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by nixgeek 5y ago
Article buried the lede somewhat: “This employee in our Zurich office was absolutely not terminated for writing this or any other memo. Discussion and criticism of workplace policies is fine, but in this case there had been more than 11 com
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From the S-1 they have a fair amount of cash on hand and substantial borrowing facilities which are currently unused. They’re clearly able to raise funds privately.
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Given the prevalence of geofence warrants nowadays, I don’t think the situation needs to be especially nefarious in nature. Perhaps you don’t want to be scrutinized just because you and 370 others were within 300 yards of a crime occurring?
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You’re both correct, but Apple is optimizing for the majority with their ‘Find My’ network, where the majority don’t have a threat model which includes exploitation of a target by a nation state actor. It’s a toggle in Settings to turn off
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by nixgeek 5y ago
When I signed up for Amazon’s credit card it was because 5% back is a meaningful amount given we spend >=$25k a year on Amazon. Using the card we do: ~400 orders a year online; ~2 shops a week at Whole Foods; 2-3 lunches a week at Amazon
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by nixgeek 5y ago
I suggest you consult the HN Guidelines. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Comments
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It gets significantly more expensive ($3,099) if you opt for 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. I assume there's quite a lot of material cost for the parts which don't change (GPU, Screen, Battery, et al).
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Microsoft Surface Duo 2(theverge.com)
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio(theverge.com)
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Timing of the CFO joining is interesting to me. From the S-1, Brian Robins joined GitLab in October 2020, so the desire to go public may have been there but an IPO is an enormous amount of work and I can imagine goes much better with an exp
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What's your source for the ARR comparison, out of interest? I'm of a different impression, and believe GitHub's ARR was actually quite a bit higher than GitLab at the point Microsoft executed that deal. Do you think the GitHu
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by nixgeek 5y ago
I wonder if there's a map which shows HOA-encumbered property. Anecdotally, when I searched for a large modern home around Seattle in 2020, there was vanishingly little on the market which was not HOA-encumbered, and so the choice was
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Tell me more about 10x its server share? Do you have an industry citation showing AMD shipping 10x the sockets?
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Any chance this will get packaged up as a container instead of “pipx install”, then all the timers can just be in the container, and it can control via Docker socket exposed to the container? Simple one-time setup and then everything is a c
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AWS EC2 M6i Ice Lake Instances(aws.amazon.com)
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You don’t pay $7.5B for things which are “floundering economically” usually. It was a strategic buy, and likely reflects a healthy multiple on revenue. Kudos to Microsoft for being the one to get the deal done, I’m very confident GitHub had
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Yes. https://blog.1password.com/totp-for-1password-users/ It isn’t a degradation of security, in my opinion, it’s an upgrade, when certain accounts are involved. For these shared accounts, such as those used by my fami
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by nixgeek 5y ago
I don’t really think $8/user/mo for Business is overcharging compared to Slack which quickly gets into $30+ per user per month in larger shops where Enterprise Grid is required for its features. By your argument why can’t I buy th
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Part of the issue here was his agreement with the prosecutor to plead to one count of a crime, thereby leading to a maximum sentence of 60 months. Had he been tried, found guilty and convicted of all counts of all crimes it’s likely the sen
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We’ve just been paying a $30/mo upcharge for unlimited data (removal of overage charges). Basically because it’s more predictable than the $10 for every 50GB overages. A few months we’ve had 4-5TB through the service and Comcast doesn’
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At least in PNW the service isn’t 900/40 any more, it’s advertised as “1.2Gbps” and the profile actually seems to be 20% over that, I’ve seen 1.5Gbps or 170-180MB/sec downstream performance recently. Upstream is still <= 50Mbps
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It’s 240V/400A split-phase service, PNW, around $0.11/kWh. Air conditioning is a big part of it when the temperatures are high. Also charging multiple bEV, a lot of 24x7 loads: half-dozen fridges, a couple large freezers, wine cel
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We were at 5MWh last month, so it’s all relative. Don’t feel bad.
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Since the basics of Sentient were only declassified in 2019 it’s possible disclosure of the fact there’s a next iteration and it’s name is Cyberdyne would constitute disclosure of classified information?
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It could be a CPU issue, and ECC doesn’t save you from all of these: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/02/23/data-infrastructure/si... https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11245
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I think this is always going to be a very personal choice, I have Herman Miller Embody office chairs and they’re hands down the most comfortable chair I’ve ever used. Beats out the H-M Aaron, the Humanscale Freedom, and all of the Steelcase
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Military BGAN doesn’t get anywhere near this throughput in this package, so the size-performance is quite different there IMO, and isn’t a fair comparison to what Starlink is doing with their terminal.
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We're entering an era where the content providers and the major clouds are >50% of demand on new subsea capacity. Feels like this blurs 'Tier 1' and the role of backbones because major eyeball networks now interconnect dir
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Yes, several, they mostly all work in security and actually read the Platform Security Guide and made a decision the inconveniences were outweighed by the strengths of not storing that key. Remember also that subpoenas rarely permit “fishin
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No property at all?

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