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no, more like someone's instance gets pwn-ed and is now part of a botnet and DO is getting calls and or isp-blocked and has to devote staff time to the incident.

you, personally, may be a high margin customer, but some, and perhaps a lot, of the $5/no customers are potential liabilities due to not patching software or libraries or choosing …

yes and no. they lost on appeal to the state supreme court on whether evidence about age bias could be used in the lawsuit. then they settled.

Google has a history of age discrimination and losing in court, going back to the founders of the company. See Reid v Google where Brian Reid, a key developer of the tech we use, w…

unless someone has a plan to burn and spew the old cells into the atmosphere, causing the earth to heat up, it will never be as big a problem as gas cars. (that is the worst case, …

that's what the model 3 does. it induces resistance in the motor at 0 rpm to generate heat which is then transferred to the coolant loop to heat the battery. but in order to warm u…

well, except for one of the largest advertising and data collecting companies on the planet, that really really wants to know where you are right now.

yeah, what slayed me about this resume tool for coders is that it doesn't accept plain text, but does accept word/doc

if you're a spy using it to hide your identity from websites when you visit, it would be good for your VPN to have a mix of normal activity and spy activity. If you run your own, i…

"can we name anyone who has been prosecuted for what turned out to clearly be benevolent research work?" Randal Schwartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz

"The amount we don't pay justifies the amount a consumer does pay"

http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement "In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."

Wide, telephoto, and macro lenses for the iPhone. https://momentlens.co/shop/#lenses The miniature bayonet mount is really nicely done.

bank - liquid asset house - illiquid, with maintenance, property tax, and insurance costs

He seems to be ok with 'Doug': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w_ekB08ohU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOO1Z4u2Aq4

I would call the IRS up and ask them what a payment plan would be like for an n million dollar liability, and then weigh whether that scenario is worth the exercise. Because at thi…

craigslist - san francisco - full stack web devs, javascript devs, systems administrators, user operations, accounts receivable ... the environment: http://www.craigslist.org/about…

I am not a tax lawyer, but here's what I imagine are the benefits to the IA over increasing salary. By owning property, a foundation benefits by having an asset that increases over…

on their way to the Dairy Queen in 110" heat? How hot is it? Almost 10'

I think the implication from the original was that you don't really meet the other people, in that sure, you encounter them, but they somehow don't matter or are less interesting. …

"Meanwhile, here, no matter what you’re doing, those you meet will almost always be in finance or startups." Well, except for the taxi drivers, the restaurant workers, the police, …

Huh, it's as if white people come from a position of privilege, generations of near-total freedom from racial oppression, if you will, thus making similar-seeming actions have very…

A prospective hire who is an A (in whatever field) wants to work with their kind, and so is less likely to sign up at a company full of B-level people. Also, as mentioned above, it…