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crb002on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail

The Chief Justice died last night of a heart attack. 1983 would be against Chief Justice and State Court Administrator for setting them up.

crb002on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail

The sheriff was 100%. The State Court Administrator and Chief Justice orchestrates an illegal break in of a county property in violation of Iowa Code 721. Chief Justice Cady died last night of a heart attack.

crb002on A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail

Sad news. Iowa Chief Justice Cady who headed the illegal pen test died last night of a heart attack.

crb002on Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

Manufacturers need to start issuing UUIDs and some sort of centralized or decentralized API to track ownership. Surprised the high end purse manufacturers haven’t done this.

crb002on Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts

I’d sue them next day in State court for interference with my business contracts. Having a billion dollar data center in Iowa the judge has a lot of leverage.

crb002on Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts

They will use this data to create a hedge fund.

crb002on Chronic adversity dampens dopamine production

I can attest to this. ADHD (low dopamine) caused by chronic stress. On Adderall XR 10mg to counteract it.

Symptoms that suck which adderall doesn’t fix is OCD (brain looping on stuff), amphetamine caused anxiety (rarely but it sucks), and depression.

Steam room at my gym and hard exercise helps a lot. Need 8 hours of sleep. Intermittent fasting in the AM. Caffeine is a hard dial to set right.

crb002on Twitter wants feedback on its proposed deepfakes policy

Every meme photoshop now needs a label?

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Teach programming universally alongside Algebra. Silly to take modern mathematical communication away from math.

crb002on California’s Criminal Cops

Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds has had several drunk driving convictions. Why should police be held to a higher standard than the Governor?

crb002on Rape victim rejects judge’s offer: $150K for her, reduced sentence for attacker

It would have been constitutional to offer both choices to the defendant, assuming it didn’t violate Timbs v Indiana with the fine exceeding the jurisdictional maximum for the offense.

crb002on Rape victim rejects judge’s offer: $150K for her, reduced sentence for attacker

Fundamental error. Imagine if it was a theft case and the victim was WalMart. Bad bad constitutional violation to delegate judicial power to individuals which include both real people and corporeals.

crb002on Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2013)

Why I advocate CS programs have a MIS style core course on business analysis. Most programming businesses application development, and even those writing compilers need the skills.

crb002on A former WeWork employee is suing over Adam Neumann's $1.7B golden parachute

Shareholder equal protection needs to be established more in the courts. It is bogus when some shareholders get massive constructive dividends while others get none.

crb002on My Decade as a Fugitive

The guy has steady work yet the court rips him away from his family? What’s the point?

crb002on Young Homebuyers Are Vanishing from the U.S.

In the DSM market NIMBY regulation and HOAs have driven out bungalows, ADUs, and efficiency condos. Almost all new construction is $300k and up. There just isn’t affordable supply for 20 somethings.

crb002on Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint

Use a shade to list on FBA, give them wholesale pricing on the up and up for what your Amazon juice would be.

crb002on Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher

Listen to Grace Hopper. Count the feet (nanoseconds) data has to travel at speed of light so the Admiral respects the laws of physics.

crb002on Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint

Paywall.

I don’t see the argument. Walmart and others are sucking while Bezos is executing.

Unless Bezos crosses the line with onerous contracts not allowing manufacturers to sell with other online retailers he should be ok. Wise for Bezos to put antitrust friendly language in all contracts.

crb002on The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous

Tax on wealth (earnings which were already taxed once) will lead most shareholders to do the math and skip over to Canada or Europe if profitable. Especially companies ran in a remote/asynchronous manner.

crb002on OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share

I would swear they trained on Pornhub transcripts. Interesting for how it frames several popular individuals too.

crb002on AMD Q4:16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X

Who are the best PC builders to get a Ryzen 9 through with a fair amount of RAM for a dev box?

crb002on Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake

https://www.name.com/domain/search/brokebackcountry.com

crb002on Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound

The point of Libra is to create a consumer small purchase transaction medium with low friction. Businesses using it only care if it has enough Swiss backing so they can get a week’s business or two turned into real currency.

It only has to be sound enough for those goals. As it is used more it will get hardened.

The killer use is being able to pay overseas contractors without friction. Since there is no privacy, government on the other end will levy instant income tax withholding with glee.

crb002on Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement

Lawyer, FB exec, doctor, ... the cohort of my talented and gifted class would beg to differ.

crb002on Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?

BMW and others should be making BYOB (Bring Your Own Battery) models. Let the dealers leverage the best battery for their market, and battery warranty plans.

crb002on Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch

Apple is throwing their money into a REIT essentially. Guessing a lot will be small apartments for their own staff which will save a lot in wage demand.

crb002on Ask HN: How do you roll back production?

Liquibase

crb002on Starlink is a big deal

That cell tower only covers a small geographical area, and you have to physically maintain it along with paying property taxes. Also, that cell tower can't peer with other cell towers to route trans continental packets.

Not to mention how much will DOD subsidize their own sub-constellation for SkyNet to prime the cashflow? I'm guessing at least $50 billion.

crb002on High-skilled workers in small towns are a ‘waste of resources,’ says study

True in so much as the Jeff/Sanjay effect. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

The unicorn within the unicorn was this pair. Unless pair programming gets mainstreamed, and superpairs are allowed to stick together, this effect will never be realized to it's full potential.