thephyber

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   by thephyber 2y ago

   The EC doesn’t provide balance. It provides a layer of indirection which can be used to game elections. And all of the EC delegates are political hacks, not honest brokers with the country’s best interests at the center of their duties. The
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   A fun thought experiment: the company loses the suit, with both actual damages and punitive damages large enough to bankrupt the company. The company is sold for parts and other companies become a little more wary of repeating the same mist
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   The underlying problem you are describing is the spirit of the web browser. It has been designed to be extremely resilient to sloppy / wrong coding. This is the reason JavaScript has weird features like Automatic Semicolon Insertion an
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   > but I can't see it going horrible either. Any type of investing can do horrible. Examples: you trust a financial expert who swindles you, you invest everything in a dying company/industry/company/asset class, you do
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   What is the term “cons” you use here?
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   I’m talking about immigration as a haystack, but you seem to think that we can know in advance who the needles are. Are you under the impression that we can tell barbarians apart from other immigrants and that we still let them in the count
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   This just sounds like justifying complaining. CrowdStrike partners literally get paid to deal with cybersecurity incidents like this one. That’s why they have jobs. $5 value is $5 more than $0. > This is not my line of work, so I'm
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   So you uninstall CrowdStrike Falcon from all of your customers computers and you install what to replace it? The sad truth is that all of the products in that class have had terrible incidents in their past. Also, congrats on moving the goa
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   by thephyber 2y ago

   You are confusing customers for partners.
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    You are confusing CrowdStrike partners with CrowdStrike customers. Customers didn’t get this Uber Eats offer.
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    Note that a partner is not a customer. This was a program to give some positive reinforcement to some overworked people who have been helping customers recover. And Uber flagged the program as likely fraud, supposedly because usage rates an
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    What do you hope I infer by reading this snippet? I interpret this as a benign / dual-purpose comms channel between a subsidiary (who runs an app) and the parent company (who likely made a platform/shared components that the subsi
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    > What benefits do you see from importing and allowing this kind of barbarism into society? Freedom of choice. Is that insane? Those of us who have different opinions than you probably got there because we right-size the risk of the thre
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    In _Beyond the Curve_ a writer put it succinctly: > Nobody thinks they are the Ursula of their story. I think it is the human condition that our ego protects itself by denying truth in order to “protect” our psyche from acknowledging tha
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    Are you listing all of the stock tickers you invested in, or are we only getting a curated subset? People overestimate their ability to pick stocks when they are up. Not everyone gets lucky. (For the record, I am up a lot but I sold my NVDA
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I recently had to help my father organize his medical visits. Dealing with his healthcare providers was a bit of a pain, but it was way worse because he has stopped answering calls, primarily because of the call spam rate. I think because
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I’m not debating AU10TIX. Let’s both assume what you say is true. The comment I initially replied to was spring-loaded and ready to punish Stripe (and potentially X) because they thought Stripe was the unethical participant in Israel’s poli
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    > Plenty of people in North Korea or Iran or Russia protest against their governments too. But we don't, and shouldn't, let that persuade us to keep doing business with people in those countries. The second you find out your ow
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I work in cybersecurity and am a customer of a rival CU in the same region. I think it’s too early to criticize. In the first 48 hours of a data breach, everything is chaos. Let their IT team get an estimate of how bad the situation is and
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    It was pretty good trick for validating ownership of a bank account back in 1998, but I’m happy they are moving to something else. There are far better options, and most banks are capable of much higher assurance validation now.
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    Oh. In Single-Sign On / OAuth terminology, the bank’s website is the Identity Provider (IdP). Banks in the US depend on government-issued ID and information contracted from credit bureaus (3 big companies that are effectively data brok
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I’m not opposed to voting with your feet/wallet. I encourage it. But make sure your vote is targeted to what behavior you want to change. If you want to train behaviors in a child, you need to react+respond immediately and proportionat
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I also noticed you missed the most important thing about the GP comment of my reply: he misread which whether the relevant company was on the unethical side of the equation and seemed willing to divest without any skepticism or curiosity.
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    FYI, I have a lot of issues with Israel’s policies. I just don’t pretend like a smallish group of people boycotting all private industry in a country that does the vast majority of their policy right is a targeted approach. If you want to B
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    Moving companies is far lower friction than changing nationality. Ethics are relative and have tradeoffs. How many innocent people are you willing to hurt to change the behavior of the IdF / Israel’s Oslo Area C policies / Netanya
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    So you commented without verifying the fact was true? And it turns out it isn’t. Slow down. Don’t trust vague statements that don’t cite sources. Look for the nuance in the situation. Be curious and try to learn, don’t just follow the crowd
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    > identity verification by logging into your bank Do you mean you expect me to give my banking site/app credentials to X? PayPal used two small (less than $1) transactions and the verification that I own the bank account was verifie
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    Micropayments never took off. Advertising / freemium did. Why? If your server doesn’t serve responses unless someone pays, then there is the problem of uncertainty for the client — how do I know the content behind the paywall is worth
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    I work in cybersecurity and we need to be able to get info about CVEs extremely quickly from all major software vendors. The problem is this means we need to either subscribe to websites for webhooks (async notifications sent to us when an
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    by thephyber 2y ago

    From src/index.ts: ``` import {app, BrowserWindow, dialog, globalShortcut, ipcMain, nativeTheme, screen, shell, Menu, MenuItem} from 'electron' import {electronApp, is, optimizer} from '@electron-toolkit/utils'