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Because if you get involved with most VCs, you will then have to watch your back until the end of time. None of those "worst experiences" seem all that unusual to me (though nobody…

I stand by the statement. Waymo is not being meaningfully harmed here. Waymo's jaguars are well insured -- this does not harm Alphabet in any meaningful way (and certainly not in t…

Your neighbor's car and business are 100% safe from protesters, unless your neighbor is a fed. You realize that this is all happening in a very small part of LA, which is an absolu…

Yes.

One of the more popular DOS-based BBS software platforms of the early 90s was VBBS. It was interoperable with WWIVnet, which is part of why it was popular. Its author/developer/mai…

Sort of. Global Entry also includes PreCheck -- your global entry ID number is also your PreCheck ID. PreCheck does help (quite a bit) with the TSA security lines/etc., so in a way…

A friend of mine had one of these in the 80s in suburban DC, very briefly before the whole project failed. You need to not think of this cable modem as a network adapter, because t…

The folks who make up "human capital" have been reducing the value that they place on Google the employer, too. I mean that in several ways: Google doesn't have nearly as good a re…

Anecdata: Spouse was let go from Salesforce in the January round of layoffs, after 2 years there. She received 6 months salary, was allowed to keep RSUs that would have vested with…

Does GamePass in the US stream games live? Because GamePass outside of the US does (in addition to the on-demand and condensed games and "all 22" stuff that the US GamePass gets). …

The apple magic mouse also works just fine with nix and windows machines. It's just a fancy bluetooth mouse. Basically any bluetooth mouse will work, assuming your nix machine has …

So, it's an ad for a service where email goes through your servers before reaching mine, for the purpose of removing tracking and hiding my address. This isn't onboarding, this is …

Privacy.com will generate temporary debit card numbers with easily controlled access rules. It's a lot like BofA's old service.

Redhat is a fully-owned subsidiary of IBM. IBM is open source friendly, but the days of RH being an "all open source company" ended in July 2019.

And her work in the librarian community. And the warrant canary. And IIRC, a trickle-charging story-telling bear that almost was. As amazing as her work at metafilter is, it's only…

This is a feature. Lurking on Metafilter doesn't require an account; you need one only if you want to post or comment. The $5 threshold (and the wall of text "guidelines" page wher…