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by likpok 4y ago
It depends on how much the court thinks he stole (of the billions). The US Sentencing Guidelines tops out at around $550 million dollars, which adds 30 levels. Plus some adjustments: 2 for using mass marketing or 4-6 for causing financial h
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by likpok 4y ago
> The thing about too big to fail is that it's not that someone is so big there's no way they can fail; it's that someone is so big the government is forced to bail them out instead of letting them fail. Given that cryptoc
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by likpok 4y ago
Some supplements are expensive, some are not. Creatine, B12, iron and zinc are all cheap. They are also specifically all available in vegan forms. You're better off getting micronutrients from food sure but there are other options if f
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by likpok 4y ago
When google started search was a big business with a number of competitors. The most popular, Yahoo, was one of the biggest sites! There was even a meta-search engine (dogpile, I think?) that would run searches against several of the top co
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by likpok 4y ago
It seems like the article is mostly talking about micronutrients like iron and zinc absorption rather than the protein. While important to keep in mind it doesn't seems like a big indictment of meat substitutes. Take a supplement and m
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by likpok 4y ago
It's all the tooling: phabricator has diffs, perforce has changelists and git has both "merge" and "pull". Tools don't agree on what to call stuff, and everyone uses different tools (and a lot of these tools ar
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by likpok 4y ago
There are vegan flocculants -- guinness switched a while back, making their beer vegan.
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by likpok 4y ago
Wouldn't the people only in it for a paycheck leave (because the stock becomes less valuable), leaving only the mission-oriented true believers?
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by likpok 4y ago
Apple has (allegedly) deliberately handicapped mobile safari to make sure you can only ship a good mobile experience via an app. That gives the the leverage to demand the cut from everything, because they can then kick you off of iphones if
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by likpok 4y ago
I'd be surprised if they did a meaningful staff reduction without hitting 50 employees at their main office in south SF. A 5% reduction (alleged in the tweet) is something like 400 people for Stripe. Furthermore, the DOL has already de
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by likpok 4y ago
> - Companies aren't required to pay severance when doing layoffs. The WARN act requires advance notice of 60 days. I think most companies prefer to pay severance, but it's pretty much equivalent. California has more strict rul
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by likpok 4y ago
> You lose, you piss off the judge, and any jury will most likely assume you have something to hide that is even worse than a guilty verdict. Also note that in a civil trial you do not have a right against self-incrimination. You can ref
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by likpok 4y ago
The merger agreement stipulates that Twitter can require specific performance (that is: force musk to buy them). It's an open question whether or not the judge would have ruled that way, but Musk was consistently losing the early battl
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by likpok 4y ago
In this interpretation, FB should not have been fined for CA. While it’s a cogent theory, regulators disagree with you and they have guns backing them up.
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by likpok 4y ago
If the app is downloading the data, what’s stopping it from sending the data to the app makers? Previously FB paid a 5 billion dollar fine because of insufficiently policing third part app developers.
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by likpok 4y ago
This is exactly the crux of the problem. Consider Alice and bob, where bob used CA and Alice did not. Alice shares her data with bob. What can Bob do with it? Can he share it with CA? It’s messy! Another similar problem in this vein is data
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by likpok 4y ago
An app downloading data on behalf of the user is basically what Cambridge Analytica was doing. The problem is that data ownership is complicated. If I know your phone number, can I share it with other people? That was CA (me downloading dat
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by likpok 4y ago
It strikes me that (2) isn't necessarily even what you want. Optimization will change the character of the program, often radically. Should the debugger reflect the source code says it should do or what the optimized code is actually d
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by likpok 4y ago
There's a number of contact products that allow you to sleep in them. Mine do leave me feeling a little gummy in the morning but it generally fades shortly after waking up. A previous brand (the air optix?) I lived in for a month at a
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by likpok 4y ago
Pure methanol is a little annoying to source. It seems like you can only buy it from lab supply shops -- not impossible to get but not exactly at the local Walgreens. All of this feels a little overkill for eyeglasses. Dish soap works very
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by likpok 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve traveled to London a lot and the new office is a short walk from the Elizabeth line. It’s an even shorter walk than the tube! The new line would have to be quite bad for me to stick with heathrow express (once the Elizabeth line
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by likpok 4y ago
You can take the tube to heathrow today, and it’s not too bad an experience. Going to soho it’s only 20 minutes longer than heathrow express (and no train change!). It is a bit annoying to take from terminal 3 — they really push you to the
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by likpok 4y ago
It’s hard to find a bank to take your money, since you’re something that rhymes with money laundering. Tether had a bunch of money stolen from them because the money launderer they used turned out to be a crook. It also takes a long time to
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by likpok 5y ago
Courts have traditionally given the board wide leeway to decide what is best. There was the one case (Dodge v. Ford Motor Co) that held otherwise but it's been walked back in recent years.
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by likpok 5y ago
Every other shareholder gets access to the shares. So the effect is: you can buy $420 worth of twitter stock for $210 unless you're elon musk or working in concert with elon musk. Some poison pills just give the shareholder extra share
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by likpok 5y ago
Some password managers have automation to change passwords, but it's... janky. I think they've manually implemented stuff for some sites (and it works for some sites and managers, not all sites).
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by likpok 5y ago
I don't think you can reasonably expect 100% remote if "travel to the main office occasionally" is "not 100% remote". Pre-pandemic I worked with people who were both full-time remote (lived in another state) and who
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by likpok 5y ago
The Romans knew about and documented the risks of asbestos, so don't be so sure. They also knew about some of the risks of lead. Vitruvius (during Augustus) wrote that water through clay pipes is better and purer, and others comment ab
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by likpok 5y ago
You wouldn't want to run one giant cluster, but at hyper scale you're talking about running thousands or tens of thousands of kubernetes clusters. That's the part that doesn't scale well, for a couple of reasons. The b
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by likpok 5y ago
At hyper scale you don't need to worry about sharing as much because the important services are far bigger than one machine. That sidesteps the problem: you can apply whatever sysctls or configs you need to do before starting the conta

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