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by ajb 2y ago
Are you positing a corrupt notary?
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by ajb 2y ago
Thee context here (and upthread) is about needing a nominee because you aren't in the country. IE if you were in country you'd control the asset directly.
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by ajb 2y ago
I'm not really sure what the technical details were. This is the complaint, in case anyone is curious: https://trellis.law/doc/159246087/complaint-case-initiation-... Although obviously that's only from
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by ajb 2y ago
There is not actually a need to choose between a single centralised monopoly and going full-on techno-prepper and running all your own services in your garage as an individual . We could have intermediate points, such as having services run
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by ajb 2y ago
That sort of thing is a bit risky. One company I followed was bought out by a US vehicle owned by a Chinese investor, and then everything ground to a halt because (it appears[1]) the local agent fraudulently changed the bank accounts into t
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by ajb 2y ago
When the UK startup I worked for was bought by a US company, that meant the support functions were consolidated and the IT guys had to join the US centralised IT dept. They visited the US, and the culture shock started to bite when the head
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by ajb 2y ago
Yeah, that's plausible. Maybe it could just be empty, and have concrete pumped into it on deployment. Fun to speculate about, but no doubt there's a problem with that too!
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by ajb 2y ago
Yeah, that gave me the idea. The use case is slightly different: flip wants needs to be re-oriented repeatedly, whereas the spar would benefit if its ballast would remain in place without maintenance.
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by ajb 2y ago
Yes, but I don't think that's the full explanation. It seems to apply even to companies of modest size, which should not be able to intimidate.
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by ajb 2y ago
I wonder why you wouldn't deploy a spar horizontally, filled with dry ballast powder evenly along it's length, then tip it vertical once in position and pump in water to set the ballast. This seems an obvious approach, allowing us
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by ajb 2y ago
It's weird that corporations get to remove liability from people acting on their behalf. The law is only that they remove liability for debts. If you act on behalf of a corporation to commit either a criminal offence or civil wrong, as
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by ajb 2y ago
Good vision, but why is it an app? In general "We want to install an app on your phone" is a no from many people unless there's a compelling reason. Not to mention the whole cross platform issue.
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by ajb 2y ago
More on their design can be found in their patents, https://patents.google.com/?assignee=verge+motorcycles&oq=as... Although that may not be their most recent work due to how long patents take to get published. NB remin
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by ajb 2y ago
The guy might have been a bit under loaded, at least after the initial burst, but given that SaaS wasn't available at the time I don't think there was a good alternative. Getting someone in part time would have been a false econom
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by ajb 2y ago
I meant specifically the ones where it's so obscure that you only find out it was real later. But yeah he was amazing at satire across the board.
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by ajb 2y ago
Stuff does occasionally break. In my last place Google managed to wipe the HR drive. (Yes, I checked the audit logs to see if it was user error - nope). Of course, it should have been backed up, but HR were the only people with access so it
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by ajb 2y ago
Well, at my previous company it was split between a few Devs. Annoying, but didn't take anything like a whole full-timer.
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by ajb 2y ago
I think he liked doing that, there are so many examples of things that seem made up, but then you find they aren't. Making perfume from whale vomit, for example.
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by ajb 2y ago
I remember the days before SaaS. Sure we paid only once and self hosted services with open source, but we also needed a full time sysadmin/IT person for a 12 person startup. I'm not sure it worked out cheaper.
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by ajb 2y ago
What are your concerns with that? If it's overhead for the flagger, they could be presented with a single multi choice question, eg: What most deserves flagging: a)item title b) item content c) hn discussion d) something else With diff
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by ajb 2y ago
"It's just a convention" This is correct. In fact, in one sense our clocks could be argued to be minutes out, on average: originally time was measured by the sun. But by the sun, the earth doesn't rotate in exactly the s
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by ajb 2y ago
Okay, I've worked at a company that had that kind of sales. It is indeed very impressive to see. But I think that worked because there were only a small number of vendors who could potentially deliver for these (giant) customers in the
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by ajb 2y ago
It's amazing to me what people tolerate, just because it doesn't seem like a human is doing it to us. If a door-to-door salesman was told to do the equivalent of this stuff, they'd be worried about being punched in the face.
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by ajb 2y ago
Well, I can see how it might be a rugpull or it might not. It depends on what the terms were and what the motivation was for invoking them. I don't have a dog in this particular fight. Did they actually formally file for insolvency bef
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by ajb 2y ago
Rumors on twitter are that they got rugpulled by a creditor calling in the debt, under T&Cs, rather than running out of money with predictable timing. Eg see: https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1873872070331032051
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by ajb 2y ago
Oh, that's good to know, thanks.
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm, I only listened briefly but it sounds a normal rate to me. Perhaps the high end of norma; podcasters do want to convey enthusiasm and that often translates to speed. As an aside, some people whose first language is not English speak En
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by ajb 2y ago
They are all over London, although not in dollars obviously. In one street there is a 99p store, and then a couple of doors down, a 98p store.
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by ajb 2y ago
Discussion on prune (professional pilots rumour network): https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663324-jeju-737...
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by ajb 2y ago
Mass layoffs are generally not that discriminating. Because they don't want the news to leak in advance, it's usually a circle of the top brass and the HR department that decides who goes. And with mass layoffs, it's usually

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