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by valdiorn 4y ago
Fyi TV detector vans are essentially fearmongering by the government. A freedom of information request recently revealed not a single prosecution has been generated from the use of those vans since the project's alleged start in the ea
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> If you can reroute SMS auth codes, it's game over. Except it's absolutely trivial to do so, just bribe a low ranking employee of the phone company, and it's done. This has been done thousands/millions of times, usua
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When I was looking at machining in China (I built some aluminium guitar prototypes) the cost between European fabricators and China wasn't just significant - it was an order of magnitude. I got a handful of absolutely impeccable protot
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They've done well in the pharma industry recently, but it's their one major success.
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The funny thing is, if someone actually has the guts to tell Ryan "Hey you know that thing you insist we do? It's costing us $Y every year. Do you still want it?". The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that&#x2
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by valdiorn 4y ago
You're way, way better off finding a small outfit of motivated people to join if you want to work in this field. Success rate for newly formed hedge funds is probably something like 50% over a 5 year horizon. For solo traders, it'
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by valdiorn 4y ago
How is signing away your "voiceprint" to be used for automatic speech generation any different than people recording lines for national transport systems, for example? They spend a couple of weeks in a recording booth, recording e
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What the f? It costs 75 bucks to do a wire transfer in the US? I pay 4 pounds per SWIFT transfer, and I thought THAT was a ripoff...
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That IS google-fu :)
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Which means you need google-fu skills to know how to coerce it into doing what you actually want.
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This is starting to sound eerily similar to that BoJack Horseman plotline, where he won an Oscar for a movie he never acted in, because he signed away his likeness and the director just used a 3d model of him because he was always too drunk
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by valdiorn 4y ago
That won't be true pretty soon. It's currently not true for image generation.
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Indeed, I was very grateful for the honesty, because the roles otherwise seemed very exciting. However, the moment someone would've announced that this was the reality of the situation I'd have walked out the door, because that is
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That is a fault of their own systems, not the system I live within. If people in Venezuela want to use bitcoin, they can go ahead. That doesn't mean we should embrace is in the Western world. It's a net negative for us.
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Crypto absolutely has value, and the price of Bitcoin will never go to zero. NFTs are useful. That's because the value these things provide is money-laundering, bypassing of international financial regulations and tax fraud. Yeah that&
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by valdiorn 4y ago
This is not my traditional understanding of the word "skeuomorphic" but it does seem to be consistent with the dictionary definition. Generally, skeuomorphism has been applied to designs which imitate physical objects and the way
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by valdiorn 4y ago
I'm a developer in a quant role, and basically every job I've looked at in this market has similar requirements. See my other comment in this thread about the absurd support burden at XTX markets. I was at Man AHL for 5 years afte
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Parent poster explained this very poorly, but it's not as simple as "office hours are x to y". You are responsible for a trading system that's turning over hundreds of millions a day. If you're not in the office by
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by valdiorn 4y ago
I worked for the G company I'm assuming you're referring to :) I left because of the insane paranoid culture. I do however share the same sentiment as the parent poster - I interviewed for XTX for a c++ role when I quit and during
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UK based software engineer - never seen anything other than 3 month notices. My wife was on 1 month when she was a junior data scientist but moved to 3 months 6 months later as she was promoted. It was the same in Iceland where I'm ori
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If there's anything we could actually call "institutionalised racism", I think tipping culture fits the bill. It's a system literally implemented because a large portion of society didn't want to pay black people wa
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??? the UK looooves paypal, both before and after brexit. I love paypal, and I live in the UK. Paypal is essentially the default checkout option on most websites, and supported pretty much everywhere. It is very, very handy as a consumer, b
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by valdiorn 4y ago
definitely get it on record with the police, but you must realise that the police will do fuck-all about it until it escalates into something much more serious, and often, it's too late at that point. Taking matters into your own hands
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by valdiorn 4y ago
How is it "rent seeking" to state the fact that Alphabet has too many employees, and is overpaying them. It's been a continuing meme on hacker news for the last decade, that Google/alphabet hoover up all the talent in th
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by valdiorn 4y ago
> wow. the hubris and inhumanity It's a business, not a charity. They have absolutely no obligation to keep tens of thousands of overpaid people on their payroll. It's not like we're talking about abused minimum-wage worke
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If they had to relearn their craft because they changed tools, they weren't very skilled to start with. You've drawn the wrong conclusion here. And yes, I hopped off the .net train after 15 years of using c# and took a job writing
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> This is about clamping down on civilian rights to control the internet and indeed, civilian ability to communicate freely. You're giving them way too much credit. MPs are not evil geniuses, they're highly motivated self absor
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Define your damn acronyms. I read the entire article and I STILL don't know what LLM means.
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> If YouTube is using AI then why is it so demonstrably, phenomenally bad at learning X means NO; Because unfortunately most users are not consistent in their choices. They might say that they don't like shorts of teenagers doing
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What's funny is that 8 or so years ago, stripe was the knight in shining armour that came to free.us from the clutches of PayPal and company. They used to be the good guys, the ones who you could call and talk to. I wonder if every com

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