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by nikcub 9y ago
Go and do some contracting work at a small business or startup - even if its short term. You'll bump into all sorts of pain points that should be addressed by someone taking the time to develop and market a good product. It's no c
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You don't have to explain the Bitcoin forks - most people who click the comments on Bitcoin threads here know what they are You also don't have to explain the altoins or pump them - most people here know what they are. These types
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There is a lot of independent analysis pointing at North Korea[0][1][2][3] The infosec industry are extremely skeptical of attribution especially coming from government - it took a long time for a higher-certainty attribution to be establ
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Ars and journalist sued by password manager vendor for reporting vulnerabilities(documentcloud.org)
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It is different enough that it just looks like parallel thinking. I have been working on the same thing - breaking HQ, i'm certain that almost every hacker had the same thought when they first played the game - that it is possible to t
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Has a company ever gone bankrupt due to bad ethics where it wasn't also a financial fraud? The core Uber business seems to still be doing well and resetting the taint of bad ethics is as easy as putting up a "under new management&
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A good way to normalize it for comparison is tax income as a proportion of GDP[0] The table on wikipedia[1] shows Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden at all over 50%. Germany at 44.5% while the UK is 34.4%, Australia at 34.3% and United Sta
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Nice try but no
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You can go onto underground markets and forums today and buy hundreds to thousands of Uber accounts. They're obtained via endpoint malware and shared passwords. Buying and selling Netflix, porn and Uber accounts in this way is a very c
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There's honestly nothing impressive about copy+paste data and basic cell manipulation and formatting - you could do that in Google Docs. Where Excel is really entrenched is in VBA scripts and macros that are written and shared ie. wh
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There are many variations of democracy - what the communist nations refer to, or referred to, as a democracy is a "People Democracy" in the Marxist-Leninist sense or the "Democratic Dictatorship" in the Maoist sense Work
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A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web(wired.co.uk)
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BIP150[0] adds peer authentication, BIP151 adds encrypted peer communication. Having them implemented and enforced is probably overdue - afaik so far i've only seen bcoin[2] implement it [0] https://github.com/bitcoin&#
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git-secrets is a pre-commit hook that regexp's out secrets and blocks commits https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
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Uber accounts are frequently sold on underground markets - they're sourced via endpoint malware and shared passwords You should check over all of your accounts and machines - I doubt it has anything to do with this leak
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Deleting your account at Uber doesn't delete ride info[0] In a lot of cases companies still leave behind an email stub to prevent users signing up over and over again for signup deals The only way to ensure your data is safe is to ne
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That's pretty funny - probably should have taken that approach with the second call rather than digging in further
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You want uBlock Origin incognito chrome://extensions -> uBlock Origin -> allow in incognito The tradeoff is that many extensions are not safe and could spy on your incognito activity if allowed to work incognito
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and Pipfile - which is what i've switched to in recent projects, example[0] Altho you can write to one of the other formats or read from it - you'd have to tell the scanner what the true build source is [0] https://gith
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Comparisons: Mashable: $46M raised[0], 15M MAU[1] and $35-40M p.a in revenue[2] (sold for $50M) Business Insider: $55M raised, 76M MAU, $50M+ rev (sold at $442M[5]) Refinery29: $125M raised, 27M MAU, $100M+ rev Vox: $307M raised[4], 170M MA
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Many wallets and users don't do dust sweeps anymore since it associates all the utxo's with a single user and reduces your privacy Theres nothing wrong with having many utxo's of varying sizes - good wallets will give you a c
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Accepting zero confirmation transactions at POS is a different problem to fees (which are atm admitantly high but that should improve) Merchant picks a solution based on who they integrate with - something like BitGo Instant[0], GreenAddres
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The 137,000 satoshi price quoted isn't an average - it's the price to have your transaction almost guaranteed to be accepted in the next block It also shows 30 satoshi a byte gets you transaction accepted in 3-80 blocks, which bas
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A million a month in Bitcoin trade might not sound like much, but Zimbabwe's total GDP is only $1.3 billion per month
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There are many lawsuits and trade dispute filings pending from both sides. Qualcomm is also under anti-competitive practice investigations in a number of places. It's going to take years to sort out and will cost a lot - stock has alre
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AFAIK Jake Williams didn't get singled out because he only "wrote a blog post" about Shadow Brokers - it was because he was involved in a Twitter based dispute with Shadow Brokers. Somebody created a fake Twitter account and
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I'm also very optimistic about Snap - it's one of the only social networks I use regularly. That said, Snap could fix a lot of things and grow revenue and the stock could still not move - they're at about the same market cap
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There is no way 11% of the world population plays basketball. I tried to find the original source so I could check the methodology and couldn't - but i'd guess that a telephone survey of 35,000 people being extrapolated out to t
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Why do packages like this need to be ported or re-implemented for Vue rather than referenced? That package hasn't been updated since August while the root styled-components library has ~700 closed issues and 11,300 watchers I've s
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Whats with the insults? I can get preferring one platform over another, but insulting people is just lame. The React and Redux developers are incredibly good at what they do - they've also spent a lot of time putting out material, book

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