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by giaour 4y ago
> at least in 2008 we weren’t subjected to a barrage of defensive Twitter antics from the bankers asleep at the wheel. We were subjected to similar rhetoric from Enron execs as that house of cards crumbled[0]. Refusing to face reality in
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by giaour 4y ago
The analogies from cooking are not great. If anything, the weird distinctions they draw (recipes are not tutorials? and how-tos have to focus on an end, not a technique?) really underline how the theory proposed has been oversimplified. Jus
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by giaour 4y ago
This is laughably naive. Western Union payments are high-risk for the ransomer , since they have to go pick the money up. Also, Western Union has pretty low limits on how much you can send ($10K for US->US transfers, less for internatio
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by giaour 4y ago
Certainly not in any standardized way. The variance between what someone does in one software development job vs another is just too high to be a good signal of any particular knowledge.
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by giaour 4y ago
> Even with money, let me pay $10-20,000 , take a test, prove my experience, and bam I now have a degree... The system you're proposing sounds ripe for abuse; wouldn't universities get the most money by lowering standards? You
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by giaour 4y ago
OP is asking about certifications , which you generally get for passing a test. Coursera gives you certificates , which are a record of having taken and passed one or more courses.
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by giaour 4y ago
Try to move millions across international borders with prepaid cards and tell me how that works out for you.
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by giaour 4y ago
> Banning crypto won't make ransomware go away, it will just increase the cost of ransom. That must be why ransomware demands were so much higher in the pre-bitcoin era. Unless you're including the cost of sending a cargo jet f
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by giaour 4y ago
I would only look for E2E encryption in such an app if its data were synchronized across multiple devices. Otherwise, there should be no E2E communication from the app at all, encrypted or not. Cycle tracking should be able to work with loc
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by giaour 4y ago
People can argue whatever they want in an editorial, but I will take the word of the pope and the catechism when it comes to the question of, "what is the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church on X?"
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by giaour 4y ago
> They are not viewed as “similarly objectionable”. The death penalty is viewed as being within the legitimate power of government doctrinally Respectfully, no. The catechism reads, "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is a
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by giaour 4y ago
> This list of religions that are ok with abolition is short. You are incorrect, but this is also a specious argument. The list of religious that were anti-slavery was short at the outset of the 19th century and a mile long by the outset
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by giaour 4y ago
Yes, we'll need to completely change everything about our government, just like we did when we mandated elections for senators in 1913. /s
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by giaour 4y ago
Before 2000, it was an interesting thought experiment but dismissed as highly unlikely that a president could technically win office without winning the popular vote. Republicans (but also some purist democrats) were apoplectic when Bill Cl
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by giaour 4y ago
Shouldn't it be the same for the US and Canada? Both are administered by NANPA. Last time I looked into this (early 2020), you generally couldn't get porting info for US numbers, though original issuer was public and easily access
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by giaour 4y ago
Lawyers without offices would have to book a conference room for anything requiring confidentiality. If they do this 8 hours a day, they essentially have a (larger and more expensive) private office without any place to store files or books
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by giaour 4y ago
Sometimes people do, and in any case copyright isn't limited to just verbatim copies. You can't, for example, reuse characters or plots from other works of fiction in your own novel, even if you rewrite it in your own words: http
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by giaour 4y ago
US law is pretty similar in this regard, isn't it? If you don't have a license for a particular piece of code, you can't use it without the author's/copyright holder's permission, even if you found it posted on
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by giaour 4y ago
Azure DevOps. It's a terrible name and kind of a weird marriage of Jira and Github Enterprise, but the solid integration between work items, PRs, and CI has grown on me since I've been forced to use it. There's a managed opti
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by giaour 4y ago
In practice, blockchains tend to be extremely centralized without a deliberate effort to prevent them from becoming so. (Cf https://www.nber.org/papers/w29396 ) You can get around this in a permissioned blockchain with
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by giaour 4y ago
Cloudflare combines a few tools that you would need to cobble together yourself if you wanted the same experience from another provider. E.g., if you wanted to use AWS services instead, you could stack WAF, CloudFront, and Route53 to get a
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by giaour 4y ago
The education sector has found a way to make it more or less work, though of course many teachers/professors/school staff work through the summer (but not necessarily on their academic year duties). It helps that the rest of socie
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by giaour 4y ago
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1099-misc
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by giaour 4y ago
> So there's presumably some threshold where you can just have essentially a petty cash business expense. $600
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by giaour 4y ago
The 70 million number (the one you were specifically nitpicking) comes from the FBI database, not from a union of state level databases. So that's 70 million people who have been convicted of or arrested on a felony charge, or had a st
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by giaour 4y ago
I don't think the linked Politifact article supports your point: > The FBI considers anyone who has been arrested on a felony charge to have a criminal record, even if the arrest did not lead to a conviction. The FBI only counts tho
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by giaour 4y ago
Having (or having had) an outstanding bench warrant for your arrest sounds like the kind of thing that could really mess up your employment prospects, though! I'm really not sure what you're trying to dispute. It seems like you an
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by giaour 4y ago
> I’ve heard about governments considering using blockchain based tech to thwart internal corruption (immutable public records FTW). During my time in government, shady contractors pitching blockchain to solve literally every problem was
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by giaour 4y ago
> I guess the Toyota dealership could provide a private security force to recover my car in case of theft. Ummm have you heard of this public agency called "the police"?
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by giaour 4y ago
> If you buy a painting in real life, how exactly do you roll it back if someone steals it from you? Generally, if you manage to track down a painting someone stole from you, you don't have to buy it back for a six figure sum like G

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