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by scott00 5y ago
How in the world does this satisfy the advertisers? They send the personal identifying details of each customer to Google/FB, and then Google/FB tells them "oh yeah, that guy totally saw an ad"? The ad giants would never
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by scott00 5y ago
I'm having trouble with the demo... registration and login flows both end in a screen that says "Select a Kyri service Manager account to login" but has no list of accounts. Email in profile if you don't want to troubles
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by scott00 5y ago
I like the idea. Am I correctly understanding that you don't actually create any ETFs, it's just a tool for constructing a portfolio of individual stocks? Assuming I've got that right, do you know ballpark how badly the tax i
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by scott00 5y ago
In double entry accounting, the $9B has to go somewhere, or you defeat the primary objective, which is to make it harder to forget transactions by maintaining a number of invariants. The two relevant ones here are [Equity]_t = [Assests]_t -
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by scott00 5y ago
Goodwill only ever shows up as the result of an acquisition. If a company with a book value of $1B gets acquired for $10B, the balance sheet of the acquirer will see its goodwill increase by $9B after the acquisition closes. Nobody's d
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by scott00 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but my guess would be that whether it is legal or not depends on what (if anything) you intend to do with the information. This is based mainly on perusal of this page summarizing a bunch of state identity theft statutes: htt
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by scott00 5y ago
Avoidance of margin regulation was not really a factor in what happened here. For exchange traded stocks in the US there are two margining schemes: Reg T and portfolio margin. Reg T is available to anybody and gets you 2x. PM is harder to g
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by scott00 5y ago
The government PKI actually almost exists already. Passports have an rfid chip inside them that does something like receive a challenge and respond with a signature over a hash of the passports biographical data combined with the challenge,
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by scott00 5y ago
Personally I don't think you can become an expert in Linux kernel programming without sending patches. So over the long term, if you don't let non-experts submit patches then no new experts will ever be created, the existing ones
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by scott00 5y ago
I thought PKCS#11 was exactly what the author wanted: an API for performing arbitrary sign and encrypt operations using a hardware protected key. What doesn't it do?
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by scott00 6y ago
I think the short answer to your question is "no". For single-file-no-project simplicity your best bet is dotnet-script: https://github.com/filipw/dotnet-script For native code your best bet is NativeAOT: ht
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by scott00 6y ago
Interop on Linux works well.
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by scott00 6y ago
I thought using a 43" 4k TV as a monitor was a good idea until I actually tried it with the TCL S525. It looked really bad at close range, like this: https://i.rtings.com/assets/pages/li6TPHJm/user-1-larg
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by scott00 6y ago
I don't understand the claim that replacing "polymorphism and dependency injection" with "static fields and service locators" reduces allocations. I would expect that getting rid of dependency injection would allow
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by scott00 6y ago
With the current C# compiler and JIT, using generics to avoid a virtual function call works if the dependencies are structs, but not if they are classes. That said, in my experience it's very hard to get performance gains through inlin
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by scott00 6y ago
RenTech had the same idea and it made the IRS pretty mad: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-11-13/mon... I believe it's still being litigated, so the legality hasn't been firmly est
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by scott00 6y ago
> Not quite, prices capped first. Then when that was not enough rolling blackouts where implemented Again, no. The cap was in place before the floor, but was never binding: they did blackouts before the price hit the maximum, not after.
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by scott00 6y ago
> prices where capped by regulators Not true. Early in the crisis so much generation capacity went offline that there was no way that that it could meet all of the price-insensitive demand (most consumers pay a fixed price, regardless of
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by scott00 6y ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but blind testing is complementary to (not a substitute for) source code review. It's very common for software to work correctly a high percentage of the time, but fail on rare input data.
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by scott00 6y ago
I agree with your definition of secure for this topic. I don't agree that a primary residence qualifies as secure under that definition. Fire, flood, earthquake, etc all put you at risk of losing both keys, as does a search by law enfo
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by scott00 6y ago
If creating new accounts only when you are at the secure location where your backup key lives works for you that's great, but I suspect that most people in that situation would do one or more of the following: (1) Store their backup ke
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by scott00 6y ago
What does your workflow look like when you set up new credentials?
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by scott00 6y ago
Some other responders have given you the answer as it currently exists. They are all either inconvenient, weaken security, or both. For that reason, I would only suggest using a security key for a small number of critical services, where it
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by scott00 6y ago
Do you need a real domain for each customer or is a subdomain sufficient isolation?
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by scott00 6y ago
Are there European laws that prohibit discriminating against people who live in Iran? Or that prohibit discriminating against companies who employ people who live in Iran? If not, the legal basis is that you can do anything you want unless
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by scott00 6y ago
This attempt to avoid the hard question will probably make the policy ineffective. The with-passenger rates are already high enough that drivers make well above minimum wage at 100% utilization. When the effective wage (with-passenger rate
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by scott00 6y ago
> It's not clear if Facebook explicitly knew at the time that the ad targets didn't meet the criteria, or if Facebook's targeting data was simply incorrect for those who were targeted. The plaintiffs don't care, nor s
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by scott00 6y ago
Does anyone understand why the FDA and other experts seem very unconcerned about long term side effects? The safety profile in the 0-2 month timeframe is very easy to understand: they tested it, so they have actual data. But it seems for lo
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by scott00 6y ago
It's actually quite easy to underperform the market if you make a lot of trades and cross the spread when you do it. Which is exactly the behavior that all retail brokerages are incentivized to encourage.
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by scott00 6y ago
The main reason I use it for work is that software we buy (and is crucial to our business) tends to be only or best supported on CentOS/RHEL. The reason I chose CentOS over RHEL is that we don't have a large number of servers, so

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