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by maratc 4y ago
> Yet, I know off the top of my mind at least two occasions where creating an empty commit can make quite a bit of sense: > 1. Initializing new repositories. > 2. Triggering continuous deployment pipelines. We use
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by maratc 4y ago
> But I don’t really know if modern buildings would want a large or small thermal mass. This depends on climate. When the outside temperature changes, the building will eventually get itself to the outside temperature (thermodynamics law
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by maratc 4y ago
Thermal mass is usually not a factor you're looking at when choosing windows; thermal resistance is. In a nutshell, stone, concrete, metal, and glass are very good at transmitting heat, so the inside of your house will quickly be as ho
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by maratc 4y ago
Probably sold off from Microsoft for startups programs, volume keys, or the like. They might work for some time, and then may stop working.
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by maratc 4y ago
Banks use other secrets, like my birthday, or the date my national ID card was issued on. These can be found out by fraudsters, too. But not having my bank details public helps.
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by maratc 4y ago
> it can be introduced artificially for those who want/need it If it can be introduced artificially by the user, it can be skipped artificially by the fraudster, so the anti-fraud effectiveness of such an "anti-fraud feature&qu
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by maratc 4y ago
A famous case of Amazon ATO (account take-over) was trivially executed where a fraudster would use one of the Amazon checkout paths with a credit card that they own (e.g. a disposable Visa gift card) but later add a victim's email so t
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by maratc 4y ago
If the transfer is instantaneous, the fraudster could have cashed out already from the other bank account. There is nothing in the other party’s bank by then. The chargebacks in credit cards come mostly from the credit card issuer pockets,
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by maratc 4y ago
> Why so little faith in authorities? I have dealt with the authorities on the account of fraud. My little faith in them comes from experience.
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by maratc 4y ago
> What specifically makes you feel uncomfortable? The thought that they can call my bank, impersonate me, and drain my account with no recourse for me. That should be much harder if they don't know my bank details to begin with.
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by maratc 4y ago
You have a lot of good faith in what your bank would or would not do, and they have a conflict of interest: if they side with you, they would need to make you whole — out of their own pocket. The hospital has the opposite conflict of intere
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by maratc 4y ago
> How do they prove its fraud as opposed to you reneging on a valid check? "Here is the picture of the check that I put in the mail" > they should be willing to do the same for epayments. Leaving "should" aside, sa
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by maratc 4y ago
> How do you prove check fraud for washed check? By the law, the bank needs to do the proof, or return your money. Not so with account takeovers. Which is my whole point.
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by maratc 4y ago
> How is this different from washed check? I've pointed out the difference: banks, police, and courts understand check fraud. They don't understand account takeovers, as these are much more complicated. They are much more likel
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by maratc 4y ago
When I want someone (who needs to pay me) to give me the check, my bank account details are not supplied to them. I just deposit their check. The check has their bank details printed on it, not mine. When I want someone (who needs to pay
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by maratc 4y ago
> It is not my job to know how the bank got hacked. And without any explanations, it's not your bank's job to return your money.
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by maratc 4y ago
> you just file a police report for fraud and bank will claw back funds and reinstate you If the fraudster has your password and OTP, and if the money's gone, bank will do nothing — as opposed to the check fraud. That's why TLA
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by maratc 4y ago
The only difference from the check fraud is this: since the fraudsters — having the password and OTP — are indistinguishable from you , the bank may not return your money (out of his pocket). And since the money was already cashed out, the
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by maratc 4y ago
> usually takes a few seconds to arrive in the destination account This also means that whoever takes over your account, can send the money out and cash it in very fast. This of course would never happen to me or you, but happened to a
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by maratc 4y ago
For a perspective, I'm not American, and I don't feel comfortable giving my bank details to random people. I can also get checks with dates in the future, and know that I will collect the money (this way or another). If someone pr
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by maratc 4y ago
For all those who tune in to the "checks are so 19th century" tune: please note this is a good story about check fraud, as the OP eventually got his money back. With Paypal/Venmo/app-du-jour, in the event of an account t
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by maratc 4y ago
> pulling data from 128 shards to resolve queries while a user is waiting is just a really bad idea. To the contrary, pulling data from 128 shards can be done in parallel, and about 127 of them don't have any data to return.
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by maratc 4y ago
Due to relatives scattered around the world, I track the time in several time zones for the last 20 years or so. Nothing comes close to the convenience of an Apple Watch. First, you can add custom cities to your Apple Watch, so you can see
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by maratc 4y ago
I was at a place that used sharding, so the data was scattered across 128 database servers. SELECT works there but JOIN doesn’t, as your right side may reside at another shard.
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by maratc 4y ago
You could use vim inside a regular terminal for the same effect, with a notable exception of sending all of your keypresses to Microsoft.
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by maratc 4y ago
On the other hand, I'd like very much for this distinction to continue, so I could continue steering clear of the IDEs :)
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by maratc 4y ago
I dunno, as long as this app bullshit is hit over its head by the courts, do we really care what road was taken to get there? (As long as Capone is in prison, do we care why?)
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by maratc 4y ago
> Is "discrimination" really the only evil we can think of these days? Discrimination is one of the evils that the courts have interest, capacity, and power to deal with -- and a history of dealing with. "Surveillance dy
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by maratc 4y ago
> For those people it makes more sense $80 a year can get you a rental computer for 8 days, and you don't have to worry about its battery — or you get another piece. > you'll have to buy their subscription for your sport in
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by maratc 4y ago
I have more than 500 dives under my weight belt, and I have a (regular) Apple watch, but I'm skeptical. First, there's no mention of Nitrox anywhere (except in a screenshot). Most of the serious folks use this mix (basically, air

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