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codesuelaon Binance Says Stablecoin Partner Been Told to Stop Minting BUSD

Binance doesn't have to come up with anything, it is a white label solution managed by Paxos.

codesuelaon Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people

where did you find that? im only seeing jarrow with the DE111 strain

codesuelaon DeleteSlack, they sanction innocent Ukrainian

Why are we even paying for Slack?

Mar 29, 2022, 10:37 AM PDT

Dear support we do have an employee in Ukraine: Dmytro he can’t access his slack account anymore. Dmytro is living in Ukraine close to the border with Russia in Bakhamut (https://goo.gl/maps/EDITED) Ukraine. Dmytro is a Ukrainian citizen who is living in Ukraine. We would love Dmytro to have access to slack again without VPN or similar. Can you please assist us? Best

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Paul (Slack)

Mar 30, 2022, 7:17 AM PDT

Hello Daniel,

Paul here from Slack. Thanks for your writing in with your question, although I'm sorry for the trouble your colleague is having connecting to Slack. Can you please have this person reach out to us here directly at feedback@slack.com so we can investigate on their behalf?

We'll be standing by for their outreach.

Warmly, Paul

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Hello Paul,

I would like to continue the correspondence started by my management and clarify the point.

As Daniel mentioned in his previous letter, I am located in a town that is officially under the control of the Ukrainian government and has not been occupied by Russian military forces. Feel free to check the location via this link (https://goo.gl/maps/EDITED). My IP address is EDITED to make it even more precise.

I consider it to be genuinely unfair that Slack limited my access to the software considering my town to be a part of Russia or any other restricted area. This fact is offensive to me as a citizen of Ukraine and a part of the resistance to the Russian invasion.

I hope this issue can be resolved soon.

Best regards, Dmytro

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Paul (Slack)

Mar 30, 2022, 2:26 PM PDT

Hello Dmytro,

Thanks for letting us know. We'll review the information we have and will get back to you soon.

Warmly, Paul

codesuelaon LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace

If the client does not have the competence to spot bad work, how are screenshots gonna help?

codesuelaon LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace

not really, in my experience on Upwork for 25$/hour you can't really find someone who is a competent engineer and also speaks solid english (no matter the country).

codesuelaon Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

codesuelaon Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data

how do you get access to those CZDS files?

codesuelaon NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

If you open YouTube in desktop mode (in the browser) and switch tabs, you can still play the video via the notification manager popup (not sure how it's called, basically when you drag down the top bar, there is still this sticky YouTube notification). This is how you can get free background play without 3rd party apps.

codesuelaon How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

>So my advice to non-FAANG developers: if you want to make development your career, learn to be bored.

is life at FANG really that different tho? Can't imagine that everyone is working on exciting stuff all the time. Would appreciate if someone could enlighten me.

codesuelaon If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany

It is impossible to run anything like Twitter in Germany without being sued into oblivion for defamation etc and get struck with criminal charges for something a user posted. Germanys equivalent of cease and desist letters (Abmahnungen) make running a big site with user generated content very unattractive.

codesuelaon Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers

This seems pretty easy to game for a software engineer:

1. Write code for the project and record mouse clicks and keystrokes

2. Replay keystrokes at .5 speed inside a mirrored VM

a more sophisticated tool could also vary speed and add typos.

codesuelaon FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case

The phone was released with iOS 13 which prominently featured enhancements to USB restricted mode[1] which was supposed to defend against GrayKey/Cellebrite attacks. Seems like GrayKey can easily bypass that feature. Does not really inspire much trust in Apples security team as the USB restricted mode was already a bandaid itself.

[1] https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/09/usb-restricted-mode-in-io...

codesuelaon Google to end 'Double Irish, Dutch' tax scheme: filing

The question is: what's the new scheme? It's not like these tech megacorps will just start paying regular taxes

codesuelaon We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

I would like to more about this can you give me a few links for further reading about this?

codesuelaon Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper

humans have more agency than chickens

codesuelaon Amazon Go

are you 12 years old?

codesuelaon Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine

he could just force him to make a video of him voting the way he wants with his smart phone (for both, paper ballot and electronic voting machine).

codesuelaon The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next

https://www.meteor.com/case-studies/build-apps-with-meteor

codesuelaon The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next

I don't know if you are aware but there is now an official guide which goes way beyond the scope of the docs.

http://guide.meteor.com/

codesuelaon Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)

im gonna learn the random number seed by heart and put it as an anwser every time im asked to do fizz buzz from now on

codesuelaon Introducing Predict – see who will convert, before they do

am I the only one who expected some kind of intelligence surveillance project after reading the title?

codesuelaon ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation

my banks online banking goes offline all the time sometimes for multiple days, certanly more often than AWS.

Just because you can't see the uptime of non user facing banking backends doenst mean they don't run into problems

codesuelaon Crystal promises to help you understand how best to talk to any person

this, that page just causes FF to crash silently on Ubuntu FF

codesuelaon China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub

> As can be seen in the code, the two targeted URLs are github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes, which are mirror sites for GreatFire.org and the Chinese New York Times. GreatFire and NYT both use GitHub to circumvent the online censorship performed by the Great Firewall of China (GFW).

codesuelaon The Dark Web’s Top Drug Market, Evolution, Just Vanished

Escrow, funds are only released once the buyer confirms that he received the shipment. If you have a ton of outstanding orders, you are going to have a lot of funds frozen in escrow.

codesuelaon Four Solutions to the JavaScript Problem

Solution 5: Use ES6

codesuelaon Reasons not to use Facebook

So what are you saying? Its OK to hurt people who don't fit in?

codesuelaon Non-profit produced MDMA 'ecstasy' and psychedelics

I think he was referring to testosterone gel ( http://www.drugs.com/cdi/testosterone-gel.html )

Also testosterone is used in anti ageing procedures ( http://fusion.net/story/42619/why-testosterone-is-the-drug-o... )

codesuelaon “Just remove the duck” (2013)

sounds like elections in America