And1
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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
This is a _very_ fair criticism and worth pointing out.
I thought the piece wasn't particularly alarming and more just showing the opportunity exists, and cursory googles don't show any cases where it happened.
The problem I'm trying to point to is that we cooperate internationally because it benefits both countries or pushes towards a common goal- but when one of the cooperative speaks of turning that cooperation into a weapon, to me, makes it clear that the goal of the cooperation has changed.
Comment · 5 months ago
Love to see it.
When Canada legalized weed in 2018, the US administration made it clear that they can ban Canadians from the US for life if they have used marijuana in the past. The administration alluded to looking at Canadian's transaction history to facilitate cracking down on this more harshly[1].
It was so clear at that point to me how badly sovereign payments and banking is so needed. FATCA is a thing, I get it, I get the motivation- but allow another country to wield a "cooperation" like a weapon to attack Canada's sovereignty is just further evidence that we need to safeguard our data.
[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit...
Comment · 5 months ago
I've started watching soccer more seriously in prep for the world cup (I'm in Canada) and watching live games is never going to happen, so I only watch replays.
There's so many games played per week, I want to find the best/most exciting games to watch, without spoilers. I built a little model to classify games and give me control over the level of spoilers shown so I can watch the best games of the week.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whatever price you put, you will get it wrong the first time.
Make an educated guess (maybe informed by your competition), and test raising and lowering it over time. Make sure you have a tier of pricing that gives people the chance to pay you a lot of money in exchange for additional value you can provide.
Talk to your customers and understand who they are and have that inform the types of tests you do or tiers of pricing you can offer.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://dashdashhard.com
I had a contract recently where I got very familiar with render.com, and I figured I'd do some blogging about some of the things I learned, with some tips and tricks to learn how to write technical content.
It's been a lot of fun to help people on the internet with something I've learned a lot about!
Comment · 3 years ago
Reminds me of programming competitions when I was in school. It was always important to have an algorithm to solve it in your back pocket.
Can you say more here? Is this a payment gateway thing? I though if you used a visa/mastercard/etc that data is up for grabs by a foreign government, but if it's interac or some other payment method, does that ensure the data resides only in Canada?