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You miss the point entirely. Currently because the volume of bogus support requests is so enourmously high, and the fraud attempts also very high - the cost to properly do somethin…

A great idea! I'd love to run stuff in this zone. Rotate through a bunch of errors, unavailability, latency spikes, power outages etc every day, make it a 12 hour torture test cycl…

I wonder if Apple and Google and Facebook and Microsoft and Stripe had just done something "anti competitive" and entered the payment space squarely themselves if rates would come …

The other thing is trust. They have (yet) to screw customers on pricing that I've seen. Has amazon ever raised prices on an existing service? I'm not saying the prices are any good…

My requests - pass interchange onto the customer - and allow merchant to do so explicitly at whatever rate they want (not cash discount or anything). Ie, merchant might cover first…

It's not just enterprise - many small / mid size places are much much happier (myself included) with an invoice attached. AWS gets this right (even though invoice is high level). Y…

No insurance hassles - I did medical billing for a bit. The insurance co's basically just run around doctors because they KNOW folks give up. You could absolutely force the $40 ext…

Most startups IP is not worth $200M no matter what they think. This guy was a grade A jerk too - if he doesn't do time then white collar crime is going to be even more unfairly und…

I've got the dual yubico key thing going. It seems to work fine. I don't need to pick overly complex passwords if I don't want to. Google does this well. Yubico Security Key + they…

Retail is crazy miserable for the person actually MAKING the product. Getting INTO stores is hard. The store can dump product back onto you - so they have no risk. The price on she…

That's awesome! However, it WILL result in stripe attracting a LOT of the crappy billers (ie, folks who mislead / make customer unhappy etc). If your business is Other business obv…

I think we are just going towards centralized trust proxies. Ie, if you are paying for google apps, have credit card on file, meet their rate limiting rules for outbound with SPF /…

I'm explaining why sites that HOST but do not necessarily send content are blocked. I've got no problem with their operation, but YOU are going down a VERY dangerous and slippery s…

Malware and childporn reduction efforts also often go after the hosts of that content. I'm not sure why calling the folks hosting this stuff what it is incorrect. Sure, childporn f…

For everyone one of the apple / google huge privacy breach headlines / comments some quick thoughts. Google and Apple can at least plausibly infrastructure an anonymized data colle…

The volume of spam is mind boggling. When we first implemented DMARC / DKIM etc our legit emails were 3% or so of all outbound mail per the reporting we got back! We have a somewha…

We just had someone claiming to work for amazon who said it was "routine" to "trawl" through CUSTOMER production data. How are they trawling through all our buckets and databases w…

Agreed - but that has also not been smooth. I'd be curious to know the 10nm volumes at TSMC vs intel. The world has really changed.

This frankly doesn't match my experience and I have to say I find it unlikely. Before going into our AWS production S3 buckets, looking at our databases for customer lists AWS seem…

Repeat rates are VERY high in burglary. And a person who hasn't burgled is relative unlikely to commit a home burglary even if the opportunity presents. Some neighborhoods without …

But it misses the larger context which is that Swiss are proactive in trying to reduce crime through many approaches. They use many automated tools, hotspot mapping etc. The articl…

Ha. The swiss had something like 50 murders TOTAL of which only 3 were unsolved. That's something like 0.5 per 100,000? The USA is probably an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE higher? The solve …

This exactly, and I'd add another thing - online only communities can become dominated by the folks with the absolute strongest feelings / opinions. Most offensive or most offended…

AMD has had a GREAT story with their socket - the length it has been supported is incredible. I hope they keep that up and don't confuse ryzen parts with nonsocket compatible parts…