miohtama

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   by miohtama 2y ago

   Inside trading on political information is legal in the US. Nancy Pelosi (Democrat) made this famous in last decade, hitting news headlines with it: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-outperformed-nea... http
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   Socialism. Worked well in the past (:
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   But when art is getting democratised, it is stealing, like we learnt from Ghiblification incident lask week.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   Bluesky audience is certain kind, more left leaning, finding corporations evil. Adobe's experiment shows that it is unlikely any big corp could go there any time until the audience is more diverse, less cancel culture.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   China and Russia have managed to eliminate Microsoft software in the government with some success.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   Now those poor people are online globally and can scroll Instagram.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   I have written Python since 2003 and used walrus only once. It's unnecessary.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   Open source implementation > open standard every time. C++ is from an era open source was not yet well established.
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   by miohtama 2y ago

   > Japanese giant SoftBank logged a 608.5 billion yen ($3.96 billion) gain on its Vision Fund tech investment arm in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, posting a steep quarterly increase after swinging back to black in the three mo
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Here is a very good podcast on the topic: Scam, Inc. https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc Some highlights - There are estimated to be 500,000 people working globally as scammers - It is mostly Chinese
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    The trick is that most of the users need this service. Before Windows Defender was built in you had to buy an anti virus software from sneak oil Windows security industry, and likely get somehow scammed in process. The same companies sell a
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Can you recommend Western companies that would be able to produce similar hardware at the same price point?
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Google owns half of the emails in the world which may be more valuable.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    He does not need to convince judge, but other shareholders who agreed here.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Every democratic country deserves the government they get.
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    Good luck trying to get a bank to underwrite that loan, smells a bit risky.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    From all good Democrats out there, they managed to come up with a mummy as a candidate so it is kind of self dug grave
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Every democratic country gets the government they deserve.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    For the context, here is the Financial Services Committee hearing on the topic, and what led to these events https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx...
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Last time British had guts to organise anything about their shitty government they first sailed to a new continent.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Kerala is Finland of India.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Not Myarmar, but in Cambodia scams are soon or already larger business than official GDP https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/laos-and-cambodia-dont-inclu...
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    If you can afford, upgrade your CI runners on GitHub to paid offering. Highly recommend, less drinking coffee, more instant unit test results. Pay as you go.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    For Cloudflare, bandwidth is practically free.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Cloudflare already offers this feature https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Best, and often practically only, way to avoid this problem is to buy your email services from Google Microsoft duopoly.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    Enron was the result accounting fraud, not energy market regulation or lack of it.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    A Spanish judge ordered blocking of Telegram for the same reason. https://medium.com/enrique-dans/why-blocking-telegram-in-spa... It was reversed quickly on complaints, though.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    The EU companies make payments to Cloudflare, and these could be confiscated. Also any staff in Italy is in danger.
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    by miohtama 2y ago

    But think of the children