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by smcin 2y ago
Can you give more constructive advice on how to find a lawyer that both can draft a non-trivial agreement with PE, and is affordable? What specifics do you look for?
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by smcin 2y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997997
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by smcin 2y ago
Uhuh. So when I query for "counties with highest population density", that specifies both the table and the geographical unit. (But currently that gives "B26001_001E: Group Quarters Population (Population in group quarters):
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by smcin 2y ago
I didn't call for "speculation", I said the articles did a poor journalistic job of presenting relevant facts that might be informative: a) he stopped being in control of Fandango 17 years ago already (yet a casual read of
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by smcin 2y ago
How does this have any connection to CrowdStrike?
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by smcin 2y ago
Sure, but the USPS is not a government-owned corporation (like Amtrak), it was made an "independent agency" of the US executive branch back in July 1971, over half a century ago; under Nixon [0]. The head of the USPS (Postmaster G
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by smcin 2y ago
You mean 'xz utils'
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by smcin 2y ago
Neither of them try to explain why he might have had a reason to commit suicide: mightn't have been Fandango itself, which is what a casual read of the headline might suggest - he sold Fandango in 2007 and exited it back in 2011. Was i
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by smcin 2y ago
The query engine doesn't understand the area of a state/county/zipcode(/census tract), unlke the official Census viewer https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/demog...
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by smcin 2y ago
Great work. For some reason, when I gave it a very broad query I got the suggested result "[Table B18104?] Sex by Age by Cognitive Difficulty (Civilian noninstitutionalized population 5 years and over): Total". No idea why it pick
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by smcin 2y ago
Neat. That's the 2024 European Championship Football tournament. The basic open data is free, but doesn't include the "360 metrics" table (requires data subscription) for the following real-time data for each player, so
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by smcin 2y ago
Previously posted on Jul 12 the article "X has put most of its SF HQ up for sublease" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954195
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by smcin 2y ago
Previously posted on Jul 12 the article "X has put most of its SF HQ up for sublease" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954195 As of then it was 70%. But maybe they didn't make it 100% last week to avoid
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by smcin 2y ago
Or else make the bad habit a reward that has to be earned in some formula you specify, e.g. "walk 10,000 steps/500 calories to earn 1 beer/hamburger/donut".
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by smcin 2y ago
[dupe] merge "Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955693
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by smcin 2y ago
a) "someone made a mistake" is not a good-faith characterization of "your software does not allow customers to mandate MFA organization-wide and audit that, you never fix that even though you market the capability, you'r
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by smcin 2y ago
'Emperor: Battle for Dune', a 2001 RTS game by Westwood Studios, essentially a Dune-themed 'Command & Conquer'. Play as one of the three main factions: House Atreides, Harkonnen, or the (non-canon) Ordos. https:&#x2
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by smcin 2y ago
Without needing the Fight Club scene, "because the current [US] regulatory penalties are tiny, even when hundreds of millions of people's data is compromised. And there are rarely criminal charges against the executives of the com
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by smcin 2y ago
It is new news - that they (finally) started notifying customers . Five months after notifying regulators and the stock market (February/March in fact, not June). The true extent of the harm (to customers, not to the company or its st
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by smcin 2y ago
The new news is that they (finally) started formally notifying end-users i.e. insured patients. Five months after notifying regulators [0]. (Although they would have found out informally if they'd had any claims or interactions with
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by smcin 2y ago
"Mandatory MFA option unveiled by Snowflake" sounds like they made it an option for an organization to decide to make MFA mandatory within that organization. But that conflicts with TheRegister headline - Snowflake's PR machi
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by smcin 2y ago
I said not " internal analytics". Not "internal". The end-customers who would be buying that aren't telcos. Like I said. They are the other (non-telco) emerging industries that Snowflake's blurb hints at. e.g.
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X has put most of its SF HQ up for sublease(sfexaminer.com)
11 points by smcin 2y ago|1 comments
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by smcin 2y ago
More corroboration from another commenter on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-d... > [Eric Scott] AT&T was using the data to build a social graph. They didn'
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by smcin 2y ago
Reportedly firesaled for “cents on the dollar”, probably between $20-40m, had ARR ~$20m. Last valued at $1.1b in 2020. In total, raised $117m since 2015 inception from investors. Ex-CEO convicted in 2024 of ”inflating revenue 4x, making fal
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by smcin 2y ago
Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/GEEso
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HeadSpin, whose founder is in prison for fraud, sold to PE firm in fire sale(techcrunch.com)
3 points by smcin 2y ago|4 comments
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by smcin 2y ago
I pointed out previously that the logs contained unobscured phone numbers, so no privacy. You can deanonymize just by reverse-searching the phone number in data broker datasets. They also included the location data for each call/text
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by smcin 2y ago
Yes, like I said Snowflake apparently knew very few of its many customers were using MFA. Reports say password-stealing breaches were happening as far back as Oct 2023. But Snowflake didn't notify people (customers, FBI, SEC) until May
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by smcin 2y ago
No, the root-cause is not AT&T were "attacked, by criminals"; there's a much wider issue involving Snowflake and multiple customers. The full facts are not in yet. AT&T's data was compromised as one of Snowflake&

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