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Is there any mention on how to check your own devices for this exploit?


Amnesty International released their forensic tool on GH - https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt. Basically it will analyze your iPhone/Android backups and look for the known IoCs as described in the research paper.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...


‘I don't want to be at work making someone else rich. I want to spend those remaining 30 years enjoying myself and bringing happiness to those in my life’

How do you expect to live out those 30 years without working consistently? Do you have means of enough passive income ?


Once you’ve saved a certain threshold of money, say $1M, it becomes relatively easy to make your money work for you at a high level so that you can live off dividends.


Until it dont


Limit your drawdown to 4% (3% during recessions) and you’ll have money forever


Harder than you think. It means you need consistent 6% returns (2% inflation, 4% return).

There's nothing out there that I know that gives you a consistent 6% return and the stock market is a fickle mistress. 2007 to 2009, VTI dropped over 50%. That 1% reduction in drawdown isn't going to be of much help much when your $1M turned into $500K, you'll need a job.

But you stopped working for a while, so now your resume makes you less desirable than the competition and exactly when you need more income (at the bottom of the recession) the job market is at its worst. Likely it took you a few years to get that $1M and age discrimination is rampant in IT, further decreasing your odds of finding that job.

I think realistically, you need a significantly lower drawdown, more likely in the order of 2% or less to weather economic downturns. Without subsidized healthcare, that's going to be very hard to do with $1M, but I think it's doable with $2M.


You wouldn’t have your retirement 100% in equities though, you would be way more risk adverse. So in 2007-2009 you may have only took a 20% hit only to see that rebound by 120% within 2 years. In fact if you were paying attention in that time you likely would have loaded up on equities and rebounded a lot further. But you can see this is an edge case. Remove those years from the last 30 and you’ll see the 4% drawdown would have covered you perfectly through that time.

I think you are right $1m is becoming shallow these days, but that doesnt change the significance of my statement


It’s up 30% this year and we’ve been in a 10 year bull market.

Index and real estate funds pay actual dividends, which you didn’t mention, outside of just relying on rising share prices.

There are some slightly more advanced ways to generate income like selling options premiums that can generate income when prices are relatively flat.


By living a simpler life and not consuming for the sake of it. Earning ~$25k a year will easily pay for the life I want to life. When I drove around Africa and to Argentina I only spent around $17k a year while on the road.


You can still do it even if you don’t really want to. That’s pretty much the definition of work regardless.


Architecting microservices like your org chart would be Conway's Law, correct?


Yeah, I don't think it's "reverse" either.

The common quote "if you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a four-pass compiler" clearly has architecture following from organizational structure.


It's reverse because Conway's Law, as stated, says that code structure inadvertently arises from org structure, i.e. code = f(org). The reversal is to architect the org structure to ensure optimal code structure, i.e. org = f(code).


That is reverse, yes.

I think your original comment was unclear, if not misstated. I had read the "like" in "[a]rchitect your microservices like your org chart" as something like "to resemble", and the rest of the comment seems to follow just fine. Other readings seem possible but I don't see one that gives the sense you want without what feels like some serious contortion.

In any case, no worries, we're clearly on the same page now - just trying to figure out what went wrong.


This sounds to be marketed as some scientific potion to cure diabetes or at least rid the need of medication. All it comes down to is cleaning up your diet (e.g. eating the right amount of calories for your body and eating nutrient rich foods). There's no one diet fits all but getting a good balance of proteins, carbs, and fats is all this is doing for these people. NHS is simply doing the leg work. I control my weight by counting calories and macro-nutrients. If people could figure out how to do that own their own we'd see a huge decrease in Type 2. It's true, a cleaner diet tends to be more expensive and requires more work than the convenience of a fast food diet - but at the the end of the day we're trading diabetes so we can be lazy with our diet and health.


800 calories per day for three months is hardly just "cleaning up your diet".


Oh yes. Its a drastic cut in calories from what these participants consume normally. 800kcal is probably not sustainable long term unless you weigh 90lbs and are sedentary. This is just a quick fix. In the end these people need a lifestyle change and a diet they can stick to indefinitely.


Exactly. This seems like an Onion headline: "We have your cure for diabetes! Just eat a ridiculously low amount of food, fatso."

I don't mean to sound like a whiner, but ... if it were that easy to cut down my food consumption, I wouldn't be going to a doctor in the first place!

It's like telling people with extreme loneliness or social anxiety to "just strike up a conversation with someone!" Or PTSD suffers: "Geez, just don't freak out so much, take a deep breath or something."

Or narcissists/sociopaths: "Just, you know, think more about how your actions hurt other people."

Given Herculean willpower, most diseases of civilization can be conquered. Don't pat yourself on the back for calling it "prescription".


It's not like that because it's all about how you approach the problem. It's easy to do all those things if you have the right mindset. Creating that mindset isn't easy, but wording everything in the worst possible manner is a sure way to make it more difficult.

In the case of diabetes, it's saying: here's an alternative prescription that will cure you, we have good evidence it will work, you can afford it, here are the steps to follow, each of which looks easy by itself...


>In the case of diabetes, it's saying: here's an alternative prescription that will cure you, we have good evidence it will work, you can afford it, here are the steps to follow, each of which looks easy by itself...

We had "just eat less, weak-willed fatso" fifty years ago. This isn't progress.


So essentially pairing Firecracker with Lambda will reduce Lambda down to a simple trigger that can spin up one of these VMs where before Lambda ran the code?


Yes, and the fact that each Lambda executor is a VM allows the execution of any code in any language using any server.


Any recommendation on an alternative for a well documented API similar to Google Places?


So sort of like what forking does on a Github repo?


What gap in the market is Stripe filling? I'm not entirely sure what Stripe does.


Excuse the ignorance, but how do you tie the React in with Python? Are they 2 standalone apps that communicate RESTfully?


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