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They fixed it by having a rolling "epoch" it just so happens that some people's ages don't fit that assumption.

The article says that most people were buying paper tickets with cards anyway

It can. The misconception that people generally have is believing that purchasing securities is a zero-sum game when in fact it's generally a positive sum game. When you buy a bitcoin (or security), the money you spent doesn't disappear so the amount of bitcoins and fiat in circulation do not change as a result of this trade. There's nothing stopping a bitcoin from being worth a million dollars or a dollar being worth a million bitcoins, it's just a function of supply and demand.

You can choose data residency. My account is hosted in Europe

The market cap is just the last price multiplied by the number of the asset in existence. There is no restriction on last price for either SP500 or bitcoin.

This doesn't really make sense. Bitcoin is deflationary but the market cap has no ceiling, it's just based on what people are currently willing to pay for a coin.

This is the truth. My non-banned finance company from Hong Kong is also having to pull its app from the Mainland Apple store because we don't have any interest in formally registering a business entity in China.

WhatsApp and Threads are just other instances of organisations without an ICP.

These anti-features are almost always a requirement coming from either a cyber security or compliance department, not from product or engineering.

The analogy would be creating a site called amazon.org, providing an e-commerce like experience then redirecting people to the real site once you go to the shopping cart.

> 500 Internal Server Error

Looks like the author is getting more than 11MB/s traffic. Here's an archived version: https://archive.is/UVpg0

In the past long tail musicians got nothing, now they get a handful of shrapnel from Spotify plays.

The COVID restrictions here were only removed last year so that makes sense.

I think it actually replaces an army of junior engineers or your offshore development house. The real engineering continues while the grunt work is farmed out to AI. It also kills the junior engineer since there will be years where they are less valuable than something with a marginal cost close to zero.

I have worked in companies where the focus was finding who is responsible for failures. The result was that minor incidents were covered up to save bonuses and the problems (in the Problem Management context) that led to them were invisible to the management. When problems are invisible there is a tendency to push into safety margins to cut costs (known as normalisation of deviance) which ultimately leads to uncontrolled incidents.

In my current role I promote a blameless culture and the result is my team proactively raise incidents. We have more incidents than other teams but the incidents are generally controlled and problems are visible, prioritised and closed off. Coincidentally, my teams have record high Mean Times Between Failures and I'm now working with the other teams to fix their safety culture.

The lack of thinking about safety culture in this way is one of the reason that I don't believe most "Software Engineers" should be considered engineers.

That's not really how the stock market works. Also Cathay pays profit to its shareholders in the form of dividends.

I don't know much about US airlines but Cathay Pacific made a record breaking profit this year and they aren't even at full capacity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/cathay-pa...

It's "SOURCE"

Not really used in Hong Kong that much anymore apart from a small subset of people (WhatsApp is king). It's also heavily used in Thailand.

It's your probability of dying at those ages. The higher ages have lower probability because most people will have already died. In other words, the probability of dying at the age of 80 is conditional on the probability of surviving to the age of 80.

A good place to start is Outlive. It's less technology, more lifestyle. https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/

In the UK press reporting standards discourage reporting suicide methods https://www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/

Risky move. The slight drop (and subsequent recovery) today is unlikely related to this outage in any way.

You already stated the problem in your last sentence. There's also the risk that the model could end up with your / your customers' PII in it which could lead to serious consequences.

Widely used unbreakable encryption has been available in chat apps for at least a decade and hasn't led us down that slippery slope yet. PQ3 is just future proofing what we already have.

The average indie wouldn't even make it to these indie record stores though. They only have so much space and so much ability to carry slow moving inventory.

Self confidence

I don't know, most professionals in HK I have met are pretty open to challenging people but maybe that's just the people I choose to work with.

In any case what I find strange is that usually HK finance companies (like much of the rest of the world) will have some kind of maker-checker system which prevents individual mistakes like this.

It's the word 撚 which means penis (lan2 which sounds more like "lun"). You can pretty much stick it between many words, much like "fucking" in English, to add emphasis.

The 787 and A380 are still the best planes (in terms of comfort, at least) on the market. It makes my 12 hour flights between HK and the UK way more bearable.

After 6 months the employee is then free to do the bare minimum.