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by jcz_nz 3y ago
This article is remarkably light on actual tech, and full of PR blah blah. Basically,this new Russian system is a magic shield against missiles.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
Literally, the very point is that there is no “they”.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
That is a willfully ignorant perspective. Reddit made a choice to first misinform, then pull the rug from under bunch of people (not just devs, it’s the Reddit users as well), and THEN chose to lie about what happened to deflect blame.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
Contact someone whose PII is being shared? Also. Screenshot everything.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
Have you considered App Engine? GCP has "cloud functions" but it's just a python cloudrun container behind the scenes, with all the associated issues. We found it's easier to just use cloudrun.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
In my (direct) experience they are actually quite reasonable about payment hiccups, even extended ones. … at least when your spend is sufficiently high (500k/y+??)
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
Which lemmy?? The GitHub repository?? Can you substantiate this?
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
They have millions of weekly active users… on the way to an IPO…. Lots to improve on monetization, and one of the best alternatives to Facebook… what’s your point…?
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
The CEO’s lack of integrity is a signal.
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by jcz_nz 3y ago
Steve Huffman (ie spez) made a deliberate choice to act without integrity, putting it mildly. The company hoping to IPO too… Heck, I’ve been a user for a decade, I would have bought some shares. They could have made it super interesting fo
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
This has been explained a bunch of times in other places if one cares to look: A) Netflix was running out of $ B) the $50m was a lot more than it would cost to replicate the Netflix model at the time C) The terms they asked for would have b
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
No, it's barely two years old now: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0031/latest/...
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
It was never approved for broader use outside of govt, and the DIA insists on stupid-high "cost recovery", making it uneconomical. Forest and trees, and lack of actual political leadership.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
I’m not sure when your experience dates to, or what kind of dev you were working, but I’ve had the exact opposite: on MacBooks for ~15 years, range of dev (full stack on a few stacks down to large footprint performance critical golang), VM’
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
Swedish immigration has been decreasing for the last 14 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/net-migrati... . Oddly enough, profitability of Swedish banks has been increasing for the last 1
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
CEO's and companies can act ethically while that aligns with the interest of the shareholders. Reality is that at some point, this becomes impossible even for those with the best intentions. "Do no evil" rings any bells?
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
For some apps. For internally-facing admin for example tools we want a minimal learning curve and readily recognisable, sign posted models. It needs to look like stuff you already know, down to icons and ux behaviour.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
I like the cut of your jib and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
The scenario is that a potential buyer audits random records to validate that checks are/were handled ok and the data that must be preserved for KYC audits actually is. This isn’t “selling your data to potential bidders” (if they are
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
Lol no. Your desire to avoid taxes is not a “right”, it’s a criminal intent. Oh, and newsflash - a SD trust is an absolute red flag, and will just mark you for “Enhanced Due Diligence”, where you will be asked to prove the source of funds.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
That’s absolutely not what that TOS says. Your strength of conviction does not make it so.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
This is not how it works. Your NFC ID card establishes that a person that looks like X is named Y. That’s fine, that’s what we get, just less reliably, from a photo of your passport. You will still need to smile for the camera to establish
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
It’s a lottery where most players have no clue as to the actual likely value of the tickets they hold. As in, most vastly overestimate that value. It’s a nice bike, or a nice car, not a nice island. Huge exits are an absolute exception.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
I loved my Rex... They were amazing and waaay ahead of anything else on the market at the time. Super useful form factor too.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
Other countries do this and manage (Australia, NZ, UK, etc). Companies outsource the KYC to vendors who carry ISO27001 etc and heaps of insurance. No sane IT people would want photos of so much personally sensitive data on their own systems
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
Umm. Removing KYC requirements just makes it easier to launder dirty money. Why would we do that? As it is the US is considered a safe-heaven for dirty money - google South Dakota trusts. “Fighting crime as crime” is meaningless.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
They can’t get into admin, that’s the whole point…
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
That’s just laughable. About a billion Chinese might disagree with this.
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
Grew up near Turów. Germany had a number of large mining operations right across the border, and started pushing for the closure of Turów just as their shift to NLG ramped up, with arguments around “air quality”. Poland (and others…) warne
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by jcz_nz 4y ago
AD is ok until you have to get some oddball issue fixed. It’s obtuse, with a mix is old and new (and really old) front ends, and a bajillion options that interact in non-obvious ways. Eventually your salvation will be found in a 17 minute

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