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Reminder again to never hold gift cards. I had a family member who was gited a $3,000 travel voucher with an agency - I told them to exchange it in for flights asap as you can book up to a year out, change the tickets later and it's be
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Because demand might be elastic and you can keep costs closer to utilization and outsource stuff you don't want to do like manage an office Same reason companies pay Google and Amazon for cloud servers
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because he has witnessed dozens of companies overtake his own in achieving mega-valuations and success without following his cargo cult advice that was born from a halo effect his entire m.o today is to beat down anything that doesn't
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videos provide higher ad revenue
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Given the recent influx of iOS exploits that have centered around WebKit they should probably adjust that priority
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man nice
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the next step is eSNI and judging by the DoH rollout that will also be a new level of controversy advocating against it
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Ditto in Australia The reason why browsers are moving to features like DoH and eSNI as defaults is because it's every type of nation that is now instituting pervasive surveillance against its citizens You also can't trust laws sin
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those scripts are now built into docker with `docker system prune`
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> Are you sure vaping is actually reducing potential harm? Yep. I quit smoking via 3 years of vaping and tapering down on nicotine. I've referred and seen no less than a half-dozen people I know do the same - some of the hardest smo
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It might also explain why the cases seem confined to the USA and we're not seeing it amongst other large vaping populations like Canada and the UK There are too many fly-by-night and backyard operators in both the device and liquid ind
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> Linux users currently have the lowest when using Chrome with 86%. I'm curious why this is. This doesn't surprise me when you consider that package management over HTTP is considered ok since it's separately authenticated
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Someone makes this exact same comment every time there is a privacy story - not realising there is a very big gap between speculating on what a governments capability is and having it confirmed Sure - people in privacy circles may suspect
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Levandowski ripped entire archives of files and plans
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because they're investing profit back into the business to grow it - which is what you want them to do when they run out of places to efficiently deploy capital then they become a standard tech bluechip
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that was an entire startup category a decade ago that raised a bunch of VC - netvibes and pageflakes come to mind
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the $4B was in cash - the 65B is in Oracle stock. he can't divest the later without having an impact on it's value it's telling that Ellison wouldn't take stock in his own company in the transaction but rather took cash
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Larry sunk a bunch of money and pride into Netsuite because he hated Marc and Salesforce so much after being booted from that company. He was bailing himself out financially, in ego and also catching Oracle up in the entire cloud shift they
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The first victim that started the case in Florida was 14 - are you going to try and justify that by saying it's legal in Pakistan? He ran an interstate recruitment ring of underage girls not just for himself but for other men. There&#x
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> I suppose if Verizon is taking the tax deduction on an original $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo Yahoo wrote down almost the entire value of Tumblr before the Verizon acquisition[0] > What kind of business, let alone web business, sel
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> The future is not centralized. The future is distributed. been hearing this promise for so long, it's becoming a meme like The Year of Desktop Linux
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New DDoS provider to Daily Stormer, 8chan taken offline by provider(twitter.com)
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If I was writing this story i'd scour social media replies to the major telco's and then get in touch with people. Likely picked telco's since they rank so low on customer satisfaction, ditto with banks Large part of being a
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I have a story about a well-known "best selling" author Some years ago received a random package in the mail - turns out it was 40+ copies of this authors new book. Had no idea what to do with them so they just sat around, I never
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Intersting. She ran three commands - the first downloaded IAM credentials and the second then listed buckets using those credentials. I'm curious about what the first command could have been Also this all unfurled after a report to the
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It shouldn't be a surprise that developers are more likely to read and understand the source code of development tools
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Having looked into the finances of car share companies I can vouch that the fleet costs are just huge blots of red ink on their finances Uber wouldn't work if they owned the fleet - it's a huge advantage to just be the app + ops +
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Lookup the stock of Domino's[0] - they've been on a years long tear by scaling delivery and adopting tech In theory this could work better for some food delivery companies as they charge the restaurant rather than produce themselv
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> These investors have so much money Saudi Arabia is running out of money - they have huge budget deficits and are steadily draining reserves. They're so desperate they considered selling parts of ARAMCO but couldn't get the ov
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I've looked into this an the USA is uniquely strict in their standards amongst western nations. Most countries give people a second chance in cases except for very serious crimes.

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