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by eganist 6y ago
The current-gen mail vehicle is called the LLV - literally the Grumman Long Life Vehicle - and the mileage these things have taken on speaks well to the name. USPS tends to order these things with the expectation that they'll last fore
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by eganist 6y ago
Are you doing implementation work hands-on and willing to sub? I'm in VA.
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by eganist 6y ago
The domain is fine. My reasoning is that I know John (johnjhacking), have worked with him, have at times educated him, have on more occasions learned from him, and lastly, the attribution chain is * twitter.com/johnjhacking refers user
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by eganist 6y ago
John Jackson (johnjhacking) is not jacksonhhax, though they're both part of the same group. For context, John's a vet who's employed in the field. And beyond that, he's published other sound security research in the past
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by eganist 6y ago
> at the end of the day we are all losers who have decided to spend our precious time on a Friday night glued to HN. It gets worse. Many of us are probably reading HN while listening to Clubhouse at the same time.
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by eganist 6y ago
Someone's comment raising fear about unmitigated transmission risk got flagged to death, so here's the comment I originally wrote in response to it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.2125
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by eganist 6y ago
We'll always have boundless bandwidth to learn from you. Thank you!
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by eganist 6y ago
> Give me Parler's software and I will host it in Russia... that's where USA's free speech usually come from anyways (free as in somewhat controversial, popular and still allowed). Doubt. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by eganist 6y ago
The former, probably not. But the latter fits within the context of "21st century Sears"
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by eganist 6y ago
> Let's assume a court convicted someone of murder within this zone. Let's also assume the evidence was overwhelming and the act was premeditated because the murderer had knowledge of the Sixth Amendment and this loophole. The
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by eganist 6y ago
> Facebook (24%) and Google (32%) compete pretty intensely for mobile ad spend. While we don’t know how much Facebook uses Google ads, that theory isn’t particularly satisfying because they compete so intensely. And yet... https:/&
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by eganist 6y ago
> How is Matrix a threat to Google? Conjecture on my part: it's a threat to the ad spend Google gets from Facebook.
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by eganist 6y ago
Worth pointing out that two of the viruses[0][1] responsible for the Common Cold share the same exact Family (in fact, the exact Genus[2]) as SARS-CoV-2 [3]. This isn't to say that the progression is certainly in this direction (better
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by eganist 6y ago
Ostensibly not enough faith in security tokens as a method of managing shares. Still surprising from a strategic angle considering an acquisition of a platform like Carta could have given them a head start.
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by eganist 6y ago
downdetector.com did well today. Front page showed a generalized web issue, and any one of the individual services' status pages showed it was geographically localized to the midatlantic and northeast US.
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by eganist 6y ago
Worth noting that this looks like total comp. Which is fine, but the implication of course is that a good percentage of the comp comes from stock, which is a bit easier to manage as a form of payment than actual dollars.
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by eganist 6y ago
That's fair. So long as they're still working with you through it (and if they goofed, are working to resolve it), it's fine. I was concerned for a moment they'd ghosted.
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by eganist 6y ago
> And why do you care so much who they are? They didn't harm you and in reality they didn't harm anyone. In the real world people don't deal with minor contractual grievances by naming and shaming. Knowing who's relia
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by eganist 6y ago
It might be worth the quick math. As I put (edited, really) in my top comment, it's mostly just to have an entity you can reasonably go after if they goof. A related question: Considering how far back this goes, what's stopping yo
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by eganist 6y ago
Appreciate you. Santa_boy came through, so feel free to distribute!
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by eganist 6y ago
You're under a bright enough limelight as of late, and especially right now, that the administrative overcharge of a reputable accounting firm such as any of the Big 4 may be worth the returns in the form of improved accountability -
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by eganist 6y ago
if those haven't been claimed, I'm up for it. Twitter's proven to be less the kind of environment to publicly engage others for the sake of learning something new. Tweeted per your instruction.
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by eganist 6y ago
How is this article only four sentences long? USA Today gave it better treatment with added context for those curious as to some of the bets Godiva took in the year before the pandemic that increased their economic exposure to the pandemic.
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by eganist 6y ago
> Hey, you took my advice! You specified that the matter had urgency! Good job! No, not at all. You requested a description of the topic. Urgency, whether explicit or implicit, is always there when someone requests a synchronous convers
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by eganist 6y ago
People like to maintain control over their own time and attention; I totally get it. But you're right, I'm also surprised at the extremes to which people are taking it, going so far as to assume that ephemerality and confidentiali
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by eganist 6y ago
The former I agree with. The latter I've always interpreted to mean the former. I guess this is where our experiences diverge. I've never encountered what you described with the latter; it's always been someone who followed u
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by eganist 6y ago
> You're joking, right? I'll print your chat history of a single "hi" and that'll be all the evidence I need to clear my name. That print-out is going on my wall afterwards. You're funny. Counterpoint: >
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by eganist 6y ago
> Even in that case, "Are you around for a call?" gets the point across far better than "Hey, are you there?" Can I ask the difference between these two in practical terms? Edit: > the only times someone's be
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by eganist 6y ago
> Mike doesn't need to share the details. He just needs to tell me what it's about and ask when I'm free. I'll be happy to carve out time in my schedule and offer up, say, 30 minutes at 2pm. If he needs to talk soone
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by eganist 6y ago
> If you didn't, then I'll be forced to assume it's not important. At least you clearly didn't care enough to put in a tiny amount of effort. That's your prerogative, but it also exposes you to corporate risk if

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