uzakov

> OAuth2 was production ready when everybody realized having FAANG logins is insane

I would have to disagree with this statement for a number of reasons:

1) HN community sometimes could be a bubble, in a sense that many developers here share similar opinions etc but there is a big amount of people outside of the HN community who share different views about software development, how they spend their times (I know some soft engineers who spend 0 hours outside of work doing anything IT related, not saying it's bad or good, just different to many HN people)

2) An average customers isn't necessarily aware of account shutdows or any implications of having centralised systems that you talk about

3) I think there is not enough data to support your statement, tho would be good to see if you have any to share

Not sure if your suggestion of NFT is a sarcasm or you actually believe it. I haven't seen any studies on risk/potential return on NFT, but my bet would be that average person with some money that needs investing would lose, rather than make money.

But I guess the answer still stands, from investor(especially regular investor) point of view, where can you park your money that is likely to generate return on part/slightly higher than inflation, while not investing into too high risk assets? There are not many options available, ie t-bonds etc are not an option for many

Not sure where you are but you can often check where your money is invested and change funds

My take on this as someone who lived in the UK the last 10 years or so: the main reason why ETF are less known are: less disposable income in the middle class/upper middle class(compared to the USA), it was much harder to buy stocks > 10 years ago imho

Would be interesting to hear your opinion on why you think certain assets will not keep going up.

Treasury bonds rates are low (especially once you consider shadow inflation), inflation is fairly high atm. Where can investors park their money for some return above inflation?

Multiple reasons:

1) Someone can use those to train DeepFake models and scam your family

2) There could be private photos and videos there that you aren't aware of

3) Why not?

Maybe I am nitpicking but there are some very important steps missing:

Encrypt everything

Check drives (health etc)

Etc

Can someone explain why you downvoted the comment? Unless for personal reasons you didn't like the data I supplied

In summary, the emigration of EU citizens to the US is not characterized by overcrowded flights and waiting times. It is, rather, a small and steady flow. Nevertheless, this small flow possesses exceptional skill and education levels. Behind the deceivingly low numbers is a huge potential for wealth creation that is permanently migrating to the US. The effects of this migration can be significant for many countries, especially the UK and France. Therefore, it is important that we know more about why these exceptionally talented Europeans move to the US [1]

[1] https://www.bruegel.org/2015/09/eu-immigration-to-the-us-whe...

Person above provided statistics to correct the stamement made by another person.

> basic health issues can bankrupt you

While there is no universal definition of "basic health issues" as far as I know, there is "common health issues" definition.

If by "basic" you mean simple, then my question is: can runny nose bankrupt many Americans?

Good comment that provides good links! Too often people on HN give absolutely misleading information without even any links

You can get fairly cheap, by Western standard (under 200/250$) brand new phones with great screen, good camera, not many/no annoying apps that affect the daily usage [1], fairly cheap contract (around $5 a month)[2]. It does require some Googling/timing but possible.

While $200 is a lot of money for many people, there are options where you can go even lower and get a decent phone if you sacrifice some functionality (like not having a good camera)

[1] Poco X3 for example, during sale goes well under 250$. Note: it does have privacy concerns associated with it.

[2] https://imgur.com/a/d1lkYcc - £2 per month for 1GB data, 200 mins for calls

Thank you very much for sharing your opinion! I've added those to my "Book/Essay" folder, especially liked and agreed with the idea of having the book free to download.

I can't see your email on HN nor DM functionality, is there any chance I can know your email?

Are there any resources/things you wish you knew before you wrote and self-published a book? I am considering writing a short essay on making security decisions from the business point of view.

PortSwigger(creators of BurpSuite) certification cost was reduced to £6.

https://portswigger.net/web-security/certification

Lifetime pass for Plex for £71.24 https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/plex-lifetime-pass-25-off-3...

Your numbers are not quite correct, which changes the dynamic of the argument.

> Tuition maxes at <£10k/y

For the majority of courses offered at the BSc level they are more or less fixed accross the board. For example, it doesnt matter from the cost perspective if you do BSc CS at Kings uni in London, Manchester uni or Aston university, since the fee is exactly the same £9250. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/computer-s... https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/202... https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/computer-science-bsc/s...

Additionally, by saying "Tuition maxes at <£10k/y" you could imply to some that fees are in a certain range below 10k, where in fact they are generally speaking very close to £10k.

> Most employees in well-funded organisations in the UK will have private healthcare too

While this might create debate I think it's worth pointing out that there is a BIG difference between UK and US private healthcare.

AMEX now has fee-free cards, which afaik still offer cashback and offers

I think situation in 2021 is very different in London: AMEX is accepted nearly everywhere in central London (Even on markets etc), there are ofc some shops that don't take it but generally AMEX is widely accepted.

Re: Mastercard

It seems that Mastercard is more widespread among "hot" banking startups, ie I can create virtual debit Mastercards on Revolut and Monzo

One more thing I think helps a lot is to try to have "life as usual" for your mother where possible, maybe organise events at home/hospital, have dinners, jokes. I did film watching, me cooking, reading books for my mum.

I am so sorry to hear this, I have lost my mother to cancer earlier this year. It's a pain that I could have never imagined before. I think the most important thing you can do is to be there, spend 1000% of available time with her, do whatever she wants or can bring a smile to her face, take pictures, record her voice.

Some things I have noticed to helped me:

1) Exercise - going to the gym regularly, even through mental pain, helped me a lot in the long run

2) Eating out - I started eating out more often and having nice, cooked food helped a lot

3) Working - my employer was very understanding and tbh I found it actually helped me to work, as allowed to take mind off things, though you could be different.

4) Hobby/gaming/Lego

Long term, if 3% of their SRE/SWE leave Netflix tomorrow, would it make any noticeable operational/technical difference?

Politics aside: how much operational and technical risk is staff walkout for companies like Netflix? Ie if 2% of their DevOps engineers leave immediately, would it create any noticeable operational/technical effect for Netflix?

This is straight from South Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turd_Burglars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEBRFOVuXI

Useful resources to get started with application security: https://owasp.org/www-project-juice-shop/ https://www.secureflag.com/owasp.html https://hackerone.com/hacktivity https://owasp.org/www-project-zap/

> IMHO, the cost-benefit ratio for splitting the system isn't good enough.

A while ago I wrote a guide on a system that has good cost-benefit ratio in terms of security and amount of effort required. It is a bit outdated for 2021 but overall still good imho https://uzakov.io/2017/05/08/pretty-good-setup-pgs/

It is not actually, about $416 per month or 176k tenge (local currency) per month. A cook in Almaty, KZ can make between 170-350k according to the local job board https://almaty.hh.kz/search/vacancy?st=searchVacancy&L_profe...

EDIT:

Not saying its nothing, good money but to call it a lot would be an overstretch imho

HN: Be careful when visiting Tor links that are suggested anywhere. There are many malicious clones of popular websites

>> This is gatekeeping 101

> What? How? In many hobby communities, whenever new people ask questions, which are obvious to the more experienced people, some more experienced people become hostile/use more hostile language/say things like "you should know this wtf" etc. A fairly recent example I saw on Reddit of what I mean https://www.reddit.com/r/AdeptusMechanicus/comments/h7s5gw/g...

> That's fair enough. But I wished these beginners then didn't make claims like "security tools cannot be installed like this, it's insecure", and we would all be better off.

I understand where you are coming from but this is an eternal struggle with any profession.

> Either you know what you're talking about and you share your knowledge. Or, you listen and ask questions in order to eventually know what you're talking about.

Yes and no, this is Dunning-Kruger effect quite often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://imgur.com/r/psychology/jbo2gy5

Link to the original research https://habr.com/ru/post/575626/