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by mox1 6y ago
So your telling me that 0 of the partners in those SV firms above have the phone numbers of 0 these short selling hedge funds partners in their phones right now? I'm on the fence whether someone influential actually called the CEO of D
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by mox1 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6n4ay/the_... Quote: Discord has had significant investment from private equity funds including FirstMark Capital, Greenoaks Capital Partners, Index
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by mox1 6y ago
GME stock has been on nasdaq's "failed to deliver" list for about a month now. That means someone sold a GME share they didn't own (short) and failed to give it to the new owner within the correct timeframe (3 business d
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by mox1 6y ago
Just another point here. The original (aka prior to Jan 15ths ish) reddit traders had a fair market value of $80-$150 on this stock. Looking at the current options prices, if / when this is all over GME will probably land within that r
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by mox1 6y ago
So FYI, the Reddit WSB "shutdown" was temporary and on purpose (by the mod admins) to clean up the page a bit. It was private for an hour or two and back up. Discord, not so. Looking at the financial backers of Discord, you can pr
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by mox1 6y ago
As someone who has spent the last few months following WSB, to me it feels very much like an old school Internet club/social scene/etc. Reminds me a lot being involved in a niche IRC community or something. Along with all the sill
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by mox1 6y ago
Well from that point of view "Everything is Marketing"...perhaps that isn't wrong.
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by mox1 6y ago
Formerly known as Piwik, been around for a long time.
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by mox1 6y ago
Someone gave a talk at my college early after the release of the original Xbox. It was definitely "Based" off of Windows 2000. So like I would call this a white-lie. Basically just the kernel and file system if I remember correctl
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by mox1 6y ago
Virustotal has a back-end API that is pseudo-public. You just have to call them and pay $$$$ for access. For enough money they will absolutely let you download every sample submitted to them, in near real-time. All the big 3 letter US agenc
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by mox1 6y ago
No probably not. More of a "Benchmark vs. Power Consumption" war I think. Power users understand today that max MHZ doesn't even matter anymore, for various reasons. I think power consumption (even in desktops, servers) will
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by mox1 6y ago
Well...maybe. I'm sure they are leaving some revenue on the table short term here. I'm sure they make more $$ per unit on their Retail CPU's and GPU's.
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by mox1 6y ago
I wish there was an option for a one-time payment for this effort. I really want to support this, but I hate monthly subscription things. I'd love to throw $50 or whatever his way and hope for the best.
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by mox1 6y ago
So eventually we are going to have an answer to these questions. There is a notion of "excess deaths" ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm ). It will be pretty hard to l
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by mox1 6y ago
I pay $15 / month for the youtube music family plan. That includes ad free youtube and ad free youtube kids. Youtube kids (with proper video/channel whitelisting) is the main thing my toddlers watch. It has BBC shows (peppa pig),
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by mox1 6y ago
Completely agree. Look at this older copyright lawsuit from 2010 about copyright and video games ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar... .) The court ruled that players of the game weren't
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by mox1 6y ago
You could easily add APIs for cert pinning at the OS level. Or provide the details needed to verify with the OS -> Program call return.
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by mox1 6y ago
The rebuttal to your reasoning is in the letter. Basically a federal judge has previously ruled that utilizing a publicly available password is not circumvention of a copyright protection mechanism. The code containing the "sig" (
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by mox1 6y ago
I'm sure AI-inspired 5g cloud connected human brain interface gig economy algorithms will clean it all up in 2031, so why even mention it!?
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by mox1 6y ago
But in this case the remedy is head to your local town hall and start complaining. The "monopoly" is usually a 5ish year contract that the city sends out for bids. I'd love the ability to head to city hall and convince local
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by mox1 6y ago
Not just during bankruptcy, but overall a 401(k) and similar retirement plans that fall under ERISA* rules are pretty heavily protected from creditors (besides the IRS). Something to consider if you plan on going into a risky area of busine
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by mox1 6y ago
You have no intrinsic right to a mobile telephone, so we do live in this world. If it made business sense for them to do this, they would. Call in a few threats to local businesses or SWAT someone and see how long it takes for your phone to
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by mox1 6y ago
Yes, it is considered more tax advantaged method of returning capitol to shareholders. Dividends get taxed as corporate profits, then again as income downstream. Buybacks are not taxed at either stage.
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by mox1 6y ago
So you had me until the "waste my time going to a gas station". How do you "re-energize" that electric car of yours?
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by mox1 6y ago
That sounds correct from what I have heard as well.
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by mox1 6y ago
Relative is in HR at a big4, this is basically correct. Some ballpark numbers. A "first year" partner may have to pay ~$150,000 into the partnership, on perhaps a $300,000ish a year in profit sharing. Usually this is just a reduct
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by mox1 6y ago
From what I have read a lot of the movement during COVID has been from major metro are to nearby smaller city. For example in my midwestern city (Minneapolis) there was a recent article in the paper about home prices in a smaller (but touri
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by mox1 6y ago
And how is this any different than what has happened with high-school athletics over the same time-frame? Parents regularly now spend thousands (tens of thousands!) of dollars on elite athlete training for 5th-8th graders in order to make
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by mox1 6y ago
As someone who runs a Banks internal Red Team group, the App Whitelisting is the biggest roadblock for us. Carbon Black (if properly setup and tuned) is a large leap to overcome. Drive-by attacks just stop, you need a dedicated method to by
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by mox1 6y ago
A friends company is planning on bringing 50% back to the office in October. Which effectively means instead of 4-8 hours of Zoom meetings at his house, he can take them sitting at his desk in the building, while the other 50% sit at home.

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