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by krab 2y ago
You're missing the value the Bitcoin network provides in facilitating trade that's illegal or shady. I don't want to make any moral statement here. I'm just saying that Bitcoin can be positive sum or negative sum. I don&
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by krab 2y ago
Not sure. Maybe only if the account is flagged somehow? I just registered - there's a simple form that takes a card in the end. And that was just it. I could order a server.
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by krab 2y ago
It depends on your needs for reliability and how many users you have. If you don't mind being offline when doing maintenance occasionally and being down on the rare occasion when the hardware fails (like once in a few years) until you
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by krab 2y ago
Not in my experience (I have a EU address and payment card). The sign up was smooth and easy.
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by krab 2y ago
Or in UK, or in the US (latency doesn't matter that much in case of LLMs). That would all be in line with the policy that restricted physical movement of these chips.
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by krab 2y ago
The thing is the USA can target the individual companies selling goods outside of the designated countries. It would be hard to monitor and enforce but the mechanism is - if you'd like to do any business with the US, you have to play b
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by krab 2y ago
What if this was an intentional, yet overly clever, way to avoid one special case? I mean, for all practical purposes, the value of 1 equals to the unconditional execution.
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by krab 2y ago
They did it before. See for example the history of Merck, a German pharma company during WW1. > The free market is great, but only if we hold all the cards. I think that's the actual reasoning. Be mindful that USA is our ally but th
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by krab 2y ago
I don't think so. This is true for people writing cpython. But if you implement custom `__hash__` method, you should be fine.
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by krab 2y ago
Because -1 is not equal to -2. They will fall into the same bucket of the hash map, but the hash collisions are expected and must be accounted for.
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by krab 2y ago
We were the issuer. So these were probably the payment processor's extensions. But we were issuing MasterCards.
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by krab 2y ago
Oh, this format was fun. You could see history unfold when parsing it. The messages I parsed were ISO-8583 with ~EBCDIC~ no, BCD. But one field contained XML. And the XML had an embedded JSON. The inner format matched the fashion trend of t
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by krab 2y ago
In practice, it works the same. Technically, there are two kinds of copyright - I'll translate loosely from the Czech law, I'm not sure about the exact English equivalent. There are "person" rights and "property&quo
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by krab 2y ago
Just shooting without knowing your real needs - take this with a grain of salt. Store some parsed representation that makes it easier for you to work with (probably normalized). Keep an archive of raw data somewhere. That may be another col
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by krab 2y ago
Regarding Python+Django vs. Go, I have an opposite experience. Concurrency is handled much better in Go but that's about it. ORM, web framework, any library is generally worse. On top of that, I miss my exceptions.
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by krab 2y ago
Yes. That's a risk assessment every company must make. What's the probability of downtime vs the development slowdown and the operating costs of a fully redundant infrastructure? I worked for a payments company (think credit cards
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by krab 2y ago
That's a pretty much orthogonal issue if you compare dedicated servers to, say AWS EC2. There aren't that many tasks you would have to perform on bare metal that you don't have to do in EC2. PaaS such as Heroku or Vercel, tha
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by krab 2y ago
... and we were doing serverless and build less before it was cool! It was called "shared PHP hosting". :-D
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by krab 2y ago
The absolute trust killer is when your customer finds out about some issue on their own - even though you were supposed to monitor that. :-) More important than raw uptime.
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by krab 2y ago
Well, S3 is hard to beat for our use case. We make a heavy use of their various tires, we store a somewhat large amount of data but only a minor part ever goes out. The compute and network heavy stuff we do is still out of AWS.
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by krab 2y ago
You're right you need to find a company you can trust. And for a lot of startups it really makes sense to use AWS. But if you do something resource or bandwidth intensive (and I'm not even talking about Llama now), the costs add u
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by krab 2y ago
A bit less terrible way in my opinion: Find a dedicated server provider and rent the hardware. These companies rent some part of the datacenter (or sometimes build their own). Bonus points if they offer KVM - as in remote console, not the L
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by krab 2y ago
Yeah, that's the PII leak.
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by krab 2y ago
Nice find! There's a problematic but not critical personal information leak, a mild business intelligence leak and that's about it. > They could keep this script running for months, even years, creating awkward scenes and uncom
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by krab 2y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by krab 2y ago
They specifically mentioned Huawei. The dependency of telecom networks has been discussed repeatedly in Europe. This inititative isn't only about cloud computing.
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by krab 2y ago
+ Chinese
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by krab 2y ago
I heard there was a similar problem with the bank account number in the US - that you could use it to withdraw money without an actual password or strong identification. Hence the popularity of cheques, PayPal and similar services that were
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by krab 2y ago
Since the railroads are heavily regulated, it's not easy to innovate there.
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by krab 2y ago
Analogies time! I saw this big shiny vault had a side door unlocked, Your Honour. This vault stores my money as well, so I wanted to see - surely they wouldn't let burglars in just like that. I didn't break any lock, I didn't

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