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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 terrible passwords for their services, databases, etc.

one decent incident can cost a multiple of a year's revenue for the account.

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, was told his ideas "were too old to matter" and that he was an "old fuddy duddy."

Google fought it and lost.

https://www.law.com/therecorder/almID/1202464321723/?slretur...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...

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, where auto makers just bury the cells in the ground. thankfully, that's not actually the case. they reuse battery packs and are scaling up techniques to recover the rare metals from them. you haven't heard much about this at scale because few packs have actually hit their end of life.)

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 up the very large battery pack, on a cold morning you need to turn the car on (well) before you start driving to have it warm enough for full regen.

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, it's going to have a weird pattern of traffic that might stand out to a website with decent analytics.

"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 this point, this is a question of risk tolerance, and risk vs reward.

For some people, a lifetime of debt, no matter what the possible reward, is unbearable, whatever the odds of the outcome. For others, who feel this is their best shot at wealth, and who are comfortable with the risk, it's an easy choice to buy the options.

But yes, get a tax advisor who is familiar with this specific situation (exercising stock in whatever state/country you live in, e.g California) and find out what the various scenarios are.

Anecdote: I and co-workers of mine have been in this scenario. It worked out for some and was a burden for others. Good luck!

craigslist - san francisco - full stack web devs, javascript devs, systems administrators, user operations, accounts receivable ...

the environment: http://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring

jobs: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/jjj?nh=8&query=craigs...

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 time, as well as collecting rent (below-market, but enough to cover expenses).

- Paying more to employees sends your money elsewhere.

- Buying property and renting it to your employees sends your money back to yourself, covers the expenses associated with that asset, all while enjoying the increase in value of that asset

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.

I don't think the poster meant that, so I wanted to call it out to encourage us techies to see that we are part of a larger culture and context.

We depend on a hell of a lot of people, and a lot of infrastructure that's not just for us, but keeps the entire city going.

"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, the teachers, the students, the grocers, the bike messengers, the lawyers, the house cleaners, the fire fighters, the ...

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 different contexts!

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 is harder for many B-level people to recognize and value an A level person in the hiring process. An A may come across as arrogant by describing things as good or bad to a B when they're simply knowledgeable and confident because of that.