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> This is definitely unscrupulous. However it is not unscrupulous. Business and making money in this way is not unscrupulous. There is nothing to guarantee also that if the domain were not taken by a registrar it would be available to pu
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> This experience left me convinced that Namecheap is holding onto domains to make a profit. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar issues with Namecheap and if there are other trustworthy registrars to consider. If you have any
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> This is the most surprising. Why was it so? How about 'let's get him back alive'. If that had not happened there quite likely would have been no program or a big delay in the program. The writer (as is typical looks at u
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Hate generally the 'if not for' type stories (usually by writers about certain inventors or some technology) . They would have figured out even if this hadn't happened that photography made sense to do. Also in addition to wh
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I used to visit this site a great deal but I haven't been there in years. I don't even know how many years. Other than generally Amazon doing layoffs my guess is interest in equipment that they talk about has dropped greatly and s
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https://zenithair.net/ (Some nice video on home page)
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> the bankers realized that Morgan had locked them in the library and pocketed the key to force a solution, the sort of strong-arm tactic he had been known to use in the past. While that story is often repeated it sounds for sure apocryp
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There is nothing credible to indicate that it actually sold for $11m that was apparently the asking price. It could have sold for more it could have sold for vastly less. https://domaininvesting.com/ai-com-forwarding-chatgpt
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> even come close to being acceptable against a $250 million bond? Maybe the purpose of $250m is to get attention not to mean anything more than $5m (considering if he skips they are not collecting $250m
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> because we're too bored, and looking for fun stories. It's an interesting story. Your comment reminds me of one time when PG (when he used to comment) parent-ally said 'now you should all get back to work'. > The
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> The legislation gave the IRS $15 million to stand up the task force, as well as nine months to deliver a report to Congress on whether the direct e-file system would be cost-effective for the IRS to operate, and whether taxpayers would
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> but kind of gross the way Garmin slides in an ad for its products Gross? So we have a company that is in business to make money and employs people and spends money at other companies (that employ and give people jobs). And they can&#x2
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The AI Assist(avc.com)
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I was not able to find a way to see (prior to purchase) the age of the stock image (is that info on the site?). Also if you order a new image how do you know it will be taken when no clouds (or is that just obvious they only take when not o
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> When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not even exist. I would like to know where writing such as this is taught. Everyone knows what '52 years' is there is no reason to embellish it in th
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Yes that is actually https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
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My experience confirms the general concept here (the number at 5% is arbitrary I'd place it higher than that). The point is (and I have found this to be true) if you deal with enough people you will hit on people who have let's sa
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No this should not be correct (that is if you are assuming the 3-5% rules is correct and I'm not saying it is). The people who work for companies are vetted by the company so in theory the percentage of people who are bad would have to
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> As such, i maintain she probably did this because she didn't want the case. I was going to agree with this but then I realized and made this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34120906 Essentially I fee
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> It has come to the Courts attention that the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, at which my husband is a partner, advised FTX in 2021, as well as represented parties that may be adverse to FTX and Defendant Bankman-Fried in oth
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> The vast vast majority of people are not "signaling" when they do things, they are just doing things. Well forgetting the fact that neither of us can prove what we think about this I do believe it's a form of signaling.
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More important things? You mean getting more publicity and attention for their efforts as well as praise for what they discovered? Separate point do people really 'worry' about hosting a website where all it has to do is display s
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> You reach a huge audience. You would reach the same huge audience by putting in a summary and link to a website with the detailed info. > If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air So someone who is capable enough
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> and punishment for her is simultaneously punishment to the innocent child You are being (as I read and reply) down-voted but that is a valid point. The government will prosecute parents for what they do to their children but under anot
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Among other things you are not factoring in the time, anxiety, and other downsides associated with both being charged with a crime as well as also knowing that you might be charged with a crime. During both prior to and after you are charge
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A legal contract is only as good as someone's ability to enforce it. Otherwise the idea that it's some kind of a bond and companies or people should or do just 'the right thing' is not unfortunately reality. I would not
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> No, you canʻt solve it by making them anonymous, because then you will be accused of having an unaccountable Star Chamber of secret elites (especially if, I dunno, you just took the company private too). No, no, they have to be public
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> most banks and ATMs scan serial numbers when receiving or distributing cash That is potentially a clue. But in itself would not answer to a legal certainty (that one fact) that a bill with a serial number in a nefarious transaction mea
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What do you think about what Peter Roberts does with his periodic AMA's? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33191603 The answers are short because of course how much can you give in this type of AMA when an attorney
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That could also be because a story about something tickles others to post other stories and then it snowballs. (Noting that I noticed the same about Clojure years before that and made a comment elsewhere that it was what HN cared about beca

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