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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by luqa on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:03PM (#20268987)
People try to replicate what worked elsewhere without asking themselves if there any differences between the businesses.

That's normally a red flag, for a banking business a mortal sin.

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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by TallGuyShort on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:29PM (#20269602)
How many times do ex-Googler's blindly parrot, "well at Google...", without asking themselves about exactly that?
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Re:I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is si... by bigiain on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:27PM (#20270012)
Even worst, when wannabe-Googlers do that.

"Well at Google, they'd use a global distributed fault tolerant Hadoop cluster for their data store." "Dude??? We're building a Wordpress site. We're gonna run MySQL on the same shared server as the php code."

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