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buck4roo··on Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse
1000 times, this.
buck4roo··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
> insubordination isn't a protected class

Any bets on whether (CEO == assclown) is a protected class?

buck4roo··on What should you do with stock options during a recession?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall this AMT overpayment credit could only be used up at rate of $3k/year and only in years where you also owed AMT?
buck4roo··on FAA Continues to Stall on G100UL
Yes.

https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History - by Veritasium

buck4roo··on Is It Illegal to Own More Than Six Dildos in Texas? Yes, It Is
The right is all about control.
buck4roo··on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
Doesn't the Sarbanes-Oxley act (Sec 906) mandate that publicly listed companies' CEO&CFO assume at least some personal liability when they sign each required SEC statement (10-Q, annual report, etc)?

Something new for them: """ CEOs are required to personally attest that they are responsible for changes to privacy practices and written policies. """

buck4roo··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
Please don't conflate State Public Employee retirement systems with State Teacher retirement systems. They each have their own rules.

The teacher retirement systems I know of have rules like (age + years_worked)>=80 ==> full pension benefits.

Retiring after 20y will earn you a smaller monthly and is only possible (under that rule-of-80 above) if you start teaching at age 40. Teachers are much more likely to retire after 25+y (age_start=30, age_retire=55).

buck4roo··on Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
Ignore the plight of renters at your own peril.
buck4roo··on In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
The Bolin Chest Seal is a sterile occlusive chest wound dressing for treating open pneumothorax and preventing tension pneumothorax...
buck4roo··on Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
I hear what you're saying: Apple's Monopoly on airtags is good for you.

Are there other monopolies you think are good for you? For others? For the world?

buck4roo··on Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
EFF really failed to connect the dots here.

I don't see how, from a plain reading of the bill's text, one can argue what their letter claims.

Can someone connect these dots?

buck4roo··on Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom
This comment is written in an intentionally "hand wavey" way so that they can say nothing substantive about the proposed bill text, but maintain an air of alarmism.
buck4roo··on Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
https://hg-git.github.io/

Happy user for at least 6 years.

The sanity of Mercurial's UX cannot be overstated.

buck4roo··on Consumer Reports Dropped Tesla in Its Rankings and It's Because of the Yoke
Reminder:

Tesla is the only auto manufacturer in North America not using the J1772/CCS standard. Everyone else has decided to use it.

Instead, Tesla continues to install more proprietary charging stations.

If Tesla is at all interested in furthering battery electric vehicle technology, they should get with the standard.

buck4roo··on Consumer Reports Dropped Tesla in Its Rankings and It's Because of the Yoke
Isn't steering drive-by-wire here? Failure is not an option... I hope.
buck4roo··on Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
An seller walks away with profit after the sale... and the surrounding neighborhood sees $0 of it. That's the problem.

The neighborhood supported the increase in value, but gets nothing in return.

buck4roo··on Kubernetes: The Documentary
Don't forget Prometheus (clone of borgmon by ex-SRE)
buck4roo··on Ask HN: What should I do with my unused 1Gig internet?
Become a bandwidth provider on Orchid?

https://www.orchid.com/

buck4roo··on America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich
The cost of administering that $600 monthly award is way above $zero.

It takes entire agencies scores of hours to receive, verify, investigate and cure deficient applications, handle appeals, and execute wage garnishment orders due to their own overpayment/accounting errors -- not to mention approvals.

"Oh we just figured out you made too much money 5 months ago. Sorry bub, you gotta pay back The State the past 5mo of benefits, and re-apply" (with a 90 day waiting period... && Watch out kid, next time this happens it'll be a 180day wait.)

After that's done, they then turn around and do it all again every 6 months because they're forced to re-collect(and vet/process/cure) the same information again via a mandatory "beneficiary 6mo survey".

buck4roo··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Or do things that trigger the provider to force you to change your password.

See: Apple ID, where failed password attempts (by anyone) causes Apple to force users to change their known password.

buck4roo··on Not understanding stock options cost me $300K
I believe the mention of 83b election by the author is a red herring.

afaik 83b only applies to recently acquired stock, not options.

buck4roo··on How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
I haven't seen any mentions discussing HTTP request smuggling try. This could cause LP's internal or external load balancers to misdirect requests/responses.

Thoughts on this as a possible root cause?

buck4roo··on Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
Nominate parent for best of HN2021 award
buck4roo··on The carpetbagger’s guide to home ownership
Suburbs are a Ponzi scheme. They do not cover their existing infrastructure maintenance costs...

https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0

buck4roo··on Louisville sawmill challenges perception about wages
Decent explainer debunking the prevailing media stories:

Don’t Blame Workers for Inflation https://nyti.ms/2Xhxul7

buck4roo··on Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Alzheimer's
Evidence of variolation goes back to the 15th century

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation#China

buck4roo··on Direct detection of dark energy: the XENON1T excess and future prospects
All matter particles have a resonant photonic wave state (Energy state). The two differ by how their waveforms are compressed or expanded in time. The above wasn't my hypothesis, can't recall the author, but it came to mind when reading this paper's theorized source.

Based on movies of active sunspots, I can imagine those giant twisting magnetic fields on the sun's surface possibly being a source of unusual type of energy -- possibly emitting an unusual type of matter or photon.

buck4roo··on Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
Today's latest from Kurzgesagt is also relevant: https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc
buck4roo··on How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes
> many services only support a single device (looking at you, AWS).

We can (finally) take AWS off that list.

I can say I was pleasantly surprised recently by being able to enroll multiple MFA Tokens and device types, for a single IAM SSO User.

Don't know the restrictions on it, but https://aws.amazon.com/iam/features/mfa/ probably has more details.

buck4roo··on Git password authentication is shutting down
For the love of humanity, pick a better tool to teach: Mercurial. Even teaching SVN would be easier. Both interop with github just fine.

Anything but git. Git was definitely not designed for ease-of-use.

Only Linus and friends need or use 90% of git's features.

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