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   by rajbot 5y ago

   > uBiome was a biotech company that seemed to have it all. Idealistic leaders, a promising idea, and lots of venture capital funding. But eventually, the company had a spectacular downfall. > This March, uBiome's two leaders were
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   uBiome: The Biotech Startup That Became an FBI Target(wsj.com)

   2 points by rajbot 5y ago|1 comments
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   I work at Slack and have learned a lot from our Incident Response program. Brent Chapman helped put it together, and has a USENIX talk about it here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon21/presentation/cha
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   My Volvo has a remote start option, but it costs $200/year to subscribe to the Volvo On-Call service to be able to use it.
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   > SiriusXM also owns Spotify Sirius XM (nasdaq:SIRI) and Spotify (nyse:SPOT) are two different companies. Sirius XM bought pandora in 2019.
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   Please see this heartbreaking Twitter thread from Jason Scott on Sparky Herring and QWK https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1417941046781259782?s=2...
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   If you ever used Fidonet or BBS mail, this was Mark “Sparky” Herring, who developed the .QWK file format, that tragically died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   They couldn’t use forward slash, as it is the divide operator. They couldn’t use a period, like python or java, because they use it as the concatenation operator.
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   by rajbot 5y ago

   See also Burrito Eater, who ate and reviewed 1000 burritos in SF: https://burritoeater.com/faq.php
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    by rajbot 6y ago

    Touchstream is such a magical device!
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    by rajbot 6y ago

    That page links to their GitHub: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
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    by rajbot 6y ago

    20M is the number they switched to after failing to meet their estimate from 3 months ago. In October, HHS Secretary Azar said that Operation Warp Speed would deliver 100 million doses by the end of the year. https://thehill.com&
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    by rajbot 7y ago

    Have you considered manufacturing f.lux for home lighting, such as a wall-mounted controller for Hue or Ikea bulbs that changes color spectrum depending on time of day? Or possibly bulbs with f.lux build in, so no external controller is req
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    by rajbot 7y ago

    These fires are being set intentionally by agribusiness. They don't want to put them out. - https://www.newsweek.com/pray-amazonia-brazil-jair-bolsonaro... - https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22&#x2
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    by rajbot 7y ago

    Slack offers the ability to encrypt messages with your own key, managed in your own AWS KMS account, so chat history and search still work until revoked for a particular channel or time period : https://slack.com/enterprise-
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    by rajbot 7y ago

    I’m surprised there wasn’t a push to standardize units after this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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    by rajbot 8y ago

    His request to call his employer or an attorney was denied: > I asked the agents if I could speak to my employer or an attorney before unlocking my devices. This request seemed to aggravate the customs officers. They informed me that I h
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    by rajbot 8y ago

    > The agents proceeded to search my belongings and demanded that I unlock my smartphone and laptop. This was rather concerning for me. My phone and laptop are property of my employer and contain unreleased software and proprietary inform
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    by rajbot 8y ago

    Microsoft’s use of Linux on Azure cloud was in violation of patents in the OIN patent pool, which includes patents held by Google and IBM. Now, not only are they not in violation without having to pay for licensing, but they are also gettin
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    by rajbot 8y ago

    > The starting revenue share is 70-30 in Apple's favor, presently. Google offers a similar rate, but Microsoft recently announced a cut to its share of revenue to developers' favor Apple’s cut is 30%, but this sentence makes it
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    by rajbot 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
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    by rajbot 9y ago

    I was raised in the rural midwest and moved to San Francisco for the same reasons as you. It is shocking how much religious extremism, homophobia, and racism exist in the midwest. Growing up in the midwest, kids and adults alike would come
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    by rajbot 11y ago

    The Recurse Center's social rules are really well thought-out. After I learned about them, I started to see how people who violate the "no feigning surprise" rule can make team members feel excluded and belittled, often unint
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    by rajbot 11y ago

    They knew it was not a bomb. They were bullying him. If the school or police had actually thought it was dangerous they would have: 1. Evacuated the school 2. Called the bomb squad
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    by rajbot 12y ago

    Thanks!
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    by rajbot 12y ago

    I am trying to find out if archive.org is still being blocked or not, as we are hearing conflicting reports from users. I queried the Indian DNS servers on this list that are marked 'valid' or 'new': http://pu
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    by rajbot 12y ago

    You might also be interested in a browser extension I made to try and make Twitter more readable. It hides promoted tweets, 'trending, and 'who to follow' boxes, and adds a 'temporarily hide all retweets' button. It
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    by rajbot 12y ago

    Thanks for the kind words :)
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    by rajbot 12y ago

    Thanks! We were writing up a response at the same time: The Wayback Machine data is stored in WARC or ARC files[0] which are written at web crawl time by the Heritrix crawler[1] (or other crawlers) and stored as regular files in the archive
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    by rajbot 13y ago

    I got tired of the linkbait titles and made a user script to remove all medium.com links from HN. It works in Firefox and Chrome: https://github.com/rajbot/remove_medium