gradyfps
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Comment · 13 days ago
Do pip / certifi / node bundle their own trusted certificate authorities? Surely you should just be able to remove the compromised intermediate certificates from whatever store you're using and pip / certifi / node refer to the operating system's CA store and prevent that.
Comment · 6 months ago
Different deployments of Palantir Foundry exist in the US gov't/military and do provide real data science/analytics value.
> After reading the article, are they looking for cheap tech labor. Is that because no one in tech wants to join the military due to pay ?
Cyber in the military has abysmal retention because of the pay. You can get an immediate ~$50k pay raise doing the same work as soon as you leave the military.
Comment · 7 months ago
To be fair, "illegal" here doesn't matter. North Korea doesn't follow American law.
Comment · 1 year ago
What you're referencing is usually called the decoy effect, which isn't the same as decision paralysis.
Comment · 1 year ago
From his Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Promotion_of_conspi...
"During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Dotcom has repeatedly spread anti-Ukrainian falsehoods, and Russian government propaganda. Critics accuse him of spreading Russian Federation propaganda such as: claims of Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian attacks on Russian-speaking minority, claims of American "biolaboratories" in Ukraine, and accusing the US of causing the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine."
As with all Wikipedia refs, review their sources yourself.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fair points. I hadn't considered that a trial subscription is still a subscriber.
Comment · 2 years ago
To be fair if legal paperwork follows a standard process with standard information, a "robot" can complete many orders of magnitude more than any human lawyer. (I'm also not a lawyer and have no idea if this line of thinking is applicable.)
Comment · 2 years ago
"In 2021, Browder reported that DoNotPay had 250K subscribers; in May 2023, Browder said that DoNotPay had “well over 200,000 subscribers”.
To date, DoNotPay has resolved over 2 million cases and offers over 200 use cases on its website. Though DoNotPay has not disclosed its revenue, it charges $36 every two months. Given this, it can be estimated that DoNotPay is generating $54 million in annual revenue, assuming that all 250K users subscribe for 1 year."[1]
$193K seems like a pittance compared to the money they're making off of this.
Comment · 2 years ago
Some payment processors have "micropayment" fee structures, where they take a higher % (5% in PayPal's case) for a lower fixed fee per transaction.
PayPal's traditional fee (for USD)[1] = 3.49% + $.3, for $1 = $0.3349
PayPal's micropayment fee (for USD)[2] = 4.99% + $.09, for $1 = $0.1349
Using that model would make sense in OP's case.
[1]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#statemen...
[2]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#micropay...
Comment · 2 years ago
Pedophilia & child-predation have been an open secret to anyone socially involved in ROBLOX for the longest time. The amount of random 18+ people interacting often and without guardrails with 13/14/15 year-olds is "normalized" to those in the communities.
Comment · 2 years ago
It takes a huge amount of effort to overwrite & re-animate the default ROBLOX characters and their animations.
Comment · 2 years ago
"High-risk/high-reward" basically translates 1:1 with increased variance. Seeing it framed that way was a helpful mental model for me.
Comment · 2 years ago
In my limited experience, people tend to gamify any numeric metric readily apparent to them.
Anecdotally, total game time (in hours, usually) is used to convey experience in video games (WoW, CS:GO, PUBG). I've seen people create & run 3rd-party software to artificially inflate these types of metrics.
Comment · 2 years ago
The boot loop / BSOD issues are Windows specific.