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* Posts by Richard 34

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Parity: The bug that put $169m of Ethereum on ice? Yeah, it was on the todo list for months

Richard 34

Scarcity Value!

Presumably the price rose after this cock-up because the coin is now scarcer!

Maybe some of the digital world does mirror the real one.

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Debenhams Flowers shoppers stung by bank card-stealing tech pest

Richard 34

I bought from Debenhams Flowers on one occasion. I used an email address unique to that site when I registered.

I received a phishing email to that unique address. I attempted to alert Debenhams Flowers to the clear fact that they had leaked my email address. They wore me down ignoring me.

So they leak people's data and they don't care.

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Download Festival face scan: You’re right to be annoyed, said UK surveillance commish

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Re: Decimated at Random

@ Primus Secundus Tertius

>>Poor understanding of probability, though. If they decimated at random, that would still leave 9% for next time.

Surely not. If they decimated at random that would still leave 10% in the now smaller population.

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Bank of England: What's all this then, CHAPS? Review to get a grip on IT cockup

Richard 34

It's all about the lunch

I was a member of the GUIDE PL/I working party about (cough) years ago. We'd have a presentation from a member about some interesting way his/her company was using the language, or we would hear about new features being put into the language or the library.

Member organizations would take turns to host the meetings. BoE was a member and BoE meetings, sadly before my time, were said to be legendary for the quality of the lunch they would lay on.

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