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by blantonl 6y ago
Name the board member. The former CEO can be dignified by keeping his name confidential , but this is a founder and entrepreneur discussion forum and this deserves discussion about this individual. It is also relevant to the story. There i
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by blantonl 6y ago
But then everyone would know who it was and exactly where it was, is, and is going. Presumably, the person flying a freaking jet pack around the LA Area has enough money and smarts to know these things... and I doubt they want to be found.
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by blantonl 6y ago
I think the concept of the wallet that can quickly snap on and off of the phone is pretty neat. I currently use a case that has a wallet functionality (for my driver's license and credit cards) and that doesn't allow me to use wi
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by blantonl 6y ago
It won't be long before we see more and more escalating instances of the population using traditional electronic and physical warfare techniques against law enforcement in these "battles." I predict we'll see someone in
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by blantonl 6y ago
whatever is happening to your posts, downvotes, rate limiting, etc... seems to be working perfectly and as intended.
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by blantonl 6y ago
It is. The sales executive flying off to his 75th sales call of the year on a fully refundable ticket paid for by his employer is worth literally multiples of you, your wife, and your 3 kids flying off to disney world.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Look, let me just put it this way. Have you ever paid more than $1000 for a single domestic airline ticket for leisure travel? Because as a former IBM SE, I've done it HUNDREDS of times for business travel. Literally hundreds of time
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by blantonl 6y ago
No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible. This is definitely not the case, otherwise airlines like Delta, United, and American wouldn't be in business. Business travel is the money making ind
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by blantonl 6y ago
It's definitely irritating, but on what legal grounds should this be declared illegal?
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by blantonl 6y ago
Another unintended consequence of having so many aircraft parked for so long not operating is bringing them back to life and flying them. It's never been done on such a large scale, and there have been numerous documented instances of
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by blantonl 6y ago
The probability of heads coming up 10 times in a row is a 1/1024 chance
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by blantonl 6y ago
As they say on WSB... this is the way :)
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by blantonl 6y ago
Comcast. Good Guys in this market. Divide by zero error.
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by blantonl 6y ago
massive short position I hope you are WELL capitalized to prepare for pain. First, this stock has surely reached HTB status (hard to borrow) and so it is going to be very expensive, prohibitively so depending on timing, to borrow these s
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by blantonl 6y ago
The chief of the hydrogen division at Nikola is Trevor's brother. His industry previous experience consists of pouring concrete driveways. Phoenix should be fine.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Exactly. There is literally no downside for GM. We're going to find out over the next few weeks that isn't the case. There is tremendous reputational risk here. This episode could throw into question EV capabilities for GM for
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by blantonl 6y ago
This is an excellent point. A lot of lessons learned, hard lessons learned (like fire, expensive equipment damage, injuries and blindness, and big sparks) have happened to get electrical code to where it is.
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by blantonl 6y ago
The vulnerability is really hard to exploit and relies on very precise timing measurements and on a specific server configuration to be exploitable. It's interesting that they emphasize this is a really hard problem to solve, and for
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by blantonl 6y ago
Everything to Oracle Cloud's Ashburn US-East location is down. Their console isn't responding at all and all my servers are unreachable. Their status console reports all normal though.
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by blantonl 6y ago
"Responsible for capex savings of over $1.4MM by implementing cloud computing cost savings tasks that reduced cloud computing resource usage by 20%"
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by blantonl 6y ago
If there is one thing I've learned in this business it is that when your tech stack becomes an "issue" for your business success, you've probably "made it" success-wise. So many technical folks lose site of the
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by blantonl 6y ago
And given that the United States armed forces are incredibly diverse, so should it's representative leadership.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Based on what you've posted here - they're going to make a fortune.
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by blantonl 6y ago
That data is typically from the cell phone network provider themselves, not stingray and dirtboxes. It's part of the Enhanced 911 system in the United States.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Same goes for gas prices. I heard an earnings call recently for a public company that runs a ton of gas stations. They indicated that their margins on gasoline have gone far far up and offsetted and losses of sales of drink/snacks et
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by blantonl 6y ago
My wife's name is Karen, and I've teased her about it over the past 6 months and she's kept mum about it. She finally admitted to me that it gets on her nerves greatly and she resents all of it. It came as quite a shock to m
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by blantonl 6y ago
Making a business transaction convenient typically involves a process of imagining a way to do things better.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Some of the very brightest software engineers in the world work at Facebook. As much as I would love to rip on Facebook, I also understand that integrated software development is hard, and I guarantee you that Facebook is "doing it be
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by blantonl 6y ago
Bugs happen. Tests miss edge cases. Shit happens. This will be a fart in the wind and lessons will be learned.
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by blantonl 6y ago
Do you not remember the wretched hive of scum and villainy that was Usenet?

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