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by venantius 8y ago
Someone tries to take over my Google account at least once a quarter. They haven't succeeded yet, but woof - it would really, really suck if they did.
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by venantius 8y ago
Given the diligence with which the attacker worked on Sony via social engineering to gain access to the account, what on earth makes you think the same technique wouldn't work just as well for a telecom company? You don't need to
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by venantius 8y ago
By authoring private structs with public constructors, you can get what you want out of this. Gets a bit messy with testing, but not impossible.
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by venantius 8y ago
One thing that I consider to be a really important part of a senior engineer's job that's not enumerated here is: helping more junior engineers come up with estimates for difficulty and time on projects they're about to under
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by venantius 8y ago
Better transit would go a long way, it's true. But for reasons we haven't really been able to diagnose, building new transit infrastructure -- any big infrastructure projects, really -- has become ludicrously expensive in the US.
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by venantius 8y ago
It has been pointed out previously that BART's infrastructure was totally reasonable...for the original level of growth the city assumed it would face. Meanwhile, SF's actual population growth has exceeded that to a considerable d
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by venantius 8y ago
Griffin | Full-stack or Backend Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE | London, UK | https://griffin.sh We're rapidly moving towards a world in which people get most of their financial services from non-bank fintechs than they do f
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by venantius 8y ago
The 1% refers to a specific sub-segment of the overall capital requirements. This would be on top of any normal Basel III requirements and is typically marked as a "discretionary" capital buffer to be set by the state in question.
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by venantius 8y ago
It's possible but pretty unlikely. The capital buffers being introduced are about 1% of Danish banks' balance sheets, and it's likely that the capital buffer for this was previously non-zero (e.g. likely 0.25% or 0.5%). So an
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by venantius 8y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, this article doesn't really talk about why they picked Clojure beyond one or two superficial reasons.
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by venantius 8y ago
Ah, missed that.
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by venantius 8y ago
Reminds me significantly of (and probably draws inspiration from) "The Gervais Principle"[1] [1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by venantius 8y ago
Well, in the past we (a) died younger and (b) burned a lot of things for heat. I'd argue that literally nobody wants to go back to (a), and if every household in the world was still burnings a stove to stay warm we'd have an even
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by venantius 8y ago
This might work for you, but I'd say in general this sounds like a fairly unhealthy workplace. Poor engineering practices (when exactly do the tests get written if not day by day?) and negative co-workers? You have to distrust someone
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by venantius 8y ago
I don't think of this as a hedge; rather, it's saying "look what I was able to do in my spare time!"
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by venantius 8y ago
I think you're missing the point. It's not about MZ's motivations or even how FB thinks about things internally. It's about the perception by significant numbers of people - and, critically, their elected representatives
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by venantius 8y ago
Well, it helped that doing anything other than lying on my back triggered absolutely massive waves of pain. So I didn't really have a choice. I recommend taking a sleep aid beforehand and following all the usual advice for insomnia - a
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by venantius 8y ago
I had to learn how to do this a number of years ago due to a severe spine injury. What I've found helps is having a large-ish but very soft pillow that accommodates my head lying to one side or another while I'm sleeping on my bac
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by venantius 8y ago
I signed up for this a few years ago when I was working for a larger company. It was full of people using the anonymity to be very petty. I deleted my account without posting anything.
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by venantius 8y ago
More details in profile - https://griffin.sh
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by venantius 8y ago
Broken how? I got a bunch of signup pings off this thread - Bug report welcome founders@griffin.sh
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by venantius 8y ago
Ah I hadn’t heard that. If that’s the case then I agree 100%
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by venantius 8y ago
In fairness to him, the OCC (the national banking regulator in the US) has had a practical moratorium on new national bank licenses for most of the past 10 years. You can get a new state bank charter, but not a national one. I can't bl
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by venantius 8y ago
I can't tell if this comment is in jest or not, but we actually are starting a bank in the UK to be a platform bank for fintechs across Europe and beyond. Happy to chat.
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by venantius 8y ago
Certainly possible now that the OCC has opened the door to a "fintech banking charter". In the past I'd have said this was impossible as Stripe has little interest in finding itself regulated as a bank or in becoming a bank h
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by venantius 8y ago
In Europe, PSD2 and the Open Banking initiatives provide this. All retail and commercial banks are required to provide open APIs to Account Information Service Providers or Payment Initiation Service Providers (the former being read-only, t
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by venantius 8y ago
Fundamentally, banks are scale businesses (much like most technology companies). Expensive to start, but once you've got the product / regulatory infrastructure in place your marginal revenue is really low-cost.
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by venantius 8y ago
We've actually started a new bank explicitly to provide the banking infrastructure to companies like this that are good at owning the UX advantage. Our conviction is that in the long term banks will be disintermediated from most of the
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by venantius 8y ago
Also check out Griffin: https://griffin.sh
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Revolut reports suspected money laundering on its systems(ft.com)
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