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by epc 9y ago
Chase seems to have moved their "hands on" banking to their "Private Bankers" (who you qualify for if you have some minimum amount of money or debt across your accounts).
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by epc 9y ago
PairDomains.com – boring UI, strong passwords allowed, two factor authentication via TOTP or SMS. Cover most of the popular TLDs but not many of the crazy new ones nor country based TLDs. Zero upsell, zero scammy lockins so far.
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by epc 9y ago
I'd hope you were kidding, because I went through this very thing, at IBM, in the 1990s and got a corporate legal standard put in place. Or so I thought, because I'm fairly certain everything we did in the 1990s has been thoroughl
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by epc 9y ago
Many do but not all (I have a Samsung which does and an Acer which doesn't).
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by epc 9y ago
I ran one of those greasemonkey scripts to (try to) delete my Facebook profile posts in mid–2016. Some months later I decided to just delete my account entirely. Many of the posts I thought I'd deleted were still in the account archi
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by epc 9y ago
An analytical perspective which ignores consumer sentiment in a market economy is academically moot. Medallion owners could have been more flexible with leasing terms as Uber flooded the zone, but did not. Taxi drivers could have ceased dis
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by epc 9y ago
Consumers do not care about market externalities. Consumers do not care about the "cost based reasons". Yellow taxis were given a monopoly in NYC, the trade off was to accept all rides within the City. I lived in Brooklyn Heights
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by epc 9y ago
The article glosses over that there were three train-on-train collisions in 1995, and a couple earlier in the 1990s. There was another incident when an IRT sped too fast through Union Square (there's a significant bend in Union Square
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by epc 9y ago
Yeah…I don't know if it's the depth or type of construction but I can get enough signal to check mail and occasionally twitter on the R and 1/2/3/4/5 but not the A/C/E.
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by epc 9y ago
The original title is "Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels". There's wifi + LTE coverage in stations today. I don't know if it's part of this program or something els
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by epc 9y ago
In the 1990s you could carry on a conversation on the "analog" cell phones (AMPS vs CDMA/TDMA) in the cut & cover lines in NYC (lines which are 12-20 feet below street surface). The signal would fade but wouldn't dro
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by epc 9y ago
I’m obviously biased but I thought it was a decent O/S. App support was minimal but with the WinOS2 support you could run most Windows code. I thought the TCP/IP stack was years ahead of Windows, not quite comparable to what you&
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by epc 9y ago
I live in the neighborhood. It's a nightmare to walk throthere during the day, but fairly quiet in the morning until 10. Also a decent place to pick up dinner after 6:00, especially if you enter through one of the side doors.
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by epc 9y ago
Something to remember with that book is that it's a highly selective perspective. Gerstner did do a lot to turn IBM around, possibly the best thing he did was to cut through tradition and corporate poltics with a chainsaw to make decis
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by epc 9y ago
The real estate fire sale started in 1992 along with the spin–outs of various divisions (some of which completed, like IBM Federal Systems and Lexmark, others were halted by Gerstner like AdStar (storage systems) and Pennant (big printers).
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by epc 9y ago
Chelsea Market has a lot of unused FAR, I think 300,000 square feet or more. Also not landmarked so easier to redevelop.
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by epc 9y ago
The company was hyper focused on developing a complex solution which was not practical for the state of technology at the time, yet dropped everything to burn three weeks of development time on a pet project of one of the founders which had
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by epc 9y ago
Right. My point is that the MTA is controlled by New York State, not New York City. HN comments tend to conflate the two and then gloss into a general "ultra liberal bankrupt NYC" critique. Many things to criticize NYC over, but m
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by epc 9y ago
As an employee I almost resigned the first week at a startup but convinced myself the bad vibe I was getting was an overreaction. It wasn't. I ended up resigning within six months. As an occasional hiring manager I would prefer a cand
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by epc 9y ago
No. The MTA was formed in the 1960s to take over operations of the then–bankrupt privately owned Long Island Railroad, assuming operations of New York City transit in late 1960s. NYCT had itself been formed in the 1940s after the then-priva
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by epc 9y ago
Minor correction but neither project in the story is managed by New York City. Although the city owns the subway, it's controlled by the MTA state agency (which is also responsible for East Side Access to Grand Central).
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by epc 9y ago
Aside from slashdot, various Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. May not seem obvious but AOL had a number of moderated discussion areas, as did CI$ and Fidonet. Not sure if any of those are archived. If you're looking for finance (v
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by epc 9y ago
The "rule change" in 2014 mostly served to codify as regulation the de facto practice in the US and in response to a US Federal court ruling that through out the previous FCC position on network neutrality. Prior to 2014, ISPs in
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by epc 9y ago
I did this, taking off from February through August 2001. Taking a sabbatical destroyed my professional career but probably saved my life. If you do it make sure you have a rough plan of what you hope to accomplish during the sabbatical, an
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by epc 9y ago
Shorter alternate take: Don't check your NYC metro area street smarts when you get in the car, drive defensively, be prepared for winter storms and possibly getting stuck in the car for a couple of days in a worst case scenario, and yo
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by epc 9y ago
I drove an SUV from NYC to SFO in April 2011, alone with two dogs. It isn't a particularly bad drive but it's extremely boring. If the weather is clear, I80 is fine across PA, otherwise I'd take 76 (wider, ploughed more ofte
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by epc 9y ago
What would be the value to the organization? How does it benefit me to let any random user agent know what my tech stack is? I used to run a F100 web site. In my naiveté I put up a page with extremely high level details about what we were
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by epc 9y ago
No. The only thing that helped a bit was the saline spray the ENTs use, which I suspect had some mild steroids. That would help sinuses open for a few hours. The symptoms, in retrospect, were the constant feeling of a stuffy noise and heada
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by epc 9y ago
Just a follow up…I got tested for sleep apnea because I fit the profile (overweight, snorer) but they found no evidence that I stopped breathing at all overnight. The sinus thing didn't get diagnosed until one of my frontal sinuses cl
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by epc 9y ago
That worked for me for awhile (mix of actifed + loratadine/claritin) but eventually the inflammation got so bad that no medication worked.

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