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by rodgerd 4y ago
I was surprised the first time that I visited the States as an adult - I picked up a SIM for the week I was there, and discovered that I couldn't visit Oglaf on mobile data. It's quite fascinating, because I come from a country wi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that seizing customer funds is part of their profit model. They've been doing it for a very long time, and well beyond anything that could reasonably be explained via regulatory or card scheme requirements.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I don't think it's so much a conscious decision against compliance You haven't even bothered glancing at any of the linked material, have you?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The absolute funniest is the instruction in writing telling staff to inform US customers that the only way that they show up as from the US is Geo-IP, and that if they bypass that... I guess this is what happens in remote working. You can&#
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by rodgerd 4y ago
You say that, but ask Andrew Tate how that's working out for him.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Something something Tiktok. Ok, that's a bit snarky. But seriously, the problem here is surveillance capitalism and the willingness of surveillance capitalism to enable, well, anyone with a buck: good, bad, or indifferent, all while lo
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Am I the only person on Earth that needs sharing of passwords among my family? No, and it's equally bizarre to me that I can't share selected Contacts with my Family account. It would make keeping track of, say, the details o
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Yes, it's the employees fault. I mean I half agree. There's been factions in side the tech industry for years trying to get people to think about what would happen in this sort of scenario, to understand that "tech worke
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> SVB also chose not to prioritize hiring a risk manager for months leading up to their collapse Closer to a year, I believe. On the back of lobbying for exemptions from Basel III adequacy requirements.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Sounds like Petey Thiel.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Chance are your mental health startup is also flogging your data for bucks as well.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> How are they still alive? Jira is the worst ticketing system that exists other than every other ticketing system. Yes you could use Rally or whatever but it's unlikely that migrating to a different tool is going to solve any probl
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If they hired you, you'd be competing with existing staff who are already doing the practical day-to-day work that they need done. These kind of hires that the interviewee represents are about keeping people away from competitors. Thes
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I'd love to see a community that helps people organize strikes and coordinate between multiple companies. Unfortunately solidarity strikes were so successful for workers for much of the 20th century, they were criminalised in part
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Unless you're hosting the infrastructure yourself, you can't ever be certain. I can't be certain I won't be hit by a car, or a storm won't rip up the fibre to my house, or a raft of other things, either.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Distancing. It lets people who make these decisions portray themselves as the helpless victims of the way things are, rather than people who have made choices that have led to this. "The market says that we need to downsize" sound
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Just take GTK vs Qt. You could, but it's not exactly a great comparison. Contrast with Apple's history of HIGs and similar for a company that puts effort into consistency. Where's the equivalent in the TUI?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Court records also show he spent months last year making suggestions to Musk on how to engineer a sufficiently hostile environment to mass-sack Twitter staff while evading severance arrangements. But sure, these guys are so concerned with
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If a CEO of 100 person startup can't understand the concept of business continuity planning, what are they doing, exactly?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> it’s going to have a lot of downstream impacts When Netflix started sacking animators and animation studios to use AI startups instead, there are downstream impacts. When bookstores shut up shop because of Amazon there were downstream
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by rodgerd 4y ago
@jason , @sama , the current CEO of YC, a general clusterfuck of some of the richest and most powerful people in the US economy?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Are those employees of companies whose business model is "driving artists out of business by large-scale copyright infringement and automated drawing based on it?", for example?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
FTX depositors would be over the moon if there was a promise that they were going to get a quarter million of their holdings back on Monday, with an unknown amount back in the next few weeks, and likely be "floated" some proportio
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They're the wrong sort of people.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
My opinion on this one, for games authors anyway, was changed by reading an early 2000s piece by someone rebutting a lot of the noise Carmack was making on the topic, focusing on exactly this point: by DirectX 6, you got an API that was a s
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Do you actually have those rights if they aren't enforced? Not functionally, no. It's worth noting that one reason that banks take AML regs so seriously is that the fines are so large, and regulators check compliance, that yo
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> They are best used not as _primary_ storage, but secondary (think 3-2-1 backup rule). Yeah, these are for archives, not service restoration/disaster recovery scenarios.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I mean Elon Musk would.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Since the VF extension requires a state machine that can modify the font, it might be able to accomplish that, but my very quick read of the spec didn't let me grasp whether the SM executes once, or whether you can run it repeatedly. (
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> On iOS I guess you could still keep the key private through Apple's SDK, but what about other platforms? It's such a huge win for Facebook and Google - I'm not worried about "sideloaders", it lets them crack op

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