MiscIdeaMaker99

I think "lucky" is the better word here. He was lucky because he was able to get all of his money out of the bank while he could. Maybe he knew something was happening before others? Maybe he was just able to move faster? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regardless, he definitely helped contribute to its collapse, as well as everyone else who took their money out of the bank during the run. To what degree is Peter Thiel responsible? I don't know and I don't think it really matters.

I see it as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People perceive their bank as unsafe (whether it is or not), so lots of people start withdrawing their funds, and suddenly the bank fails because it can't fund those withdrawals.

It reminds me of the toilet paper shortages here at the beginning of the pandemic. People heard about others hoarding toilet paper, so they started doing it, and before you know it we had a huge national shortage for a while. Some folks had none or little toilet paper -- while others had tons. I knew some assholes who did that, and bragged about it like they got one over on everyone else.

I would love to see the capitalists held accountable for the way they treat their workers, but I believe their decisions are primarily dictated by profits, regardless of what they say.

Hard questions can surely be asked, but once you weed through all of the empty narrative, you pretty much end up with the reason: extracting profits.

What exactly has Mastadon failed to do?

I'm a huge fan of Reeder, as well, and have been using it for many years now.

Yes, exactly. It's their Tenant Context Service. The headline is misleading, but really only for those who don't bother to read the article.

It's mentioned in the article.

That explains it.

Also, the path that I have is as follows.

     ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/Data

Mine's a killer 55 MB.

Sweet, thank you!

I remember running the official app in Windows 95/98 that ran in the system tray showing Internet Time. I can't say that I used it once for anything ever, but I really liked the novelty of it back then.

I remember Pop Will Eat Itself! They opened for Nine Inch Nails back when I was in high school (the early half of the 90s), and I remember the local radio station here playing one of their songs for the firs time. I bought their CD after that.

One could get a new job _before_ they quit.

Thank you very much for telling me what SPA means.

What's an SPA?

They were 3rd cousins, meaning they had the same 2nd great grandparents.

Please explain how averages work.

One doesn't have to defend Gawker to think that what Peter Theil did was atrocious.

Because it sounds like a much better story than what probably really happened.

It's a little half-baked, IMHO, when they talk about making this available to the public. They even mention The Smithsonian, but we already have a copy of the constitution on display at the National Archives Museum in DC.

Overall, it sounds like a fun project and I'd be curious to see how things work out if they do end up getting it, but it doesn't sound like anything I'd want to put my money into.

I predict that they'll eventually sell it for a profit.

I've been using 1Password for over 10 years and I had no idea that "op" existed until right now.

(( hangs head in shame ))

> Alabama isn’t alone, though; 25 states had the same problem last year.

Very interesting. I wonder if the reason this narrative about Alabama catches so many eyes is because it plays into negative biases about Alabama, and other similar southern US states.

I wonder how long it'll take before California starts to see a decrease in population due to scarcity of water.

From what I've gathered, KLM was mostly dormant during World War II, but their web site has the following.

> All that remained of KLM during World War II was a single European service (between Bristol and Lisbon) and the so-called West-Indian Operation.

Source: https://blog.klm.com/klm-loves-dutch-royals/

Also, Portugal was neutral during World War II up until about 1944, which probably explains why there was a route to Lisbon.

There's further information here, as follows.

> During World War II, however, KLM lay largely dormant except in the West Indies, where its service, begun in 1941, grew rapidly, expanding to nine Caribbean and Latin American countries by 1945.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/KLM

I've found that my web browser works perfectly fine for saving bookmarks, and these days you can even synchronize them between devices, if you choose.

I have used Pinboard in the past, and it's nice, but I'd rather just have it all in my browser.

That's a pretty clever name.

I didn't catch that either. Sucks you're getting downvoted for it when it isn't as obvious as others seem to think.

I expect this to have very little impact on anything.

> Have mandatory reboots, never be afraid of reboots.

Yes! It is not a badge of honor to have a server that's been online for 365+ days -- it just means you haven't applied any kernel security updates for a long, long time. :-p

This is a one-sided article written by the lawyers of the plaintiff. I don't care to know the rest of the story, so I don't have a worthy comment to make regarding the merits of the free speech argument in the article; however, professional licensing exists for very good reasons, and this article isn't a reason that it should all go away, as many folks here seem to have concluded.

I think you'd have to be a little gullible to think it's a real typewriter, especially if you've ever used a real one.