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by twelve40 2y ago
great question! probably historical reasons: * computers have always been "rootable", so the banks can't do anything about that * phones work with "apps", which are viewed as more dangerous than websites. So they ca
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by twelve40 2y ago
Yep. A few simple steps like an extra SMS (or email) code to add a recipient, an email notifying about the change, not perfect, but will make this harder to pull off. Not sure what is '"pay anyone" payee', i don't t
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by twelve40 2y ago
wrong thread? you need to reply above for the stereotype.
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by twelve40 2y ago
> stop growing so many people lol they did just that. China is not "growing so many people" anymore, and neither is India, really. I suppose they could cull some of the previously grown people to get under 5 million like Albert
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by twelve40 2y ago
Indeed, one of the more nonsensical threads i've seen. Alberta farts rainbows because it doesn't make anything and nobody lives there. USA imports oil from KSA enabling KSA to do whatever the hell KSA feels like doing, all the whi
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by twelve40 2y ago
they may not care for making it too public, might be mostly an internal cost-cutting measure
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by twelve40 2y ago
it's explained pretty well in their blog post in another thread. They have a whitelist of bots catergorized by type, and ban everything else. How easy it is to spoof (just the UA, or UA+IP whatever) is not mentioned.
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by twelve40 2y ago
They'll just get you through common crawl or something else innocent-looking. The urge to milk everyone's content to the last penny is just too great.
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by twelve40 2y ago
Same as performance, or any other aspect of basic engineering competency. Product, or business, will never tell you, "don't use this query for this feature because it won't scale". As an engineer, you can take a shortcut
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by twelve40 2y ago
This is the best present ever to everyone else in the world who is buying DJI drones by the thousands right now.
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by twelve40 3y ago
surely people who were stuffing their face at MCD are not going to switch to fresh cilantro and belpeppers and cooking every day. More like TV dinners and frozen hash browns. At any rate, slime mold had tons of links to how people are actua
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by twelve40 3y ago
it feels terrible when incompetent people take over and start pissing away our money, essentially holding whatever defense concern they managed to monopolize as a hostage. So that part to me is very depressing. My bigger point was that this
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by twelve40 3y ago
Yes, it seems they are following the large defense dinosaurs of the past into this perpetual too-big-to-fail mode of milking the public for free money. However, we've found ways before to push some things back into the private sector,
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by twelve40 3y ago
according to your own numbers, 64% of the Dutch don't use bicycle as their most frequent mode of transport. Meaning that bicycling doesn't work for the majority of population even when it is made a national priority. I'm all
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by twelve40 3y ago
they don't; it's just not practical. You have to be relatively fit and energetic to do it every day, have no chores like kids pickup, have extra time on your hands, the weather has to be perfect - no rain or god forbid snow. This
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by twelve40 3y ago
good, finally someone with PR clout is calling out the massive theft that happened. During their AI land grab "Open"AI conveniently ignored opt-in, out-out, revshare and other norms and civilized rules followed elsewhere.
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by twelve40 3y ago
> factor in what people pay here for healthcare premiums you've accounted for most of the difference in salary 10x means 90% difference, all consumed by the more expensive healthcare? That's like one order of magnitude wrong. &
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by twelve40 3y ago
unfortunately that's not all, my coworkers in all of the last N places have been conditioned to treat you as an evasive hostile psychopath if you don't respond to their DMs within minutes.
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by twelve40 3y ago
so many screens of text and not one mention of slack, which is the real productivity killer. Something that no amount of doors or offices can protect against.
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by twelve40 3y ago
What i find remarkable is that this place is frozen 8 months out of a year. It takes some special skills just to stay alive there. It's pretty remarkable they found a way to keep themselves heated 24/7 and thrive in that weather 8
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by twelve40 3y ago
steppe people's fortress located in the snow forest?
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by twelve40 3y ago
You're right in that it probably would be nice to have a civilized opt-out button like Google. But that's not hard to add (especially hypothetically if this site becomes successful). In my mind, total opposite of OpenAI thieving b
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by twelve40 3y ago
hm in this case, he is driving business to these websites. Quite the opposite from OpenAI and scrapers you are talking about, no?
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by twelve40 3y ago
I don't buy this "WFH makes downtowns drug-ridden war zones" dichotomy. I've been to downtown Portland before Covid, and it was pretty repulsive, just like SF. Sure, it has deteriorated in both places since, but that was
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by twelve40 3y ago
> i'm pretty sure that's only a legit business model in the usa lolwut? i haven't gotten a single camera-based ticket, ever - many decades of driving in the US - unlike say Italy where every time i drive (about once in 5
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by twelve40 3y ago
...but if you use the word "extremely" enough times maybe everyone will finally see that they just can't exist without 100000 programmers </s>
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by twelve40 3y ago
I'm not really sure what "succumbed to modernity" means in this context. World life expectancy went from 46 years in 1950 to 72.63 in 2020 to 73.16 in 2023. Is that the right metric to look at? If it is, succumbing to moderni
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by twelve40 3y ago
I've never heard of the Hunza and kind of suspected that these "older people in traditional cultures" sounds too good to be true, and sure enough: > A widely repeated claim of remarkable longevity of the Hunza people has b
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by twelve40 3y ago
I think maybe instead of loyalty just some appreciation for the things that were good. Otherwise easy to turn to this toxic Blind-style cynicism, that never sat right with ne.
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by twelve40 3y ago
I've dealt with someone like that once but if they are any good they will never sit around and wait for 6 months. That person hustled very hard, cycled through several upwork teams and CTOs. through ruthless arm twisting kept all the c

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