thephyber

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by thephyber 3y ago
I don’t understand this line of thinking. If you sell a commodity and your competitors are far more efficient, you will lose in the end. Change the commodity from wheat to mining silver and nobody has their heartstrings pulled for you. Ulti
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by thephyber 3y ago
Farms in a family trust are not subject to the death event that triggers inheritance tax.
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by thephyber 3y ago
Capitalism is still feeding us. Farmers and their vendors are orders of magnitudes more efficient than centuries ago. Family farming has always depended on cheap/free labor of children (and slaves / serfs / indentured servant
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by thephyber 3y ago
Pesticide is not fertilizer. But your point is valid. I have a cousin that farmed in the mid 20th century when they used chemicals like DDT on the farm. He is alive, but his body is falling apart. He is lucky that he switched to commercial&
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by thephyber 3y ago
> The website I was taken to was remarkably polished, it looked almost exactly like the real UPS site "Fake Login Page" site generating scripts are pretty close to slightly customized versions of "Save Page As..." (pl
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by thephyber 3y ago
They have a published policy that explains it: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html
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by thephyber 3y ago
> the US government murdered him Clarification: he suicided while awaiting trial after the DoJ (and possibly MIT and the journal/publisher) threw the book at him in an effort to get him to plea out to a lesser felony.
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by thephyber 3y ago
The CFAA is controversial because of how vague the statue is. It has no carveouts for vigilantes or "hack back", last I heard -- even though some in Congress were trying to push for "hack back" rights. The DoJ is unlikel
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by thephyber 3y ago
If a site is designed for scamming, it will likely log the contents of the form submissions -- sensitive fields like username + password combos or other PII.
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by thephyber 3y ago
Did you confuse “requests per second” (rps) with requests per day?
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by thephyber 3y ago
Scroll to 7:47 in this presentation[1] and see that the different domains within the Netflix vertical are all part of the same large API, accessible from the same API gateway. People here are making an assumption that the entrypoint to Netf
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by thephyber 3y ago
There is a diagram of a process that reads the MySQL commit log and uses that to send Memcache delete commands. Not exactly groundbreaking. But I would also guess that FB would have to explain lots of their middleware concepts in order to e
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by thephyber 3y ago
Some of your questions are answered here: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-scaling-graphql
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by thephyber 3y ago
If their dev team believes there is value in GraphQL, maybe they also want those same benefits for their business apps/APIs in addition to their customer-facing ones. Maybe they all use the same API gateway.
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by thephyber 3y ago
I also don’t have big issues with the felony/misdemeanor transition, but the cop in my family does. > The problem is that the laws aren’t enforced I would argue that legal punishments only work well when they are consistent and swif
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by thephyber 3y ago
> isn't the app "done"? Netflix is an ecosystem, not just the frontend app for Apple TV. Netflix is pretty close to a vertical monopoly for some of its content. Fund-raising, planning, development, post-production, transla
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by thephyber 3y ago
We are smack in the middle of a massive collision of social panics and the common thread is that they are all unfalsifiable. I’m starting to believe The most useful tool in avoiding being suckered by these panics is to actively identify whe
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by thephyber 3y ago
While true, it is irrelevant because no reparations have been passed/distributed.
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by thephyber 3y ago
There are multiple leadership issues, but ultimately there is no single fix. The mayor has little power in SF compared to other cities. My understanding is the Board of Supervisors is more distributed than a typical City Council. Housing: A
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by thephyber 3y ago
Yes. 14 countries in Europe allow mail-in voting for domestic residents[1] and almost all G7 countries support mail-in voting for citizens abroad. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/04/tr
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by thephyber 3y ago
The US, for the most part, does it the same way. Except to compare other developed countries to the USA, you have to remember that most other sane countries run elections from the nation level, whereas the US runs them primarily at the coun
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by thephyber 3y ago
"The positive externalities far outweigh the negative ones." I'm simply saying we should transparently price the cost of drilling operations to include end-of-lifecycle operations and we should not allow drilling companies to
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by thephyber 3y ago
I am but a lowly individual citizen and I knew that PayPal is a terrible company, is not a regulated bank, offers a sketchy product, has been known to freeze/close accounts for opaque reasons, somehow be able to freeze the deposits of
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by thephyber 3y ago
But your FDIC example is perfect. FDIC effectively regulates its member banks. But the end user still needs to know if the app/product they are using is protected by FDIC, which is the point of the CFPB announcement in the article. Pay
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by thephyber 3y ago
Throughput isn’t fixed across all blockchain implementations. It’s possible to fork/side chain BTC to accommodate far more transactions per block, thus drastically increasing throughput. I still think _ergonomics_ of making sure every
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by thephyber 3y ago
I generally agree that it’s generally a terrible expectation for everyone to know the law and how it is interpreted. The book “3 Felonies a Day” covers this. But it is the law we live under and the law created by the people we elect. Don’t
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by thephyber 3y ago
“allows real costs to be ignored” Economists call these negative externalities. There are a handful of movies that involve the biggest tort litigations in the US: Erin Brockovich, Dark Water, A Civil Affair, the Rainmaker. It’s not clear t
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by thephyber 3y ago
This regulator statement is getting echoed in Reuters, AP News, WaPo, Yahoo Finance, CNN, CNet, Fox Business, CNBC, CBS News, Money, Business Insider, etc. This is exactly how popular law changes are announced as well. Do you argue that cit
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by thephyber 3y ago
"it should be workable" sounds suspiciously hand-wavy and sounds particularly naïve about law. EU and countries in the EU bloc are governed by completely different laws than the US (and the constituent states). This particular reg
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by thephyber 3y ago
Lol, you again. The BTC ledger is pretty good, but it is fallible —- mostly because a human has to control the keys and the UI apps that make using the wallet for transactions are far less secure than the core BTC protocol. Good luck teachi

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