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by _jal 4y ago
I was actually thinking of ProPublica. That case is even murkier, but the intent seems clear.
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by _jal 4y ago
> It didn’t all go to him buying Lamborghinis Beachfront properties, random companies, journalists... but no Lamborghinis. Got it.
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by _jal 4y ago
My memory is that the sort of person who was really in to Palm's gear migrated to Blackberries.
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by _jal 4y ago
Although imagining turning the highways in to an electromagnet-driven crashup derby is entertaining.
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by _jal 4y ago
It will cost you a whole lot more than that. That's just the application fee, so that you can begin the process to (among other things) demonstrate you have the technical, operational and financial capabilities to actually run a TLD.
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by _jal 4y ago
Adding to this, there are employers who do what they can to ramp up the coercive aspect. This happens mainly in low-wage jobs where there is lots of usually low-quality labor. The usual dynamic is to seek out job hunters with family or othe
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by _jal 4y ago
> Get over the Gladwell hate for a minute and actually read this thing More generally, a really great writer can do incredibly persuasive things with a terrible argument. It really is a super power. I'd also say, most of the great e
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by _jal 4y ago
I think the fully-mature form of gig work features payment in company scrip. Grubcoin or maybe Ubertherium.
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by _jal 4y ago
I left the south and never looked back, too. (Not gay, but I am non-conformist, which didn't play well in an evangelical town with more cows than people.) In talking to people who got out vs. some who didn't, there seem to be thre
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by _jal 4y ago
Yep. The perils of thinking you're the smartest guy in the room. He apparently didn't even think to set up a victim to take the fall. Retroactively blaming his girlfriend will probably doom her, but isn't doing him any good.
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by _jal 4y ago
Sure, from a technical perspective, it is a nice solution to a set of problems. But there are many serious problems with it. I'll isolate one: an on-device content surveillance mechanism is a slippery slope to a bad, bad place. As the
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by _jal 4y ago
You don't have functional liminal art at boundaries of your abode? I bet you call them doormats or something.
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by _jal 4y ago
So many web bugs on the landing page I thought I was hitting CNet.
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by _jal 4y ago
There are interesting questions here. I did not know this bit about Paper Bird not being part of the bankruptcy managed by Ray - "The bankruptcy filing states that Paper Bird owned 75% of FTX International.1 However, that does not make
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by _jal 4y ago
The Concur UI is a bucket of ass, classic enterprise software. Barely tolerable when it is working, and it is broken or super slow maybe 1 in 4 times I try to use it. On the trip side, the car rental selector is something special. You can&#
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by _jal 4y ago
> hat good is legal action upon entities that are, by design, extrajudicial to begin with? So do you think fighting all organized criminal activity is pointless? If not, how do you distinguish someone like NSO from, say, a smuggling ring
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by _jal 4y ago
I prefer a plain gray background just on utilitarian grounds - I want to focus on whatever's on top of it.
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by _jal 4y ago
Wouldn't expect him to stay somewhere with extradition. Wasn't there a rumor that he tried to flee to Dubai? Morality aside, that's probably his best move, assuming he has enough of that $3B loan left to grease the exit.
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by _jal 4y ago
Part of our checklist for new features/services is enumerating what needs to be monitored and how, what instrumentation we should care about, etc. That may well change during development, but new work doesn't get approved without
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by _jal 4y ago
This is almost off-topic. Skip if that bugs you. It is interesting to think about the effect that coalitions of criminals have had on the criminal justice system. Impulsive face-punchers don't tend to have sophisticated attorneys, and
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by _jal 4y ago
In earlier days, this used to be a fairly common attitude for sysadmins. The context then was different - systems were a lot more expensive and energy consumption wasn't considered at all. The argument was, basically, you can't sa
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by _jal 4y ago
Structurally, the book is a mess. But it is a narrative disaster much like Snow Crash , in which it doesn't matter because you're so busy trying to integrate all the mind candy you don't notice until a re-read. I feel like t
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by _jal 4y ago
Apple makes me sad these days. The ads are super irritating, I can't believe a phone by the company that supposedly cares about user experience is pushing a fucking credit card offer. But that really shouldn't be surprising, consi
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by _jal 4y ago
How does a poorly thought out spam channel "push the web platform forward"? I don't understand why some people seem to believe anything that adds complexity is positive. Removing bad features is a good thing!
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by _jal 4y ago
> perhaps you didn't answer that because you're trolling You don't get to accuse me of trolling when you're being intentionally unresponsive and obtuse. Just another username I'm not going to waste time on in the
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by _jal 4y ago
I'm so glad I saw your post before rushing right out to buy my own CT scanner in order to save on toner. You saved me from Big Imaging's clutches.
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by _jal 4y ago
SpaceX needs a competitor. It is the only actually interesting company in Elmo's stable. That work is too important to leave in one set of hands, in case their CEO dies or loses his marbles.
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by _jal 4y ago
Yep. The hype cycle at work; if you bamboozle enough people, even skeptics have to commit resources to the latest stupidity. Otherwise you're left without a "blockchain strategy" and the reason-by-checkbox types will think th
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by _jal 4y ago
Neither. And when did you stop beating your spouse?
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by _jal 4y ago
The only reasonable response is aggression. Any asshole who does that deserves it.

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