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by epc 6y ago
This was just posted recently: https://github.com/kuchin/awesome-cto
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by epc 6y ago
The only way Token Ring could have ruled the world was if it was developed outside IBM. Instead it came out of the same corporate cultural moment that birthed MCA and the PS/2 line and APPC over SNA (to rival, sort of, GOSIP and TCP&#
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by epc 6y ago
Pairdomains (pairdomains.com) offers it for $0.00/year. But…be absolutely, 100%, certain that the information contained in the registry record is 100% accurate for name of registering organization and contact information. Because the
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by epc 6y ago
This is purely a guess based on my own suspensions but: some jerk reported your account and Twitter's automated bot routines went ahead and suspended it.
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by epc 6y ago
Were you actively using it (even just to read tweets)? I’ve had several dormant accounts suspended over the years (accounts I had but was not actively using to read or post). Was able to get them reactivated after going through their proced
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by epc 6y ago
Possibly. I mean, I'm a stereotypical East Coast liberal "elite SJW" so the founder's question would have been perfectly acceptable to me (if I were the GP of the fund). I would say that the closer a fund is to one of th
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by epc 6y ago
Am an LP in a couple of tiny funds…a lot of the funds have verbiage to the effect that the GP will not reveal any information about LPs except as required by law (I'm not saying that's what happened here, and the firms should have
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by epc 6y ago
Which state collects unemployment and workmen’s compensation insurance?
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The Downers Grove store was in a weird location, it's not really on the way to or from anywhere except the freeway exits or if you’re trying to bypass Highland.
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The point wasn't that mRNA was the way to go, the point was that the only reasonable way to prepare to mass produce any vaccines, mRNA or "traditional" formats, was for a government to either nationalize development of the pr
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by epc 6y ago
The market clearly decided that investing a trillion dollars in speculative capacity was not valuable. Absent Federal intervention (in the US at least), where would the money come from? Had the Trump Administration utilized the Defense Pro
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by epc 6y ago
An identity for a product or service which sets it apart from the competition.
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I have a 2" square cube of the original IBM Armonk (now "North Castle") hideous orange carpet. They had to replace all of it after the fire in 1995 and offered anyone who had an office these cubes. Also an original IBM &quot
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by epc 6y ago
Assuming that I’ve met the expectations set in the statement of work or contract, I finish the outstanding items and then drop the client. It is never worth it, such clients almost always have an excuse why they cannot pay outstanding invo
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by epc 6y ago
Just in the past week someone posted what appears to be control room video from CNN in 1991 (and others): https://youtu.be/5CxWCWhs-uc - start of the US air war, https://youtu.be/RpClxMvpEmM - second hour.
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by epc 6y ago
Facts don’t attract viewers, facts don’t pay.
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In 1955 IBM mainframe users formed SHARE which grew to be one of two mainframe user groups (the other being Guide, defunct since 1999). SHARE runs conferences, provides software builds (or did) and serves as a way for MVS ("Z/OS&
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by epc 6y ago
My shorter version: Precedent in the US is that the US views its jurisdiction over US citizens and corporations as global. If I as a US citizen step over the border to your country and bribe an official of your country in order to gain a c
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by epc 6y ago
Keep that in mind the next time you encounter a US based newspaper that puts up a GDPR error page instead of serving the news article you requested. The EU asserts it can penalize a US based company a percentage of its worldwide revenue (n
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by epc 6y ago
It’s been my personal experience that the US government does not distinguish between a US company offering products and services in the US and a US company offering those products and services outside the US. Even foreign subsidiaries are
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by epc 6y ago
Given the pressure by the EU and China on US companies to enforce local laws globally (GDPR, RTBF, Taiwan), I don't see how Github, operating in the US, as a US company, has any chance absolving itself of enforcing US laws and regulati
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by epc 6y ago
I go to https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire , skim the top 10-20 article blurbs and open 5-7 in tabs. I never read every article in the paper. I skim news (not just NYT: WSJ, FT, Guardian, some local papers) twice a day. Mos
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by epc 6y ago
Did you try CoQ10 supplements? I added some after the first bout of muscle pain and it tempered it (not completely).
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by epc 6y ago
Any chance there weren't any line filters on the POTS equipment? I haven't had DSL in years but when I did I had to have filters on any telephone devices connected to the same line.
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The most consistent person-to-person communications error I've experienced is the failure to document decisions clearly and concisely in a mutually agreed upon interpretation of the decision. I've been in multiple contentious meet
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The problem with that scenario is that it's probably the same public legislatures that have failed to fund adequate information security for these public institutions. If such a law was paired with appropriate funding then sure, go ah
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Settlements and consent decrees are not the worst thing in the world. IBM was never prosecuted but the fear induced by the 1970s antitrust investigation likely caused the series of missteps IBM made in the 1980s that allowed the personal c
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by epc 6y ago
Monopolies are not illegal in the U.S. Leveraging your monopoly in one market to constrain business in another market is. Microsoft wasn't prosecuted because Windows was a monopoly, Microsoft was prosecuted because it leveraged that mo
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There's weird gaps where groups have some posts from a given date but not all of the posts (e.g. I know I posted to csm.hypercard on 24 April 1990 and can see it in Google's dejanews cache, but not in this cache which has other po
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Do his comments add any value, regardless of how they are delivered? Or do they primarily serve to derail discussions? Does he have any formal responsibilities at all or is he an éminence grise, probably with some patents or a major product

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