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by epc 2y ago
There were other victims who were not insured by the FDIC because he stole from their non-bank funds: “After blowing through his own funds seeking promised profits, Hanes stole tens of thousands from a local church, then a local investor cl
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by epc 2y ago
I encountered this with Apple Music / Musicmatch. Tracks I'd ripped from original CDs were replaced with different recordings. Some were actually better, but most weren't, and I kept running into region blocking on tracks I
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by epc 2y ago
You wouldn't think a single engine could be a single point of failure but the crash of AA 191 in 1979 was due to a cracked engine mount.
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by epc 2y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41130147
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by epc 2y ago
The curriculum that the typical American public school teacher teaches to is set in near–stone by the local school board and the local state education department. In turn that curriculum has to meet certain dates and targets for the myriad
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by epc 2y ago
userid AT nodename was also common in the VM/CMS RSCS world of mainframes (and BITNET).
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by epc 2y ago
Crime, criminals. Mostly organized crime, but the occasional whack jobs who “just need an edge”. Doesn’t matter where you are in the organizational hierarchy, I’d argue the most at risk are the lowest level employees.
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by epc 2y ago
Layoffs are not the primary risk of being an employee at a gambling company.
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by epc 2y ago
This might be a bit morbid but consider contacting estate sales agents in the Poughkeepsie and Rochester areas? The last generation of hard core mainframe employees are all nearing retirement or have retired and as they and their families d
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by epc 2y ago
Cookies.
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by epc 2y ago
Buy advertising, get press coverage, write blog posts, talk at conferences (or post online videos) about problems solved by the cool product. I once was publicly identified as the web guy at an F100 company and it was a fucking nightmare
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by epc 2y ago
The entire point of an indictment is to lay out a series of probable crimes in order to arrest the individual or individuals, stop the crimes in progress, and set up a potential prosecution. It is not a prosecution. Further, as to prosecuti
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by epc 2y ago
The domain ownership hasn't been updated since 2022. Someone is just changing where it redirects to. Since January it's redirected to x.ai, then https://youtu.be/NXpdyAWLDas , and now https://gemini.goog
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by epc 2y ago
Pre-seed is variable, depending on the terms of the note, usually the investment is converted to a percentage of stock with some sort of discount at the series A. Series A…typically 20% for the total investment, with the lead investor taki
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by epc 2y ago
Pre–internet, depending on the size of the store and retail chain, your cash registers might tie to a local small system which in turn talked to a central mainframe (IBM, Dec, Unisys, etc) using APPC over SNA, or TCP/IP, or Decnet, or
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by epc 2y ago
Based on mutual family histories, there’s a very real chance she (85) will outlive me (56). The “if necessary” was more about whether this MBA is driven over by a taxi or if Apple updates cease for it.
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by epc 2y ago
I moved my MIL to the Apple ecosystem circa 2009-2010 and have mostly been satisfied. She has a normal (not admin) user account on her Mac. She cannot install applications*. Her Documents folder is synced to iCloud. Everything is backed up
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by epc 2y ago
Just answering #5 first: on a long enough timeline the only safe way to store information is plain text. I’ve been caching bits and pieces of information I’ve found online since the late 1980s and anything more sophisticated than plain text
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by epc 3y ago
Either path seems like a maintenance nightmare. Are the client requested customizations primarily chrome/look & feel or functional changes to the product? Are these customizations features that could or should be merged back into
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by epc 3y ago
Well, you’re in the US, except Customs & Immigration agents can stop you and demand proof of residence or citizenship.
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by epc 3y ago
I don't know, however having traveled to Europe and Asia, it's pretty common in non–US customs & immigration zones.
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by epc 3y ago
Until you enter the US you are in a weird constitutional grey area. This is why it’s legal for them to search phones in immigration in the US, even if you’re a citizen. As for photography, there’s signs all over the airport I clear immigrat
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by epc 3y ago
I’m building a thing now and I have to say the last thing I’d consider is a status page. Great idea in theory. But the world today sucks and all it does is open you up to, at best, endless complaining. At worst you get the script kiddies
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by epc 3y ago
One thing to consider with a C corp in the US is that it could qualify for QSBS tax benefits. Basically if the resulting entity remains under 50MM in assets and you hold the stock for five years, capital gains can be reduced, to 100% in som
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by epc 3y ago
It's not the C–suite that’s the problem, they’re just doing the bidding of the “shareholder activists” and stock market geniuses who are so brutally focused on extracting every last cent of value from enterprises that sacrificing anyth
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by epc 3y ago
One additional piece of advice: learn to drive an automatic, most of the vehicles you’ll ever drive will be automatic. But, when you’re comfortable with driving, take the time and make the effort to drive a stick (manual). While you’re unl
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by epc 3y ago
If you were born, raised, and now work in NYC there’s no particular reason to learn to drive, and it’s not particularly easy if you’re in a family that doesn’t drive. I’ve been driving since I was 13 (not an NYC native) but go weeks some t
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by epc 3y ago
I have a 50–something friend who just completed this (Brooklyn native, never felt the need, felt constrained during Covid, etc). They used a driving instructor, took classes once or twice during the week (normally works from home so was ea
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by epc 3y ago
Possibly more general than you’re looking for but Marshall Kirkpatrick (ex–techcrunch, readwriteweb, sprinklr, others) has started a curated newsletter on AI: https://aitimetoimpact.com/p/about
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by epc 3y ago
It’s reflected in three properties on that block, the Chrysler building itself and its neighbors (it's BBL 1297-23, 1297-27 and 1297-33). Oddly it only shows up on that block, blocks to the north and south don't show the outline o

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