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She had multiple charges but was only found guilty of defrauding investors. She was actually acquitted for defrauding patients. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/03/elizabeth-hol…

I feel like I'm missing something here. It's really just a single sentence? Why would so many sign their name to this? It's like signing your name to "Keep children safe" but provi…

> He started out after college with negative net worth He did not. Maybe "on paper" in a very specific way you could say that, but that ignores everything else like how he had very…

The last thing Elon engineered was a website about 30 some years ago and when he hired developers, they rewrote everything he did. He's always been pretty bad a managing a business…

Scalpers are always a short term thing. None of them ever order supply that will last years, usually 3-6 months at most. If you end up being caught holding the bag with a normal am…

Considering encrypted messages have to both be encrypted and decrypted, I don't think his statement is necessarily against encrypted. I assumed he meant preventing the sending of k…

Cool, thanks for the info! I'm going to check out that list.

This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here…

I've only heard a few interviews where various doctors or scientists have said this is the case but I'm no expert.

> Why develop a vaccine for a disease that is now non-existent? I think the idea here is since both SARS and Covid-19 are part of the coronavirus type, a vaccine for SARS would mak…

It's pretty amazing that a company in the financial sector that holds a lot of people's money doesn't have the ability to, say, cut to a backup system. Considering all of their pas…

Do we know how much emissions can be attributed to Amazon / AWS? I'm curious if this $10 billion fund could offset that or if it's too small to cover their own use. Though, to be f…

As far as I can tell this page first appeared in 2008. Many of these points are outdated (some woefully so). This shouldn't be on the frontpage of HN. If anything, Clang should tak…

Good points. My only hesitation on the charger definition is most laws include whatever definition the legislature is operating under and sometimes it's different than what you'd e…

Hmm. You make a good point. In my attempt at reading both of these there seems to be a clear distinction being made when it refers to cables and when it refers to chargers. It also…

The joint motion points to adopting Directive 2014/53/EU which requires common _chargers_ but says nothing about the port that the phone uses. As far as I can tell this is only for…

I worked on a large DoD contract where there was a core of about 12-20 people doing the majority of the work and about 140 additional people just... having a job. The legal require…

> It makes me realize that Google's no humans policy -- is it a policy? -- is actually a strength here. My domains purchased through Google are safe from social engineering because…

Oh for sure! When I worked as a contractor I worked with many departments but even the groups I worked with didn't represent the entire department they were in. But it was a very c…

I didn't say it was someone random but it's from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's a non-profit, which is good, but they do other things so getting press for the Doomsday clo…

Their reasoning seems sound to me but I'm amused that someone built a clock that shows what their current guess is for when "doomsday" will happen and they get free press every sin…

> The motto seems to be: "Open Source is BAD! How are we going the get support?! Let's just buy a product or solution from a vendor" Not really accurate anymore. Maybe it was true …

> I don't think a Dow component has ever been halted before, so this is highly unusual. What do you mean? Stocks get halted all the time especially before big news.

In my experience the only time this matters is when you're doing contracting work and a government entity or company requires X certificate(s) to win a contract. It's amazing how m…

To be fair even if he is exaggerating this should be refund-able. So trying to figure out if he is right or wrong about easy it is doesn't really matter.