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Asking that would signal a profound miscalibration in your understanding of how businesses work (unless the only thing your company does is sell your billable hours). For example, nearly every startup is losing money until they become a uni
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We work with a physical therapist for our child, and they are furious about these new guidelines to the point of organizing their colleagues to petition for a reversal. Early intervention can yield magical results, but every month counts an
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This “howto” from 2011 seems relevant https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1821514&seq...
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I’ve seen studies [1][2] showing positive relationships between happiness and intelligence. Do you have a source saying the correlation is negative? [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22998852/ [2] https://
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Absolutely. @Swizec: ask your immigration lawyers if they're OK with this post being online and linked to both of you. If they are, you need new lawyers.
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Thank you for sharing. I did not expect to watch the entire 1.5hrs, but this story was exceptionally well prepared and presented, educational, and surprising about how far a bit of fraud can go even in hard sciences. Also, why these syste
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I’m currently reading “Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots” [0] and it’s an anthropological exploration of these topics. I don’t know if I recommend it to all yet, but if you often think about the philosophy of lab
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China and LATAM are definitely overrepresented. We deal with conglomerates and manufacturers, so it's vaguely industrial + heavy industry, but all these users are corporate folks using standard-issue BigCo laptops (almost certainly loa
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WSS breaking is surprisingly common for clusters of our enterprise users, to the order of 5-10%. Specifically, when business users connect through security networks like Zscaler, often their employers will MITM all connections (similar to
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In case the email collection form gets hugged to death, here's a mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20220111162712/https://files.abl... In our experience, many enterprise networks/vpns/fir
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When I was starting out as an independent consultant, I'd manually increase invoice numbers by a semi-random number (instead of +1), so it looks like I had many invoices/clients. Later I switched to a less predictable invoice form
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Most people had no idea they even use colors.js as it’s used by some dependency of some dependency. For example, anyone installing AWS CDK afresh would be unable to deploy their infrastructure - it uses colors.js, which blocks the CPU as so
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Another informative and entertaining place to read about the nearly-daily rug pulls is https://web3isgoinggreat.com
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Right, but when the president declares it’s a hard g… well, the guy with the most nukes wins. https://time.com/2871272/obama-tumblr-gif-wars/
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DoS is just Denial of Service - he published a patch update that removes all functionality with specific intent to break the application that uses his code. His action, and this version of the library, is literally an attack on your appli
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It depends on how broadly you define 'ego', as people committed to a cause larger than themselves are often extraordinarily dedicated & productive. Priests, teachers, explorers, scientists (driven to find a cure for a genetic
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Yep. “Envy” is wanting what they have, “jealousy” is being afraid they take what you have. You are envious when they get a shiny car, and jealous when they flirt with your partner.
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https://rekt.news articles dive into most hacks to describes how the relevant contracts/crypto/logic works, what's the suspect code, and which parts in the architecture were abused. This is on-brand for "Hack
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Newsfeed for Crypto/DeFi Scams(rekt.news)
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I had a similar path, and recently realized that the brain can handle only so much intensity of learning (in a sustainable way). Min/maxing is common: folks go all-in on one area (business, finance, tech, arts, history, sports, work,
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There are significant contradictions within her recollection, as cataloged in the article https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-p... Some examples (from the article) - * Park’s account of
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It's difficult to compare regimes based on individual narratives - in the USSR example, we have The Gulag Archipelago that is extremely rigorous, popular, and compelling (I read it in both the original and translated versions), but his
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Hey thanks for your thoughtful engagement on this! I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, in the middle of Siberia, and witnessed the “glory” of a totalitarian communist government first hand. It was a different government, but also to a much m
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Yeonmi Park has been caught lying and exaggerating so many times that it’s appropriate to consider her stories as entertainment rather than witness statements. https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-ye
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Yes, they do - we pitched to them, and they said for our talks to continue we’d need to use another cloud (at least for their tenancy).
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I run a US-based startup with a relatively small budget and hire developers in "low-cost" countries. I expect to pay $70k-$100k for a regular competent developer and more for a solid self-motivated developer. If the company is leg
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Methodology: count the number of tweets complaining about the office temperature. It could be possible that one gender is more likely to tweet about their physical discomfort in the office.
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In practice, I'm not sure where to begin with that strategy if you have a single .sql dump file with ~10 tables containing sensitive data from 50 different tenants. Even if theoretically possible, I'll take 50 files like tenantN.s
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The execution challenge for Remix is how to navigate the tension where FOSS and commercial forces pull them in opposite directions. So far, they've been stressing "interoperability", "no lock-in", "run it anywh
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The issue is backups. We're a B2B/Enterprise SaaS and most tenants require that we erase all their data at the end of the contract. Some require customer-managed encryption keys. The only way to meet this requirement is to have ev

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