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by vivegi 3y ago
The digital payments infrastructure in India has done more to bring more people into the banking system than what was possible earlier. It is pervasive, ubiquitous and very user friendly. This is all thanks to the mobile data revolution ush
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by vivegi 3y ago
> UPI has no dispute resolution (as of now) Not true. [1] [1]: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/dispute-redressal-mec...
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by vivegi 3y ago
Airlines (and many other industries like hospitality) have been charging dynamic pricing based on customer segmentation for a very long time. I guess we draw the line of indignation when segmenting customers by OS/device. /s
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is creative. I'll give the writer that. Can't say I have the stomach for such a grueling travel schedule and I have done my share of frequent travels, including intercontinental long-hauls. Nevertheless, it solved a problem for
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by vivegi 3y ago
Just tried the following prompt on Bing Chat. > generate an image of the face of michael jackson in the style of Andy Warhol painting of Prince It obliged with 4 variations [1]. I wonder how the legal system views this. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by vivegi 3y ago
There probably needs to be a database of such bans faced by independent app developers by the platform app stores on the lines of the public CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) database. Over time, it should act as a reliable source
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by vivegi 3y ago
The obligatory "This is not a pipe" reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
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by vivegi 3y ago
I can write code in C and consume it in C++ (through extern "C"). I can write code in C++ and consume it in C (through extern "C" again). C and C++ each have their own language idioms, just like other programming languag
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by vivegi 3y ago
Try Malgova (malgoa, malgoba) variety. It is a Southern India special variety. Pulpy, meaty and sweet. Has a distinctive taste. Comedian Romesh Ranganathan did a bit on Alphonso mangoes and Indians, I think it streams on Netflix. Just my op
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by vivegi 3y ago
I used to have a blog on blogger that I posted to between 2010 and 2012. It was the only Google account I ever used. I stopped blogging after that. Never logged into Google either. The last time I tried logging into blogger was several year
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by vivegi 3y ago
So, you would prohibit constructs like key person insurance [1] or cyber insurance [2] that have clauses for settling ransom payment claims for kidnaps or extortion after a data breach? These already exist. [1]: https://www.trave
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is too early to regulate. Let them first enforce existing regulation around the blatant unauthorized use of data (such as the creative output of artists, programmers etc.,) without explicit consent. For example, just like how the US Libr
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by vivegi 3y ago
Demanding a ransom is criminal. Paying a ransom should be a business decision. There are already many business constructs such as key man insurance, cybercrime insurance etc., that are b2b contractual agreements to protect against such loss
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by vivegi 3y ago
The early 2000s era Nokia feature phones that were extremely popular in India had an FM tuner. It was a killer feature and I have seen people young and old playing the radio on their phone with the speakerphone turned on. Others might have
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by vivegi 3y ago
That's a big assumption. If dollar payments to settle intl trade is interrupted, the consumption growth of goods and services in the US will stop and begin falling. The trading partners have been servicing this consumption growth for s
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by vivegi 3y ago
Are you using a rolling hash (such as the one employed in Rabin-Karp string search algorithm)? You can then store the hash at check points and the intermediate hashes between checkpoints can be regenerated using the rolling hash. +[h1]
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by vivegi 3y ago
Except for the fact that if the Fed is taken to court for dishonoring a paymrnt order, the impact on the confidence of the dollar as a reserve currency and the psyche of all dollar bond-holders' faith in the redemption value of their b
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by vivegi 3y ago
Not sure if the following cases offer precedents. Obviously, the Federal Govt enjoys additional legal powers, but these cases offer the circumstances where a party sued their derivatives trader (the opposite of the questions you raise). Pro
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by vivegi 3y ago
The web already cracked the distribution problem. Javascript on the browser was the only choice for your frontend code , however, WASM is already shipping on all current browsers except IE and Opera Mini (which is a miniscule percentage of
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by vivegi 3y ago
I was responding to the diamond-types CRDT author's question in the parent comment. Their github project page [1] mentions text editing a lot: > This repository contains a high performance rust CRDT for text editing. This is a speci
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by vivegi 3y ago
I agree. The "AKS paper" or "AKS primality test" or "AKS PRIMES in P" paper is a good example of the recall value of human names/initials. The initials are alphabetical order (of last names) and it provide
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by vivegi 3y ago
Thanks. So, the consequence is that browser vendors and other who utilize CT should ignore this log and use whatever is stood up as its replacement. That makes sense.
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by vivegi 3y ago
> 1. We don’t want to store a hash for every keystroke a user makes. So, why does it have to be every keystroke? We can batch them locally. An approximate rule of thumb to use to guide the batching is typing speed. Using 200 keystrokes&#
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by vivegi 3y ago
Small optimized container image sizes is one of the reasons. alpine image is ~5 MB. [1] clearlinux image is ~80 MB. [2] [1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine [2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/c
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by vivegi 3y ago
I have no knowledge of how the CAs maintain the CT logs. What is the process for a CA to rebuild the CT log, if one exists? Is it something like what is illustrated below? Let CA1, CA2, CA3 and CA4 be different certificate authorities. Th
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by vivegi 3y ago
Reminds me of the boo Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell -- We feel like we have to come up with a reason why we came up with an answer (paraphrasing)
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by vivegi 3y ago
They are trying to solve a systemic issue of how credit is given/shared in academia/research with bad typography. My gripe with their proposal is, if I print a research paper, then the author information is just useless for lookin
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by vivegi 3y ago
I think you just need - Continue Watching (1 row) - My list (2 - 3 rows) - Discover (1 row) - this can also update with the "What's new" content and algorithmic recommendations and a very efficient search interface
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yeah, right. Wait until the day when iOS App Store infra keys leak. Oh no! That will never happen. Because it runs on Apple M1 kryptonite chip that even Superman can't touch. /s
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by vivegi 3y ago
First impressions: This is quite nice and useful for design prototyping.

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