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by zxcmx 8y ago
As an investor, why would I invest in a non-profit with difficult-to-game metrics... Because juking the stats or a bit of weaselling in the way goals are stated is way easier and more reliable than building things or say, achieving actual h
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Google “branded debit cards program”. It’s a bit like starting a virtual telco. You usually work with a white-label reseller who in turn has relationships with {banks, carriers} respectively. The reseller has a platform and network hookups
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by zxcmx 8y ago
“you must have the correct tool” vs “if you have to, you can open this with a butter knife from the kitchen drawer”. They’ve both got their place IMHO and vive-la-difference :)
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Yeah, have kicked this idea around before; “everstore”. The cost would initially be ridiculous, on the order of say $100/gb or $200/gb to have data stored “forever”. The interest on the money paid plus lowering cost of storage mea
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Actually, the software to do this kind of thing was actually what Mitnick was after! It would be laughably easy by today’s standards. Cloning AMPs phones (with ESN/MIN from “trashing” and bootleg Motorola service software) was within t
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I think if he had been older when he made that comment it would have been more interesting. Personally I just read it as “young person pretty sure that young people are smarter”.
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I didn’t go hungry but I didn’t feel like I was getting ahead. I felt like assets and capital were getting returns, like my cost of living was going up but my wages weren’t. I left (not Germany and not to the U.S). People already well off w
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by zxcmx 8y ago
You just keep asking “why” until you hit axioms. In a dictionary, all the words are defined by other words. Observe that all experience is subjective, anyone can have any set of axioms they like and “voila”, there can be no “objective” trut
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Yeah I tried to argue over several edits that people seem less objective about their own pain or hunger but realised I backed myself into a corner :)
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I am reminded of the “brick in the face” argument against solopsism. Tell me whack more about your whack frame of reference... I see postmodernism and extreme relativism as a sort of awesome stage of society where we get to make up real
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I found that autogeneration rarely worked well unless the client and the server were using the same tooling. The monstrous flexibility of xml and soap meant that in practice every soap server interface I had to consume had some quirk or i
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by zxcmx 8y ago
What you might not realise is that the author of a commit is not related to the (authenticated) user who pushes. You couldn’t merge changes from multiple people otherwise. Signed commits do fix this although you have to be careful about you
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by zxcmx 8y ago
This is the major reason I have seen startups apply for patents. Pure signalling value. Lots of companies patent complete bunk, and I’ve never seen anyone get called on it. It seems like investors don’t really read them. I have also seen co
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by zxcmx 8y ago
It’s against the law in New Zealand for example. You may restrain a child for their safety but the use of force for “parental correction” is treated as assault and can be prosecuted. The police are encouraged to apply discretion.
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I’m going to assume you are talking about retail since you describe card-present transactions. Retail is hard. Surprisingly genuinely hard. When you have hundreds or thousands of outlets, some of them are special, you have wacky hardware, s
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I think part of the difference in perspective is that many people would say that it didn’t matter who the CEO was; Nokia didn’t have the DNA to do smartphones. In the same way that Motorola didn’t. I think any possible governance issues are
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Grid companies are tricky because there’s no market there. It is almost the textbook definition of a natural monopoly. You’re either hooked up or you’re not. Or you run multiple “grids” somehow which seems more economically wasteful and is
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by zxcmx 8y ago
There is a nearly-as-simple solution involving lambda (which would not require running a kafka cluster) but meh.
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by zxcmx 8y ago
The film “zero days” is an entertaining take on exactly this subject.
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by zxcmx 8y ago
If it costs 2 or 3k a year your MSSP is probably not spending more than a few minutes a year understanding your logs. Realistically at that price the most likely number is zero minutes. There is room in the industry for players that aggrega
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Agreed re: complexity, the motivation behind the heavier service meshes (not necessarily cilium per se) is that it's a bit like AOP (aspect oriented programming) applied at the service level. Different orgs work at different scales and
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by zxcmx 8y ago
I think this is tricky because as soon as you shut down the obvious stuff (ok, dead babies...) you will quickly arrive at barely or non provable stuff, acai berry level things, and medical claims (fructose intolerance! real thing btw!) whic
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by zxcmx 8y ago
One thing that might tip the balance in 2018: there's a growing familiarity and body of open source knowledge now around fpga signal processing among the sdr community. There are now a lot of well documented open source fpga-based da
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by zxcmx 8y ago
The upside is that your business is not totally transparent to outsiders who can figure out how many users, carts, products and messages you are adding each month.
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by zxcmx 8y ago
This would be an interesting post if you mentioned what you were doing 100 million times per second. How tangled are your writes? What are your consistency requirements? 100 million set operations per second is not the same as 100 million
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by zxcmx 8y ago
Legal issues. Who owns the content? There is no real legal basis for a right to mirror, despite how it feels from a techy point of view.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Also you can have interesting rendering possibilities like in-line display of images, charts, tables. Longer-term: new generation of command-line tools with different ux paradigms for interactive use? Like, <3 TERM=linux and "everyt
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Confirming have seen this play out before on a smaller scale. Some call it the sunk cost fallacy... but actually when someone has invested enough money in you, you actually get leverage over them when the alternative is a smoking crater w
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by zxcmx 9y ago
You will find it hard to unearth genuine evidence to either support or disprove this hypothesis. Got anything against? Usually you will find the data you might want is "not collected". It is not in anyone's interest to figure
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yep, but if you have analytics (or like 20 different analytics providers!) then you should include the warning. That is most sites now, so cookie warning fatigue sets in. I think the law was well intentioned, but it didn't quite manage

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