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by zhte415 7y ago
> WFOE cannot sell directly to Chinese consumers. Well, I can open up a sandwich shop. A foreign owned entity will indeed probably get scrutiny. A couple of friends have shops selling sandwiches (one toasted, one pizza type). They are
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by zhte415 7y ago
WFOEs can sell to Chinese businesses, consumers, government (and they can sell overseas, and overseas companies can sell to WFOEs or domestically). There's a lot of circularity in your comment. A company can be wholly foreign owned. A
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by zhte415 7y ago
> foreigners cannot own the majority of ANY company. This is incorrect, and has not been the case for a very long time, please don't spread FUD. Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whol
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by zhte415 7y ago
In this case, it was not losing data, but losing access to data. The data was eventually restored. Lose customers' data could also mean losing the backup: "We're sorry, the tape that we didn't needed to keep has been l
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by zhte415 7y ago
This is probably worth it's own post, it would be very interesting to see more detail. I'm also probably certain that this is also not exclusive to DO.
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I don't know the data you're holding. If it is sensitive data, like customer anything, would it infact make sense not to have offsite backup? Reasoning: Your contract with Amazon promises durability and I'm sure there&#x2
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by zhte415 7y ago
[0] Indeed, 'branch' is the correct term. For retail business 'branch' is the bricks and mortar space you see on a high streets for retail customers including SMEs, and for institutional 'branch' is usually he
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In the enterprise world, isn't the problem that unmaintainable software doesn't get scrapped, because it's so embedded at the core of the organisation, and maintenance snowballs. I'm thinking of sprawling ERP systems an
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I remember for Maths, Further Maths and Computing A-Levels typing in mini programs for everything into my TI-85, from stats to bubble sort or curvature. It took so long typing that on a numerical keypad I could remember everything and no l
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by zhte415 7y ago
Pick-up on last drop-off. Like glass milk bottles.
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Could it be easier to change the name of the product?
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No content of value.
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Very related HN posting from 7 months ago on the supplementation of white rice (with curry): How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition. HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18305211 Linked article: https:&#x2
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by zhte415 7y ago
> Any regulation requires more work Thinking about what you do and how you do it is probably not a bad thing.
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Send an email to yourself? CC your accountant/company secretary.
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by zhte415 7y ago
> the future holds a merger of tech with business Completely agree. And regulators are pushing for this. When.. in retail and SME banking and financial services the future is here, in Europe, but has yet to gain traction and public tru
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by zhte415 7y ago
Very good point.
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by zhte415 7y ago
I don't know what 1.whatever is. Yes, I've worked for supercorps, mainly financials, and I have a responsibility to ensure customer and employee data are managed responsibly. It is important to escalate what doesn't seem rig
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Right. I'm 'business' and the split 'business' vs 'tech' should not be there. I'm sure we've both seen terrible things, these are reinforced by organisational constructs. Escalate escalate esc
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The organisation should have a data retention policy.
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> In short, in the middle of the workflow, customers journals was written to CD and mailed to physicians. Encryption? Eh, no... Any process in place to ensure safe keeping and return/destruction? Uh, forget about it... That's a
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by zhte415 7y ago
I think you're correct, that these will become more common. A couple of years ago I was chatting with friends who were doing APIs, because of market/regulatory pressure EU's PSD2, exporting JSON of transactions using COBOL f
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by zhte415 7y ago
Yes I do but I wish I didn't keep it so haphazard. By haphazard I mean to focus not only on acquisition but reflection / contemplation: Collecting thoughts is one thing, putting them together into a cohesive and coherent body of
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by zhte415 7y ago
This is excellent advice. You might not be able to write on, for example, a passport taking a photo of, but can certainly put a postit note-type sticker on it.
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A lot of discussion on technical side, but not from organisational. How could audit, both internal and external, not find this? 2003 to today is 16 years. Audit is a last line of defence and certainly not to be relied on upon as a buddy t
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by zhte415 7y ago
"Security by obscurity is no form of security." That's been bouncing around at least since the time I noticed it on /. Which was a couple of decades ago.
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I hope your comment is satire. If not, the wumaos are doing a good job on HN.
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Given that almost nobody in the UK has any form of ID on them at any given time, and certainly nothing a restaurant can verify, it seems this as an entrance policy may be hurting the restaurant's business. Where was it? I've nev
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by zhte415 7y ago
A round trip or two on the circle line was not very popular, but popular enough, for cohorts of bankers sleeping the night or lunch off. I never did it myself.

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