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by hiq 6y ago
> Most banks let the user block receiving payments from specific accounts. How do you stop harassers sending unwanted money? First time I read about that, how does this work in practice? A person regularly sends you small amounts such th
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by hiq 6y ago
Last commit 5 days ago: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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by hiq 6y ago
I think the end-goal is to provide privacy guarantees you will never have with Stripe or other traditional payment processors.
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by hiq 6y ago
> You missed the point. You're making a different point now though, you're saying that people will associate it with scams which will hurt adoption. You initially wrote that the UX would be so bad that you'd have to convin
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by hiq 6y ago
That's significant in this space, because it implies that he does not benefit directly[0] from speculation on MOB, and so has less incentives to get involved in a pump and dump. What I would still like to see for more transparency: - l
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by hiq 6y ago
I do that as well, but I dread the moment I'll have to call support through no fault of my own and they'll ask me for the answers to some of these questions.
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by hiq 6y ago
Could there be an alternative model where companies give up (often illusory) secrecy for most things, and have employees working in shared spaces near their accommodations, with employees of other companies? I think that's already the
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by hiq 6y ago
> - my commute: I cycled into work, and the daily exercise was great This one is not like the others, it's completely up to you to have a bike ride e.g. at lunch time around the block when you WFH.
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by hiq 6y ago
> With TLS v1.3 and DoH / DoT, I think VPNs may no longer be required if "hiding traffic" is the only need. You, as a user, have little control over whether the servers you connect to support TLS 1.3 and eSNI / ECH.
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by hiq 6y ago
Linus Torvalds said something similar.
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by hiq 6y ago
> The client needs to wait for the result of a DNS query before it can do anything else. The bandwidth is irrelevant, the problem is the delay. You're right. But the article seems to claim the number of queries can be reduced with a
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by hiq 6y ago
I think it'd be more interesting to measure the impact on the end user. The article mentions a drop in queries, but aren't DNS queries a drop in the bucket compared to the size of most web pages anyway? Is the difference really no
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by hiq 6y ago
> Administrators wanting their changes to be applied immediately, because it may require less planning work. Why is this not valid?
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by hiq 6y ago
In practice they don't run after them, see signal-cli.
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> required the students to pass individually each of the homework, quiz, and exams, separately, to pass the course How was the final grade determined? min(HW, Quiz, exams)?
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by hiq 6y ago
GitHub has no cookie banner[0], how come docker.com needs one? [0]: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
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by hiq 6y ago
Offtopic (I think), but I just learned that "For instance, git worktree add -d <path> creates a new working tree with a detached HEAD at the same commit as the current branch." (from the manpage). It's offtopic because
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by hiq 6y ago
Do you have an example of this setup? As far as I know git worktree is just to have different branches of the same repo checked out in different locations. At least, that's the only way I use it (and it's great!). Are you suggesti
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by hiq 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your quote then implies that it's still fine even with microg installed, right? So maybe OP is talking about something else? Or are you saying that they're misguided?
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by hiq 6y ago
The company needs to have a pretty good brand to be able to hire at all with this strategy. If you're NONAME INC., I don't know what role you're hiring for, and I don't know how much you pay, why would I even spend 20min
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by hiq 6y ago
> Because then you can't negotiate. Why not? Maybe your position is not as strong as having another actual offer, but that doesn't mean you cannot negotiate at all. In any case it's hard to have all your offers all at the
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by hiq 6y ago
> want a setup that keeps the Android security model intact (unlike all of these LineageOS forks) Can you expand on how LineageOS breaks the Android security model?
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by hiq 6y ago
> This was a rug-pull, not a hack. Who the attacker is does not matter. This comment seems to describe the vulnerability (intentionally implemented, but again, it doesn't matter) as a homoglyph attack: https://news.ycombi
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by hiq 6y ago
So I take it that no independent 3rd party audited this smart contract? Because defining a constant twice is already big enough of a code smell to warrant spending more than 10s on them (enough to distinguish a 0 from a O). They didn't
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by hiq 6y ago
Only insofar as Darwinism comes into play and vulnerabilities kill unsecure projects. It doesn't look like new projects are safer than older ones.
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by hiq 6y ago
> It adds plausible deniability. How so?
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by hiq 6y ago
> I am not aware that ShellCheck actually checks POSIX compliance; I am pretty sure it just checks for common errors in your bash/sh scripts Bashisms are errors if you specify #!/bin/sh. If you want to try it out, you can
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by hiq 6y ago
Who decides who is a "trusted vendor", and how? You either give up on a lot of packages or end up in the current situation where everyone is trusted.
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by hiq 6y ago
> I agree that even Python with stdlib-only is still better than Bash, but I guarantee that you'll find Bash >=3.0 on every host. Shouldn't you go for POSIX at that point? I'm not an expert, but I still have some idea h
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by hiq 6y ago
I had the same thought, but do your dozen folks use video calls on your instance? Does it work well enough? I'd definitely expect to be able to host a text-only instance for $5, but maybe they also need to provision for more demanding

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