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styles··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
The intent is that it was customer money. There is a fiduciary duty. They have separate custodial accounts for customer funds. They did not separate funds. It was clear as day.
styles··on Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
I have the exact same experience.
styles··on Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
We used Braintree and during the time they were bought out by PayPal and all th terrible PayPal support was integrated. We could never reach a live person at Braintree again and ended up switching processors.

It's scary to think a processor can't answer a phone call but hold your entire business' money in their hands.

styles··on Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks
I run $1,000's if not $10,000's a day in FB ads. I can confirm we've all known this for quite a long time.

Our general rule is if the product doesn't have broad appeal, you don't run it on FB.

My running theory on all ad networks is pretty simple. There are a very small subset of users, 25%-30%, of people who are regular purchasers and these companies know that based on conversion data. They generally just throw your ad in front of these people and let it ride.

styles··on Istio Observability with Go, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers-Based Microservices
It should be. I was at a talk where they said Envoy was and I believe that Istio is coming soon. From what I remember, Envoy is what you need to plugin to bridge your infrastructure.
styles··on What If Google Doesn't Reward White Hat SEO?
Right? I feel like this article was just another way to get publicity and social traffic to his domain. Anyone worth their salt would know he's probably stuck in the "Google Sandbox" https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-sandbox/
styles··on Ask HN: As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?
I started doing this and began feeling a lot less stressed. It's helped a lot with my general well-being.
styles··on ICIJ OFFSHORE LEAKS DATABASE (2014)
Don't make too much sense or they'll make a law against it
styles··on Ask HN: How do you manage your SSH keys?
Keep it simple. I use ssh-agent .. just ~/.ssh/ - keep keys here. Backup the actual private keys and stick those on a drive you keep in a safe. Make sure your machine's HD is encrypted and you should be fine.
styles··on Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet
I think that like anything, it's exploitable. Just see the example of bitcoin where a mining pool had over 50% of the computing power. If the internet was driven by a block chain, with enough money and time, you could "control it".

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-ditch-ghash-io-pool-5...

styles··on Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth
In theory LXC could do this. It needs to be tested more and clearly has security issues right now.
styles··on Reading local files from Facebook's server (fixed)
Did anyone else notice a user named Gopher? Go at Facebook?
styles··on Looking to start a partnership with a programmer
50/50 never works.
styles··on Wireless TPB
Gotta love their tenacity
styles··on Tinder Suspends Co-Founder In Wake Of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
What an idiot.
styles··on Is your system organized?
I actually like this, great tip.
styles··on ASP.NET MVC security and user management done the right way
https://github.com/brockallen/BrockAllen.MembershipReboot/