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by throwaway201606 3y ago
The "curation is an great addition to value" argument is certainly a powerful one. I agree with the position that it makes sense to pay for a selection of writing (or other content) that someone, who truly deeply understands their
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
Amen To me, this looks like an example of those ads that look like this edit ( tried to do a text table right on here but it got really messed up in the page display) here is a screenshot of the effort https://imgur.com/a&#x
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
100% this: part of this crew. I have, over the course of my career, found that the teams that tend to do this are pure-SQL teams ie in DB developers who spend all their time writing - and more importantly - reading SQL. Doing this actually
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
The real issue is reputation risk. Banks do not want to be in the news because they put someone on the street because of $100 or $500 or $1000 - the reputation cost is just too high. Further, most banks will not sell debt under a certain am
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
OK, finally found the key words that let Google point me to the comment with Mr. Kapur's response giving a fuller explanation of what happened. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2567290/no-more-bull.a...
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
Jumping in here since this has floated to to the top and I responded to a similar comment below. Felt strongly enough about this that I actually took the time up write an actual literal paper letter (or maybe an email, don't remember..
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
felt strongly enough about this that I sent them an actual literal paper letter (or maybe an email, don't remember....) back in 2004 to ask the question. The question was asked in the magazine and the answer by Mr. Kapur was published
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
All can be fully viable, very profitable, very large independent businesses. Android Based on information obtained by Oracle in a lawsuit, Android had, as of 2010-ish, generated $31bn for google https://www.androidauthority.com&#
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
Tom Kyte, who for a long time was the "ambassador to the world" for Oracle, makes essentially the same arguments https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUEST... For data that will either
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by throwaway201606 4y ago
Stephen Wolfram actually wrote a fantastic piece in January about what Wolfram Alpha how it can be used to bring factual / analytical capability to ChatGPT https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframal
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by throwaway201606 4y ago
This is a really good answer i would also like to add that modelling in credit risk is not just about yes / no answers around loan outcomes. There are lots of other goals that are regularly modelled such as default rates, profit optimi
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by throwaway201606 4y ago
This is an interesting thread TL;DR: My primary goal in writing this is to connect with the audience of hiring managers who receive applications from candidates at banks My goal is to convince you that 1 bit of info - that a resume is from
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by throwaway201606 5y ago
Actually, it seems that this did go into production - you can now verify identity using the service. For example, you can identify yourself for Govt. of Canada services (immigration, taxes) by logging into to your banking platform that then
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by throwaway201606 5y ago
The ship is a luxury cruise liner: the article, somewhere close to the bottom, says "Pricing for the 7-day cruise starts at $5,600 per person" that 'starts" in the last part is kinda-important ... I took a look and they
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by throwaway201606 6y ago
> What do companies stand to gain from hiring ethics researchers who are a liability to the shareholders? Trying to tackle both questions at once: this is a viable trend and companies do stand to gain. If the market is saying that you ha
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by throwaway201606 6y ago
That idea that activists (in corp) don't constitute a tribe in an interesting opinion - one that I actually sorta-subscribe to. I frame it in terms of acculturation vs. assimilation. You have to decide what your corp. policy is and mak
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by throwaway201606 6y ago
I wish I had more upvotes to give for this comment. It gave me multiple upsights about how to clean up my approach thinking about the issues here: + framing an analogy using technology governance functions - whose functions and values can b
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by throwaway201606 6y ago
[ edited to address a ton of grammatical and formatting mistakes ] Lots of comments about how Dave Chapelle presents his position and the context in which he presents his position. The emotion quality of it all. The is very little commentar
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by throwaway201606 6y ago
Posting this, not to be confrontational but to share info. https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1326255584069513220 This is a piece on GPS ( a CNN show ) where Fareed Zakaria lays out a potential election endg
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
So, you leave me conflicted.. ... on the one hand, I want to yell "Strawman!" "Strawman!" "Come out and see the Strawman!" from the hills but I do not want to come off as aggressive or preaching ... The point y
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
>> When I was at Capital One, I wanted to understand if it was possible to keep loans as an option for the people who have exhausted all their better alternatives—without also causing suffering for those who would be better off forgoi
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
Thank you, much appreciated.
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
So, am coming back, more than a little humbled... This security story from Canada came out Friday https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/scotiabank_code_git... am with an FI (financial institution) in the g
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain this: it does indeed seem clear that they are just doing username and password detection for access. A followup question: I have lived in Europe and have accounts in banks in Ireland. For those accounts
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain that, much appreciated. I was not aware about the epistemology / philosophical implications of the "it's magic" comment. I took the literally reading of your comment. Can you point m
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I get the math and the idea that one password can have all combinations hashed in 161 days for this specific scenario - which is a 6-8 char password that does not allow non-alpha-numerics. I do th
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
Am confused here, is there something I am missing ? Brute-forcing bcrypt-hashed passwords on GPUs has a ridiculously low success rate even on most commonly used password data sets. Failure rate on passwords outside the most commonly used li
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
I mentioned signals in another comment in this chain and this is a scenario (for banking specifically) where it makes 100% x 100% sense to kill the session for the client's security. Like kill it totally totally dead! Unlike other apps
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
"What's odd to me about this post and all of the responses in this thread so far is that everyone is only thinking about password length as a way to defend against online bruting attempts when in reality long passwords mostly serv
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by throwaway201606 7y ago
For the really large banks: $XYYMM (i.e. hundreds of million dollars aka the cost of doing business) across all lines of business. All this is mostly public info as it has to go into financials, you can find it under "Operational Losse

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