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by giaour 5y ago
I would counter that data freshness and authZ concerns make SPAs a poor fit for most things. What you're proposing in this thread is that good SPAs essentially need to hold all data client side and not have to worry about out of band c
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by giaour 5y ago
Tangential, but how is a "rug pull" different from a run-of-the-mill confidence scam? Every time I hear about one, it sounds like The Music Man but with crypto and a bunch of extra zeroes. Anyway, I don't think the Times shou
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by giaour 5y ago
No, but I don't really have an example of a specific credit card chargeback, either. At least in the US, the police can seize the cash as evidence, and their duty is to return it to the rightful owner, not whoever happened to have it a
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by giaour 5y ago
From the other comments on this thread, it seems like Steam was using a zero-confirmation payment validator of some kind. That makes bitcoin payments Steam accepted effectively a form of check, and if customers exploited this to double-spen
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by giaour 5y ago
> They are irreversible and if the Bitcoin is stolen that's not the merchant's problem. This seems consistent with the bitcoin ethos but incompatible how the economy and legal system work. If someone buys a physical item from y
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by giaour 5y ago
I assumed they meant spending stolen bitcoin on steam. It's common to call purchases made with a stolen credit card "fraudulent," even if there's nothing untoward about the purchase itself other than the payment instrume
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by giaour 5y ago
Any attorneys' fees and court costs incurred as a result of the governor launching a retaliatory investigation seem like they would be concrete damages.
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by giaour 5y ago
Did the governor incur any civil liability? In light of this report, it's hard to see his press conference as a defensible use of his powers and bully pulpit.
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by giaour 5y ago
> It was sold from a mobile phone kiosk at a mall >> what payment method is used for service > voucher purchased at the same store, both paid with cash >> If anyone bought a prepaid SIM with cash, they may have been caught
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by giaour 5y ago
You can buy a prepaid SIM, but it still needs to be activated with the service provider, and it will report the IMEI to the operator as part of maintaining a network connection. If the victim discovers the tracking device and reports it to
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by giaour 5y ago
Can you get onto a lorawan network without some kind of service contract? Seems like it would leave a paper trail for investigators to follow, whereas the pirate AirTags described in the article are anonymous commodity hardware using the vi
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by giaour 5y ago
You can purchase pre-made GPS+cellular trackers, but it seems like it would be much easier to tie a detected tracker of this type back to a specific person. A tracker with cellular capability will have a SIM and some kind of subpoena-able s
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by giaour 5y ago
Voters, omsbudsmen, inspectors general, auditors, other levels/branches of government, etc.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Again, then you have a centralized authority Not really, unless you think of PayPal and Stripe as the "centralized authorities" of credit card processing. It's still a system with multiple authorities/centers of pow
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by giaour 5y ago
Meatmates does not sound SFW
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by giaour 5y ago
Or greater precision! GPS (at least as used on most phones) has a ~6 foot margin of error.
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by giaour 5y ago
I've interviewed at places where the hiring manager would give your name to the front desk, and the front desk would ask for ID when you showed up and signed in. This never struck me as weird, maybe because the front desk checking your
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by giaour 5y ago
If your threat model includes Stas-like pervasive surveillance and a real possibility of interrogation under torture, then GP is right, traditional encryption technology will be of limited benefit.
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by giaour 5y ago
You can print new fiat money. The tried and true ways are: - Make loans that with less than 100% reserve backing (be a bank) - Print up your own negotiable instruments denominated in an existing currency (sell gift cards) - Create a new cur
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by giaour 5y ago
No, currencies target low positive rates of inflation specifically to discourage their being viewed as assets. The point of a currency is to serve as a medium of exchange, not as an asset to be held. That's why accounts where people ar
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by giaour 5y ago
> It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressi
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by giaour 5y ago
>But npm has this already. You can already install from urls One use case is if you have a JS module that depends on another JS module, and you want to be able to run it without transpilation in both Node applications and in browser envi
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by giaour 5y ago
> Regarding context managers I would need to come back to this post, as I don’t think IDisposable is capable of solving the same use cases, but it’s not on top of my mind as to why. I'm definitely not as fluent in python as I am in
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by giaour 5y ago
You said, "They have knife bans because they never let their citizens have guns, so there are knife attacks, so they ban knives" Texas has numerous bans on knives, despite letting their citizens have guns. Your causal logic is inc
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by giaour 5y ago
I grew up in Houston, Texas, where it was a felony to carry basically any knife bigger or more threatening than a Swiss army knife, but open-carrying a handgun was legal. I don't think knife bans have anything to do with the the 2A or
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by giaour 5y ago
That's true; "anyone" was a bit too strong of a word. All things being equal, someone making minimum wage is less likely to get a raise than someone making more, since there's a possibility that the wage represented a st
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by giaour 5y ago
I guess if you are free of debt and living paycheck to paycheck, inflation is pretty bad. But that's not most people. > IF their wages catch up. If their wages don't, do the math. It depends on your situation. If you have $20K
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by giaour 5y ago
> aka Python-style decorators and context managers Genuinely curious: aren't Python decorators basically the same as C# annotations, and aren't context managers covering the same ground as a C# using statement?
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by giaour 5y ago
> anyone who works for a fixed wage This includes anyone who works for minimum wage (assuming it's not indexed to inflation), and they are not likely to be able to handle a cut in real pay as easily as, say, middle class homeowners.
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by giaour 5y ago
> inflation screws over anyone who works for a wage It can, but inflation affects current assets and liabilities immediately and only depresses wages over time. If inflation was 7% over the course of the year, you now owe 7% less on your

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