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by scurvy 10y ago
Software support longevity can be iffy on certain product lines. Maybe 1 update, but not much beyond 6 months.
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by scurvy 10y ago
If you're dumb enough to fall prey to Nigerian scammers to the tune of $39M....
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by scurvy 10y ago
This happened outside of Amazon. Counterfeit product literally made it into their distributor's warehouses and was sold as legit. It's well-known, look it up on $search_engine: http://www.marketwatch.com/story&#x2F
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by scurvy 10y ago
Even #1 isn't 100% safe. Ubiquiti had counterfeit product get mixed into their own fulfillment chain. Let me repeat that, they had counterfeit product make its way into their own fulfillment chain, which was then sold legitimately to c
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by scurvy 10y ago
"Helpful" is easy to game with enough fraudulent upvotes.
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by scurvy 10y ago
Sorry, I meant the HQ left Washington. Doesn't it impact taxes if you're registered as a foreign corporation vs local?
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by scurvy 10y ago
Top talent includes good, too. Leaving only mediocre to bad for everyone else. We're on the smaller side in SF, and I'm having a terrible time finding good ops people.
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by scurvy 10y ago
What about debt?
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by scurvy 10y ago
They left Washington a while ago; I think over taxes?
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by scurvy 10y ago
Uber's GPS and navigation data is such trash that this is halfway believable excuse. As a destination, Uber thinks I live halfway down the block on another street. It's not a convenience thing either. It's down a hill. It&#x2
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by scurvy 10y ago
That's only a recent development since the 80's. In 1948, when the filing status was adopted, married women overwhelmingly didn't work. Look at the law through a historical lense, not today's.
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by scurvy 10y ago
Since some people are downvoting for bad reasons, I'll just toss in this anecdote: My parents were audited by the IRS for 5 years straight. They were convinced that my father "was hiding income through losses in your wife's b
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by scurvy 10y ago
She creates a wake of police calls, fire department dispatches, defenestration on a regular basis, getting her lock drilled out at 3AM because she lost her keys on a bender, etc. Her behavior makes it my business (and everyone else around h
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by scurvy 10y ago
Sure. When the federal income tax was instituted in 1913, all of the tax rates were individual (and the lowest bracket covered most Americans). People who were married could lump sum their income and divide by 2 to find the correct rate. Ma
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by scurvy 10y ago
Married filing jointly is one of the more sexist things codified in US law. It basically says women make no money and the man has to provide for everyone with a big salary so deductions and credits for the big earner. Or it says that if you
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by scurvy 10y ago
This is the problem with the HackerNews libertarian streak. You're in favor of legalized drugs, prostitution, etc. But no one wants their daughter to grow up and be a crackwhore.
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by scurvy 10y ago
How about charging them for their public costs? If you get rescued by helicopter because you went skiing out of bounds at a resort and got lost, don't they send you a bill? How about that for people with money who abuse the system whil
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by scurvy 10y ago
Heroin dealers are pretty smart. Even if you have a ton of money, they'll only sell you a bit at a time. They don't want you doing something stupid and messing up their gravy train. At least, that's what I was told by someone
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by scurvy 10y ago
The problem is they create a wake of destruction in their path of addiction.
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by scurvy 10y ago
I don't have a solution, but my point was that not all addicts are victims. For some, it's a conscious decision about choosing heroin over life (insert Trainspotting ending here). Unless the US adopts some sort of ASBO laws, there
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by scurvy 10y ago
I live next door to a rich heroin junkie. She has no job. What's left of her family has basically cut her off. She can afford all of the care in the world, but chooses heroin over treatment instead. Why? Heroin don't care. The ci
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by scurvy 10y ago
Is it though? The author described my company's tech stack. And I thought I had it bad in today's ops landscape.
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by scurvy 10y ago
That's all regular Quanta gear. No idea if it was owned by FB or another OCP adopter. OCP is popular with mineral companies.
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by scurvy 10y ago
Not entirely true. You can run half duplex gigabit connections on hubs. Not sure why you would, but you can. IEEE 802.3 covers all Ethernet standards and it still lists CSMA/CD. Largely for historical purposes, but it is in the spec. S
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by scurvy 10y ago
Switched networks are full duplex, point-to-point links, so there's no possibility of a collision from the transmitting station. That said, 802.3 still mentions CSMA/CD for half-duplex backward compatibility. Everything 10gig and
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by scurvy 10y ago
They most definitely end up in jail: "Former Saint Robert Meachem jailed for unpaid child support, alimony" http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/02/robert_meachem_i...
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by scurvy 10y ago
The author kinda bungles his analogy/explanation of collision avoidance and detection. Wireless networks don't use CSMA/CD. They use CSMA/CA. There's a huge difference, and it's one big reason why wireless thro
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by scurvy 10y ago
Dell is much closer to this than Razer. Razer hasn't stepped up yet. To quote Tyler Durden, "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
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by scurvy 10y ago
I'll just put it this way: BIOS updates require purchasing a Razer Core or RMA'ing your entire laptop. Not a lie. Not an exaggeration. It's the truth for Blade and Blade Stealth owners. The experience is borderline terribad.
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by scurvy 10y ago
This is good advice. Peter Lynch puts it best (and actually, he was misquoted about the mall story 25+years ago): https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-lynch-25-years-later-its-... tl;dr you better really know what you&#x

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