an innocent mix-up by the social media PR person, who likely isn't familiar enough with the properties to notice the mixup between Hackaday and Tindie at the end there. Or they could have been referring to Hackaday.io r
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by cosmie 5y ago
Apple's guidelines already cover their bases to prevent such a loophole. The first clause of their Payments[1] guidelines explicitly states you're to use in-app purchases to unlock features and functionality within your app, while
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by cosmie 5y ago
I concur with all of this! The way she uses perception, perspective, and cognitive biases are, as you say, shatteringly powerful. Particularly with her stream-of-consciousness writing style, where you so naturally get sucked into the charac
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by cosmie 5y ago
I doubt it was Google itself – Google is a one-way sieve when it comes to data. Google allows advertisers to tap into their user graph for targeting and attribution, but they don't actually give access to user-level info in any meani
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by cosmie 5y ago
I haven't had exposure to this space since the GDPR went into effect, but it used to be trivially easy to do this. A quick Googling shows there are still providers of this sort of service, such as GetEmails[1] which bills itself as &#x
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by cosmie 5y ago
I didn't even realize Keynote had a latex engine. The equation support in Powerpoint results in nice formatting, but Powerpoint doesn't directly support latex format without third-party addins so it gets a bit tedious to use for m
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by cosmie 5y ago
Why would they have to raise taxes on people to compensate? The amount of economic activity required for Intel to even generate $10bn in taxes is massive. The firms Intel employs to build the $20+bn fab would not have the same tax break, no
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by cosmie 5y ago
Or at the very least it'll become a data collection platform, to be packaged and sold (whether for use with ads directly or for the many consumer intelligence[1] companies that charge gobs of money for aggregate reporting). [1] https:
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by cosmie 5y ago
While formulas are definitely code in a general sense, 'code' the Excel-verse generally refers to VBA code embedded in the workbook. VBA's potential as an attack vector results in it being unavailable or heavily restricted in
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by cosmie 5y ago
> also those of other evidence acquired afterwards And prior extracts on the device.
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by cosmie 5y ago
There's certainly a sociology aspect to the whole thing, but the hypothetical second paper is just as much social-exploit-vector vulnerability research as the first one. The only change being the state of the actor involved. The existi
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by cosmie 5y ago
> This is thinly veiled and potentially dangerous bullying. Which itself could be the basis of a follow up research paper. The first one was about surreptitiously slipping vulnerabilities into the kernel code. There's nothing surrep
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by cosmie 5y ago
> large B2C apps like FB FB is an advertising firm, and the identifiability of their audience is a major value driver of their ad inventory[1]. They explicitly leverage the PII stored on their consumer users to enable advertising offerin
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by cosmie 5y ago
The issue is with the `quality` aspect. There are three different levels of credit card transactions[1]. Most consumer purchases will end up being a level 1 transaction, where the card network doesn't see much more than the transaction

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