elastic_church (u/elastic_church)

elastic_church commented on Introducing Increment stripe.com/blog/increment... · Posted by u/sinak

Nice, I'd been wishing for a "devops" book full of case studies - what situations teams were in and how they handled it. Occasionally you get an engineering blog post, but most of those are just boasting unilaterally about a solution, and not any critical discussion of the problem or the myriad of bandaids most of us have to deal with.

This might be a step in the right direction.

elastic_church commented on Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl statue violates his rights theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/dsr12

patorjk · 8 years ago

Maybe I'm just really tired, but that article made it seem like he does have a case...

> Authors may seek moral rights protection from state moral rights laws and art preservation statutes in California and New York, whose provisions resemble those of VARA.

> VARA grants two rights to authors of visual works: the right of attribution, and the right of integrity.

elastic_church · 8 years ago

ah, hm, I was not familiar with that. I skimmed the article but missed that part

I'll keep VARA in mind, looks like he could use both the federal VARA law and the state's

elastic_church commented on Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl statue violates his rights theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/dsr12

pdabbadabba · 8 years ago

There is a body of quasi-copyright principles that apply to artistic works called 'moral rights.' This framework recognizes a "right of integrity" which prevents unauthorized modifications of the work.

This approach seem pretty strange to those used to the American system of copyright law and U.S. law does not fully recognize them. But, being Italian, this framework is probably informing the artist's views here.

Here is a brief write-up: https://cyber.harvard.edu/property/library/moralprimer.html

elastic_church · 8 years ago

so basically, he doesn't have a case, thanks for reaffirming my world view.

elastic_church commented on Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat techcrunch.com/2017/04/13... · Posted by u/misiti3780

CorduroyBottom · 8 years ago

Facebook is the one with a monopoly. They're clearly abusing their privileged position to stifle competition.

It also sets a very poor precedent for entrepreneurial people.

elastic_church · 8 years ago

So your argument is that monopolies are illegal? hahaha go back to wikipedia you're regurgitating some media version of a Microsoft case that you never read yourself

elastic_church commented on How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF... · Posted by u/nostrademons

johanj · 8 years ago

He has commented on that saying that it isn't very common in the electronics markets, particularly for one-offs or low volume. Apparently you can only really start haggling once you're buying 100+ of something.

elastic_church · 8 years ago

a friend in the industry will negotiate for you so that you can get volume prices for one-offs

elastic_church commented on Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node · Posted by u/choojoy

daheza · 8 years ago

But how do you get the bitcoins without giving someone a credit card / debit account? It's a part of the chain that seems like it could all be traced back to one person. Person A buys bitcoins using their credit card. The bitcoins are then used to pay for the VPS. Are there any only bitcoin marketplaces that accept gift cards?

elastic_church · 8 years ago

Just buy the bitcoin. The objective is to unlink the transaction later. Using cryptocurrency should be a completely benign action, and if there's any ounce of thought in your mind that makes you think it is an admission of "I'm doing something sketchy", then that's more reason to buy cryptocurrency and use it everywhere for completely benign things. Just like most contrived trends, you do it ironically until it is an actual habit.

For unlinking, Monero (cryptonote technology) is the private cryptocurrency to use today. The primary different between competitors is that Monero is private by default. Other 'private cryptocurrencies' are public by default with an optional privacy gimmick (see mixers, Dash, Zcash). Transparency is the optional gimmick in cryptonote.

You want to keep a balance of Monero, and use services like Shapeshift, over TOR, to pay for invoices priced in bitcoin.

Exchanges like Kraken allow you to buy Monero directly nowadays with USD. So bitcoin isn't part of this equation anymore, the network effects supporting bitcoin's incumbency were extremely overstated.

But if that infrastructure isn't yet available in your area, buy Monero on an altcoin exhcange after buying bitcoin. Or even shapeshift Bitcoin for Monero, just to top up your balance.

This is the separation of cash and state, so don't worry about what they think, this is a parallel infrastructure that doesn't leverage their financial institutions.

elastic_church commented on Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node · Posted by u/choojoy

dublinben · 8 years ago

Not to excuse the behavior here, but anyone else who would like to run a Tor exit node can learn from this situation. Follow the best practices[0] for running an exit node, which would include not running it from your home.

You are much less likely to be raided and arrested if a cloud server in a datacenter somewhere, leased by an anonymous LLC you control, is the subject of an investigation.

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node

elastic_church · 8 years ago

and speaking of anonymous LLC's, I know a registered agent that takes cryptocurrency for several years

so now you can email him anonymously over TOR, and pay his bitcoin invoices Shapeshifting some Monero

I also checked the Panama Papers and none of those entities they filed for me appeared in the leak, but even in the off chance they did, you wouldn't be associated.

GreenCloudVPS also takes cryptocurrency.

and finally, there is at least one jurisdiction in the world that still offers legit bearer share companies which require no registration. And your entity no longer needs a banking relationship to acquire goods and services.

elastic_church commented on Anbox – Android in a Box mm.gravedo.de/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/popey

gman83 · 8 years ago

Can you get Google Play Services on it?

elastic_church · 8 years ago

Otherwise it is useless!

speaking of which, is there a generic push notification system available that doesn't require Google Play Services?

doesn't seem that hard in theory. websocket service that instructs the creation of an android notification object

elastic_church commented on Cello – A library that brings higher level programming to C libcello.org/... · Posted by u/dlsym

EnFinlay · 8 years ago

For people who aren't professionally familiar with C or C++ it's an easy mistake to make considering how often things refer to "C/C++" like they are a single skill.

Example: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?jobId=...

elastic_church · 8 years ago

"5 years of Java/Javascript, with emphasis on PHP"

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elastic_church commented on Harland Clarke Acquires RetailMeNot for $630M siliconhillsnews.com/2017... · Posted by u/polysaturate

RileyJames · 8 years ago

It actually started as RetailMeNot, a website run by two Australians. Whale shark media bought it, and then renamed their company to RetailMeNot. The website has always been RetailMeNot.com.

elastic_church · 8 years ago

ya know, thats exactly how I read the statement I quoted........