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crb002··on Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S.
IBM in Jersey?
crb002··on Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?
If you turn in the Iowa State University VP of Finance in for NSF grant fraud, then YES. Do not recommend.
crb002··on First carbon dioxide battery is seven times more efficient than lithium-ion
Requires molybdenum.
crb002··on How WeWork spiraled from a $47B valuation to talk of bankruptcy
Hopefully they keep on truckin. Gobble up all the abandoned malls etc and flip them for a tidy profit while keeping equity without the IPO dilution.
crb002··on Des Moines Register grapples with how to handle reporter’s past tweets
The problem was with the editor Carol Hunter. Firing the cub reporter for writing the tabloid copy she wanted made it all the more worse. Until the Register removes Hunter the paper is defacto dead to much of Iowa.
crb002··on MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
It was his house and cars. Doesn't seem unreasonable under the assumption he is innocent.
crb002··on MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
+1 for surety bail bond. "Cash Only" bonds are a racket for bail bondsmen.
crb002··on Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
Transactional is different. It only needs to have stable value in the short term. If Starbucks says 3 credits for a coffee and they have a liquid market for credits they will use it. Ingress/egress that sweeps into savings many will adopt. FB would be wise to take 10% of profits and sweep them into a credit dividend for users so even the poorest have liquidity in the market.
crb002··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
Sue them in Iowa State Court where the are building a a massive new data center. Recommend Attorney Gary Dickey or attorney Julia Ofenbakh.
crb002··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
They need to bring back the 2013 Mac Pro with upgraded silicon. The thing is a beast in a good tradeoff between portability and power.
crb002··on Why Private Equity Is Ripe for Vanguard-Style Disruption
First you would need a PE exchange for liquidity. Good for startup share liquidity pre-IPO also. Price it at auction, employees chose to take the $$ or they have an immediate IRS basis. Most would sell a fraction to cashflow taxes.

SEC friction on "public" is bad for the economy. Instead of binary we need the reports/accounting under certain standards on a spectrum from fully private to fully public.

crb002··on Richard Feynman's Integral Trick
If I recall he used power of two trapazoids to bound above and below? Paywalled article.
crb002··on Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others?
They have leisure capital.
crb002··on Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
It can work, but they need more anchors. Stripe, Gitlab, ... companies that are remote but have workers prefer to cowork. Economic downturn might actually help them if they can gobble long term low leases. More unemployed also means more consumer base outside big corporate America. Their biggest threat is small mom and pop coworking spaces like Gravitate in DSM. Geoff wouldn't sell for less than a massive premium, and nobody is going for WeWorks bad service if they tried to compete.
crb002··on iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer
Apple is removing Python etc for more than one reason.

Curious if Apple does an ARM Mac Mini first as a canary.

crb002··on NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)
The problem was a shotgun parser. LangSec 101. Use a formal parser.
crb002··on Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
@ollie
crb002··on Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
So dirty the AG's Chief of Staff Eric Tabor has his sister on the Iowa Court of Appeals Mary Tabor who corruptly fails to recuse herself on his cases. Usually she is impartial, but when Eric gets caught in shenanigans she has went so far as to commit fraud (literally lying about the facts of cases in the appellate record she prosecuted to invent case law) to cover his ass.

Fun fact, Mary's son Ollie works for Nate Silver.

crb002··on Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
Same Dallas County Attorney is taking a dive on my Qui Tam to claw back Apple's brazen $100m property tax abatement vote bribe to the City of Waukee unjustly enriching the city to abate $170m. Tim Cook is a tax crook.
crb002··on Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
Bobby Rehkemper and Lindholm are the shit. They caught a dirty prosecutor a few years back on tape: https://whotv.com/2012/02/20/open-records-sonya-heitshusen-l...
crb002··on Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security
You don't understand the level of local corruption in Iowa. To be effective the State couldn't tip off County security.
crb002··on United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
Wouldn't surprise me if Snowden has the publisher donate the proceeds to the FSF as a screw you.
crb002··on HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
HP and HPE split. Looks like HP is going to shit.
crb002··on IBM introduces z15 mainframe
In the CAP theorem, mainframe is the king of CA. You use them mostly for DB2 databases and Batch processing on that data to remain highly consistent and available.
crb002··on Interview with Edward Snowden
The defenestration of Snowden.
crb002··on Professor quietly takes student’s work and files it as a patent in China
Bad idea. In his interest to keep the professor's marketability high so he can pimp the patent.
crb002··on Professor quietly takes student’s work and files it as a patent in China
I'd talk to a solicitor in Hong Kong. Offer them 20% contingency on any royalties they can get you.
crb002··on Google Contributed $40K to AG Not Participating in Anti-Trust Investigation
Yeah, they are looking to screw with his biggest employers. Cali under state law could be far more invasive than the Fed probe too.
crb002··on Google Contributed $40K to AG Not Participating in Anti-Trust Investigation
Iowa's AG was already bought by the banks: http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/09/foreclosure-probe-chief...
crb002··on California Approves Statewide Rent Control
This is nuts. In Iowa this might be unconstitutional as the government is prevented from rewriting contracts.
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