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by samhw 5y ago
How do you propose that they feed and house themselves? Has someone got a GitHub repo for that?
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by samhw 5y ago
Normal costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
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by samhw 5y ago
> already got a lot of pros off Macs What is your quantitative evidence for saying this?
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It's not just one surveillance state ;) Most of these scammers are outside the UK, in India or Africa somewhere. Those countries do put a lot of resources into capturing 'Yahoo boys' and the like, but it's sometimes like
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by samhw 5y ago
We worked a fair bit with the police, and I never got the impression we were frustrated with their inaction. They devoted a lot of resources to it, but it's part of the nature of the beast that there just don't need to be as many
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I'm somewhat familiar. I worked at a (fairly technological) UK bank, where we did investigations into scams like this. There's really not much that can be done about most of these scams, other than taking your multivitamins
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by samhw 5y ago
The other problem is that this statistic is nearly meaningless. If I run a bank scam, I might have 500k victims, but it won't take as many police to investigate as 500k rapes or murders or kidnappings would. This is comparing apples wi
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by samhw 5y ago
There's a difference between is a linter and is like a linter [in this context] .
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by samhw 5y ago
I would definitely agree with that claim, then. It seemed to me like he was making a far stronger claim, but it's very possible I'm wrong.
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, thank you, I didn't realise that and I appreciate the correction :) And yes, I agree with the main point. $100b was wrong, but Coinbase still overwhelmingly proves the rule: namely that, setting aside the few Bitcoin millionaires w
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, sorry I missed this. This is true in general, but I'd like to be able to control whether, and in what way, I 'load shed' comments. I also don't trust the design priorities of Twitter's logic which selects for me
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by samhw 5y ago
> Everything is ideological Pizza isn't ideological. Birds aren't ideological. Things that are explicitly in the domain of ideology are, yes, ideological. There's no such thing as 'no accent' just because you hav
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by samhw 5y ago
This is a fair point. I suppose I just meant relative to most legislators. It's a very, very low bar - which is partly understandable, given their explicit job is to be the ultimate judge of a vast range of things in none of which they
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by samhw 5y ago
Your friend was in an organisation which (a) didn't recruit new members, (b) gave its members total freedom to do whatever they wanted, and (c) gave its members money? And you're calling this organisation a cult? No offence, but
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't quite follow. Are you claiming the norm for money managers like investment banks and hedge funds is to lose their customers' money? And those customers don't care?
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by samhw 5y ago
This is one of the truest things I've read in this thread. Many people would feel differently if it were easy to visualise and see how much money is siphoned off from Main St to Wall St. Dumb money flows up to smart money. I've se
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by samhw 5y ago
To wit: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/coinbase-opens-at-381-per-...
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by samhw 5y ago
> He felt he'd lost this apprentice to a cult. I think he was right. My criterion for whether someone's in a cult is that eerie feeling talking to them, where they get angry at any challenge, they can never quite seem to expla
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by samhw 5y ago
This is a bit like saying "The real problem is drug addiction, not heroin. Heroin just seems to be especially good at causing drug addiction." Edit: I'm not going to respond to the replies. I'm just going to add that I
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I think the point is that no one knows which activities call for consent, or what all of their transitive dependencies do, and so they show it out of an abundance of caution. As should have been predictable by intelligent legislators, which
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, by virtue of what the GP comment said: > Mozilla also offers a white-label version of Mullvad VPN, while subtly implying that they operate the VPN themselves: “A Virtual Private Network from the makers of Firefox.” Maybe 'misa
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by samhw 5y ago
I was mostly writing this comment just so I could continue the comical tendency for 'ideological' to get more and more misspelt every time it was used. That said, I don't think I agree with this idea that the dominant ideolog
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> Not all whistleblowing is idealogoical Is it true that not all whistleblowing is idealogoical? In order to be idaealogoical, it must be motivated by idaealeogoy. Whistleblowing is definitionally motivated by opposition to the leaked ac
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by samhw 5y ago
Honestly, I can't believe that book sold so many copies. The first one starts off well, with some really great subplots, but then it starts going on about all these weird rules that feel sorta dated, all about seafood and chlamydia. Ju
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, I second this. At a past job we needed support for Kafka, and their tech support's advice was so fantastic that it was actually circulated around the company for general reading. We had an entire team of people who were expert in
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Then imagine if HN comments could only be 280 characters. And instead of seeing all the branches of the conversation tree, ordered by the vote count of the parent node, you instead saw a random subset of them, chosen on the basis of what Tw
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, I'm inclined to agree. I also think the word 'toxic' is horribly overused, to mean essentially 'anything I don't like'. Though FWIW, ulterior motives are hidden by definition – as in, that's literally
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by samhw 5y ago
If it wasn't sufficiently clear from my scenario where Hitler wants to merge an NPM dependency into the Linux kernel while Linus Torvalds is treating him at a euthanasia clinic, I was joking. In the scope of any realistically possible
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by samhw 5y ago
There's another, slightly confusing aspect which u/vb explained absolutely brilliantly here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28781621 ), namely that she wore two hats: one as the ED of the Foundation, the othe
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by samhw 5y ago
You do realise they created .NET?

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