Nice, I'd been wishing for a "devops" book full of case studies - what situations teams were in and how they handled it. Occasionally you get an engineering blog post, but most of those are just boasting unilaterally about a solution, and not any critical discussion of the problem or the myriad of bandaids most of us have to deal with.
"The interdependent disciplines of Continuous Delivery and DevOps are of immense value to an organisation, but they are hard. We have seen Continuous Delivery and DevOps work in the wild, as have other practitioners. We want to help people on their own Continuous Delivery and DevOps journey, by sharing the experiences of those who have done it – what worked, what didn’t, and the highs and lows of trying to build quality into an organisation."
Maybe I'm just really tired, but that article made it seem like he does have a case...
> Authors may seek moral rights protection from state moral rights laws and art preservation statutes in California and New York, whose provisions resemble those of VARA.
> VARA grants two rights to authors of visual works: the right of attribution, and the right of integrity.
So your argument is that monopolies are illegal? hahaha go back to wikipedia you're regurgitating some media version of a Microsoft case that you never read yourself
and speaking of anonymous LLC's, I know a registered agent that takes cryptocurrency for several years
so now you can email him anonymously over TOR, and pay his bitcoin invoices Shapeshifting some Monero
I also checked the Panama Papers and none of those entities they filed for me appeared in the leak, but even in the off chance they did, you wouldn't be associated.
GreenCloudVPS also takes cryptocurrency.
and finally, there is at least one jurisdiction in the world that still offers legit bearer share companies which require no registration. And your entity no longer needs a banking relationship to acquire goods and services.
>and finally, there is at least one jurisdiction in the world that still offers legit bearer share companies which require no registration. And your entity no longer needs a banking relationship to acquire goods and services.
what does this mean? what is a bearer share company? and which jurisdictions would that be?
A bearer instrument is an instrument which states that it is owned/controlled/usable/valid for the benefit of whoever possesses it, and normally doesn't rely on registering that ownership with an authority.
A bearer share company is a company that doesn't know or register who owns it. If, at a particular moment, you own the physical certificates that connote ownership, you own the company.
I read this as a "to really understand this if you need to actually consider doing it, one must do their own research on the matter" weed-out-while-still-confirming-type responses.
But how do you get the bitcoins without giving someone a credit card / debit account? It's a part of the chain that seems like it could all be traced back to one person. Person A buys bitcoins using their credit card. The bitcoins are then used to pay for the VPS. Are there any only bitcoin marketplaces that accept gift cards?
Just buy the bitcoin. The objective is to unlink the transaction later. Using cryptocurrency should be a completely benign action, and if there's any ounce of thought in your mind that makes you think it is an admission of "I'm doing something sketchy", then that's more reason to buy cryptocurrency and use it everywhere for completely benign things. Just like most contrived trends, you do it ironically until it is an actual habit.
For unlinking, Monero (cryptonote technology) is the private cryptocurrency to use today. The primary different between competitors is that Monero is private by default. Other 'private cryptocurrencies' are public by default with an optional privacy gimmick (see mixers, Dash, Zcash). Transparency is the optional gimmick in cryptonote.
You want to keep a balance of Monero, and use services like Shapeshift, over TOR, to pay for invoices priced in bitcoin.
Exchanges like Kraken allow you to buy Monero directly nowadays with USD. So bitcoin isn't part of this equation anymore, the network effects supporting bitcoin's incumbency were extremely overstated.
But if that infrastructure isn't yet available in your area, buy Monero on an altcoin exhcange after buying bitcoin. Or even shapeshift Bitcoin for Monero, just to top up your balance.
This is the separation of cash and state, so don't worry about what they think, this is a parallel infrastructure that doesn't leverage their financial institutions.
> RetailMeNot started out as WhaleShark Media and changed its name in 2013 after acquiring RetailMeNot.com, an Australian-based coupon site founded in 2006.
It actually started as RetailMeNot, a website run by two Australians. Whale shark media bought it, and then renamed their company to RetailMeNot. The website has always been RetailMeNot.com.
Huh, totally forgot about that! This was at least partially due to the fact that "WhaleShark Media" had become synonymous with large-scale fraud in some affiliate programs around this time.
RetailMeNot means don't charge me retail price and rather give me the discounted price by use of coupons found on the RetailMeNot website. It was a wordplay of BugMeNot.
Interesting choice of things to trim, I'd like no more public resources being used on the FCPA, insider trading, and "material misrepresentations", as these all seem to have disproportionate costs than effect. Who should I tweet?
I've worked on social networks for several venture backed companies, and I opted out of their use half a decade ago. Drug dealers aren't users.
I like the opium analogy. Socially acceptable as long as the East India Company is forcing it down our throats. (But at least we'll get Hong Kong out of it!)
This might be a step in the right direction.