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I think therapy can be used very strategically. Maybe you want to end a friendship and don't know how to break it to them. Or maybe you don't like the way you are being treated by …

They're not. Almost all of their infra was on prem when I worked there 3 years ago.

How about Apple maps, windows 8, the Samsung Galaxy with the exploding batteries, the entire metaverse.

Not trying to be combative - but you do have a choice to refuse. To me, it seems like they wanted to add diversity to account for bias and failed hilariously. It also sounds like t…

Investors in Google should consider Google's financial performance as part of their decision. 41% increase YOY in net income doesn't seem to align with the "go woke or go broke" in…

Fortune 500s are laughably insincere and hamfisted in how they do DEI. But these types of comments feel like schadenfreude towards the "woke moralist mind-virus" But lets be real h…

A few different techniques - 1. use mobile phone proxies. Because of how mobile phone networks do NAT, basically it means that thousands of people share IPs and are much less like …

You're right - no legitimate bank would serve those criminals. You have to be a white-collar criminal for banks to serve you.

While I believe selling zero days to NSO group is significantly worse than working for Google or building surveillance capitalism software - we are mercenaries. Like 60% of softwar…

I have lots of criticisms of Google, but let's not forget they have Gmail + workspaces,Google Domains, Android, Google Cloud, Google Fiber, Google Fi, The pixel, Nest, Maps, Youtub…

Payments and stablecoins have many usecases. Like international payments, irrevocable payments, and auditing. However NFTs are just a deed to an address space on the blockchain. I …

IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. …

What happened to Cardpool was pretty messed up! I knew some people in the industry who knew the people in charge and mentioned that one day they just started getting a bunch of com…

Haha, I bought the domain debatelord.com to build something similar, but never started development! This is awesome. Will check this out.

I only go to authorized distributors, where the brand themselves has approved the vendor to resell the cards. For game keys, I haven't done anything in bulk, but the best route is …

There's a bunch of shady ones that I avoid, and the really big legal ones are blackhawk networks and incomm. Becoming an official distributor requires a lot of vetting from their s…

Correct! customer buys a playstation $10 card for $9.80, I buy it for $9.20, and pocket the spread.

Fraudulently obtained inventory is actually something I actively want to avoid. I don't want to go to jail, or risk getting banned from marketplaces - among ethical considerations.…

I am a gift card reseller. Pretty much, there are marketplaces where you can sell gift cards and cd keys for games and when a customer places an order, I make an API call to procur…

You can still do a few things to make it super annoying to scrape your site. Cloudflare bot detection, captchas, 2fa, obfuscated JS, api/ip rate limits, georestrictions, anti-repla…

OMG I owe me pushing my career to the next level due to Pavlo's course! There's so many technical interviews where I've impressed my interviewer with explaining low-level details o…

My experience at FAANG was that every major service had like 9 layers of abstraction or had to traverse several hops to do the actual thing. I've kinda become jaded and feel like m…

In my experience, the thing that makes me actually have to lug out my ol' headless browser is that a lot of websites are starting to implement obfuscated cryptographic puzzles in t…

Could you elaborate what you mean by "naive indexes"?

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