ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Single PG node can handle easily I think that's exactly what people are asking for. A single PG node (or even a shared node) managed and monitored by competent people for a "hobbyist" price. You start your project on tha
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> if banks only loaned for the rate of return of a job, we'd have engineers and no one else. But is it really worse than the current situation - where people borrow to study something enlightening but economically questionable, and
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
I'm not sure why you are so upset by my comment. Of course I can figure out the misleading advertising from property developers, it's common knowledge and has been going on for decades. If I become interested in buying a place one
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> why is there such outrage about taxing option and RSU income? There is no outrage, or even opposition to taxing income from selling options and RSUs. The problem arises because in some situations options and RSUs are considered "i
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
High-end apartments is still more housing. People moving into the high-end apartments will leave some other, perhaps cheaper apartments free.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Property developers in the city where I live are deliberately deceptive about this. They buy a large plot of land near the coastline, build condos on the far land side of it, and sell the condos advertising "bay views". Once the f
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The hardest part might be noticing in the first place that your FaceID model has drifted away from only your face.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> I don't have to backport all the stuff to older releases. My own policy is that any previous release will receive security patches Besides it being easier, isn't not porting feature patches the entire point of Long Term Sup
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Estonian ID card uses 2048 byte keys which means generating a private key from a public key takes 140.8 CPU years To clarify, 2048 bit RSA keys are fine. But the smartcard that generates these used a too predictable algorithm for gener
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Estonian business climate and taxes are attractive, and it's possible to handle the paperwork almost remotely. But in the end it does not matter. If you live and run your business from country X, then that country is going to treat you
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
But you need to get the "id as whatever" first. Let's say you get the id from a HTML form as a string, and want to pass it to the library. Do you need to first convert it to an int? A uuid.UUID object? A custom ID class in th
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
In the US, the Social Security Number is widely regarded as a "secret password". Not as an identifier, but authentication credentials. If you know the SSN and a few other personal details (like address and phone number), you are a
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The "problem" with SEO and adwords consultants is that the good ones would be working for the most lucrative verticals: insurance, consumer finance, medical lawsuits, etc. If your small SaaS business can afford to hire them, then
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> AMA was intentionally focused and the mods were asked to enforce question rules I don't think the mods had to be even asked to do it. The AMA was posted in /r/space, and widely advertised in /r/spacex. There wa
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> if the moderators are enforcing "on-topic" questions in an Ask Me Anything Every subreddit has its own moderators, and they set the rules for content in that subreddit. Reddit generally never interferes with the content or mo
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Nevermind the toaster — clothes add up surprisingly fast. And your shower curtain, food in the fridge, extension cords and cables, business cards, books that you got as gift but never read, and so on. Most people have tens of thousands
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Something along the lines of "1 year of free upgrades, then upgrade pricing" is a good idea even without considering OS compatibility. It keeps customers who bought just before a new release happy, and removes anxiety about whethe
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Maybe this is a generational thing? A factor of mobile and Mac app stores, where people have gotten used to buying an app for $1.99 with free upgrades for life perhaps? Charging money for a "compatibility with latest OS" upgr
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Need? No. Perhaps I've been corrupted by the mattress salesman talking points, but it seems sensible to optimise spending money by the time spent doing certain activities. For me that means that spending on a comfortable work area - de
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> a link directly to the page that would let me make changes to the reservation, with no security barrier at all. This is most likely intentional. Most business travel gets booked by assistants / travel agencies / client reps &
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Gmail wasn't much different from the status quo GMail was different because it offered an outlandish 1GB of mail space, when everywhere else you got 1-10MB mailboxes. Since it was launched on April 1st, most people did not believe
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> In terms of new features, it's relatively light In a way that actually sounds like a good way to release things. * Release 1.11 LTS with final feature updates for people who want to stay on Python2.7, * Release 2.0 which is mostly
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> So it would a "Credit ID," Passport Number, DL #, or something related. What's the difference, it will need to be stored next all your stuff, awaiting to be stolen. It should not be a passport number or driver's lic
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Credit and existing credit records would still be easily available. The only change would be that you need to present photo ID in person to open new credit lines... which doesn't seem that unreasonable really.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> since when does u2a protect against back-end breaches? It doesn't have to. For 99.999% people, the two most realistic threats are: * There is a keylogger on some computer where you access your Dropbox, for example at a print shop,
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Even if cities decided that it is in their best interest to limit the number of taxi drivers, there is no good reason why the license should be transferable property that can be bought, sold and rented. If a taxi driver quits, the city, and
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Taking out loans that you don't need, not spending the money, and paying them back on time (with interest) should be a very positive credit score indicator. It shows that the person is planning ahead, is careful with not overspending
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Yes. If you steal the ID card or passport of a person who looks like you, you can do most things in life in their name. Take out a loan, travel the world, get married, etc. The major benefits compared to SSN authentication still are: * It&#
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
You can get the incremental security easily at home: swipe over your card with a strong magnet. Now card thieves (and you) can only use chip & PIN payments. As a warning before trying this for real: most ATMs annoyingly check both the
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Of course, if there's a numpy function that does what you want, you'd use it in real life. But what if there isn't? I have been in this exact situation, a numerical algorithm that was missing from Numpy but the rest of t

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