thoraway1010

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by thoraway1010 6y ago
You miss the point entirely. Currently because the volume of bogus support requests is so enourmously high, and the fraud attempts also very high - the cost to properly do something like handle account lockout requests properly (on the scal
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
A great idea! I'd love to run stuff in this zone. Rotate through a bunch of errors, unavailability, latency spikes, power outages etc every day, make it a 12 hour torture test cycle.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I wonder if Apple and Google and Facebook and Microsoft and Stripe had just done something "anti competitive" and entered the payment space squarely themselves if rates would come down. They seem more consumer experience directed
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
The other thing is trust. They have (yet) to screw customers on pricing that I've seen. Has amazon ever raised prices on an existing service? I'm not saying the prices are any good, but they don't seem to go up. So you can sp
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
My requests - pass interchange onto the customer - and allow merchant to do so explicitly at whatever rate they want (not cash discount or anything). Ie, merchant might cover first 1% of interchange, pass rest on (so "premium" car
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
It's not just enterprise - many small / mid size places are much much happier (myself included) with an invoice attached. AWS gets this right (even though invoice is high level). You get something that can be quickly forwarded dow
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
No insurance hassles - I did medical billing for a bit. The insurance co's basically just run around doctors because they KNOW folks give up. You could absolutely force the $40 extra payment if dr + patient etc proved it out / app
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Most startups IP is not worth $200M no matter what they think. This guy was a grade A jerk too - if he doesn't do time then white collar crime is going to be even more unfairly under-enforced.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I've got the dual yubico key thing going. It seems to work fine. I don't need to pick overly complex passwords if I don't want to. Google does this well. Yubico Security Key + they seem to monitor my logins / rate limits
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Retail is crazy miserable for the person actually MAKING the product. Getting INTO stores is hard. The store can dump product back onto you - so they have no risk. The price on shelf has NOTHING to do with what you get, if you are small you
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
That's awesome! However, it WILL result in stripe attracting a LOT of the crappy billers (ie, folks who mislead / make customer unhappy etc). If your business is < 1% refunds, no worry if fees stay. A fair number of business ha
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I think we are just going towards centralized trust proxies. Ie, if you are paying for google apps, have credit card on file, meet their rate limiting rules for outbound with SPF / Dkim etc then you are probably OK. Some random IP doin
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I'm explaining why sites that HOST but do not necessarily send content are blocked. I've got no problem with their operation, but YOU are going down a VERY dangerous and slippery slope by saying I can't block domains that cle
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Malware and childporn reduction efforts also often go after the hosts of that content. I'm not sure why calling the folks hosting this stuff what it is incorrect. Sure, childporn folks don't actually necessarily "send" c
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
For everyone one of the apple / google huge privacy breach headlines / comments some quick thoughts. Google and Apple can at least plausibly infrastructure an anonymized data collection service and control access to it reasonably.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
The volume of spam is mind boggling. When we first implemented DMARC / DKIM etc our legit emails were 3% or so of all outbound mail per the reporting we got back! We have a somewhat trusted domain. Some mail delivery systems start to n
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
We just had someone claiming to work for amazon who said it was "routine" to "trawl" through CUSTOMER production data. How are they trawling through all our buckets and databases without codepaths for access? Again, they
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Agreed - but that has also not been smooth. I'd be curious to know the 10nm volumes at TSMC vs intel. The world has really changed.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
This frankly doesn't match my experience and I have to say I find it unlikely. Before going into our AWS production S3 buckets, looking at our databases for customer lists AWS seems to be pretty careful to get an OK. Now we are being t
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Repeat rates are VERY high in burglary. And a person who hasn't burgled is relative unlikely to commit a home burglary even if the opportunity presents. Some neighborhoods without repeaters here all leave their doors unlocked. I grew u
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
But it misses the larger context which is that Swiss are proactive in trying to reduce crime through many approaches. They use many automated tools, hotspot mapping etc. The article even mentions they use something like 20 tools. As a resul
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Ha. The swiss had something like 50 murders TOTAL of which only 3 were unsolved. That's something like 0.5 per 100,000? The USA is probably an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE higher? The solve rates for crimes in the USA is horrendous - something l
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
This exactly, and I'd add another thing - online only communities can become dominated by the folks with the absolute strongest feelings / opinions. Most offensive or most offended, most absolute in their thinking. It tends to dri
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
AMD has had a GREAT story with their socket - the length it has been supported is incredible. I hope they keep that up and don't confuse ryzen parts with nonsocket compatible parts.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I drove for uber BRIEFLY (horrible company for other reasons). This whole it costs 60 cents per mile to drive a car in the US is total garbage. Seriously, these are rich folks driving new mercedes I think. Folks driving for shipt are not dr
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
It's says target gig workers will strike - no qualification or limitation whatsoever. When fords union employees went on strike, they virtually all were on strike as well. Is the headline really 99.5% of target gig workers do not go on
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
How many processors really will be shipping with dual avx-512. I thought his complaint was in part around the fragmentation here. Cloudflare had complaints as well. Even if you just have a fraction of your code running 512, you take a big h
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Doesn't avx-512 crush the clock. Then they still spec using the non avx-512 clock speeds for floating point somehow. I always felt there was game playing here.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Wow - this is big news IF TRUE. Shipt has something like 100k shoppers, the fact that they are going on strike is HUGE - it's so hard to organize a group of 100,000. One thing that I think is better about shipt vs uber etc. YOU get to
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
22 CV's. Anyone doing hiring would love if their life only involved 22 cv's. I'd interview half of them :) If you hire regularly at least in some fields, the total flood of cv's is a bit crazy (obviously something is scr

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