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There is an entire branch of the Department of Treasury designed to enforce stiff sanctions and financial penalties against people, companies, and even countries that defy US regulations. If the federal government decides Tether needs shu
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https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc... This all boils down to two questions in my mind: 1) Do you trust the unsigned report from the auditor, who appears to be a fairly unknown e
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> If you want to use it as a daily driver, you're probably going to run into some headaches This all depends on the hardware you bring to the table. A random Acer laptop with a questionable ACPI table is probably going to have prob
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> whether or not they had a nut allergy (protected by HIPAA) Personal pet peeve: Your high school is not a covered entity and is not acting as a business associate of a covered entity. HIPAA does not apply. They are free to keep a plai
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To your comment above – you can bodge around interop problems with JSON in ways that you cannot with some of these other technologies. I like to joke that I invented ndjson over a decade ago when I accidentally forgot to put things in an ar
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> I highly encourage any greenfield project to look into well designed and better specified alternatives. By way of recommendation: I reach for protobufs to do data interchange between polyglot systems and have yet to be disappointed. E
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> The 'network' of an elite MBA is diminished with democratized access to capital and executives (I.e. LinkedIn, Hunter/Snov.io, and Crunchbase) This is breathtakingly naïve.
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Warmed over pop sci laundered through social media and veneered with dubious expertise. If you don't have the unlimited might and funds of the federal government to "win people over" by being a phony, try being sincere. Most
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> I come from an aviation background where the approximate equivalents for mixed city is VFR, and long haul standardized is IFR. Your subsequent paragraph is extremely interesting because you talk about how IFR is "easier to automat
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What does that say about capitalism?
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My personal solution to this problem was: * register a pseudonymous domain and use Fastmail to forward it in to my real email * use Twilio + a little TwiML to register a real phone number in my area code & have all messages/calls f
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> Pretty ironic to use climate change as a reason to forestall nuclear considering it's our best shot at mitigating climate change pending a renewable energy storage miracle. I think you're looking at this the right way. We ar
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Browsing at work and got hit by a social media content filter? ;)
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> It's also why many companies hate carrying vacation days over - they don't want someone to save up three months of vacation that they earned at a low wage from getting promoted, and then receiving it in cash when they quit at
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I mean, *gestures at the US*. There are no federal or state laws mandating paid vacations or holidays. That's entirely at the discretion of the company. There is no federal paid sick leave mandate. Some states have them. We have a fe
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http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassi... > I wrote a note in sgi.bad-attitude about the "optimist effect", which I believe is mostly true. In condensed form: >
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The fastest way to cap your career growth is to think about yourself as someone whose role is to take a spec and provide a technical solution inside that box. Upper management values – and pays accordingly – people who go beyond that. Le
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I don't disagree, which is why my original post talked about pricing technical debt retrospectively . You don't know when the bear will charge tomorrow, but past bear charges can be highly instructive if you learn from them. My
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Accurately is the hard part, but you don't have to be perfect here – just as accurate as next year's sales forecast is. "I can't outrun a bear, I just have to outrun you " ;)
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> Technical debt and code coverage "as risks" cant be factored in either. They can be measured . Lots of companies don't, which is mind-boggling. When a release goes sideways and has to be rolled back, you figure out why
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Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer have a podcast. Once, Norm came up[1]. What they said is something I've heard from pretty much any interview about him: Norm is the quintessential comedian's comedian. He's up there trying to d
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> comes with the Oracle legal team This would've been sufficient, honestly.
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Ignoring the other answers, I'll give an analogy I like: the same way the Go compiler is written entirely in Go!
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> I.e. when you are being selected for random questioning entering US as a non-US citizen, you'd benefit from steganography-like approach: you give a password, and relatively bland, non-personal stuff shows up, giving appearance of
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If you have Siri enabled, you can also say "Hey Siri, whose phone is this?" – Siri will answer whose phone it is, but also will disable Touch/Face ID. Do one of these things at the beginning of any custodial situation.
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As JulianMorrison notes, this is common in finance. The FDIC strongly recommends that banks enforce this[1] – you can't cook the books when you have no access to the systems. But sometimes it's not just about cooking the books: t
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> Every other asset has a risk of its price changing. It may be worth $1 today but it may or may not be worth $1 tomorrow. A rational market would react by revaluing USDCUSD and pushing the price point to where they'd expect. But we
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> This material is prosecuted under a "strict liability." It doesn't matter how you got it, you're liable. You're overselling it. First, there is a statutory affirmative defense: if I obtain CSAM and "prompt
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> Apparently I've done the opposite, because that's more than I drive in a week now. ;) Ha! Pandemics, eh? :) > But not to be trite, yes I would have This feels to me like over-egging the pudding - but getting into this dis
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> Correct, it is not an individual choice. It is an individual action. Every world government has passed a law, rigorously enforced, that says each person can drive no more than 20 miles a week. dleslie drives 20 miles a week. Has dlesli
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