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fcolas

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About fcolas

Focus on risk management intelligence (SaaS), statistical epidemiology, and statistical learning (ML/AI, PhD) for the e-commerce and in public health. + www.fabricecolas.me + www.risk-management-intelligence.com + www.oriskami.com

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    Comment #21144961

    > Unfortunately people are not 100% trustable, devices are not 100% secure and code is not 100% perfect. - which is actually why you use crypto. > If someone steals my credit numbe…

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    Comment #21144878

    You're right that timing is key, however: >> Crypto = Trust (100%) which is why (in my viewpoint) it matters a great deal, and there's just no way back. Trust is required for monet…

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    Comment #21036202

    @southbaybox, I've seen a similar issue a few months back: . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126301 (2019-02-08, crypto-currencies) For a few years I worked on a startup tha…

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    Comment #20823127

    - How did you guys scale that much w/o a bootloader before? That's what I don't get. All the design patterns are those of Unix. You boot the kernel with a ... bootloader. Then you'…

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    Comment #19714084

    I have a dataset management mechanism (delete, copy, duplicate, etc.) where dataset attributes are tagged as PII (personally identifiable information), and where generic filters ar…

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    Comment #19713879

    +1, tomasdpinho. Yes to everything, and notably the queues everywhere, versioning the models, and the issue to mix sync and async (go for queues). As a scientist designing risk man…

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    Comment #18151507

    Nice read. And a related reading is "how we impersonate users" [1] by eager.io (not related to them). I particularly like their sudo-button--smart [1] https://eager.io/blog/how-we-…

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    Comment #17872287

    Didn't know that one. Powerful. Thanks!

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    Comment #17342134

    Nice article; thanks. * * * . Tesla claims: A 40% crash rate reduction with the autopilot as compared to no autopilot, over an 18 month period [1]. . If this is true—and we could i…

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    Comment #16753834

    Yes, I read something like that too :-) It's definitively not clearly mentioned and we could (still) qualify the procedure as 'obscur'. Though the same would hold for France- or De…

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    Comment #16753133

    Ok And back to LHV, I've seen the PayPal account verification deposit (two payments of a few cents made to one's account) appear extremely fast on the account—I think it was less t…

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    Comment #16753066

    I'm within the 1st year of e-residency + incorporation. Here're a few of my experiences. 1. Setup is not as straightforward as they claim, but it's still quite easy. It compares we…

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    Comment #16752759

    +1 A bit of back and forth for the KYC process, but the onboarding process and the team are quite good and to the point.

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    Comment #16752746

    LHV is for the merchant account, it's needed for EveryPay. Their price structure is not fully pay as you go: - there're no setup fees; but - there's a fixed monthly fee—a so called…