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901.
by rdl 9y ago
It's fine to write that if you then explain why you can/should be trusted.
902.
by rdl 9y ago
The infrastructure was that bad before the hurricane. The hurricane pushed it over the edge, but the real problem was underinvestment (and malinvestment) in capital plant, maintenance, etc. for decades. The best illustration: telco sector
903.
by rdl 9y ago
Less debt per capita than the US. The sad thing is most of the debt was post the 1996 US tax change when the US Government (President Clinton + Republican Congress) decided to phase out the pharma/manufacturing special deal for Puerto
904.
by rdl 9y ago
Yes
905.
by rdl 9y ago
I did about ~30 offshore helicopter flights to Sealand (~20km offshore UK) in 1999-2002 and never did a simulator. I don't even remember a preflight brief. I'm glad I didn't know how dangerous it was at the time. Of course
906.
by rdl 9y ago
I don't know how big a deal the harness really is. Even getting out of a helicopter underwater with a regular 4 or 5 point harness with a single-point twist buckle after a crash, especially if the vehicle isn't perfectly vertical
907.
by rdl 9y ago
They didn't have a single jurisdiction where their activity was actually legal, hence no ability to arbitrage. Prostitution is legal in at least some places, and it would be easy to find a jurisdiction which, for money, would permit a
908.
by rdl 9y ago
An outright prostitution marketplace (review site, advertising, transaction facilitation) seems like one of the most obvious businesses for jurisdictional arbitrage. It's not illegal in some markets (although I'm not sure which);
909.
by rdl 9y ago
I think he means "towing the (establishment/party) line", not "complying with regulations".
910.
by rdl 9y ago
"Estate" is British-ism for station wagon, too. (A model S wagon would be pretty nice...)
911.
by rdl 9y ago
At $2500 this will own the business class market, assuming 1x1 seating, even if they were just economy seats with business class service. At minimum a corp traveler is going to cost $1-2k/day to put in London or NYC if based in the ot
912.
by rdl 9y ago
I think I'd want to fly in these at least once, but I'd probably prefer a subsonic aircraft with Ka-band satellite and more comfort (via more space and weight budget) for most flights. NYC to London one-day turnaround would be a
913.
by rdl 9y ago
I'm glad the DPO model was successful -- would be great if it, or something like it, became the default.
914.
by rdl 9y ago
This incident was enough of an outlier that probably the correct thing to do is nothing, although that's really hard for people to accept. I'd just recommend improved first aid/trauma response (put AEDs around, train people
915.
by rdl 9y ago
It was outdoors. Also, I have only been to a couple SV tech companies where they had solid enough doors/etc. at entrance to actually stop someone going in shooting from getting inside; the security is really just there for keeping hom
916.
by rdl 9y ago
So now there will be blockchain-specific mail deliverability providers? Seems like a straightforward enough business. 21.co/Earn (the pivot to bounty-paid spam inbox) is interesting, but not a great implementation of the "email a
917.
by rdl 9y ago
In the greater context of Hacker News I really should have been more clear about the meaning of GCC.
918.
by rdl 9y ago
They've managed to piss off Saudi Arabia/the rest of the GCC, and they are between the GCC and Iran. It's conceivable they could be fighting Iran, GCC, or both. There's an argument that having a lot of capability wi
919.
by rdl 9y ago
I can't believe they left out the blood sacrifice on sharp parts of the case. Always different/unexpected parts of the case, and always miraculously sharp. (Less so now with higher end modern cases, but was definitely this way w
920.
by rdl 9y ago
Curious why they screwed up some minor details in ways which made the movie worse -- going from Early Times to Canadian Club. Product placement? If there's ever a Southwest/Kelleher movie and they similarly replace Wild Turkey wi
921.
by rdl 9y ago
I don't think the bad things Zenefits did were essential to their success. Those exams just aren't that hard; it would have cost them thousands of dollars per person (in time/wages) to run people through them the correct way.
922.
by rdl 9y ago
Also I rarely have seen any government system installed in such a way that some kind of lawful intercept mechanism would be required to circumvent their internal controls; they almost always are set up in standard boring enterprise way wher
923.
by rdl 9y ago
I benefitted a lot from my public school district’s pull-out gifted program (about 10% of days spent there, but 100% of the value I got out of school), as well as JHU’s SMPY/SET/CTY.
924.
by rdl 9y ago
Spectre/Meltdown aren't the "tinfoil" (which might actually be legitimate) fears in Intel -- those are probably Intel Management Engine/AMT/etc. and general supply chain risk (maybe Intel processors in general
925.
by rdl 9y ago
That to me seems like the biggest problem with parliamentary systems (which have many other advantages, especially for new parties, local constituencies, etc.). Unless there's a sovereign, or some other system, it's often left up
926.
by rdl 9y ago
Trump's election should really have been the last nail in the coffin on this kind of stuff, at least in the US. Either you hate him (and thus don't want him or anyone like him in the future to have this kind of access), or you lo
927.
by rdl 9y ago
Paying California income taxes and property taxes and everything else would maybe make sense if you lived in Palo Alto/Cupertino/Hillsborough with multiple kids in school, but if you're paying another $44k/yr for school
928.
by rdl 9y ago
The problem wasn't the breach, it was their messaging around the breach. I accept that most products have bugs, even security-critical bugs in security products (although this one was a bit extreme to tolerate...). The Nano S isn&#x27
929.
by rdl 9y ago
I see lots of people doing this in Puerto Rico, but mainly they are installing them in outbuildings, such that even a complete runaway fire will probably not really damage anything else. In that case, worth the risk I think.
930.
by rdl 9y ago
I was willing to tolerate Ledger's issues here (I'm a user and I've heavily recommended their products) if they fixed them -- the problems never should have happened, but they are marginally better than Trezor in a lot of oth

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