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by albroland 4y ago
I've discussed it on HN previously, but out of college I took a position doing development on IBM zOS mainframes writing HLASM and COBOL. When I left that company after two years (around 2014), I was making roughly 75k. The salary band
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by albroland 5y ago
I'd think it's far more likely that GiveSendGo doesn't have the most sophisticated and well maintained tech stack and an exploit was easily found by hacktivists engaging in defacement and doxxing.
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by albroland 5y ago
fwiw, it appears one of the named here is a YC Alum: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=il https://www.linkedin.com/in/unrealdutch/
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by albroland 5y ago
I worked with John for my last 2 job searches and I must say even from the candidate side he is excellent to work with.
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by albroland 5y ago
>It would be interesting if a spike in sales also came with a spike in training, range usage or gun safe sales. Anecdotally, I'd say yes. The three ranges in closest proximity to me have hour long waits for lanes on weekends. Everyw
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by albroland 5y ago
Sam Harris summarized a fairly pragmatic view of the necessity of firearms which might explain to you why more ownership by citizens can be viewed as a positive (2013): https://samharris.org/the-riddle-of-the-gun/
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by albroland 5y ago
fwiw, the supply chain seems to be recovering at least for ammo. ammo prices are down about 50% since the peak around Feb. anecdotally, you'd have to pay 90c/round for decent brass case 9mm, now you can get it for <40c/rou
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by albroland 5y ago
From the insurance side: I found the throwaway's reference of MLR very confusing and seems to be misinformed about the ACA market and MLR caps in particular. Exchange plans are just about the most price sensitive insurance product I ca
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by albroland 5y ago
>Ever notice how the front-desk staff that serves as your docs' connection to the rest of the healthcare sector generally suck? Compare this to for-profit clinics like One Medical, where your appointment typically starts exactly on
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by albroland 6y ago
>One of the barriers is that these companies are not willing to pay the same money we (I think we are from the same generation - I was paid to write Apple II software) can get from working with anything that's not COBOL. As a younge
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by albroland 6y ago
Thank you for the link. This definitely mirrors what I had seen last year and if that didn't come across it was a failure on my part. That said, I believe a lot of those furloughed employees have since returned: https://www.
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by albroland 6y ago
I found this quote from the article a bit confusing: "wiping out parts of the economy where women dominate: retail businesses, restaurants and health care." Specifically the claim that the health care industry was wiped out. Am I
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by albroland 6y ago
As expected, it's BS: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832 Seems jason scott's archive team, using existing tooling they built for scraping, scraped parler before it went down.
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by albroland 6y ago
This was my take on reading the wild "2nd hand story" in that reddit post. Almost none of it makes any sense; instead it seems like people just crawled parler's public API and saved the responses into a big archive ("the
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Obamacare Provider Oscar Health Preps for IPO with SEC Filing(forbes.com)
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by albroland 6y ago
VisaNet actually is a bit faster than that; they claim current capacity for about 75k/s.
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by albroland 6y ago
AFAICT, it can't even get adoption in darknet markets. Aside from extortion and ransoms which are still bitcorns, you're unlikely to use anything but monero, zcash or maybe eth for illicit purchases these days.
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by albroland 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how is the fee structure of DoorDash compared to something like Seamless? A few years ago I would routinely use Seamless to order delivery or carry out 3-4x a week, but in the past year or so I noticed enormous service fee
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by albroland 6y ago
The same editorial team and peers that tried to get Lee Fang fired for having the audacity to interview actual residents in areas where rioting was happening?
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by albroland 6y ago
I think your observation applies to most online communities. IME the quality of a forum/community seems to be directly tied to the population size following a somewhat skewed normal distribution. A monday morning theory based on my obs
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by albroland 6y ago
Not trying to be pedantic but where do you see this? I do not see the SE even listed in Apple's refurbished store anymore and I am struggling to find any documentation or evidence suggesting it is available thru Apple authorized resell
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by albroland 6y ago
Assuming you mean the 2016 iPhone SE, in the US you cannot buy it from a retail store - it is not presently available on the market as new stock (that i'm aware of). You can only get them used, refurbed, or maybe NoS if you're luc
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by albroland 6y ago
Relative to what other phone on the market?
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by albroland 6y ago
12 Mini is roughly 1cm taller and 5mm wider than the original SE.
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by albroland 6y ago
I managed to finally get a LoI approval this year after 2 previous rejections but then COVID happened; I'm hoping it's an easier process when I reapply next year (assuming they've reopened to tourists). Note to anyone curious
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by albroland 6y ago
OWID's UI/UX is definitely not my favorite (try to highlight a particular country's line in a graph) but their worldwide data quality appears to be the best right now compared to alternatives.
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by albroland 6y ago
Current daily deaths in Sweden are averaging about 4 per day continuing to trend towards 0, vs the 0 or 1 per day in Denmark or Norway. If you're trying to argue that 0.38 per capita vs 0.05 per capita is relevant when the gross number
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by albroland 6y ago
"current" they are presently doing about as well as all their immediate neighbors for per-capita deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
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by albroland 7y ago
That mirrors my experience in mainframes. Out of college I was writing HLASM for zOS systems making roughly 65k in Houston. Definitely not bad for right out of college from a non-prestigious state school, and I was happy to have work. Howev
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by albroland 7y ago
To be clear, we're talking about the people on skid row and in similar situations. I've volunteered extensively with BRC in NYC, I'm very familiar with the conditions of shelters in the US as well as the laws governing them.

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